Nick Cave has shared a playlist that was created of his “15 greatest songs” after being requested to make a compilation for brand spanking new followers.
After being requested for a playlist of his songs for brand spanking new listeners who have been on the lookout for a approach to navigate Cave’s “immense and bewildering” again catalogue on his website, Purple Hand Recordsdata, the singer compiled a listing of tracks that have been despatched in by his readers.
The Unhealthy Seeds frontman shared: “Feeling not greatest positioned to evaluate, I as a substitute turned to the readers of The Purple Hand Recordsdata for assist, asking you to ship in playlists of your 15 favorite songs.”
He continued: “The response was overwhelming and effectively over two thousand playlists have are available thus far (please cease sending them now!). Fearing drowning in my very own songs, I handed the lists over to my workforce, who fed them into ChatGPT – that useful little data-cruncher! — which sorted by means of the responses and ranked the highest 15.”
Nick Cave’s 15 greatest track playlist is:
‘Jubilee Road’
‘Into My Arms’
‘From Her to Eternity’
‘The Ship Track’
‘Tupelo’
‘The Mercy Seat’
‘Stagger Lee’
‘Push The Sky Away’
‘The Weeping Track’
‘Higgs Boson Blues’
‘Purple Proper Hand’
‘Ghosteen’
‘Shiny Horses’
‘Straight To You’
‘O Youngsters’
The ‘Purple Proper Hand’ singer not too long ago revealed that he’s at present “ending” work on his new album with the Unhealthy Seeds.
At the beginning of 2023, he confirmed that work was underway and shared some early lyric concepts for the follow-up to 2019’s ‘Ghosteen’.
Chatting with NME earlier this summer season, Cave described the brand new materials as “simply so immediately fascinating” in addition to “totally different on a regular basis”.
In an entry on his Purple Hand Recordsdata web site, he instructed followers that he was to take a brief break from replying to questions from followers to complete work on the album.
“Thanks in your variety phrases,” he instructed a fan who requested a query about soulmates, “however earlier than I reply I’d prefer to let everybody know that I’m now again within the studio ending the brand new Unhealthy Seeds file.
“I’ll proceed to learn all of the letters that are available, and shall be with you in spirit, however my replies might not be that common or very expansive over the following few weeks.”
Additionally not too long ago addressed the possibilities of extra from his Australian-American rock band Grinderman.
Chatting with NME as a part of a latest “good religion dialog” about his new e book, cancel tradition, the coronation and extra, Cave addressed his response to a fan about “indignant” music and if this meant he may not ever return to an area the place he may make one other [garage rock side project] Grinderman file.
“We may do a Grinderman file, as a result of Grinderman is basically improv. It’s musically difficult and also you don’t actually know what you’re going to get, however I don’t assume we may make a four-on-the-floor rock’n’roll file any extra,” he mentioned.
Cave went on that he didn’t assume they may make “an old-school Unhealthy Seeds file anymore the place it’s mainly a rock band enjoying”.
He added: “I don’t see that occuring. Not that this subsequent [Bad Seeds] file is ambient – it’s under no circumstances – however I simply don’t see us going again to that fundamental rock’n’roll fashion. I simply don’t know easy methods to do it anymore.”
In different information, Cave and his bandmate and collaborator Warren Ellis not too long ago launched a brand new reside album, created from their three performances on the Sydney Opera Home final yr.
Titled ‘Australian Carnage’, the gathering options audio taken from the pair’s performances within the Australian metropolis, held as a part of their 16-stop tour within the nation on the finish of 2022. The tour celebrated the discharge of the 2021 lockdown album, ‘Carnage’, which noticed Cave and longtime Unhealthy Seeds member Ellis come collectively for a brand new introspective facet mission.
Cave may also be embarking on a US tour round his latest e book, Hope, Religion & Carnage.
