One of the funniest but equally dark as hell songs I've heard. The entire album is a classic. If you want to hear what is probably the antithesis to this song, check out Henry Lee from the same album. Definitely watch the music video for that though, the chemistry between him and PJ Harvey is out of this world
That screaming at the end is Blixa Bargeld of German group Einstürzende Neubauten fame. I wish he was still in the Bad Seeds. He always added an extra element of weirdness,
One of the songs on this album was a duet with a pop princess - Kylie Minogue. They did that because, well they are both from Australia. It's a beautiful, haunting song, and has a wonderful video. This was when Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds where riding the White Horse.
Blixa for the win. Glad you did the video because it’s hilarious. People always rec the Glastonbury version, which I find pretty cringey. This song makes me laugh but is generally not high on my list. Oh My Lord (studio version) is a great, and underrated, song. Cave is SUCH a good storyteller.
Blixa... you mean that awesome entity from that epic band Einstürzende Neubauten??? Saw Einstürzende twice... at Expo '86 in Vancouver BC 🇨🇦 and at the Commodore Ballroom in '93 during their Tabula Rasa tour
Blixa Bargeld is also the lead singer and of the industrial band Einstruzende Neubauten. They are one of the originators of the German industrial scene. I love Neubauten! There is an interview with Nick Cave about meeting Blixa and describing the first time he heard his scream. It’s pretty fascinating.
This was a response to the public outrage about the violence in "gangster rap" at the time. Cave was just showing that the violence in folk songs was just as graphic by putting it into a modern vernacular.
Explicit? I'm there for it! I've been called m***** f***** many times, usually preceded by the word "obnoxious". As for Stagger Lee himself, he sounds nice. My favorite part of this was watching you reacting to the...interesting...lyrics. This channel is the best, I swear.
I’ve been listening to Nick Cave since about 1981, I love his first band The Birthday Party, and still listen to them now (I’m 56) I’ve seen The Bad Seeds and his other band Grinderman at festivals too. Nick Cave is the coolest dude in the world
@@marcusfoley3347 indeed but looking back from here it really is a bit "lost" young nick trying to figure out where he was going...fast forward to the drug and alcohol fuelled Birthday Party - I went to gig once where the poster stated the best rock n roll band in the world - wow that was an eye opener lol... Then the Bad Seeds and his solo stuff an artist who, and i dont say this lightly, I would consider a genius - 58 going on 16
Blixa Bargeld, the guitarist for the bad seeds for decades, is the frontman for an amazing legendary band: “einstürzende neubauten”. You should do some of their work. It ranges from cacophonous industrial-noise to soft beautiful subtle ballads. Some is accessible, some demanding.
Well, I gotta tell you I have heard many versions of this song by Nick Cave and he owns the song in every one. His all guts performances make the blood boil. Thanks for your reaction. .not an easy job on your part, but well done, and poised young fella !!
I’m not sure what the pop-up meant, but I do not want community guidelines. I have never seen this video before and I am a lifelong Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds it is so absolutely perfect. Love your reactions. Keep on keeping on.
StaggoLee is an old blues standard and many covers of it, my wife likes Pacific Gas and Electrics version which is called StaggoLee and I heard Gomez do a great session version. That said Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Murder Ballads is one of my wife and my favourite albums and Nick Cave is a genius.
@@group-music I took a trip to Germany right after highschool in the early nineties to see the sights and stretch my legs, my brand new ( to me ) cousin took me to see Einstürzende Neubauten..by that time, they were pretty big, so it was a fairly large crowd ( for that type of music ). It honestly changed everything I thought I knew I liked about music that night. Like the first time you read Kerouac or drink a really good single malt scotch, it takes a minute and then the mind manipulation kinda sets in...how have I lived without this! One of my fondest memories...
I haven't heard this version. If this one is blocked, try the original by Loyd Price. It's old enough, it should be ok? The story of the song is based on a real murder. After hearing this, I'd still recommend you check out the Loyd Price song.
If you liked the scream in the outro, you can thank Blixa Bargeld the lead singer of the German Industrial band Einsturzende Neubauten. Some of their good songs are NNNAAAMMM, Armenia, and Halber Mensch.
For what it's worth, this set of lyrics is based on a version of the Stagger Lee story collected during a prison field recording - apparently it was being used as a worksong in the days when such things still existed. (The recording was of course unreleasable in the '50s).
You know he wrote a very dark and excellent book called "And the Ass Saw the Angel" that I read, like 30 years ago. A couple of his characters from Murder Ballads are in it. He really was a story teller for a very long time, before the death of his son. Then his songs became personal. I have been a fan since the Birthday Party. That was a really edgy avant garde band and if you haven't, you should check them out. There isn't really anything bad Nick Cave has done.
You have to check out the live version - there is an extra verse to it... Stagger Lee vs. the devil ;) I remember being very irritated when I first heard it on Murder Ballads - I was fifteen. And yeah, Blixa's screams are unique. They blow your socks off live - You wouldn't believe that this sound comes out of a grown man.
Check out Nick Cave’s early work with The Boys Next Door and The Birthday Party. I like all of Nick Cave’s stuff. He was also in Grinderman. Check it out!
One of the best versions of this that I've heard is on the brilliant live album and DVD 'Abattoir Blues Live ' where he encounters the devil in the last added verse.
Ha ha. btw the album where this song is from is Murder Ballads. That's the theme. It's a couple of albums later (3 or 4) than Your funeral My trial, the one of The Carny -made when they were in Berlin. When the Berlin Wall fell off he went to live in Brazil and then to England.
I'd highly recommend watching a live version of this. There are several good live versions on RU-vid. The one from Copenhagen, where he invites the audience on stage and picks out a "victim" among them is one of the those great ones :-)
Great choice. Check out "(I'll Love You) Till the End of the World" from the Until the End of the World movie soundtrack, An amazing collection of songs.
So fun watching you get deeper and deeper into the amazing Nick Cave, the most self aware, ironic, sensitive, authentic and well-read songwriter and performer there is. He's touring this summer, try to see him live - amazing and life changing experience! Oh, and next week this is happening at movie theaters worldwide: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o-f8HDIs6uM.html
Stagger Lee as a song goes way back, many artists wrote their own versions around the same story (Grateful Dead). Another amazing song, you are on a roll.
About a year ago or so, you did the song Don't Fear The Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult. Would you be willing to do a cover comparison now with the HIM version? I think you would really enjoy their take on it.
My favorite version is David Bromberg's Mrs Delion's Lament: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3vLvXTpE2H4.html I also like Mississippi John Hurt's Stack O Lee ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KWM82eQKdQk.html Wikipedia has great info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagger_Lee
Great music and performance with sleazy, funny, cringy overtones. A bit of overkill for my taste but interesting anyway, definitely liked the Carney better. Tactful dissection Daniel 😅 Thank you
I wouldnt say better, its the original for sure, but Nicks version is great, the thing with this album, The murder ballads , is that every song is about murder, its quite unique, especially the song wild roses.
Imagine that real songwriters can come up with original melodies, Creative lyrics and real chord progressions while others who can’t rely on shock value.
LoL this 'genre' is steeped in history and it's your great loss not to bring that awareness to your dismissive assessment of this incredible rendition.
OMG! This reaction was so uncomfortable for me, Daniel. The vulgar profanity. Nice Cave’s over the top video performance. Very dark. Thank you for your careful dissection of these lyrics. I did not like this song.
Oh my God this song sucks on so many different levels I don't know where to begin. What happened to Lloyd Price that's the guy that recorded stagley and that versions awesome
