The Mercy Seat - Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Live & Slow
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2008
- This is a live, slow & sweet, version of the Mercy Seat with Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. It's by far my favourite version and I don't know which gig it's from. If anyone knows, please comment. I know the slide show is not the best, but it's my first (and it's the sound that's important here)!
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Love this version best. The original, by a true poet. ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Their normal live-version of the song with it´s bombastic orchestration is great, but this one is the best i´ve ever heared. More the way Cave and Ellis do thier soundtrack music.
There's something really primal about Nick Cave , especially live... I remember seeing him in Sydney, he played the original version of Mercy Seat & when he leant over the crowd & sang, they began to move backwards.. It is the only show I have ever been to where a crowd surge was actually moving away from the band..
Laura Could just be a very server case of gingivitis.
This is best version of the Mercy Seat Nick Cave and Warren Ellis live.With Nick Cave people either like him or they don't, I always have.He's a story teller much like Leonard Cohen was. I like every single album that Nick Cave has done(1973 to current).The Boatman's Call,Henry's Dream,Film scores-The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford(great film too) and Lawless, Let Love In,Murder Ballads(his most popular in the U.S.) top choices.Saw him live a few years ago at the Warfield he sounded exactly the same. Most I know who have even ever heard him usually know Red Right Hand it's okay, not even in my top ten.The Carny, Cindy his duet with Johnny Cash absolute favorites.
Nick was a 15 year old schoolboy in 1973. The Boys Next Door started in the late '70s.
Just how insanely loaded with emotions was that? Spectacular.
Um mich ausdrücken zu können schreibe ich es auf deutsch... Nick Cave hat mein Herz erobert und dieses Lied ist ein Beweis dafür.
The more pages i turn the more gems i find, thanks for posting, Nick Cave is probably the most underated artist of all time.
Excellent version - The new 2013 live Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds "LIVE FROM KCRW" has a version which is very similar. A slow and languid version with Warren Ellis moaning the tune of mourning through his electric fiddle. The whole album is remarkable. Nick Cave has risen to the top of musical top echelons once again.
I like this version very much. Heard it in Peaky Blinders!
Why god why do Americans, and only Americans as far as I know, insist on calling Warren's violin a bloody 'fiddle'???? Just because he's not playing in a symphony orchestra doesn't mean he's not playing a violin; and electrified or not, a violin is a violin is a violin OK? Please stop doing this. Ask him what he plays and you can bet your bottom dollar he will not say "fiddle".
The last few moments of this one are much definitive of Cave's power.
One of his best Songs ever. I will Hope IT comes much Others good Songs.
Now the mercy seat is waiting
And I think my head is smoking
And in a way I'm hoping
To be done with all these looks of disbelief.
A eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth
And anyway I told the truth
And I'm not afraid to die.
BRAVO, BRAVO, ENCORE .
Now this is a deep track. Bravo.
I love this song so much...
Holy FUCK! Honest to God that was a religious experience.
Thank you for sharing this, i would have given my right arm to see this live, my lord, i'm actually shaking.
It's fantastic live.
Perfect chord progression, melody and lyrics.
I was curious so I did a translation: -
In order to be able to express myself I write it in German ... Nick Cave has captured my heart and this song is proof.
schöne Gefühle
thanks so much for sharing this. soul-crushingly beautiful.
Самая лучшая версия ! Замечательно !!! Обожаю !
Absolutely amazing!!!!! cheers milo!
goosebumps & shivers
I think this version just knocked the B-Sides and Rarities version from the number 1 spot on my favourites list.
amazing. thanks for uploading!
wow this is a masterpiece thanks allot i loved it¡¡¡¡¡¡
Superb!
Amazing musicians.
thanks for the translation :)
Its nice to read my words in english
And yes I have very "schöne Gefühle" for him
how am I only hearing this version now? great stuff real good re working
Chilling and somber. Definitely the best songwriter of my generation. Sadly when I say Nick Cave ...they usually say Nick WHO ???
The touch of Euterpe..
Best version is still the acoustic rendition from the '90s which was reissued on the rarities compilation.
it is quitegood
I'm loving the discord near the end
saw him at 'the forum theatre' in Melbourne in early 2007. He asked for any request's and I called this one out, and fuck me if the version wasn't this one!
@marciniko Sorry, but Nick cave wrote this in 1988. Johnny Cash covered it in 2000. Have a look at the Wiki entry for "The Mercy Seat (Song)".
The Charles Bukowski reference is because someone did a Bukowski slideshow and used Cash's version of the song as background and posted it on TH-cam. Title "Charles Bukowski - Music by Johnny Cash (Mercy Seat)".
This is misleading, but, you are right, he is an excellent writer - he just didn't write this.
Also, I like the Cash version of the song.
You need space to think properly and I can solemnly say that this song gives you space.
* this isn't even my favorite version but the song carries weight no matter when or how its played
Does anyone out there know if this was ever on a album or compilation?. i really want. wait need a copy of this version. one of the best songs of all time..
!!! I think my head is boiling!!!
@Fabian3r1ksson Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits...
@Fabian3r1ksson you didn not just skiped tom waits there did you????????
@Fabian3r1ksson
what about Cohen ;-)
@marciniko1125 lol if your trying to teach someone a lession make sure you know what you talking about. This is nick caves at his best PERIOD.
Is this the same Warren Ellis who wrote transmetropolitan
damn ,you are genius .. what a a gloomy world
bukowski doesn't write like this. never did
Your affirmation shows how little you know about Bukowski, who you call ''one the best american writers ever'' without even know why.
Peaky Blinders 🥃💷🚬🖤
John Shelby 😩🙁
the best version of Cave but i believe that johnny cash's version is better