PJ Harvey - Red Right Hand

Piggybacking off Snoop's cover of RED RIGHT HAND, it's been announced that a PEAKY BLINDERS soundtrack shall be released next month. Looks like Snoop's track didn't make the cut BUT...a PJ Harvey version of RED RIGHT HAND will be on it. It's eerie, kinda like WHITE CHALK-era PJ. Super cool. And the soundtrack tracklist looks solid.

Check out PJ's version (and the tracklist below that): 

LP1 - Side A

Tommy: 'It’s Not A Good Idea…'
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand
The White Stripes - St James Infirmary Blues
Truce - From 'Peaky Blinders' Original Soundtrack / Series 1 (Score)
Tommy: 'Right I Have Bought You Hear Today…'
Dan Auerbach - The Prowl
Polly: 'There’s Only One Thing…'
Jack White - Love Is Blindness
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love

LP1 - Side B

Alfie: 'I’ve Heard Very Bad, Bad, Bad Things…'
Black Rebel Motorcycle - River Styx
Post Irish Meeting - From 'Peaky Blinders' Original Soundtrack / Series 2 (Score)
PJ Harvey - Red Right Hand
Laura Marling - What He Wrote
Arthur: 'Do You Wanna Tell ‘Em…'
Royal Blood - Come On Over
Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?

LP2 - Side A

Tommy: 'I Love You…'
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Breathless
Radiohead - You And Whose Army?
Polly: 'A Woman Of Substance…'
PJ Harvey - This Is Love
Sons - From 'Peaky Blinders' Original Soundtrack / Series 3 (Score)
Tommy: 'You Can Change What You Do…'
Queens Of The Stone Age - Burn The Witch
The Last Shadow Puppets - Bad Habits
David Bowie - Lazarus

LP2 - Side B

Tommy: 'Sex, Freedom, Whiskey Sours…'
Savages - Adore
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat (Live From KCRW)
Rachel Unthank & The Winterset - I Wish
Ballad Of Polly Gray - From 'Peaky Blinders' Original Soundtrack / Series 4 (Score)
Tommy: 'I’m Not A Traitor To My Class…'
Frank Carter And The Rattlesnakes - Devil Inside Me

LP3 - Side A

Foals - Snake Oil
Polly: 'It's In Our Gypsy Blood…'
Radiohead - Pyramid Song
Laura Marling - A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
Ada: 'So, Tommy Shelby, MP…'
Black Sabbath - The Wizard
Anna Calvi - Papi Pacify

LP3 - Side B

Joy Division - Atmosphere
Tommy: 'You Need To Understand…'
Anna Calvi - You’re Not God
Arthur: 'There’s A Bentley Outside…'
Jehnny Beth - I'm The Man
Idles - Never Fight A Man With A Perm
Tommy: 'I Will Continue…'
Richard Hawley - Ballad Of A Thin Man

His shadow is cast wherever he stands

I had an old housemate, Chris, who was (and still is) a big fan of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Chris would play records for me while extolling the virtues of Mister Cave. I kinda liked it, but it didn't really catch on with me right away. They were touring in support of their "Best of" album; Chris had an extra ticket , so I went along to check it out and that's when it really hit me. I guess sometimes it takes a live performance to really catch one's attention. I was especially amazed with Red Right Hand, to me it sounded so different live. I loved the way he stalked the stage and how the band practically exploded in the middle and end sections of the song. Truly, a thing of beauty. CC and I are gonna go to the shows in a couple weeks, they're gonna be great.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds > Red Right Hand (live at the Royal Albert Hall)

We Came Along This Road

So this is another vid I made. Again, the scenes are from Seven. This time, the music is We Came Along This Road, by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. I love Seven, it's one of my favorite films, but I promise I'll use a different one next time.

Used to be nobody could sneak up on Jesse James

Nick Cave just doesn't stop. In the past year or so, he has done the Grinderman album, the soundtrack for The Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford, and his new album with the Bad Seeds, Dig! Lazarus! Dig! is coming next month. He even showed up at the end of the Jesse James film, singing a disparaging song about Robert Ford. How cool is that?

I've been listening to the soundtrack for a couple months now, and I've just seen the film. The music he and Warren Ellis came up with completely fits the somber and sorta hypnotic feel of the movie. It helped set the tone, but didn't overpower any of the scenes. Warren Ellis' violin has more emotion than the voice of any run of the mill top 40 singer. Simply gorgeous.

*EDIT* The good folks over at divshare have seen fit to delete this file from my account. What I didn't realize is that this album is released on MUTE which is distributed by EMI. Kinda weird given a few of my previous posts. So I guess it's my own fault for not doing my research thoroughly. Dunno what else to say. I mean, the album is really good, but I guess you should buy it used if you are gonna buy it at all. And use the RIAA Radar, too...

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis > Rather Lovely Thing (from The Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford)

Still, the fire of love is true and I am breathless without you

This is for my peeps who are getting married tomorrow (I'm going to two weddings!).

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds > Breathless

She just never wants to...

Best song ever about not getting laid. It's Nick Cave's new/old band, Grinderman. You can totally feel the tension in the song. I patted her revolting little chihuahua, but still she just didn't want to. Awesome. AND I get to see them live this week, at the Great American Music Hall. How cool is that?

Grinderman > No Pussy Blues