B-Sides & Rarities (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds album)

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B-Sides & Rarities is a 3CD compilation by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released in March 2005. It features over 20 years of the band's B-sides and previously unreleased tracks, including tracks performed with Shane MacGowan and acoustic versions of "Deanna" and "The Mercy Seat". It is also the first recording to include all members of The Bad Seeds, past and present: Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld, Thomas Wydler, Martyn P. Casey, Conway Savage, Jim Sclavunos, Warren Ellis, Barry Adamson, Kid Congo Powers, James Johnston, Roland Wolf and Hugo Race.

Track listing

All songs written by Nick Cave unless otherwise stated

Disc 1

"Deanna" (acoustic version) – 2:51
- Acoustic version of the song from 'Tender Prey', attached as a bonus 7" to initial pressings of 'The Good Son' album, 1990
"The Mercy Seat" (acoustic version) – 3:45 (Cave/Cave, Harvey)
- Acoustic version of the song from 'Tender Prey', attached as a bonus 7" to initial pressings of 'The Good Son' album, 1990
"City of Refuge" (acoustic version) – 2:42
- Acoustic version of the song from 'Tender Prey', attached as a bonus 7" to initial pressings of 'The Good Son' album, 1990
"The Moon is in the Gutter" – 2:35
- B-side of 'In the Ghetto', 1984
"The Six Strings that Drew Blood" – 4:47
- B-side of 'Tupelo', 1985
"Rye Whiskey" – 3:27 (Trad-Arr: Cave/Harvey)
- Flexidisc in Reflex magazine in 1989
"Running Scared" – 2:06 (Roy Orbison/Melson)
- B-side of 'The Singer', 1986
"Black Betty" – 2:32 (Lead Belly)
- B-side of 'The Singer', 1986
"Scum" – 2:53 (Cave/Cave, Harvey)
- Flexidisc sold at concerts, 1986
"The Girl at the Bottom of My Glass" – 4:48
- B-side of 'Deanna' 12", 1988
"The Train Song" – 3:26
- B-side of 'The Ship Song', 1990
"Cocks 'N' Asses" – 5:43 (Cave/Cave, Van Vugt)
- B-side of 'The Weeping Song', 1990
"Blue Bird" – 2:46
- B-side of 'Straight To You/Jack The Ripper', 1992
"Helpless" – 3:51 (Neil Young)
- From Neil Young Tribute/Charity Album 'The Bridge', 1989. Also B-side of 'The Weeping Song', 1990
"God's Hotel" – 3:07
- Live Radio Session for KCRW Santa Monica. Released on 'Rare on Air Vol. 1', Mammoth Records, 1992
"(I'll Love You) Till the End of the World" – 3:58
- From the original soundtrack 'Until The End Of The World',1991. Also B-side of 'Loverman', 1994
"Cassiel's Song" – 3:35
- From the original soundtrack 'Faraway, So Close', 1993. Also B-side of 'Do You Love Me?', 1994
"Tower of Song" – 5:39 (Cohen)
- From Leonard Cohen tribute album 'I'm Your Fan', 1991
"What Can I Give You?" – 3:40
- From the French promo give-away with 'Henry's Dream', 1992

Disc 2

"What a Wonderful World" – 3:04 (George David Weiss, George Douglas)
- From the single 'What A Wonderful World', 1992
"Rainy Night in Soho" – 3:58 (Shane MacGowan)
- Harvey & Bill McGee – String & Woodwind Arrangement
- From the single 'What A Wonderful World', 1992
"Lucy (Version #2)" – 2:23
- From the single 'What A Wonderful World', 1992
"Jack the Ripper" (acoustic version) – 4:45
- B-side of the limited edition 7" 'Straight To You/Jack The Ripper', 1992
"Sail Away" – 4:13
- B-side of 'Do You Love Me?', 1994
"There's No Night Out in the Jail" – 3:43 (John Harold Ashe)
- Recorded for a compilation of Australian country music cover versions which was never released, 1993
"That's What Jazz is to Me" – 5:05 (Cave/Cave, Harvey, Savage, Wydler)
- Improvised piece. B-side of 'Red Right Hand', 1994
"The Willow Garden" – 3:59 (Trad-Arr: Cave/Ellis)
- B-side of 'Where The Wild Roses Grow', 1995
"The Ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane" – 3:35
- B-side of 'Where The Wild Roses Grow', 1995
"King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-O" – 3:10 (Trad-Arr: Cave)
- B-side of 'Henry Lee', 1996
"Knoxville Girl" – 3:36 (Trad-Arr: Cave/Johnston)
- B-side of 'Henry Lee', 1996
"Where the Wild Roses Grow" – 3:47
- Version with original guide vocal by Herr Bargeld. Previously unreleased, 1995
"O'Malley's Bar Pt. 1" – 5:16
- From Mark Radcliffe Radio 1 session, 1996
"O'Malley's Bar Pt. 2" – 6:38
- From Mark Radcliffe Radio 1 session, 1996
"O'Malley's Bar Pt. 3" – 4:57
- From Mark Radcliffe Radio 1 session, 1996
"Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum" – 6:22 (Cave/Cave, Ellis, Turner, White)
- Featuring The Dirty 3. Hidden track on X-Files album, 1996
"O'Malley's Bar Reprise" – 1:03
- From Mark Radcliffe Radio 1 session, 1996
"Red Right Hand" (Scream 3 version) – 6:01 (Cave/Cave, Harvey, Wydler)
- Recorded for the movie Scream 3. Previously unreleased, 1999

Disc 3

"Little Empty Boat" – 4:26 (Cave/Cave, Bargeld, Casey, Harvey)
- B-side of 'Into My Arms', 1997
"Right Now I'm A-Roaming" – 4:21 (Cave/Cave, Casey, Harvey, Savage, Wydler)
- B-side of 'Into My Arms', 1997
"Come Into My Sleep" – 3:47
- B-side of '(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?', 1997
"Black Hair" (band version) – 4:13
- B-side of '(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?', 1997
"Babe, I Got You Bad" – 3:51
- B-side of '(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?', 1997
"Sheep May Safely Graze" – 4:14
- Unreleased studio outtake, 1996
"Opium Tea" – 3:48 (Cave/Savage)
- Unreleased studio outtake, 1996
"Grief Came Riding" – 5:05
- Kate & Anna McGarrigle – BV's
- From limited edition of 'No More Shall We Part' Album, 2001
"Bless His Ever Loving Heart" – 4:02
- From limited edition of 'No More Shall We Part' Album, 2001
"Good Good Day" – 4:04
- B-side of 'As I Sat Sadly By Her Side', 2001
"Little Janey's Gone" – 2:59
- B-side of 'As I Sat Sadly By Her Side', 2001
"I Feel So Good" – 1:44 (Lenoir)
- From the film 'The Soul of a Man' by Wim Wenders, 2003
"Shoot Me Down" – 3:32
- B-side of 'Bring It On', 2003
"Swing Low" – 5:40
- B-side of 'Bring It On', 2003
"Little Ghost Song" – 3:44
- B-side of 'He Wants You/Babe, I'm On Fire', 2003
"Everything Must Converge" – 3:17
- B-side of 'He Wants You/Babe, I'm On Fire', 2003
"Nocturama" – 4:01
- B-side of limited edition 7" 'Rock of Gibraltar', 2003
"She's Leaving You" – 4:01 (Cave/Cave, Ellis, Casey, Sclavunos)
- B-side of 'Nature Boy', 2004
"Under This Moon" – 4:01
- B-side of 'Breathless/There She Goes, My Beautiful World', 2004

Musicians

Bronwyn Adams: Backing Vocals, Violin
Barry Adamson: Bass, Timpani, Orchestral Arrangement
Blixa Bargeld: Guitar, Backing Vocals, Vocals, Handclaps, Slide Guitar, Pedal Steel Guitar, Feedback Guitar, Percussion
Martyn P. Casey: Bass, Backing Vocals, Percussion
Nick Cave: Vocals, Piano, Hammond, Harmonica, Backing Vocals, Keyboards, Whistling, Guitar, String Synth, Sound Effects
Tony Cohen: Backing Vocals, Percussion
Kid Congo Powers: Backing Vocals, Handclaps, Slide Guitar, Tremolo Guitar
Terry Edwards: Brass Section
Warren Ellis: Violin, Mandolin, Bouzouki, Looped Violin
Mick Gallagher: Backing Vocals
Mick Harvey: Guitar, Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Organ, Drums, String Arrangement, Piano, Hammond, Marimba, Keyboards, Sound Effects, Cymbals, Vibes, Xylophone, Woodwind Arrangement
Chas Jankel: Backing Vocals
James Johnston: Organ, Guitar
Shane MacGowan: Vocals
Anna McGarrigle: Backing Vocals
Kate McGarrigle: Backing Vocals
Bill McGee: String Arrangement, Woodwind Arrangement
Astrid Munday: Percussion
Tracy Pew: Bass
Hugo Race: Guitar
Conway Savage: Piano, Organ, Backing Vocals, Vocals, Electric Piano, Hammond, Percussion
Jim Sclavunos: Drums, Brushed Snare, Tambourine, Percussion, Tubular Bells, Organ, Bongos, Bells, Shaker
Johnny Turnbull: Backing Vocals
Mick Turner: Guitar
Victor Van Vugt: Drum Machine
Norman Watt-Roy: Backing Vocals
Jim White: Drums
Roland Wolf: Backing Vocals, Handclaps, Piano
Thomas Wydler: Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals, Tambourine, Handclaps

Musicians by track

Disc 1

"Deanna" (acoustic version)
- Cave – Vocals
- Harvey – Guitar, BV's
- Wydler – Percussion
- Congo Powers, Bargeld, Wolf – Handclaps, BV's
"The Mercy Seat" (acoustic version)
- Cave – Vocals
- Harvey – Guitar, BV's
- Wolf – Piano
- Bargeld – BV's
"City of Refuge" (acoustic version)
- Cave – Vocals
- Harvey – Guitar, BV's
- Bargeld, Wydler, Congo Powers, Wolf – Handclaps, BV's
"The Moon is in the Gutter"
- Cave – Vocals, Piano
- Bargeld – Guitar
- Race – Guitar
- Adamson – Bass
- Harvey – Drums
"The Six Strings that Drew Blood"
- Cave – Vocals, Whistling
- Harvey – Guitars, Bass, Keyboard
- Bargeld – Feedback Guitar
"Rye Whiskey"
- Cave – Vocals, Harmonica
- Harvey – Acoustic Guitar, Drums
- Race – Guitar
- Tracy Pew – Bass
"Running Scared"
- Cave – Vocals
- Harvey – Drums, String Arrangement
- Race – Guitar
- Tracy Pew – Bass
"Black Betty"
- Cave – Vocals
- Harvey – Drums, BV's
- Bargeld – BV's
"Scum" – 2:53
- Cave – Vocals
- Bargeld – Guitar
- Harvey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums
"The Girl at the Bottom of My Glass"
- Cave – Vocals, Guitar, BV's
- Harvey – Drums, BV's
- Tony Cohen – BV's
"The Train Song" – 3:26
- Cave – Vocals, Piano
- Harvey – Acoustic Guitar, Bass
- Bargeld – Guitar
- Congo Powers – Tremolo Guitar
- Wydler – Drums
- Harvey & Bill McGee – String Arrangement
"Cocks 'N' Asses"
- Cave – Piano, Vocals, String Synth
- Harvey – Guitar, Sound Effects
- Victor Van Vugt – Drum Machine
"Blue Bird"
- Cave – Vocals, Piano, Hammond
- Harvey – Marimba
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums
"Helpless"
- Cave – Vocals, Keyboard
- Harvey – Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Organ, Drums, BV's
- Congo Powers – Slide Guitar
- Bronwyn Adams – BV's
"God's Hotel"
- Cave – Vocals
- Harvey – Acoustic Guitar
- Bargeld – Slide Guitar
- Savage – Piano
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums
"(I'll Love You) Till the End of the World"
- Cave – Vocals, Piano
- Bargeld – Guitar
- Harvey – Acoustic Guitar, Bass, String Arrangement
- Wydler – Drums
- Bronwyn Adams – Violin
"Cassiel's Song"
- Cave – Vocals, Piano
- Adamson – Bass, Timpani
- Harvey – String Arrangement
"Tower of Song"
- Cave – Vocals
- Harvey – Guitar
- Bargeld – Guitar, Vocals
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums
"What Can I Give You?"
- Cave – Vocals, Piano
- Harvey – Acoustic Guitar
- Savage – Electric Piano
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums

Disc 2

"What a Wonderful World"
- Cave – Vocals
- Shane MacGowan – Vocals
- Harvey – Acoustic Guitar
- Bargeld – Guitar
- Savage – Piano
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums
- Bill McGee – Woodwind Arrangement
"Rainy Night in Soho"
- Cave – Vocals
- Harvey – Acoustic Guitar, Vibes
- Bargeld – Guitar
- Savage – Piano
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums
- Harvey & Bill McGee – String & Woodwind Arrangement
"Lucy (Version #2)"
- MacGowan – Vocals
- Cave – Piano, BV's
- Harvey & Bill McGee – String Arrangement
"Jack the Ripper" (acoustic version)
- Cave – Vocals
- Harvey – Acoustic Guitar
- Bad Seeds – BV's, Percussion
"Sail Away"
- Cave – Vocals, Hammond
- Harvey – Marimba
- Savage – BV's
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums
"There's No Night Out in the Jail"
- Cave – Vocals, Harmonica
- Harvey – Organ, Guitar
- Savage – Piano
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums
"That's What Jazz is to Me"
- Cave – Vocals, Piano
- Savage – Hammond
- Harvey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums
"The Willow Garden"
- Savage – Vocals, Piano
- Cave – Hammond
- Ellis – Violin
- Casey – Bass
- Harvey – Cymbals
"The Ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane"
- Cave – Vocals, Hammond, Piano, Sound Effects
- Harvey – Acoustic Guitar
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums, Percussion
- Terry Edwards – Brass Section
"King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-O"
- Cave – Vocals
- Bargeld – Guitar
- Ellis – Violin
- Race – Guitar
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums
- Sclavunos, Tony Cohen, Astrid Munday – Percussion
"Knoxville Girl"
- Cave – Vocals
- Johnston – Guitars
"Where the Wild Roses Grow"
- Bargeld – Vocals, Guitar
- Cave – Vocals, Piano
- Harvey – Guitars, BV's
- Casey – Bass
- Savage – Piano
- Wydler – Drums
- Sclavunos – Tubular Bells
"O'Malley's Bar Pt. 1"
- Cave – Vocals
- Harvey – Piano
- Savage – Organ
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums
- Sclavunos – Brushed Snare
"O'Malley's Bar Pt. 2"
- Cave – Vocals
- Harvey – Piano
- Savage – Organ
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums
- Sclavunos – Brushed Snare
"O'Malley's Bar Pt. 3"
- Cave – Vocals
- Harvey – Piano
- Savage – Organ
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums
- Sclavunos – Brushed Snare
"Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum"
- Cave – Vocals, Piano
- Ellis – Violin
- Mick Turner – Guitar
- Jim White – Drums
"O'Malley's Bar Reprise"
- Cave – Vocals
- Harvey – Piano
- Savage – Organ
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums
- Sclavunos – Brushed Snare
"Red Right Hand" (Scream 3 version)
- Cave – Vocals, Hammond
- Harvey – Guitar
- Bargeld – Guitar
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums, Percussion
- Adamson – Orchestral Arrangement

Disc 3

"Little Empty Boat"
- Cave – Vocals, Piano
- Harvey – Guitar, Organ
- Bargeld – Guitar, BV's
- Casey – Bass, BV's
- Wydler – Drums, BV's
- Sclavunos – Percussion
- Ellis – Looped Violin
"Right Now I'm A-Roaming"
- Cave – Vocals, Keyboard
- Harvey – Organ, Guitar, BV's
- Bargeld – Guitar, BV's
- Savage – Piano
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums
- Sclavunos – Bells
"Come Into My Sleep"
- Cave – Vocals
- Harvey – Xylophone, Guitar, Organ
- Bargeld – Guitar
- Savage – Piano
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums
- Sclavunos – Bongos
"Black Hair" (band version)
- Cave – Vocals, Piano
- Sclavunos – Organ
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums
"Babe, I Got You Bad"
- Cave – Vocals
- Harvey – Guitar, Organ
- Bargeld – Guitar
- Savage – Piano
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums
- Sclavunos – Tambourine
"Sheep May Safely Graze"
- Cave – Vocals
- Harvey – Guitar
- Bargeld – Guitar
- Savage – Piano
- Casey – Bass
"Opium Tea"
- Cave – Vocals, Hammond
- Savage – Piano
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums
"Grief Came Riding"
- Cave – Vocals, Piano
- Harvey – Guitar
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums
- Kate & Anna McGarrigle – BV's
"Bless His Ever Loving Heart"
- Cave – Vocals, Piano
- Harvey – Guitar
- Ellis – Violin
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums
- Kate & Anna McGarrigle – BV's
"Good Good Day"
- Cave – Vocals, Piano
- Harvey – Guitar
- Bargeld – Guitar
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums
- Sclavunos – Tambourine
"Little Janey's Gone"
- Cave – Vocals, Piano
- Harvey – Guitar
- Bargeld – Guitar
- Ellis – Violin
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums
"I Feel So Good"
- Cave – Vocals, Hammond
- Harvey – Guitar, BV's
- Savage – Piano, BV's
- Sclavunos – Drums
"Shoot Me Down"
- Cave – Vocals, Piano
- Harvey – Guitar, Hammond
- Ellis – Violin
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums
- Blockheads – BV's
"Swing Low"
- Cave – Vocals, Hammond
- Harvey – Guitar, Hammond
- Bargeld – Pedal Steel Guitar
- Ellis – Violin
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums
- Sclavunos – Tubular Bells, Tambourine
- Blockheads – BV's
"Little Ghost Song"
- Cave – Vocals, Piano, Hammond
- Savage – Vocal
- Harvey – Guitar, BV's
- Bargeld – Guitar
- Ellis – Violin
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums
"Everything Must Converge"
- Cave – Vocals, Hammond, Harmonica
- Bargeld – Guitar
- Harvey – Bass
- Sclavunos – Drums
- Blockheads – BV's
"Nocturama"
- Cave – Vocals
- Harvey – Guitar
- Bargeld – Guitar
- Savage – Organ
- Casey – Bass
- Wydler – Drums
- Sclavunos – Shaker
- Blockheads – BV's
"She's Leaving You"
- Cave – Vocals, Piano
- Harvey – Guitar
- Ellis – Bouzouki
- Johnston – Organ
- Savage – Piano
- Casey – Bass
- Sclavunos – Drums
- Wydler – Tambourine
"Under This Moon"
- Cave – Vocals, Piano
- Harvey – Guitar
- Ellis – Mandolin
- Johnston – Organ
- Casey – Bass
- Sclavunos – Drums
- Wydler – Tambourine

References

External links

B-Sides & Rarities at Metacritic

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Barry Adamson Martyn P. Casey Nick Cave Warren Ellis Conway Savage Jim Sclavunos George Vjestica Thomas Wydler Blixa Bargeld Mick Harvey James Johnston Anita Lane Kid Congo Powers Hugo Race Roland Wolf

Studio albums	From Her to Eternity The Firstborn Is Dead Kicking Against the Pricks Your Funeral... My Trial Tender Prey The Good Son Henry's Dream Let Love In Murder Ballads The Boatman's Call No More Shall We Part Nocturama Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! Push the Sky Away Skeleton Tree

Live albums	Live Seeds Abattoir Blues Tour Live at the Royal Albert Hall Live from KCRW

Compilations	The Best of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds B-Sides & Rarities

Singles	"In the Ghetto" "Tupelo" "The Singer" "The Mercy Seat" "Deanna" "The Ship Song" "The Weeping Song" "Straight to You" "I Had a Dream, Joe" "What a Wonderful World" "Do You Love Me?" "Loverman" "Red Right Hand" "Where the Wild Roses Grow" "Henry Lee" "Into My Arms" "(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For" "As I Sat Sadly by Her Side" "Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow" "Love Letter" "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!" "More News from Nowhere" "Midnight Man" "We No Who U R" "Jubilee Street"

Other songs	"From Her to Eternity" "The Carny"

Cave and Ellis	The Proposition The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford The Road Lawless West of Memphis

Grinderman	Grinderman Grinderman 2 "Get It On" "No Pussy Blues" "(I Don't Need You To) Set Me Free" "Heathen Child" "Worm Tamer" "Palaces of Montezuma" "Evil" Grinderman discography

Related articles	Discography Bad Seeds members 20,000 Days on Earth One More Time With Feeling And the Ass Saw the Angel The Birthday Party Dirty Three Ghosts… of the Civil Dead Original Seeds Tuff Monks

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