Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - He Wants You Babe / Babe Im On Fire

by Anthony Strutt

published: 11 / 7 / 2003

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - He Wants You Babe / Babe Im On Fire

Label: Mute Records
Format: CDS

intro

Eclectic second single from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' much acclaimed latest album, 'Nocturma'

This is the second single from 'Nocturama'. It a double A-sided single. Both the main tracks appear also on the album, but are featured here as edits. 'He Wants You' is a slow based piano led track which is as about as classic as you can get from Nick Cave. 'Babe, I'm on Fire' is the opposite. Full of chunky bass, it has fast and fiery vocals and features a Charlatans style groovy Hammond organ. 'Little Ghost Song', the first of the B sides, both of which have previously been unreleased, is very slow, very moody and absolutely magnificent. It has a great double take vocal with Conway Savage and is reminiscent of Tindersticks at their very best. 'Everything Must Converge' sounds religious in a church going way. Neil Young does this stuff better, but this is my favourite song on this 4 tracker.

Track Listing:-

1 He Wants You (Edit)
2 Babe, I'm On Fire (Edit)
3 Little Ghost Song
4 Everything Must Converge

Band Links:-

http://nickcave.com/
https://www.facebook.com/nickcaveofficial
https://twitter.com/nickcave
http://www.songkick.com/artists/457613-nick-cave
https://www.youtube.com/c/nickcave
https://www.instagram.com/nickcaveofficial/

Label Links:-

http://mute.com/
https://www.facebook.com/muterecords
https://twitter.com/MuteUK
https://www.youtube.com/user/themutechannel

interviews

Interview (2008)

Jim Sclavunos is the percussionist and drummer in Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. He talks about working with Cave and the recent reformation of his early group, 70's No Wave punk band, the infamously atonal Teenage Jesus and the Jerks

profiles

Bleddyn Butcher: A Little History – Nick Cave and Cohorts, 1981 – 2013 (2014)

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Bleddyn Butcher: A Little History – Nick Cave and Cohorts, 1981 – 2013

Melanie Smith is impressed by Bleddyn Butcher's new book of photography which documents Nick Cave's career from the early 1980s to the present time

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (2010)

features

Where Did It All Go Wrong, Nick Cave? (2013)

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Where Did It All Go Wrong, Nick Cave?

In 'Hitting the Right Note', Jon Rogers, after listening to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' latest album 'Push the Sky Away', asks where it all went wrong for Cave

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Surbiton Assembly Rooms, Surbiton, 1984 (2013)

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