Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat album flac

The opening track of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' 1988 album Tender Prey, and the first of two singles released from that album. The song tells the story of a man about to be executed by the electric chair. The Mercy Seat refers both to the throne of God in the heavens, which the man feels he will soon visit, and to the electric chair.

As Cave's appointment with the electric chair gets closer, he moves from pleading his innocence to admitting his crime. Cave retorted: "You mean, do I know what the f-k I'm talking about? I think that's why we can continue to play it at pretty much every concert. Johnny Cash is a man whose entire life found him hovering close to the mercy seat. He recorded a stripped back cover of this song for his 2000 album American III: Solitary Man. Cash's version is pointedly unambiguous, the death row inmate declares himself "totally innocent', as opposed to the original's "nearly wholly Innocent. Pure Johnny Cash," said Cave to Mojo of the country legend's cover

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"

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It began when they come took me from my home. And put me in Dead Row, Of which I am nearly wholly innocent, you know. And I'll say it again. I began to warm and chill. Interpret signs and catalogue. A blackened tooth, a scarlet fog. The walls are bad. Black. They are sick breath at my hind. They are sick breath gathering at my hind.

On September 28, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will release their new Distant Sky live EP. Today, the band has premiered a live video for their classic song The Mercy Seat, originally from 1988′s Tender Prey, via CBC. The song was covered in 2000 by Johnny Cash, which Cave considered a career high. As he remarked to The Guardian in 2006, It doesn’t matter what anyone says. Johnny Cash recorded my song. Watch the Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds The Mercy Seat live video below, and take a look at The Bad Seeds’ upcoming .

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The Mercy Seat" will ultimately rank alongside the country and folk traditions' best prison songs and thus it is not as unexpected as one might think to hear a master of the genre like Johnny Cash cover it on his American III: Solitary Man CD (2000). After all, Cash has penned one of the oeuvre's best in "Folsom Prison Blues" and is no stranger to biblical text. Cash includes the sometimes passed-over epilogue proclaiming his innocence as the song's protagonist and offers a quiet, dignified reading of the song.