Little Ghost Songs

New chapters added to alternative history of The Bad Seeds’ expanding world.

By Victoria Segal.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ★★★★ B-Sides And Rarities Parts I & II BMG. CD/DL/LP A RARITIES compilation isn’t about fullblown, album-sized perfection; at best it’s a strange shadow cabinet of curiosities, throwing light on the past and the future. Nick Cave has declared his fondness for the 2005 version of this compilation, assembled by (now former) Bad Seed Mick Harvey and reissued here as Part I, and it’s easy to see why. Here’s the chance to revisit the oddities and the misfits (Where The Wild Roses Grow with Blixa Bargeld taking the Kylie Minogue role, maybe), to see the sketches and blueprints, to hear what might have been. The acoustic version of Tender Prey’s leprous spree-killing Deanna, for example, runs into the spiritual O Happy Day, the Bad Seeds black-lighting their song’s original…

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MOJO (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2021

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