B-Sides & Rarities (2005)

About this title: Nick Cave finally gives the dedicated fans what they've desired for years (and have probably amassed in various guises in shoddy bootlegs): an official career-spanning cataloging of the various Bad Seeds odds and ends on three CDs. There are 56 tracks compiled here. There are also some soundtrack offerings ranging from "I'll Love You to the End of the World," "Cassiel's Song," and "I Feel So Good" from various Wim Wenders films to a previously unreleased alternate version of "Red Right Hand," recorded for Scream 3. There are the Bad Seeds' contributions to tribute albums such as Cave's ... read more

Tracks:

1. Deanna [Acoustic Version] [Cave]
2. The Mercy Seat [Acoustic Version] [Cave/Harvey]
3. City of Refuge [Acoustic Version] [Cave]
4. The Moon Is in the Gutter [Cave]
5. The Six Strings That Drew Blood [Cave]
6. Rye Whiskey [Traditional]
7. Running Scared [Orbison/Melson]
8. Black Betty [Leadbelly]
9. Scum [Cave/Harvey]
10. The Girl at the Bottom of My Glass [Cave]
11. The Train Song [Cave]
12. Cocks 'n' Asses [Cave/VanVugt]
13. Blue Bird [Cave]
14. Helpless [Young]
15. God's Hotel [Cave]
16. (I'll Love You) Till the End of the World [Cave]
17. Cassiel's Song [Cave]
18. Tower of Song [Cohen]
19. What Can I Give You? [Cave]
20. What a Wonderful World [Weiss/Douglas]
21. Rainy Night in Soho [MacGowan]
22. Lucy [Version #2] [Cave]
23. Jack the Ripper [Acoustic Version] [Cave]
24. Sail Away [Cave]
25. There's No Night Out in the Jail [Ashe]
26. That's What Jazz Is to Me [Cave/Harvey/Savage/]
27. The Willow Garden [Traditional]
28. The Ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane [Cave]
29. King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-O [Traditional]
30. Knoxville Girl [Traditional]
31. Where the Wild Roses Grow [Cave]
32. O'Malley's Bar, Pt. 1 [Cave]
33. O'Malley's Bar, Pt. 2 [Cave]
34. O'Malley's Bar, Pt. 3 [Cave]
35. Time Jesum Transeuntum et Non Riverentum [Cave/Ellis/Turner]
36. O'Malley's Bar Reprise [Cave]
37. Red Right Hand [Scream 3 Version] [Cave/Harvey/Wydler]
38. Little Empty Boat [Cave/Bargeld/Casey/]
39. Right Now I'm A-Roaming [Cave/Casey/Harvey]
40. Come into My Sleep [Cave]
41. Black Hair [Band Version] [Cave]
42. Babe, I Got You Bad [Cave]
43. Sheep May Safely Graze [Cave]
44. Opium Tea [Cave/Savage]
45. Grief Came Riding [Cave]
46. Bless His Ever Loving Heart [Cave]
47. Good Good Day [Cave]
48. Little Janey's Gone [Cave]
49. I Feel So Good [Lenoir]
50. Shoot Me Down [Cave]
51. Swing Low [Cave]
52. Little Ghost Song [Cave]
53. Everything Must Converge [Cave]
54. Nocturama [Cave]
55. She's Leaving You [Cave/Ellis/Casey/Sc]
56. Under This Moon [Cave]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.