Your Funeral... My Trial

Your Funeral... My Trial
Studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Released November 3, 1986
Recorded July - August 1986
Genre Post-punk
Length 42:47
Label Mute Records
Producer Flood, Tony Cohen
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds chronology
Kicking Against the Pricks
(1986)		 Your Funeral... My Trial
(1986)		 Tender Prey
(1988)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Rolling Stone [2]
BBC (positive)[3]
Pitchfork Media (9.5/10)[4]
Piero Scaruffi [5]

Your Funeral... My Trial is the fourth studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released on November 3, 1986 by Mute Records. Your Funeral... My Trial was originally released as a double EP. The album was issued on CD with a different running order and the bonus track "Scum". During this period in his life, Cave was steeped in heroin addiction, perhaps evidenced by the melancholy, desperate mood of this album.[3][6]

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds appeared in the 1987 Wim Wenders film Der Himmel über Berlin, performing "The Carny" and "From Her to Eternity". "The Carny" also inspired the 2004 animated short film Jo Jo in the Stars, which won the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Short Film. The film was created and directed by Marc Craste, who said about "The Carny": "The lyrics read like a short story, it seemed to suggest a film – a straight visual interpretation of the text..."[7]

The album was remastered and reissued on April 27, 2009 as a collector's edition CD/DVD set. The CD features the original 8-song vinyl double EP's track listing and track order, while "Scum" is featured as a bonus audio track on the accompanying DVD.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Nick Cave, except where noted. 

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Sad Waters"     5:00
2. "The Carny"     8:01
3. "Your Funeral, My Trial"     3:56
4. "Stranger Than Kindness"   Anita Lane, Blixa Bargeld 4:47
5. "Jack's Shadow"   Cave, Mick Harvey 5:41
6. "Hard On for Love"     5:19
7. "She Fell Away"     4:30
8. "Long Time Man"   Tim Rose 5:35

Personnel

  1. "Sad Waters"
  2. "The Carny"
    • Nick Cave – vocals, harmonica
    • Blixa Bargeld – guitar, other voice
    • Mick Harvey – piano, organ, xylophone, glockenspiel
    • Thomas Wydler – drums
  3. "Your Funeral, My Trial"
    • Nick Cave – vocals, Hammond
    • Blixa Bargeld – guitar
    • Mick Harvey – piano, guitar, drums
    • Thomas Wydler – drums
    • Barry Adamson – bass
  4. "Stranger Than Kindness"
    • Nick Cave – vocals, Hammond
    • Blixa Bargeld – guitar
    • Mick Harvey – drums
  5. "Jack's Shadow"
    • Nick Cave – vocals, piano
    • Blixa Bargeld – guitar
    • Mick Harvey – guitar
    • Thomas Wydler – drums
    • Barry Adamson – bass
  6. "Hard On for Love"
    • Nick Cave – vocals, Hammond
    • Blixa Bargeld – guitar
    • Mick Harvey – bass, guitar, piano, backing vocals
  7. "She Fell Away"
    • Nick Cave – vocals, piano
    • Blixa Bargeld – guitar
    • Mick Harvey – bass, guitar, snare, xylophone
    • Thomas Wydler – drums, fire extinguisher
  8. "Long Time Man"
    • Nick Cave – vocals, piano
    • Blixa Bargeld – guitar
    • Mick Harvey – bass, guitar, drums
  9. "Scum"
    • Nick Cave – vocals
    • Blixa Bargeld – guitar
    • Mick Harvey – bass
    • Thomas Wydler – drums

Credits

References

  1. ^ Raggett, Ned. "allmusic ((( Your Funeral...My Trial > Review )))". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r3476. Retrieved January 24, 2011. 
  2. ^ Brackett, Nathan. "Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds". The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. November 2004. pg. 151, cited January 24, 2011
  3. ^ a b Long, Chris (8 May 2009). "BBC - Music - Review of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Your Funeral... My Trial". http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/5c8c. Retrieved 22 December 2010. 
  4. ^ Berman, Stuart. "From Her to Eternity/The First Born Is Dead/Kicking Against the Pricks/Your Funeral... My Trial". pitchfork.com. May 2009, Retrieved on January 24, 2011.
  5. ^ Scaruffi, Piero. "Nick Cave". pieroscaruffi.com (Italian). Retrieved on January 24, 2011.
  6. ^ Denning, Adrian (19 September 2010). "Nick Cave - album reviews". http://www.adriandenning.co.uk/cave.html. Retrieved 22 December 2010. 
  7. ^ Inspirations (XHTML). In depth, Interviews. Computer Arts. Retrieved on 2008-11-29.

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