Nick Cave & Shane MacGowan’s What A Wonderful World EP was a cover song maven’s delight. First you had both the boys crooning the hell all over the old standard, then you had them covering each other.
Shane MacGowan seersly owns “Lucy,” though. Once that belltower rings, that song no longer belongs to Nick Cave.
Shane MacGowan – Lucy from What A Wonderful World (out of print, but amazon has some used
Bonus I Love You Smoochy Smoochy
Here’s Nick doing MacGowan’s “Rainy Night In Soho” on Later With Jools Holland in 1992 (where the boys also did “What A Wonderful World” and “Lucy”):
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I rented The Assassination of Jesse James the other day and was surprised to see Nick Cave credited with the music. It was great music though, I guess no surprise there.
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I was surprised by that one too — his other soundtrack work has been for films he had a hand in. I read that he and Warren Ellis are lined up to score John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road — a bleak, bleak book, but if anyone can say “bleak” with music, it’s those two.