Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tupelo

[@notsorry5332]

Mr. Inbetween brings me here. And I have no regerets. This song is a masterpiece

[@Muleek.420]

Same

[@steusebius]

Eric brought me here. And yes it is.

[@LBCB94025]

*_Same,_*_ i came here to leave this comment! Lol_ _whomever came up with Shazam deserves a fkn Medal!!_ lol 😆👍🏻🖤👏🏻🤷🏼 #Yigidy!🤙🏻

[@aarongrooms3558]

Loved Mr. In between!

[@keithedmundson2318]

Thanks to Leadbelly.

[@Frownland81]

This is song is one of my favorites by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. I think it is an absolutely stunning track in terms of its intensity, dramatic vocals, and poetic, story-like lyrics.

[@vlimmenveterinaryservices5657]

This song's going to be my exit from this world...stunningly beautiful

[@MuddHutter1]

Elvis Presley!

[@CarmenLorenLaivar]

tu pelo ....!!!!&@🎷❤️🔮🎷❤️🔮

[@fotoautomatmusic]

Mick Harvey makes that bass sound like something otherworldly. Incredible at everything he plays. 💙

[@Trundlecake]

Wow was it Mick not Barry plying? Never knew that

[@fotoautomatmusic]

@@Trundlecake I know Barry and Mick are listed as playing bass on this particular album and I can only see Mick in the video so actually just assumed, not entirely sure. Mick is incredible at everything he plays though, even If he looks like a deer in headlights at most of the Birthday party gigs. Man can he belt on drums.

[@popetones7400]

Very well said

[@jackholt668]

@@Trundlecakeon this track it’s Mick on bass and Barry playing drums according to Discogs credits

[@mrtoyotaro6793]

Great song to listen to when coming out of a broom closet and covered in blood.

[@wretchedslippage3255]

BEST episode of a 30 minute TV show in ages!

[@vikingraider8061]

Came here from that episode mr inbetween rocks

[@RivetHead999]

That scene made me come here. Haven’t heard this song in years

[@NeonRadarMusic]

Which show?

[@Hmantooth]

​@@NeonRadarMusicI don't answer questions 😉

[@pdu4691]

Fabulous song, fabulous hair.

[@2003fawn]

Saw Nick Cave and Bad Seeds twice in the 80's ...one of the best performers ever

[@LBCB94025]

_Damn.. _*_when did this song come out??_* 🧐🤔😳🤷🏼 #Crazy

[@2003fawn]

@@LBCB94025 1985

[@tryfishin9]

Nick, Mick, Blixa and Barry what a fuckin' team it was. One of my favorite videos ever.

[@greenhaiku8454]

Cris Z. Very bad seeds

[@chrishenniker5944]

Didn’t Einsturzende Neubaten turn into a German Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds?

[@volodymyrbilyk555]

@@chrishenniker5944 because Blixa thinks thats what made Neubauten into a household name. Which is kinda not. Neubauten was for the crazies. OG Neubauten run up until Haus Der Luge is the shit. Blixa had his singer moment here and there but the mainline music was pure apocalypse. Halber Mensch movie is peak Neubauten - its the coolest thing on earth if you're of certain age. then it started to go out of control and bros just started to make a nice sounding music which is fine but we're talking about motherfucking EINSTUERZENDE NEUBAUTEN. You don't turn Big Black into Amazing Rhythm Aces because that's the way to go. You keep Big Black ugly and loud. The same thing Neubautens - songs are fine but that's not Neubauten that Fur Der Untergang brought into this world. Blixa peaked as a songwriter circa Silence is Sexy and Perpetuum Mobile - Dead Friends, Youme Meyou, Ich gehe jetzt - all great songs - but it doesn't matter the second you turn Halber Mensch and think what happened to these guys.

[@LLiivveeeevviiLL]

Same here. A metalhead in my teens, now with broader range of musical interest. Cave is a really good artist and performer.

[@erinbrown3514]

I achieved a "Bucket-list" moment and finally saw Nick Cave and the Seeds LIVE in Denver 2 years ago with my sons... Fuckin brilliant!

[@flyinspirals]

+Erin Brown Lucky stiff : )

[@NannyCam]

Erin Brown saw him in San Francisco like 10 years ago. I said afterward it felt like I just had really awesome sex. Phenomenal. 😏

[@oscartorres137]

Erin Brown I'm heading to Berkeley this weekend, I can't wait to finally seeing him and Warren Ellis live!

[@mariadaugbjerg6141]

Erin Brown : My husband and i was to a concert with Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds in the middle of the eighties , here in Copenhagen , Denmark ,and we was nearly always broke ,but somehow we managed to save enough money together to 2 tickets , and woow- just woooooow.Nick started the concert reading from a new book that he had just been writing ,and it was fabulously-the hole thing was just perfect and gloomy.I just love Nick Cave.

[@MissTishyTashy]

I saw him live for the first time on a dark and stormy night in New Orleans, at the House of Blues, in 1998... still one of the greatest live gigs I've ever seen. I knew very little of his music back then & didn't know what to expect when I went into that show... I left that night a fan for life.

[@dragicasusnik4851]

What a legend, what an immortal song, what a great singer and the band, it crosses the times and universes 🎉

[@spacecat673]

this song sounds so ahead of its time, i literally had no idea it was from 1985. and all i do is listen to classic rock music

[@popetones7400]

Reading about that kid stealing a plane in Tupelo today (09/03/22) sure got this stuck in my head

[@theresalemieux6993]

Definitely one of my favorites. Researched Tupelo and it's a town in Mississippi and tornado Alley just saying thank you Nick and the Bad seeds for all your wonderful music

[@RabahJam]

and birthplace of elvis presley, who the song is about if I'm not mistaken, although in an altered, antichristic version

[@emilytoole1524]

@@RabahJam the title of the album “ the firstborn is dead “ refers to his twin brother who died at birth

[@SchroedingeraKot]

It's about birth of Elvis Presley.

[@albertarthurparsnips5141]

Jesse Garon Presley.

[@mayamoon722]

Watching / listening to this in total darkness while there's heavy, thunder and lightning outside while it crashes it bangs and flashes off the walls is wicked !!!

[@alisonyoung5051]

Ten years later: I discovered this song like a week ago and have already had the perfect blackout and storm to blast it to🤘 reaching through time to say fuck yeah.

[@77AWAKE77]

Some of his music is prophetic.

[@samrobertson9051]

The Bad Seeds live in 1996, one of the greatest if not the best live performances i ever seens i tells ya!

[@jumblyman]

Whenever a storm is coming I hear the evil sounding bass riff from this song, sometimes I put it on as the storm hits.

[@jaivkoltun4948]

Just did as the lightning streaked the sky, perfect soundtrack. . . Yeah, that bass just grinds . . . Freaking brilliant. . .

[@cpbacon53511]

no you didn't

[@blackestcracker]

I love how he can't recreate his stage presence while lip syncing. It's like Nick Cave doing an impression of a muppet doing an impression of Nick Cave. He looks like he's about to start laughing.

[@brennalouis4742]

blackestcracker hahahaha a Muppet! It's so true, I was sitting here researching this and thinking, this is such a serious song but he and Blixa are cutting up again.

[@heatherdaydream]

Nick is always but moments way from laughing imv

[@michaelwhaley3063]

Yeah bru, its incongruous aye. Crackblackbro

[@scottskidmore3214]

@@brennalouis4742 you'd stick your hand up there and work a muppet wouldn't ya?

[@PatientenO.T.]

Oh please don’t bring up the word Muppet. That’s how we lost Blixa.

[@mayamoon722]

Seen The Bad Seeds play this last night as an encore. It was like an earthquake.

[@malyfromhell74]

total masterpiece in the rythm "mantra"

[@marshallpetty441]

Heard this on Mr. Inbetween....shit rocks!

[@DoubleBarrelDarrell]

Me, too! I had to find out more about the song. I'm going to try to get my metal band to cover it.

[@dicklong7230]

brought me here too.

[@bigcheese8896]

Same here, such a badass show

[@mianotmu8868]

Me too

[@lisannebrady]

This is an amazing song. Just saw it live in Dublin 2 weeks ago. His voice suits it even better now. Incredible artist

[@theguywithoutafoot]

My one time all favourite song. Why? Just one of the reasons is the beat resembling Wind-shield wipers, makes you feel like you're actually travelling to Tupelo. Absolutely amazing

[@dablarts9384]

It's like the windscreen wipers of Bo Diddley's train haha

[@MEDCANWhitewidow]

Where is tupelo?

[@mollycameron4062]

​@@MEDCANWhitewidowTupelo, Mississippi. The town Elvis Presley was born in.

[@rosol_polski]

Masterpiece.

[@SpartanMysterio]

I have been trying to find out more about the meaning of the song and it is trying to depict the Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak in 1936. Elvis Presley's brother died during this catastrophe.

[@gavinpage1121]

Elvis twin brother jesse garon was stillborn elvis was born in 1935 this is like a biblical storm with thr birth of elvis

[@LuckyBastardProd]

There’s no meaning he’s just telling the birth of Elvis in a biblical way like the birth of Jesus “until The King is born in Tupelo…with a bottle and a box and a cradle of straw.”

[@sleeveho7577]

It means whatever you think it means. That's the beauty of art people take for granted. Maybe there's something to it idk I just chose to not worry about it and it feels nice haha.

[@gustavohansen1]

dat bass line makes me feel unconfortable. love it. love this song

[@mursu24]

+Gustavo Hansen A bit Primus-y

[@DEVOn.A.Skertic]

This record was way before Primus was a thought.

[@bartkaian9031]

+Micole Skertic it sounds more to me like the rhythm of a nightmarish work-song. It has that incessant, urgent sound given an ethereal spiritual vibe by the bg vox

[@feleciawalberg646]

It's always reminded me of a combination of thunder and hoofbeats, like the approach of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

[@defdog17]

The magician sent me here. Shovel in hand.

[@77AWAKE77]

He is incredible, love him and he is amazing. I saw him live and it was my dream come true. Could not believe the bogan audience they did not deserve him.

[@Faydit212]

One of his best songs in my opinion. So simple, puristic and nevertheless one of the most intense songs, or maybe better an invocation. Magical!

[@RivetHead999]

Shoutout to Mr Inbetween for bringing me back here. This song was perfect for the scene

[@brendancadogan6235]

saw him play this live in july.spiritual experience,hes the greatest living performer.

[@ChrisG3253032]

Always loved this song, and the drums......awesome 👌

[@JohnCollingswood]

The magic that happens when you make the bass player shift to the drum kit.

[@KosherCarPark]

He even manages to make the nasty sweatshirt-tucked-in-to-jeans combo look swish. :)

[@jaspermeow7329]

it was the 80's. there was less judgement back then :)

[@kathleenbergin8427]

This song should be used in ads for Emergency Services. “Triple 0! Oh Triple 0!”

[@rupertberr]

The short version of this song. He really rocks it now in concert. :)

[@spauuuuni]

I LOVE YOU NICK CAVE!

[@marketapastalkova9702]

I love this song, the video is perfect ❤💯

[@Angrautimas]

this song ist so great, the video is great, nick is great, blixa too and also mick and mr.dreher and of course barry :D god bless these guys for this music, really soul-shaking, i agree and i cant stop watching and hearing their stuff.

[@LLiivveeeevviiLL]

WTF man if this kind of preacher came around I would be scared shitless and convert to whatever church he represented!

[@Studentofgosset]

You can tell yourself you're dreaming buddy, but no sleep runs this deep

[@HolyGhost66]

An amazing piece of art, as usual from nick and the bad seeds

[@jotacalvo]

@theangryhands The song (as well as the album title) is a tribute to Elvis, born in Tupelo, Mississippi and the 2nd twin born. The first was still-born.

[@AgentXPQ]

Rock and Fucking Roll.

[@ChrisHenniker]

Yeah, nick Cave could be the new king.

[@joealder4397]

CHris Henniker new?

[@tobiandent9193]

AgentXPQ Lev likes Nick Cave. Should have known...

[@roslynbradley6013]

Peaky Blinders was great and possibly he had something to do with the series.. Nick is a total legend.. just saw him in Adelaide and this song live was sensational

[@MissMacaroni]

Yes Nick is the thunder god.

[@melindabenzerrouk6232]

Thor 😂

[@hugogonzalez4824]

Cuando la música contaba historia. Su interpretación es istrionica simplemente genial. Una de mis favoritas de siempre.

[@jfranks1295]

Been listening to Nick for 20 years and I didn’t discover this song until Me Inbetween. Nick Cave is goat.

[@XRISSX77]

I love this album, mans a god damn force of nature as far as I am concerned.

[@urbanelysium]

Nick is awesome!

[@katepearson3780]

great to hear that they have been playing this on their US tour... looking forward to hearing it in 4 days.

[@The-Music-Archive]

Either this or weeping song - their best.

[@ΑΝΤΙ-ρ9τ]

Looka yonder! Looka yonder! Looka yonder! A big black cloud come! A big black cloud come! O comes to Tupelo. Comes to Tupelo Yonder on the horizon Yonder on the horizon Stopped at the mighty river Stopped at the mighty river and Sucked the damn thing dry Tupelo-o-o, O Tupelo In a valley hides a town called Tupelo Distant thunder rumble. Distant thunder rumble Rumble hungry like the Beast The Beast it cometh, cometh down The Beast it cometh, cometh down Wo wo wo-o-o Tupelo bound. Tupelo-o-o. Yeah Tupelo The Beast it cometh, Tupelo bound Why the hen won't lay no egg Can't get that cock to crow The nag is spooked and crazy O God help Tupelo! O God help Tupelo! O God help Tupelo! O God help Tupelo! Ya can say these streets are rivers Ya can call these rivers streets Ya can tell ya self ya dreaming buddy But no sleep runs this deep No! No sleep runs this deep No sleep runs this deep Women at their windows Rain crashing on the pane Writing in the frost Tupelos' shame. Tupelo's shame O God help Tupelo! O God help Tupelo! O go to sleep lil children The sandmans on his way O go to sleep lil children The sandmans in his way But the lil children know They listen to the beating of their blood listen to the beating of their blood listen to the beating of their blood listen to the beating of their blood They listen to the beating of their blood The sandman's mud! The sandman's mud! And the black rain come down the black rain come down the black rain come down Water water everywhere Where no bird can fly no fish can swim Where no bird can fly no fish can swim No fish can swim Until The King is born! Until The King is born! In Tupelo! Tupelo-o-o! Til The King is born in Tupelo! In a clap-board shack with a roof of tin Where the rain came down and leaked within A young mother frozen on a concrete floor With a bottle and a box and a cradle of straw Tupelo-o-o! O Tupelo! With a bottle and a box and a cradle of straw Well Saturday gives what Sunday steals And a child is born on his brothers heels Come Sunday morn the first-born dead In a shoebox tied with a ribbon of red Tupelo-o-o! Hey Tupelo! In a shoebox buried with a ribbon of red O ma-ma rock you lil' one slow O ma-ma rock your baby O ma-ma rock your lil' one slow O God help Tupelo! O God help Tupelo! Mama rock your lil' one slow The lil one will walk on Tupelo The lil one will walk on Tupelo Black rain come down, Black rain come down Tupelo-o-o! Yeah Tupelo! And carry the burden of Tupelo Tupelo-o-o! O Tupelo! Yeah! The King will walk on Tupelo! Tupelo-o-o! O Tupelo! He carried the burden outa Tupelo! Tupelo-o-o! Hey Tupelo! You will reap just what you sow

[@jamesbrown6020]

Your my hero!!

[@reuireuiop0]

My God, has any of the post grunge music makers ever reached this kind of intensity. If ya know one, tell me

[@cousiwa09]

Nick at his peak. Looking great. Love Barry's bass. The icing on the bad seeds cake.

[@User_youtube508]

I’m almost as old as this comment but yes great music

[@Ellionart]

His best song. Even though his every song is his best song...

[@ninadeblon1015]

This guy isn't looking like his voice sounds..it's great stuff

[@jxomxo]

I find that as he gets older he starts to look more like he sounds lol

[@deboracolangelo6334]

Really a great song with a sound that Is completely captivating

[@keleythosrixis8998]

MASTERPIECE

[@G2thesecondpower]

Why do I love Nick Cave so much. Oh yeah, and the Bad Seeds. The bad-ass Seeds!

[@StarsOut27]

thanks for the reissue-- excellent quality

[@mehhhhist]

Well Saturday gives what Sunday steals And a child is born on his brothers heels Come Sunday morn the first-born dead In a shoebox tied with a ribbon of red

[@grandhyena5311]

and the nag spooked crazy

[@maldoror2007]

great poetry. plus: the music. plus: the man. plus: the band. plus Elvis.

[@swatsolitaryma]

wow look at that haircut , i mean only nick cave can have the same hair style for 30 fucking years and still rocks still cool AF

[@Holasoyunurl123]

and Mick Jagger

[@TobyLawnjockey]

Smilla Zakalwe big enough and ugly enough to look after himself.

[@BOSIE321]

Not that it matters but Nick's had a little help from a surgeon or two with his hair over the last 10 years (check the Dig Lazarus/Grinderman era). It's very common these days, so good on him. I hope he still has it raven black when he's in his 70s.

[@patriciofernandez2711]

Ehh not really, I don't think those are implants, he said he's been dying his hair all his life, but if you look at the band's concert videos over the years you'll find his hairline is definetly receding.

[@BOSIE321]

He had a huge bald spot at the back of his head during the Dig Lazarus era which is now gone. This coupled with the receding hair in the front (which looks much better nowadays) suggests to me that he's had a transplant. Either that or he's had incredible results with Rogaine or Finasteride.

[@adambrowne3307]

Nick Cave is mary shelleys child gone right. in this song

[@sillamookton]

love this for 26 yrs now

[@luisleal7301]

More terrifying than any black metal song

[@scottskidmore3214]

Luis Leal, that's cause black metal isn't in English?

[@nikita70]

That's exactly what I thought. This Devil comes up using country roads, not any Highway To (or from) Hell.

[@Zebedeez_Nuts]

if by terrifying you mean autistic and gay, then yes, it most certainly is

[@nikita70]

@@Zebedeez_Nuts Care to elaborate?

[@Zebedeez_Nuts]

@@nikita70 nope

[@tonyphillis5428]

Full on love this

[@Skippymoogoose90]

Darn tootin!! Woke up into the middle of a thunderstorm, threw open my window and just shrieked "Tupeloooooooooooooooooooo" at the sky :D

[@kurtisgalloway218]

Mr. Inbetween recommended this song.

[@ireneclaro5538]

Just perfect !!!!!!!!

[@ElisaLastrucci]

Sublime

[@trillyblack531]

Brucio d'amore per te Nick! Da tutti i pori! Sei immenso💜💣

[@sasmitroy5480]

"America. A new life. A new love." - John Shelby

[@moh6272]

oh man! i love him

[@craigdavidson3830]

What a performance, nick cave and the bad seeds

[@looshkin66]

"and the ass saw the angel" is possibly the best book i've read! have you heard any of his early stuff? Boys next door was his first band before the birthday party.

[@elizabethhann4028]

[16 August 2020] I've listened to lots of his early stuff. I too think *AND THE ASS SAW THE ANGEL* is one of the best books I've ever read. Ahhh, Nick in his youth, when he was the Wild Colonial Boy. Now he's grown into the old Man Of Constant Sorrow.

[@JRobertOppenheimerVideos]

The meaning of this song is so profound. It's about reincarnation, but just saying that doesn't begin to delve into the concept. Utter genius.

[@JRobertOppenheimerVideos]

I suppose two months later this is my attempt at it: Cave is saying that from electricity comes life and we haven't had a bad enough storm since, trapped in times of mediocrity. But the little children know (the next generation)-- that eventually the sandman will come from under the mud and start the heart of the next King-- --to bring the black rain storm of true originality out from the depths of pop culture trash.

[@AspiringSanta]

Its an old blues tune...

[@FunkadelicPancho]

It's also about Elvis

[@Shamanitanian]

just amazing!!

[@oisinkennedy6324]

lyric like.his writing a book,respect to the dude.

[@cescorosa61]

The album Is a masterpiece

[@zanussi303]

From true detective to mr inbetween, nick cave is there for the best episode

[@MarvinSumpter]

I've always had this feeling I'm carrying the burden of Tupelo.

[@SoundOfFreedom35]

Song will be played at my funeral as my soul dances to the point of no return

[@kuhylyn]

niesamowity utwór..........

[@ana736]

This od the BEST

[@alexiskatsogiannos7468]

I love Blixas facial expression as he appears the first time!!

[@alexiskatsogiannos7468]

Well, expressions.

[@LiteratiRecords]

I think he is a more dynamic performer now than he was in this video. He killed it in Denver on Wed.

[@jfranks1295]

If you like this you should hear “hiding all away.” Rocks even harder

[@tomotomic1862]

Fantastic song.. I haven't heard it before👍👍

[@longliveducko]

im gonna listen

[@OffBeatTupelo]

I'm from Tupelo MS. And I approve this message.

[@aushra2514]

Super!!

[@ChrisHenniker]

Cave sounds like an Evil Elvis on this song.

[@royorbit3800]

I don't really have a source on this, but my father told me this song is about the night that Elvis was born.

[@KingInk91]

Roy Orbit He' s right! "A king will walk on Tupelo..." Elvis aka the King was born in Tupelo. Plus this song is from the "Firstborn is dead" album and also this title is refered to Elvis. It is said that Elvis had a stillborn twin.

[@royorbit3800]

Campaigner What a strange comment. What do you even mean by that??

[@campaigner1016]

I was listening to Lou Reed's "New York" album at the time. Right as I was reading your comment about your father telling you that "Tupelo" was about the night Elvis was born, I heard the line from Lou Reed's song, "Last Great American Whale"...the lyrics went, "Some say they saw him at the Great Lakes Some say they saw him off of Florida My mother said she saw him in Chinatown But you can't always trust your mother..." I thought, I love those lyrics, but they make very little sense in the context of the song about humanity killing off whales! So, maybe not appropriate, but it seemed odd that I was just reading about what your father had told you. I'll write basically that your Dad is right, but don't trust Mom. Of course I don't know your Mom. I'm a painter, poet type of guy...so like a lot of songwriters, poets and writers in general, don't take what I or others may say so literally. See, this had nothing to do with your mother...just my imagination run amuck!! I apologize if you took offence to it...no offence intended!

[@royorbit3800]

Campaigner That's cool man. I also like "New York". Just was a little confusing I thought you were attacking me. It looks like you are really sick in your profile picture. Are you alright?

[@Antdevamp]

I'm here for The Magician, aka Mr. Inbetween. He took off his clothes, closed the door, and murdered a bunch of pedophiles. It's a great song in and of itself. If you can, keep your clothes clean.

[@dafunkycanuck]

Heck yeah, that scene gave me goosebumps. Just perfect.

[@Antdevamp]

@@dafunkycanuck (Opens door) "NONONOPLEASEWEDIDNTTOUCHTHEMPLEASECANW-" (*click*)

[@dafunkycanuck]

@@Antdevamp They knew what was in store for them and that it was going to be without remorse, like being caught in a machine.

[@multilucas7777]

Quel talent ! du génie même

[@jdsadinger]

This is my favorite episode of Twin Peaks.

[@elf9986]

Nick's boundless love for the King

[@AlejandroKozak-ll8xm]

Is great song baby..so good 🦇🇦🇷

[@sandinmycrack]

I am an avid metal head and love Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave..I went to his concert in Toronto back in October and among the older crowd and pretentious artsy types there was quite an abundance of metal fans.

[@grahamperrin203]

Great song

[@richardzizzi4370]

It's a punk gospel tent meeting! 🖤

[@forwhomthebelltolls]

Saw Nick Cave in Rome around 2009. They were a bit late coming on stage. I really had to take a piss from the beers. So I went to the toilets thinking "Even if they start the set, I won't miss the best". Came back while they were mid way through "Tupelo" with mustache-Cave sperging in front of a mega screen showing black and white clouds. Most expensive piss I've ever took.

[@Ianad2]

He looks like the son of the Werewolf! So lovely!

[@Kalejha9]

3:44 Elvis Cave

[@strutnoodle]

such a dark tale, one of those song/stories that made me a writer.