Original video located here. Accessed 16th February 2011
Song title: The Ship Song
Artist: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Year: 1990
Why I like this song:
Now this is how you write a love song! I have had great respect for Mr. Cave's talents in writing a love songs. He has said that emotionally-based songs should be the real deal and not be in any way false - and for that I take my hat off to him.
The Ship Song I feel fulfills these objectives with ease. Listening to it, I hear something of beauty - comparable to watching a glacier melt. Everything works, the sweep of the song writing, the use of the piano and xylophone, the steady dream beat and the utilization of the layered vocals. Everything about it has this passionate, commanding tensity to it that reduces my speech to a whisper. To convey such emotion within a songs is nothing short of an achievement.
Indeed, it makes you wonder why no one has ever written anything to match, or even surpass, it. Maybe there is no need. Or maybe everyone is too scared to.
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