Nick Cave shares playlist of his “15 best songs”

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Nick Cave has shared a playlist that was created of his “15 best songs” after being asked to make a compilation for new fans.After being asked for a playlist of his songs for new listeners who were looking for a way to navigate Cave’s “immense and bewildering” back catalogue on his site, Red Hand Files, the singer compiled a list of tracks that were sent in by his readers.The Bad Seeds frontman shared: “Feeling not best placed to judge, I instead turned to the readers of The Red Hand Files for help, asking you to send in playlists of your 15 favourite songs.”He continued: “The response was overwhelming and well over two thousand playlists have come in so far (please stop sending them now!).

Fearing drowning in my own songs, I handed the lists over to my team, who fed them into ChatGPT – that handy little data-cruncher! — which sorted through the responses and ranked the top 15.”‘Jubilee Street’ ‘Into My Arms’ ‘From Her to Eternity’ ‘The Ship Song’‘Tupelo’‘The Mercy Seat’‘Stagger Lee’ ‘Push The Sky Away’‘The Weeping Song’‘Higgs Boson Blues’‘Red Right Hand’ ‘Ghosteen’‘Bright Horses’‘Straight To You’ ‘O Children’The ‘Red Right Hand’ singer recently revealed that he’s currently “finishing” work on his new album with the Bad Seeds.At the start of 2023, he confirmed that work was underway and shared some early lyric ideas for the follow-up to 2019’s ‘Ghosteen’.Speaking to NME earlier this summer, Cave described the new material as “just so instantly interesting” as well as “different all the time”.In an entry on his Red Hand Files website, he told fans that he was to take a short break from replying to questions from fans to finish work on the album.A post shared by Nick Cave (@nickcaveofficial)“Thank you for your kind words,”.