The theme this week - Nick Cave

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Producer Will|14:30 UK time, Thursday, 26 May 2011

Nick Cave is your chosen topic for this week’s now playing. The guitarist who plays with his Bad Seeds, and more recently Grinderman, has helped score a new film Dias de Gracia (Days of Grace) directed by Everado Valerio Gout.

After recent screenings at the Cannes Film Festival, the Mexican thriller weaves three storylines across three football World Cups, with a different musical team composing the soundtrack for each thread in the movie.

Nick Cave has teamed up with Warren Ellis – the pair having worked together since 1995 in the Bad Seeds as well as Grinderman.

So what could you choose? The list is endless – anything Nick Cave is an obvious choice, but how about…

• Primal Scream after Bobby Gillespie joined Grinderman as backing vocalist during their performance at All Tomorrow’s Parties in 2007

• Something Shane MacGowan when they covered Bob Dylan’sDeath is Not the End

• Johnny Cash as both have covered each others work

• PJ Harvey who featured on Cave’s Murder Ballad’s album

• Or Massive Attack – who have also recorded a song for Days of Grace with Scarlett Johansson

• Equally acts he has influenced and been influenced by

Drop us an e-mail, add to the Facebook discussion, drag your suggestion into our collaborative Spotify playlist or simply leave a comment on this post with your suggestions, ideas and thoughts for a Nick Cave inspired playlist.

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Comment number 1.
At 15:29 26th May 2011, cookingwith7 wrote:
Play something off the new Kid Congo Powers record! (He was in the Bad Seeds in the late 80's)
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At 15:58 26th May 2011, lesley cheetham wrote:
My fav Nick Cave track is 'Come sail your ships around me'.
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At 21:12 26th May 2011, veena wrote:
The acoustic version of The Mercy Seat that Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds did for an American radio show. It appears on the tour film, The Road To God Knows Where. It is a sublime version of an archetypal Cave song.
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At 21:43 26th May 2011, alittlefrank2 wrote:
My fav album is Let love in. With Red right hand, Loverman and Nobody's baby now all excellent tracks from it. I also love the Mercy Seat and the collaboration with Shane Macgowan - a cover of What a wonderful world, is great.
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At 20:41 27th May 2011, veedlemonster wrote:
fantastic indie label band called DigLazarus (after the classic Nick Cave album/track)

saw them live last year, had to track them down to see them again - phenomenal energy at their gigs, good songs to.

Best track on their EP (and their single) is called 'Frantic Romantic' - I snatched it off iTunes.
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