The Carny

"The Carny"

Song by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds from the album Your Funeral... My Trial

Released

3 November 1986

Recorded

July – August 1986 at Hansa Tonstudio, West Berlin, Germany and Strongroom in London, United Kingdom

Genre

Post-punk

Length

8:01

Your Funeral... My Trial track listing
"Sad Waters" "The Carny" "Your Funeral, My Trial" "Stranger Than Kindness" "Jack's Shadow" "Hard on for Love" "She Fell Away" "Long Time Man"

The Carny is a song by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds appearing on their fourth studio album Your Funeral... My Trial. It was written by Nick Cave and was recorded in August 1986 at Hansa Tonstudio and Strongroom.

Accolades

Year	Publication	Country	Accolade	Rank
2004	Mojo	United Kingdom	100 Epic Rock Tracks^[1]	58
2011	Dave Thompson	United Kingdom	1000 Songs that Rock Your World^[2]	304

Personnel

Adapted from the Your Funeral... My Trial liner notes.^[3]

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

Blixa Bargeld – guitar, backing vocals
Nick Cave – lead vocals, harmonica
Mick Harvey – organ, piano, glockenspiel, xylophone
Thomas Wydler – drums

Production and additional personnel

Tony Cohen – production, engineering
Flood – production, engineering, mixing

References

↑ "Mojo: 100 Epic Rock Tracks" (125). Mojo. April 2004. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
↑ Thompson, Dave (May 3, 2011). "The Carny by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds". Krause Publications. p. 213. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
↑ Your Funeral... My Trial (sleeve). Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. London, United Kingdom: Mute Records. 1986.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Barry Adamson Martyn P. Casey Nick Cave Warren Ellis Conway Savage Jim Sclavunos Thomas Wydler Blixa Bargeld Mick Harvey James Johnston Anita Lane Kid Congo Powers Hugo Race Roland Wolf

Studio albums	From Her to Eternity The Firstborn Is Dead Kicking Against the Pricks Your Funeral... My Trial Tender Prey The Good Son Henry's Dream Let Love In Murder Ballads The Boatman's Call No More Shall We Part Nocturama Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! Push the Sky Away

Live albums	Live Seeds Abattoir Blues Tour Live at the Royal Albert Hall Live from KCRW

Compilations	The Best of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds B-Sides & Rarities

Singles	"In the Ghetto" "Tupelo" "The Singer" "The Mercy Seat" "Deanna" "The Ship Song" "The Weeping Song" "Straight to You" "I Had a Dream, Joe" "What a Wonderful World" with Shane MacGowan "Do You Love Me?" "Loverman" "Red Right Hand" "Where the Wild Roses Grow" with Kylie Minogue "Henry Lee" with PJ Harvey "Into My Arms" "(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For" "As I Sat Sadly by Her Side" "Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow" "Love Letter" "Bring It On" "He Wants You" / "Babe I'm On Fire" "Rock of Gibraltar" "Nature Boy" "Breathless" / "There She Goes, My Beautiful World" "Get Ready for Love" "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!" "More News from Nowhere" "Midnight Man" "We No Who U R" "Jubilee Street"

Other songs	"From Her to Eternity" "The Carny"

Cave and Ellis	The Proposition The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford The Road White Lunar Lawless West of Memphis

Related articles	Discography The Birthday Party discography Grinderman discography Bad Seeds members Mute Records 20,000 Days on Earth The Birthday Party Door, Door Hee Haw EP The Birthday Party Prayers on Fire Junkyard Mutiny/The Bad Seed It's Still Living A Collection... Grinderman Grinderman Grinderman 2 "Get It On" "No Pussy Blues" "(I Don't Need You To) Set Me Free" "Heathen Child" "Worm Tamer" "Palaces of Montezuma" "Evil" "Mickey Mouse and the Goodbye Man" And the Ass Saw the Angel Dirty Three Ghosts... of the Civil Dead Original Seeds

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The Carny

Accolades

Personnel

See also

References