Song · Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
“By The Time I Get To Phoenix” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
From the album Kicking Against the Pricks (1986)
“By The Time I Get To Phoenix” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1986. It was first released in 1986 on the album Kicking Against the Pricks. Its best result is #45 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1986. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #189 alternative song of 1986.
"By the Time I Get to Phoenix" is Jimmy Webb's song, and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds took it on for Kicking Against the Pricks, the Australian band's third studio album, a 1986 set of Cave's takes on other writers' songs.
Cave sings it. Mick Harvey, who produced alongside the band, sits at the piano; Rowland S. Howard plays guitar and organ, Blixa Bargeld guitar, Barry Adamson bass, and Thomas Wydler, whose Bad Seeds debut came on this album, drums. Strings come from a Berlin ensemble, arranged, like all of the record's strings, by Harvey. Tony Cohen engineered, and Flood joined Cave, Harvey, Bargeld and Wydler on the mix. Cave later played the whole covers project down, but said it taught the band they could pull off all sorts of music, and that it helped the records that followed.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 45 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1986 | 50 |
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