“Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

"Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow" was the second single from No More Shall We Part, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' 2001 album, and Cave wrote it alone, singing and playing piano. The Bad Seeds turn out in force: Blixa Bargeld and Mick Harvey on guitars, Martyn P. Casey on bass, Thomas Wydler on drums and Jim Sclavunos on percussion, plus a string section with Warren Ellis among the violins, violas, cellos and two double basses. Bargeld, Casey, Harvey, Wydler and Conway Savage pile on the backing vocals, and the band produced it with Tony Cohen.

The video has them playing live in a building that once housed the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan while a crowd dances around them, with Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, Jason Donovan and Noah Taylor among the faces.

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