Song · Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
“Into My Arms” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
From the album The Boatman’s Call (1997)
“Into My Arms” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds appears on 28 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 1997 and 2026. It was first released in 1997 on the album The Boatman’s Call. Its best result is #18 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 1997. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #166 alternative song of 1997 and #812 alternative song of all time.
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"Into My Arms" led the way for The Boatman's Call in 1997 as the first single from the tenth Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album, and it's Cave with nearly everything stripped away: just his voice, his piano and Martyn P. Casey's electric bass, nothing else. It came to him in rehab, the tune arriving on a walk back from church across the fields and the chords worked out on a creaky piano at the facility, and it plays as a love ballad of plainspoken, almost hymn-like devotion.
Flood produced it with the band, and Paul Corkett recorded it. Cave later counted it among the songs he's proudest of, in his lecture "The Secret Life of the Love Song", and he sang it at the funeral of his friend Michael Hutchence of INXS, asking for the cameras to be switched off while he did.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 18 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1997 | 100 |
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