“Saint Huck” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

"Saint Huck" sits on From Her to Eternity, the 1984 debut by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, a record cut mostly at Trident Studios in London that March. Cave wrote it alone, words and music, and he sings it himself, with Flood engineering sessions he co-produced with the band.

This is the sound of Cave clawing his way out of the Birthday Party's ruins. He built the new outfit around old bandmate Mick Harvey, and the early lineup took in Blixa Bargeld of Einstürzende Neubauten and Hugo Race on guitars, plus ex-Magazine man Barry Adamson on guitar, bass and piano. They had played as "Nick Cave – Man or Myth?" and briefly as the Cavemen before borrowing the Bad Seeds name from the Birthday Party's last EP.

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