Nocturama is the 12th studio album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are an Australian alternative rock band, formed in Melbourne in 1983. The band is fronted by Nick Cave and has featured international personnel throughout their career.-Formation and early releases :...

, released in 2003. It received a fairly mixed reaction, though it had some moderate critical success. To date, it is the last Bad Seeds album to feature founding member Blixa Bargeld

Blixa Bargeld

Blixa Bargeld is a composer, author, actor, singer, musician, performer and lecturer in a number of artistic fields...

. This album reunited Nick Cave with Nick Launay, who had produced Junkyard

Junkyard (album)

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by The Birthday Party

The Birthday Party (band)

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 21 years earlier.

Track listing

All songs written by Nick Cave

Nick Cave

Nicholas Edward "Nick" Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional film actor.He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984, a group known for its eclectic influences and...

.

1. "Wonderful Life" – 6:49
2. "He Wants You" – 3:30
3. "Right Out of Your Hand" – 5:15
4. "Bring It On" – 5:22
5. "Dead Man in My Bed" – 4:40
6. "Still in Love" – 4:44
7. "There Is a Town" – 4:58
8. "Rock of Gibraltar" – 3:00
9. "She Passed by My Window" – 3:20
10. "Babe, I'm on Fire" – 14:45

Singles

• "Bring It On" (MUTE 265) (February 24, 2003)
  • "Bring It On" (Edit) b/w: "Shoot Me Down" / "Swing Low"
• "He Wants You" / "Babe, I'm on Fire" (MUTE 290) (June 2, 2003)
  • "He Wants You" (Edit) / "Babe, I'm on Fire" (Edit) b/w: "Little Ghost Song" / "Everything Must Converge"
• "Rock of Gibraltar" (MUTE 318) (September 1, 2003)
  • b/w: "Nocturama"

The Bad Seeds

• Nick Cave
  Nick Cave
  Nicholas Edward "Nick" Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional film actor.He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984, a group known for its eclectic influences and...
  
   – Vocals(1-10), Piano (1-3,5-8,10), Hammond (1,4-8,10)
• Mick Harvey
  Mick Harvey
  Michael John Harvey , is an Australian rock musician, composer, arranger and record producer. He is best known for his long-time collaboration with the singer and songwriter Nick Cave...
  
   – Guitar (1,3-7,9,10), Backing Vocals (3,5,7,10), Organ (2,9), Acoustic Guitar (8), Bass (8), Bongos (1), Triangle (1)
• Blixa Bargeld
  Blixa Bargeld
  Blixa Bargeld is a composer, author, actor, singer, musician, performer and lecturer in a number of artistic fields...
  
   – Pedal Steel Guitar (1-3,7,9), Guitar (4,6,10), Backing Vocals (5,10), Inexplicable Guitar (5), Gated Guitar (7)
• Thomas Wydler
  Thomas Wydler
  Thomas Wydler , is a Swiss musician best known for being a core member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, of which he has been a drummer since 1985. Prior to joining them, he was a member of the experimental German band Die Haut. Wydler has been present on almost every Bad Seeds album, making his...
  
   – Drums (1,3,5,6,8,10), Brush Snare (4,7), Shaker (2)
• Martyn P. Casey
  Martyn P. Casey
  Martyn Paul Casey is an English-born Australian rock bass guitarist. He had been a member of The Triffids, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Grinderman. Casey plays either his Fender Precision Bass or Fender Jazz Bass.-Biography:...
  
   – Bass (1-7,9,10)
• Jim Sclavunos
  Jim Sclavunos
  Jim Sclavunos is an American rock music drummer, percussionist and producer.Sclavunos, a half-Greek and half-Italian from Brooklyn, New York , is well-known for his exceptional height at 6'7". Sclavunos has performed with Sonic Youth, Tav Falco's Panther Burns, Lydia Lunch and was a member of 8...
  
   – Drums (2,4,7,9), Backing Vocals (7), Percussion (10), Tambourine (8)
• Warren Ellis
  Warren Ellis (musician)
  Warren Ellis is an Australian multi-instrumentalist and composer, best known for his work with Dirty Three, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Grinderman and his soundtrack scores with Nick Cave. He plays violin, piano, bouzouki, guitar, flute, mandolin, and tenor guitar...
  
   – Violin (2-10)
• Conway Savage
  Conway Savage
  Conway Savage is an Australian rock musician best known as pianist/organist/backing vocalist for Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds....
  
   – Backing Vocals (3,5,7,10)

Guests

• Chris Bailey – chorus vocals on "Bring It On"
• Johnny Turnbull – backing bocals on "He Wants You", "Bring It On", "There Is a Town" and "She Passed by My Window"
• Norman Watt-Roy
  Norman Watt-Roy
  Norman Watt-Roy is the bassist for The Blockheads, previously known as Ian Dury & the Blockheads.In November 1954 the Watt-Roy family, including Norman, his older brother Garth and his sister, moved to England...
  
   – backing vocals on "He Wants You", "Bring It On" and "There Is a Town"
• Mickey Gallagher
  Mickey Gallagher
  Michael William Gallagher also known as Mick Gallagher and Mickey Gallagher is a British Hammond organ player and best known as a member of Ian Dury and the Blockheads and for his contributions to albums by the Clash...
  
   – backing bocals on "He Wants You", "Bring It On", "There Is a Town" and "She Passed by My Window"
• Chas Jankel
  Chas Jankel
  Charles Jeremy Jankel professionally known as Chaz Jankel, is a musician best known as the keyboard player and guitarist with Ian Dury and the Blockheads...
  
  – backing vocals on "He Wants You", "Bring It On" and "There Is a Town"