Your Funeral… My Trial

Infobox Album | Name = Your Funeral... My Trial
Type = Album
Artist = Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds


Released = 1986
Recorded = July - August 1986
Genre = Post-punk
Length = 46:06
Label = Mute Records
Producer = Flood, Tony Cohen
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:41e67uw0h0j0~T00 link]
Last album = "Kicking Against the Pricks"
(1986)
This album = "Your Funeral... My Trial"
(1986)
Next album = "Tender Prey"
(1988)

"Your Funeral... My Trial" is the fourth album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and was released in 1986. During this period in his life, Cave was steeped in heroin addiction, perhaps evidenced by the melancholy, desperate mood of this album.

Your Funeral... My Trial was originally released as a double EP.

The song "The Carny" is seen being played live by the band in the Wim Wenders film "Der Himmel über Berlin", released one year later.

The title itself is possibly taken from Sonny Boy Williamson's song 'Your Funeral and My Trial.'Fact|date=July 2008

Original tracklisting of the vinyl release

Side A
#"Sad Waters" - 5:02
#"The Carny" - 8:02

Side B
#"Your Funeral... My Trial" - 3:57
#"Stranger Than Kindness" - 4:47 (Anita Lane, Blixa Bargeld)

Side C
#"Jack's Shadow" - 5:43
#"Hard On For Love" - 5:21

Side D
#"She Fell Away" – 4:33
#"Long Time Man" – 5:48 (Tim Rose)

Tracklisting of the CD release

Early CD releases of "Your Funeral... My Trial" were in the same order as the vinyl release, but with the track "Scum" added to the end. In later releases, the songs have been arranged in the following order:
#"Your Funeral... My Trial" - 3:57
#"Stranger Than Kindness" - 4:47
#"Jack's Shadow" - 5:43
#"The Carny" - 8:02
#"She Fell Away" – 4:33
#"Hard On For Love" - 5:21
#"Sad Waters" - 5:02
#"Long Time Man" – 5:48
#"Scum" - 2:53

Personnel

#"Your Funeral... My Trial" – 3:57
#*Nick Cave - Vocals, Hammond
#*Blixa Bargeld - Guitar
#*Mick Harvey - Piano, Guitar, Drums
#*Thomas Wydler - Drums
#*Barry Adamson - Bass
#"Stranger than Kindness" – 4:47
#*Nick Cave - Vocals, Hammond
#*Blixa Bargeld - Guitar
#*Mick Harvey - Drums
#"Jack's Shadow" – 5:43
#*Nick Cave - Vocals, Piano
#*Blixa Bargeld - Guitar
#*Mick Harvey - Guitar
#*Thomas Wydler - Drums
#*Barry Adamson - Bass
#"The Carny" – 8:02
#*Nick Cave - Vocals, Harmonica
#*Blixa Bargeld - Guitar, Other Voice
#*Mick Harvey - Piano, Organ, Xylophone, Glockenspiel
#*Thomas Wydler - Drums
#"She Fell Away" – 4:33
#*Nick Cave - Vocals, Piano
#*Blixa Bargeld - Guitar
#*Mick Harvey - Bass, Guitar, Snare, Xylophone
#*Thomas Wydler - Drums, Fire Extinguisher
#"Hard on for Love" – 5:21
#*Nick Cave - Vocals, Hammond
#*Blixa Bargeld - Guitar
#*Mick Harvey - Bass, Guitar, Piano, Backing Vocals
#"Sad Waters" – 5:02
#*Nick Cave - Vocals, Hammond, Harmonica
#*Blixa Bargeld - Guitar
#*Mick Harvey - Bass, Rhythm Guitar, Drums
#"Long Time Man" – 5:48
#*Nick Cave - Vocals, Piano
#*Blixa Bargeld - Guitar
#*Mick Harvey - Bass, Guitar, Drums
#"Scum" – 2:53 (CD only)
#*Nick Cave - Vocals
#*Blixa Bargeld - Guitar
#*Mick Harvey - Bass
#*Thomas Wydler - Drums

The songs

*"Sad Waters" lyrics contain a quote from the song "Green, Green Grass of Home", a country/pop hit for Tom Jones.
*"Scum" is reportedly a rant against UK journalists Matt Snow and Antonella Black (now Antonella Gambotto-Burke).
*"Long Time Man" is a cover version of the song by Tim Rose. The original was later issued on "Original Seeds" Vol. 1.

Credits

Recorded at Hansa Studios, Berlin; and The Strongroom, London through July and August, 1986.

Personnel

* Nick Cave – Vocals, Hammond, Piano, Harmonica
* Blixa Bargeld - Guitar, Other Voice
* Mick Harvey – Guitar, Bass, Drums, Piano, Xylophone, Backing Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Organ, Snare, Glockenspiel
* Thomas Wydler – Drums, Fire Extinguisher
* Barry Adamson – Bass