{"id":29558,"date":"2026-03-12T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/nick-cave-the-ship-song-was-released-35-years-ago-today-did-you-already-know-these-facts\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T10:42:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T09:42:05","slug":"nick-cave-the-ship-song-was-released-35-years-ago-today-did-you-already-know-these-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/nick-cave-the-ship-song-was-released-35-years-ago-today-did-you-already-know-these-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"NICK CAVE &#8211; &#8220;The Ship Song&#8221; was released 35 years ago today. Did you already know these facts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/12-03-NickCave-TheShipSong-1-550x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/12-03-NickCave-TheShipSong-1-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/12-03-NickCave-TheShipSong-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/12-03-NickCave-TheShipSong-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/12-03-NickCave-TheShipSong-1-636x636.jpg 636w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/12-03-NickCave-TheShipSong-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Nick Cave &amp; The Bad Seeds<\/strong> released &#8220;The Ship Song&#8221; on March 12, 1990. Did you already know these 5 facts?<\/p>\n\n<p>\u2605 The first single from their sixth album &#8220;The Good Son&#8221; was &#8220;The Ship Song&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u2605 &#8220;The Ship Song&#8221; reached number 85 in the UK singles charts.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u2605 The music video was shot by John Hillcoat, who later also directed music videos for <strong>Muse<\/strong>, <strong>Siouxsie and the Banshees<\/strong> and <strong>Placebo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u2605 The song is still one of the most popular <strong>Nick<\/strong> <strong>Cave songs<\/strong> today, and was voted one of the 30 best Australian songs of all time by the Australasian Performing Right Association.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u2605 The Sidney Opera House made a lavish rearrangement of the song in 2010\/11 as &#8220;The Ship Song Project&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n<p>Watch the video:<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/T0spQCw35D4?si=x4G8RLlBVDkjNnZx\" title=\"Nick Cave &amp; The Bad Seeds - The Ship Song\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T0spQCw35D4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Cave &amp; The Bad Seeds released &#8220;The Ship Song&#8221; on March 12, 1990. Did you already know these 5 facts? \u2605 The first single from their sixth album &#8220;The Good Son&#8221; was &#8220;The Ship Song&#8221;. \u2605 &#8220;The Ship Song&#8221; reached number 85 in the UK singles charts. \u2605 The music video was shot by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1177,8609],"tags":[1289,3219,5373,2580,6022],"class_list":["post-29558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-complete","category-history-facts","tag-facts","tag-facts-en","tag-history-facts-en-2","tag-nick-cave-en","tag-the-ship-song-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NICK CAVE - &quot;The Ship Song&quot; was released 35 years ago today. 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