Nick Cave has named ‘Your Funeral, My Trial’ as the Bad Seeds song he most often returns to, describing it as a particularly beautiful and elusive work. The track, from the band’s 1986 album of the same name, matters because Cave sees it as capturing the group’s early artistic identity and the unusual chemistry of that line-up.

Cave said he was moved by the song’s “slippery beauty” and praised its sparse, uneasy musical arrangement, including its distinctive piano and guitar parts. He credited former Bad Seeds members such as Blixa Bargeld and Mick Harvey, while reflecting that the song emerged during a period when the band were developing their dark, theatrical sound.