Nick Cave reveals the song he wants played at his funeral

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Nick Cave has revealed the song he would like to be played at his funeral.The Australian responded to a pair of questions on his blog The Red Hand Files on Wednesday (January 29), one in reaction to his appearance on the BBC’s Desert Island Discs, and the other asking him about his funeral choice.Answering the latter question directly, he wrote: “Oh, and Damian, please, ‘I Am A God’ by Kanye West.”It comes just days after Cave selected the ‘Yeezus’ track as one of his eight favourite records on Desert Island Discs.

Speaking about the choice, he said: “This became, weirdly enough, a kind of family song. My kids love it, Susie loves it, I love it.

It’s an extremely playful, extremely dark, complex song where on the one hand, Kanye is presenting himself as a god, and then towards the end of the song, he’s screaming in terror.”“It’s an unbelievably deep song, in my view,” he continued. “This is a song that I value on a personal level, and actually I just think is a complete, amazing work of art.”Cave has discussed his love of Kanye’s music multiple times in the past, describing him in 2020 as “the greatest artist” on Earth. “Making art is a form of madness – we slip deep within our own singular vision and become lost to it,” he said. “There is no musician on Earth that is as committed to their own derangement as Kanye, and in this respect, at this point in time, he is our greatest artist.”He later stated that he found West’s allegedly anti-Semitic comments “deeply disappointing” and “disgraceful”.“For me, for him to pull out these antisemitic tropes, I think it’s, personally, disgraceful,” he said in 2022. “Does this person need to descend from such great heights down to such tedious shit we’ve heard so much so often?