Think Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, if the band had relocated to artsy, dispassionate Berlin circa now.

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Finally, Kevin Roe selects Nick Cave's "The Weeping Song" from The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

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Trent Reznor introduced a new project, How to Destroy Angels, and Nick Cave performed twice with his groups Grinderman and the Bad Seeds.

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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds were in at number three with their 15th studio album Push the Sky Away, their highest position so far in the album chart.

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But the 1970s, the decade of Apple's birth, offers hope that hardy seeds can take root even in bad climates.

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However it was not as bad as the previous day when the top-four seeds including Wimbledon champion Lindsay Davenport and teenaged Russian star Anna Kournikova both perished.

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