I've never really been a big fan of Nick Cave with or without his Bad Seeds. I don't dislike his music it's just never really got me going, probably because I haven't really heard very much. But his new single "Nature Boy" is an absolute stormer and I can't stop listening to it.

It's got the most amazing/preposterous lyrics I've heard in years and a thundering, rolling Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel sound. Surely nobody has successfully rhymed "hysteria" with "wisteria" in a credible pop song. As in:

"I was walking round the flower show like a leper coming down with some kind of nervous hysteria / I saw you standing there, green eyes, black hair up against the pink and purple wisteria..."

Cracking eh!

And how's this for an opening line: "I was just a boy when I sat down to watch the news on TV / I saw some ordinary slaughter, I saw some routine atrocity..."

I commend it to the house.