Red Right Hand

"Red Right Hand"
"Red Right Hand"
Single by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
from the album Let Love In
B-side	"That's What Jazz Is to Me"; "Where the Action Is";
Released	24 October 1994
Recorded	September – December 1993
Genre	Southern gothic; blues; gothic folk; gothic rock;
Length	6:10 (album version) ; 4:46 (single edit)
Label	Mute
Songwriter(s)	Nick Cave; Mick Harvey; Thomas Wydler;
Producer(s)	Tony Cohen
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds singles chronology
Let Love In track listing
	"Do You Love Me?"; "Nobody's Baby Now"; "Loverman"; "Jangling Jack"; "Red Right Hand"; "I Let Love In"; "Thirsty Dog"; "Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore"; "Lay Me Low"; "Do You Love Me? Pt 2";

"Red Right Hand" is a song by Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It was released as a single from their eighth studio album, Let Love In (1994), on 24 October 1994. A condensed version was included in the single, while the longer version was included with the album. The title comes from John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), in which it refers to the vengeful hand of God.

The song has become one of Nick Cave's signature songs, being performed at most of his concerts; only "The Mercy Seat" has appeared in more of his live sets since 1984.^[5] It has since become best known for its use in the Scream film series and later as the theme song to the British period crime drama TV series Peaky Blinders, which resulted in the song receiving a re-release single in 2014. It has been covered by Arctic Monkeys, PJ Harvey, Iggy Pop, Jarvis Cocker and Snoop Dogg, among others.

In 2005, Cave was a guest performer on his former girlfriend Anita Lane's cover of the song.^{[citation needed]}

^ Cutchin, Joshua (3 October 2015). "Southern Gothic: Ten unconventional songs to put you in the Halloween mood". Joshua Cutchin: Weird Words & Brass Beats. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
^ Trakin, Roy (8 February 2018). "Case Study: How a 1994 Nick Cave Song Became a Favorite of Music Supervisors". Variety. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
^ Graves, Wren (8 October 2019). "Nick Cave says Snoop Dogg's "Red Right Hand" cover left "a giant smile on my face"". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
^ Elferen, Isabella van; Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew (2015). Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture. Routledge. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-317-96298-4.
^ "Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Tour Statistics - setlist.fm". www.setlist.fm. Retrieved 10 August 2017.

[1] Cutchin, Joshua (3 October 2015). "Southern Gothic: Ten unconventional songs to put you in the Halloween mood". Joshua Cutchin: Weird Words & Brass Beats. Retrieved 10 August 2017.

[2] Trakin, Roy (8 February 2018). "Case Study: How a 1994 Nick Cave Song Became a Favorite of Music Supervisors". Variety. Retrieved 1 February 2020.

[3] Graves, Wren (8 October 2019). "Nick Cave says Snoop Dogg's "Red Right Hand" cover left "a giant smile on my face"". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 1 February 2020.

[4] Elferen, Isabella van; Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew (2015). Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture. Routledge. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-317-96298-4.

[5] "Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Tour Statistics - setlist.fm". www.setlist.fm. Retrieved 10 August 2017.

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