Steve Nieve's Greatest Hits

DeathWearsABigHat · Post by **DeathWearsABigHat** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:12 am

This one has probably been done before, but how about a list of your favourite Steve Nieve solos.

Here's my Top 5 (in no particular order)

I'm Your Toy (piano)
Clubland (piano)
Get Yourself Another Fool (organ)
Talking in the Dark (Costello & Nieve live box set version)
Sweet Dreams (piano)

Mikeh · Post by **Mikeh** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:00 am

1) The middle bit from The Loved Ones
2) The orchestration of And in Every Home (I always thought he deserved a co-writing credit for that one.)
3) I agree, the organ in Find Yourself Another Fool
4) Shot with His Own Gun (Was this the one with "Debussian ambiguities?"
5) Oliver's Army (still a favourite after all these years. Wasn't a B Side til Steve put his Abba chords on it?)

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:15 am

Mikeh wrote:5) Oliver's Army (still a favourite after all these years. Wasn't a B Side til Steve put his Abba chords on it?)

No, it was!

pophead2k · Post by **pophead2k** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 3:31 pm

Fish and Chip Papers. Gets stuck in my head all the time, and such a fruity tone he got on that.

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 6:27 pm

I've always liked his playing on Elvis version of The Ugly Things. Bowie's Absolute Beginners still sounds great in no small part due to Steves playing. Similiarly The Hothouse Flowers version of I Can See Clearly Now still gets regular golden oldie play on Irish radio, Steves input always sound good.

SkaDan · Post by **SkaDan** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:02 pm

Olivers Army ( ofcourse )
Just A memory
Shot With His Own Gun
the harpsachord solo on You Little Fool.
the waltzyness on Long Honeymoon.
alot of the piano/organ work on I.Bedroom, im a big fan of.
and i'll probably be hated for this but i do fancy the intro for Everyday I Write.

Neil. · Post by **Neil.** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:02 pm

Sweet Dreams, I agree, is gorgeous! I also love his accompaniment on Black Sails In The Sunset - think that's my fave!

oldhamer · Post by **oldhamer** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 7:52 pm

One I don't think has been mentioned; the intro for "How Much I Lied".

Did Steve peform on Elvis' Ugly Things? Thought that was Just EC, Pete Thomas and Nick Lowe. But Spike is at home, and I don't have access to its liner notes.....

Neil. · Post by **Neil.** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:09 pm

God, yeah - all the piano on How Much I Lied is so beautiful! So sweet and sad at the same time!

Neil. · Post by **Neil.** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 5:24 am

Also, nobody's mentioned the gorgeous piano on You'll Never Be A Man - and his work on Sad About Girls. Heartbreaking.

Also his harpsichord on You Little Fool and My Science Fiction Twin, and - Christ - his organ work on practically everything he does is bloody incredible.

Miclewis · Post by **Miclewis** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 11:46 am

I always especially loved Steve's playing on "Success" from Almost Blue.

ahawkman · Post by **ahawkman** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 3:32 pm

I love the organ riff on Chelsea and the piano on Deep DT Mirror and Clown Strike. Many others too of course, just the first ones that came to mind that I hadn't seen above.

Neil. · Post by **Neil.** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:18 am

Piano on Deep Dark Truthful Mirror is by the wonderful Allen Toussaint, actually!