The first time I heard Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds was on the soundtrack for Joel Schumacher's 1995 Warner Brothers superhero blockbuster and subsequent cultural whipping-boy Batman Forever. Ol' Nick the Stripper has famously donned the hair shirt for his involvement in the album, calling it a cynical cash-grab. I think that's pretty stupid, given that the song he contributed to the record encapsulates, in just a few minutes, all the things I think are important about Batman. This is far better than director Christopher Nolan would later do with six whole hours.