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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

After goth pioneers the Birthday Party called it quits in 1983, singer/songwriter Nick Cave assembled the Bad Seeds, a post-punk supergroup featuring former Birthday Party guitarist Mick Harvey on drums, ex-Magazine bassist ... After goth pioneers the Birthday Party called it quits in 1983, singer/songwriter Nick Cave assembled the Bad Seeds, a post-punk supergroup featuring former Birthday Party guitarist Mick Harvey on drums, ex-Magazine bassist Barry Adamson, and Einstürzende Neubauten guitarist Blixa Bargeld. With the Bad Seeds, Cave continued to explore his obsessions with religion, death, love, America, and violence with a bizarre, sometimes self-consciously eclectic hybrid of blues, gospel, rock, and arty post-punk, although in a more subdued fashion than his work with the Birthday Party. Cave also allowed his literary aspirations to come to the forefront; the lyrics are narrative prose, heavy on literary allusions and myth-making, and take some inspiration from Leonard Cohen. Cave's gloomy lyrics, dark musical arrangements, and deep baritone voice recall the albums of Scott Walker, who also obsessed over death and love with a frightening passion. However, Cave brings a hefty amount of post-punk experimentalism to Walker's epic dark pop.

Cave released his first album with the Bad Seeds, From Her to Eternity, in 1984, which contained a noteworthy cover of Elvis Presley's "In the Ghetto," foreshadowing much of Cave's style and subject matter on the follow-up The Firstborn Is Dead. Kicking Against the Pricks, an all-covers album, broke the band in England with the help of "The Singer," which hit number one on the U.K. independent charts. The album also strengthened Cave's reputation as an original interpreter and a vocal stylist of note. Following 1986's Your Funeral...My Trial, Cave took a two-year hiatus from recording, partially to appear in Wim Wenders' 1987 film Wings of Desire, and then returned with Tender Prey, which featured Cramps guitarist Kid Congo Powers and Cave's strongest vocal performance up to that point.

Cave's productivity picked up immensely over the next two years after he kicked a heroin habit. He had two books (1988's King Ink, a collection of lyrics, plays, and prose, and 1989's And the Ass Saw the Angel, a novel) published; appeared in the 1989 Australian film Ghosts...of the Civil Dead as a prisoner; recorded a soundtrack to the film with Harvey and Bargeld; and released 1990's The Good Son, his most relaxed, quiet album. Cave received his due as one of the leading figures in alternative rock when he was invited to perform on the 1994 edition of the Lollapalooza tour to promote his Let Love In album. Early in 1996, he released Murder Ballads, a collection of songs about murder. Murder Ballads became Cave's most commercially successful album to date, and, with typical perversity, he followed it with the introspective and personal The Boatman's Call in early 1997. A spoken word release, Secret Life of the Love Song, followed in 1999.

Two years later, a rejuvenated Cave teamed up with the Bad Seeds once again for the piano-laden No More Shall We Part. Nocturama was released in 2003, and the double-album Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus followed by the end of 2004. After touring in support of the album throughout 2005, Cave embarked on a new project called Grinderman with Bad Seeds members Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey, and Jim Sclavunos. The group's self-titled debut was released in 2007, the same year Cave was inducted into Australia's ARIA Hall of Fame. In 2008, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds released Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! It was followed by a second Grinderman recordings -- entitled Grinderman II, followed by a world tour and the band's breakup announced by Cave on-stage in December of 2011. Cave penned the screenplay for director John Hillcoat's 2012 bootlegging film Lawless, which also featured a score composed by Cave and Warren Ellis. The duo had previously collaborated on scores for The Proposition, The Road, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and Days of Grace.

Steve Huey
AllMusic.com
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JohnnyLurg's Favorite Songs A nice selection of my favorite songs.	173	7	JohnnyLurg
Underrated Love Songs	30	1	JohnnyLurg
health food Self-pity! Self-loathing! General discontent!	25	5	artslut
My music choice	9	0	Suasan
Desert Island VII Made for a competition, this is a two disc compilation of what I'd bring with me if I were trapped on an island and only could bring two CDs...	34	0	bono_212
Songs to Ponder These are just songs that make me think.	11	0	OnlineParasite
Some of my favourite songs	45	0	Nerio
I chose an eternity of this I met him at a party and he told me how to drive him home. He said he'd like to do it backwards. I said that's just fine with me. That way w...	23	0	Enooby
Schlock Lobster Just some music that makes me happy.	44	0	Donaldson
Blunt Trauma One I made after I was blindsided in an intersection by a guy running a red light, and had closed head trauma. Life was strange and dark fo...	16	1	JackTHorn
Love songs	22	0	boom
JohnnyLurg's Favorite Songs Vol. 11	30	0	JohnnyLurg
Songs from "Hellblazer" No, not the terrible adaptation movie -- the source material, the Hellblazer books published by Vertigo. Suggestions and comments welcome, ...	23	0	JackTHorn
Halloween's Creepiest and Most Unnerving Songs All the songs that Ultimate Guitar users have voted to be the creepiest!	42	1	OuTbREaK
God-Like Songs Those songs that I will never get tired of, no matter how many times I listen to them.	10	0	pluginbabyyyy
Badfishmuser's Happy Nostalgia Mix Eclectic mix that should bring a smile to your face, I sincerely hope. Always growing as I remember songs that I enjoy and discover. Forgiv...	30	2	badfishmuser
Deep Music for Wordless Times The music here is some stuff that I've at some point listened to in awe.	11	1	x123321x
1992 My fave songs from my birth year.	24	0	feminist92
Lust	14	0	littlehead
Moody	20	0	malouza
The Various Emotions of Dika B. Different songs that reflect my life and how I feel about certain events and experiences.	19	0	Drakanaa
Songs at My Funeral Just so you know.	8	4	erosanikatos
Folk! Folk music... love those acoustics <3	4	0	poopoobuddy
For Writing Horror Just some songs that help me with my horror writing.	12	0	OnlineParasite
Men Have Problem, Too this was for a friend	13	0	smoothbass
Oh, You Dog! All of the songs make use of the word dog, mostly figuratively. But rather than an exhaustively showing of all things dog, this mostly compa...	6	2	reverendlarry
May 2012 for Cavemen with blues Did your woman get away? Mammoth herd nowhere to be found? Bummer. These songs are handpicked to help ease the pain in your simple, simple h...	10	0	smoothbass
Doss sounds ok it's just a mix of some of my favourite all time tracks. Simple as that	7	0	ProfessorEagleOwl
A Quick Mixtape B4 I Jet my favorite current songz	37	0	JeffKaos71
Made me happy today Whatever songs come up during my work shift that delight me.	19	0	sharkycharming
Nick Cave	12	0	ananemone
Odd Lyrics, Strange Songs	8	0	lunule
The Goods.	11	0	rosejmac
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