Nick Cave Full Discography Torrent10/24/2022 ![]() ![]() Beyond that, though, the man simply seems - to reach for an assuredly inapt word - inexhaustible. Given the scope and progression of Cave’s music and songwriting interests over the years, it can make just as much sense to mention him alongside household names like Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and Tom Waits as it does to mention him in the same breath as such outsider figures as Scott Walker, Michael Gira, or David Tibet. The web of connections that wend through the Bad Seeds is outrageously rich, from Blixa Bargeld’s Einsturzende Neubauten, Mick Harvey’s Crime & the City Solution, and Warren Ellis’ Dirty Three, to collaborations with Lydia Lunch, David Tibet’s Current 93, The Pogues’ Shane Macgowan, Johnny Cash, and on and on.īut of course, through it all, Cave has been the ringleader, cycling through a varied bag of vocal styles and personalities: a heroin-thin, lunging lunatic an old-fashioned balladeer and crooner a street corner prophet a sex-mad lothario a heartbroken mutterer and a roguish raconteur. This shifting group of collaborators is crucially important, because for as much as Cave is an inimitable vocalist and singular songwriter, his music has always ebbed and flowed with the varied strengths of his compatriots. The membership of the Bad Seeds has been a constantly malleable thing, with the group swapping out members and growing in size (and ability) at nearly every turn of their history. Almost before the ink was dry on the Birthday Party’s death certificate, Cave and Birthday Party guitarist Mick Harvey had formed a new band, which, following a few embryonic name choices and live shows, would soon be christened Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds. Though the death-jazz rattle of the Birthday Party’s post-punk burned itself out in a few short years, it was enough to relocate the band from Australia to London in search of a more fertile artistic environment. Cave’s principal notoriety begins when the Boys Next Door decided on yet another name, cranked their instruments up louder than their technical proficiency merited, and brought the Birthday Party screaming and clawing into an unsuspecting world. This band would eventually settle on the name the Boys Next Door, and release a debut album under that name in 1979. His musical history goes back even further, however, to a band formed with several fellow art students in Australia in 1973. One could do much the same for Nick Cave, if not for the inconvenient fact that, more often than not, he’s singing about all three at the same time.įor the past thirty years, Nick Cave has been leading his Bad Seeds on a winding tour through the sordid backwaters and heartfelt desires of humanity. The year 2000 saw the release of a three-disc Johnny Cash compilation with each disc bearing a one-word title indicating the thematic scopes of the chosen songs: Love, God, and Murder. ![]()
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