Biography

After leaving the post-punk mayhem of the Birthday Party behind, Australian rocker Nick Cave turned toward a somewhat quieter--but equally dark--sound. Recruiting Birthday Party member Mick Harvey, Einsturzende Neubauten frontman Blixa Bargeld, and other formidable musicians, Cave assembled the Bad Seeds to join him on his venture into moody troubadour territory. Over time, the brooding showman's songs have become more narrative and meditative, casting him as something of a Leonard Cohen of his generation. That said, Cave has never stopped rocking and in the early 2000s he formed Grinderman, perhaps his most aggressive sonic assault since the Birthday Party.

Top Tracks

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• (are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?

• (i'll Love You) Till The End Of The World

• As I Sat Sadly By Her Side

• Babe, I'm On Fire

• Black Crow King

• Black Hair

• Brompton Oratory

• By The Time I Get To Phoenix

• Cabin Fever!

• City Of Refuge

• Dandy Brain Cannula

• Deanna

• Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

• Do You Love Me?

• Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow

• From Her To Eternity

• Green Eyes

• Halo

• Hard On For Love

• Helpless

• Henry Lee

• I Feel So Good

• I'm Gonna Kill That Woman

• Into My Arms

• Jangling Jack

• Jesus Of The Moon

• Long Time Man

• Love Letter

• Memory

• Night Of The Lotus Eaters

• Nocturama

• O'malley's Bar

• Papa Won't Leave You, Henry

• Red Right Hand

• Rom

• Stagger Lee

• Straight To You

• Stranger Than Kindness

• Supernaturally

• The Carnival Is Over

• The Good Son

• The Journey

• The Mercy Seat

• The Mother

• The Proposition No. 1

• The Rider No. 2

• The Road

• The Secret Life Of The Love Song

• The Ship Song

• The Six Strings That Drew Blood

• The Weeping Song

• There Is A Town

• There She Goes My Beautiful World

• Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum

• Tupelo

• When I First Came To Town

• Where The Wild Roses Grow

• Wonderful Life

• Your Funeral, My Trial

Discography

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• Nick Cave's Jukebox

  United States of Distribution / Chrome Dreams

  2009

• Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!

  Anti

  2008

• The Abattoir Blues Tour

  Mute

  2007

• No More Shall We Part

  Warner Bros. / Reprise

  2001

• The Secret Life of the Love Song/The Flesh Made Word

  Mute

  1999

• And the Ass Saw the Angel

  Mute

  1999

• Live at the Royal Albert Hall

  EMI

  1998

• The Boatman's Call

  Reprise / Mute/Reprise

  1997

• Murder Ballads

  Reprise / Mute/Reprise

  1996

• Let Love In

  Mute

  1994

• Live Seeds

  Mute

  1993

• Henry's Dream

  Mute

  1992

• The Good Son

  Mute

  1990

• Tender Prey

  EMI

  1988

• Kicking Against the Pricks

  Mute/Elektra

  1986

• Your Funeral...My Trial

  Mute/Elektra

  1986

• The Firstborn Is Dead

  Mute

  1985

• From Her to Eternity

  Mute

  1984

• Burnin' the Ice

  Hit Thing

  1983