Born September 22, 1957, Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian musician, best known as the frontman of the rock band, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. And yet here they tread a nervy line between awkwardness and intimacy: Harvey looking like Cave’s doppelganger with their matching ghoulish white skin and black swept-back hair, dressed in matching suits, twisting and winding themselves round one another. Approach with caution lest you get sucked into his world of geek. Nick Cave … gothic, yes, but much more than that. (2008) Distant Sky (2016) Far From Me (1996) Foi Na Cruz (1990) Ghosteen Speaks (2019) Higgs Boson Blues (2013) I Let Love In (1994) “Well Saturday gives what Sunday steals / And a child is born on his brothers heels / Come Sunday morn the first-born dead.” The King is born, and nothing will be the same again. Some 15 musicians have, at some point, formed part of the ever-changing lineup, to freshen up their sound with anew ideas, fresh tics and weirder kicks. that Cave and his men hadn’t plundered for yonks: a brashness and bawdiness missing from their downbeat mid-00s period. Nick Cave Lovely Creatures was compiled by Nick Cave and founding member Mick Harvey, with help from the current Bad Seeds. Gamer, Pop Culture consumer and WWE watcher, Vectron44 has been described as a prophet of truth, a pain in the proverbial and everything in between. Cave has never been content with mere suffering or misery: he’s a songwriter who wants to turn tragedy into something ghastlier and grander, a detective forever on the hunt for clues and signs that the end is nigh and Doomsday is upon us. Having recently viewed the Nick Cave bio-film, 20,000 Days on Earth, I took it upon myself to go through his discography and make an estimation for his ten best albums. Unlike The Ship Song, it’s lust rather than love that’s clouded the senses, and Cave howls and groans like he’s been possessed by Twin Peaks’s BOB, taken over by an evil spirit and creeping and crawling like a sex-sick devil. Since its formation in Melbourne in 1983, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds has remained a critical darling and a favorite of discerning listeners with a penchant for the theatrical and offbeat. Over the years they’ve twisted old songs by Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Pulp and Leadbelly into new shapes, and there’s an argument that the most important work in their early canon is 1986’s covers-only album Kicking Against the Pricks: a project which didn’t yield anything with the might of Tupelo or From Her to Eternity but helped free them from the gothic shtick they’d been saddled with. Genres: Singer/Songwriter, Post-Punk, Alternative Rock. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Lyrics, Songs, and Albums | Genius Toggle navigation. There’s something unbearably brittle about hearing Cave, the quintessential priapic showman, sounding so lost and lonely that he’s prepared to turn to a god he doesn’t believe in for help. The Mercy Seat sounds genuinely sick: diseased and malformed, with shivering strings and a stark, serpent-like piano line from Mick Harvey that tries to wind and slither out of the noise-rush. Cave takes on the role of a killer condemned to death row, droning like a demented narcissist as he flits from crazed delusion (“The face of Jesus in my soup") to feverish Old Testament gibbering (“An eye for an eye / A tooth for a tooth”) until the gruesome end (“And the mercy seat is glowing / And I think my head is smoking”). Cover versions have always held a special place in Bad Seeds lore. Seen on Sky News; featured in The Guardian, NY Times, The Independent and more. Photograph: Pfarrhofer Herbery/EPA. It’s a tricky blighter, the Bad Seeds’ 1990 album The Good Son, and it kicked up a fair old stink among Cave followers upon its release. Let Love In from 1994 is the highest of Bad Seeds’ tidemarks, and a 10 of the Best could easily be half-filled from its tracklisting alone: compared to its predecessor, Henry’s Dream, it’s more cohesive and complex, full of strange flourishes and more nuanced arrangements, from the masterful and mysterious Red Right Hand to the abrasive, vicious assault of Jangling Jack and the dark, gathering stormclouds of Ain’t Gonna Rain Anymore. It’s fast-and-loose garage rock, one chugging riff on a sweaty loop, with madcap noises and horns exploding in the background, as Cave reimagines the biblical mainstay Lazarus as the helpless fool Larry, pissed off that he’s been brought back to life in the gaudy 21st century as he stumbles from sex to drugs to prison to death. Only Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah has mixed broken bonds with broken faith so powerfully, and even that’s a far grander, showier declaration than Into My Arms. A dark duet of regret and recrimination between two kindred spirits. You’ll feel queasy as hell with yourself for enjoying it just as much. Poor Larry. Lazarus Dig!!! The words are artfully phrased to create a crazy, conspiratorial black comedy, driven by a pulsing rhythm and a compelling narrative question: just who or what is this creepy bastard? The Bad Seeds have become known for both tender love songs and disturbing menacing grooves, humourous lyrics as well as homages to the Bible and myths. Push the Sky Away isn’t goth-rock schlock or wounded balladeering: it’s a lush, layered and textured album that’s deeper and more mysterious than any of their previous works, pushing into the hidden nooks and crannies of Cave’s mind for subtler but no-less-dark subject matter. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus (2004) BABE, YOU TURN ME ON: BABE, YOU TURN ME ON: 15: 15. The 50 best albums of 2019, No 8: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – … The Birthday Party were an unholy force of evil noise, but by 1983 Nick Cave had grown tired of their mess and muck. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds lyrics - 197 song lyrics sorted by album, including "O Children", "Red Right Hand", "Into My Arms". Nick Cave’s 30 best songs As chosen by his Bad Seeds and Grinderman bandmates, famous fans including Guy Garvey, Richard Hawley and Bobby Gillespie, and Cave himself… Uncut 8 Famous Songs That Are Actually Responses To Other Songs, 10 Best Rock Albums That Everyone Forgets About, 10 Rock "Sellout" Albums That Are Actually Really Good, 10 Greatest Rock Albums That Are Totally Acoustic, 10 Amazing Rock Albums We Never Got To Hear. I may be a convert now and look for some of his albums. Albums include Let Love In, Skeleton Tree, and Murder Ballads. Exactly what it says it is, and quite good at that -- some fans consider many of the songs on Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Live Seeds to be superior to their studio equivalent -- a testament to its overall quality. Exhausted from the drug-related bickering and strangled by his relationship with guitarist Rowland S Howard, he and drummer Mick Harvey fled to start anew and formed the Bad Seeds’ first fixed lineup with ex-Magazine bassist Barry Adamson, guitarist Hugo Race and Einstürzende Neubauten’s Blixa Bargeld. The music grows and growls, from eerie and quiet to giant crashes and crescendos, and Cave mutters the verses as if he’s sweating out a fever before his voice turns disturbingly, disgustingly seductive as he whispers: “R is for rape me, m is for murder me”. Delivering passionate and comprehensive entertainment coverage to millions of users world-wide each month. 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