Like most of Nick Cave’s work, it’s a story-song, and it treads well-worn territory. “Jubilee Street” is the fourth track on “Push the Sky Away,” Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ album from 2013. Photograph by Luigi Orrù / contrasto / Redux Performances like Nick Cave’s pull it firmly back to where it belongs: in the realm of spiritual experience. (I'll Love You) Till the End of the WorldĪll the Gold in California (Larry Gatlin And The Gatlin Brothers cover)Īll Tomorrow's Parties (The Velvet Underground cover)ĭeath is Not the End (Bob Dylan cover) (feat.We tend to see music as entertainment. (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For? 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. Cave penned the screenplay for director John Hillcoat's 2012 bootlegging film Lawless, which also featured a score composed by Cave and Warren Ellis. 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. The group's self-titled debut was released in 2007, the same year Cave was inducted into Australia's ARIA Hall of Fame. 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. Nocturama was released in 2003, and the double-album Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus followed by the end of 2004. Two years later, a rejuvenated Cave teamed up with the Bad Seeds once again for the piano-laden No More Shall We Part. A spoken word release, Secret Life of the Love Song, followed in 1999. 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.
Early in 1996, he released Murder Ballads, a collection of songs about murder. 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. 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.
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.Ĭave's productivity picked up immensely over the next two years after he kicked a heroin habit. The album also strengthened Cave's reputation as an original interpreter and a vocal stylist of note. 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. However, Cave brings a hefty amount of post-punk experimentalism to Walker's epic dark pop.Ĭave 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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