Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | |
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on April 25, 2008 in Barcelona |
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General information | |
Genre (s) | Post-punk , alternative rock |
founding | 1983 |
Website | www.nickcave.com |
Founding members | |
Nick Cave | |
Blixa Bargeld (until 2003) | |
Mick Harvey (until 2009) | |
Guitar, piano
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Barry Adamson (until 1986) |
guitar |
Hugo Race (until 1984) |
Current occupation | |
singing |
Nick Cave |
Drums, percussion
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Thomas Wydler (since 1985) |
Warren Ellis (since 1993) | |
Martyn Casey (since 1991) | |
Drums, percussion, vocals, organ |
Jim Sclavunos (since 1996) |
guitar |
George Vjestica (since 2016) |
former members | |
guitar |
James George Thirlwell (1983) |
singing |
Anita Lane (1984) |
guitar |
Edward Clayton Jones (1984) |
bass |
Tracy Pew (1984) |
guitar |
Rowland S. Howard (1985) |
bass |
Christoph Dreher (1985) |
guitar |
Brian Tristan (1986–1990) |
Singing, piano, guitar, organ |
Roland Wolf (1986–1989) |
Singing, organ, guitar |
James Johnston (2003-2008) |
guitar |
Ed Kuepper (2009) |
Piano, vocals, organ |
Conway Savage (1991-2018, †) |
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds is an Australian rock band that was formed in 1983 by singer Nick Cave , multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey and guitarist Blixa Bargeld after The Birthday Party broke up in West Berlin . The name is based on the crime novel The Bad Seed by William March , which was also made into a film in 1956 under the same title - in the German Böse Saat . To date, the band has released 16 studio albums and several singles, some of which are successful worldwide. The most famous track is Where the Wild Roses Grow , a duet with singer Kylie Minogue , released in 1995.
Band history
Background and foundation (1983–1984)
The band's origins lie in what is now known as the black scene , a mixture of independent and dark wave environments. In 1983, the disagreements between Nick Cave, Mick Harvey and the rest of the group The Birthday Party came to a head, so Cave toyed with the idea of starting a second band. During a tour at the beginning of the year, after a concert in a hotel in Amsterdam, he followed a TV appearance by the band Einstürzende Neubauten . Cave was enthusiastic about frontman Blixa Bargeld and his avant-garde guitar playing. Bargeld was later contacted by Cave and he played the guitar parts in the track Mutiny In Heaven of the single Mutiny .
Shortly after its release, The Birthday Party was disbanded. Cave, Harvey and Bargeld then formed the initially loosely organized band Nick Cave - Man Or Myth . However, there were no performances because Cave was touring England with Marc Almond , Lydia Lunch and Clint Ruin with the touring ensemble The Immaculate Consumptive . Bargeld was also working on the Einstürzende Neubauten's album Drawings of the Patient OT .
In September, Clint Ruin (drums, guitar and saxophone) and Barry Adamson (bass guitar) joined the band. First appearances in this formation took place in the London underground club Batcave and The Caves . In November, the first studio recordings took place in Clint Ruin's private studio. Shortly before the end of the year he left the band to take care of his own projects, only on the song From Her To Eternity he can be heard on drums. He was replaced by Hugo Race.
Blixa Bargeld was unable to take part in the first tour because he toured Europe with the Einstürzende Neubauten himself. Tracy Pew took over the guitar instead. In January 1984, Bargeld finally returned to the band. The band later called themselves Nick Cave & The Cavemen and shortly before the release of their debut single In The Ghetto , the last name was changed to Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds .
Later development
Her debut album was called From Her to Eternity. A year later, her second album, The Firstborn Is Dead, appeared under the cast of Cave, Harvey, Bargeld and Adamson. Tupelo, a song on this long player , shows great similarities with the novel And the Ass Saw the Angel published by Nick Cave in 1989 . From 1986 the drummer Thomas Wydler from Die Haut is a permanent member of Bad Seeds.
The commercially most successful album was Murder Ballads from 1996. The included duet with Kylie Minogue Where the Wild Roses Grow became a worldwide hit. After her album Nocturama (2003), Blixa Bargeld left the band and went back to the Einstürzende Neubauten . In 2004 Nick Cave and his band released the highly acclaimed double album Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus. In March 2005, the three-CD box B-Sides & Rarities appeared, containing 56 songs, which are rarities , B-sides and pieces from soundtracks . In February 2008 Dig, Lazarus, Dig !!! released. On this album, the themes of faith and religiosity as well as biblical images come into focus again.
In early 2009, founding member Mick Harvey left the band.
In February 2013 a new album called Push the Sky Away was released and in 2016 Skeleton Tree was released. Keyboardist and singer Conway Savage died on September 2, 2018 , after having had to cancel the band's tours the year before due to cancer. The album Ghosteen was released in November 2019 .
Scene context
Whether and why Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are part of Gothic culture is controversial. Author Ian Johnston denies it. Johnston's assessment is based primarily on the birthday party hit Release the Bats , the success of which Mick Harvey described as a misunderstanding in the early scene. In 2004, the journalist Judith Platz did not assign Bad Seeds' music to the musical context of the black scene , but it was received significantly by her. Emma McEvoy from the University of Westminster , on the other hand, argued in 2007 in the magazine Gothic Studies that the band's themes, style of presentation and music are typically Gothic, that they “stimulate a new dimension of Gothic aesthetics”.
In 2014, the band's music will be put in connection with Gothic culture in the press and named by scene representatives and designers as part of the black scene. According to Alexander Nym, this perception is based on an inflationary music journalistic use of the term Gothic . Nick Cave himself described his cult status in Gothic culture as a "frightening misunderstanding" and stated that he detested being the first Goth to go down in history.
Film music
Some of the band's songs have been used in films, such as Red Right Hand in Scream , Dumb and Dumber , and Hellboy , People Ain't No Good in Shrek 2 , and O Children in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 . For Scream 3 , Nick Cave wrote a new version of Red Right Hand . In the series Peaky Blinders is Red Right Hand the theme song.
To Wim Wenders ' film Until the End of the World steered from 1991 Nick Cave the non-album track (I'll Love You) Till The End Of The World at. Wim Wenders' Der Himmel über Berlin from 1987 also shows an appearance by the band itself.
Film documentaries
In 1989 the documentary filmmaker Uli M Schueppel made the film The Road To God Knows Where & Live At The Paradiso about the band's North American tour in the same year. In 2014 the film 20,000 Days on Earth by filmmakers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard was released . The film deals with the real life and artistic work of Nick Cave in a fictional framework, including studio work for Push the Sky Away . 2016, the 3D documentary was One More Time with Feeling by Andrew Dominik .
Discography
Studio albums
year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||||
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DE | AT | CH | UK | US | AU | |||
1984 | From Her to Eternity | - | - | - |
UK40 (3 weeks) UK |
- | - |
First published: June 18, 1984
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1985 | The Firstborn Is Dead | - | - | - |
UK53 (1 week) UK |
- | - |
First published: June 3, 1985
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1986 | Kicking Against the Pricks | - | - | - |
UK89 (1 week) UK |
- | - |
First published: August 18, 1986
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1986 | Your Funeral… My Trial | - | - | - | - | - | - |
First published: November 3, 1986
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1988 | Tender Prey | - | - | - |
UK67 (1 week) UK |
- | - |
First published: September 19, 1988
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1990 | The Good Son | - | - | - |
UK47 (1 week) UK |
- | - |
First published: April 17, 1990
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1992 | Henry's Dream |
DE59 (9 weeks) DE |
AT40 (1 week) AT |
- |
UK29 (2 weeks) UK |
- |
AU41 (6 weeks) AU |
First published: April 27, 1992
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1994 | Let love in |
DE34 (9 weeks) DE |
AT14 (11 weeks) AT |
CH43 (2 weeks) CH |
UK12
silver
(2 weeks)UK |
- |
AU8 (10 weeks) AU |
First published: April 18, 1994
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1996 | Murder Ballads |
DE5 (17 weeks) DE |
AT1 (16 weeks) AT |
CH14 (12 weeks) CH |
UK8th
gold
(5 weeks)UK |
- |
AU3 (8 weeks) AU |
First published: February 5, 1996
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1997 | The Boatman's Call |
DE19 (9 weeks) DE |
AT18 (9 weeks) AT |
CH32 (8 weeks) CH |
UK22nd
gold
(3 weeks)UK |
US155 (1 week) US |
AU5 (9 weeks) AU |
First published: March 3, 1997
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2001 | No More Shall We Part |
DE8 (11 weeks) DE |
AT4 (17 weeks) AT |
CH24 (10 weeks) CH |
UK15th
silver
(5 weeks)UK |
US180 (1 week) US |
AU4 (6 weeks) AU |
First published: April 2, 2001
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2003 | Nocturama |
DE11 (8 weeks) DE |
AT6 (10 weeks) AT |
CH11 (6 weeks) CH |
UK20 (2 weeks) UK |
US182 (1 week) US |
AU8 (3 weeks) AU |
First published: February 3, 2003
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2004 | Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus |
DE7 (10 weeks) DE |
AT2 (9 weeks) AT |
CH12 (5 weeks) CH |
UK11
gold
(3 weeks)UK |
US126 (1 week) US |
AU5 (5 weeks) AU |
First published: September 20, 2004
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2008 | Dig, Lazarus, Dig !!! |
DE6 (5 weeks) DE |
AT3 (6 weeks) AT |
CH21 (4 weeks) CH |
UK4th
gold
(8 weeks)UK |
US64 (3 weeks) US |
AU2 (7 weeks) AU |
First published: March 3, 2008
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2013 | Push the sky away |
DE2 (11 weeks) DE |
AT1 (11 weeks) AT |
CH2 (12 weeks) CH |
UK3
silver
(6 weeks)UK |
US29 (2 weeks) US |
AU1 (6 weeks) AU |
First published: February 18, 2013
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2016 | Skeleton Tree |
DE3 (6 weeks) DE |
AT2 (7 weeks) AT |
CH2 (7 weeks) CH |
UK2
silver
(10 weeks)UK |
US27 (2 weeks) US |
AU1 (13 weeks) AU |
First published: September 9, 2016
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2019 | Ghosteen |
DE6 (11 weeks) DE |
AT3 (7 weeks) AT |
CH2 (12 weeks) CH |
UK4 (9 weeks) UK |
US108 (1 week) US |
AU7 (7 weeks) AU |
First published: October 4, 2019
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Live albums and compilations
year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||||
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DE | AT | CH | UK | US | AU | |||
1993 | Live Seeds | - | - | - |
UK67 (1 week) UK |
- |
AU47 (2 weeks) AU |
First published: September 28, 1993
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1998 | The best of |
DE26 (5 weeks) DE |
AT7 (9 weeks) AT |
- |
UK11
gold
(4 weeks)UK |
- |
AU2 (15 weeks) AU |
First published: May 11, 1998
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2005 | B-Sides & Rarities |
DE60 (2 weeks) DE |
AT38 (6 weeks) AT |
- |
UK74 (1 week) UK |
- |
AU36 (3 weeks) AU |
First published: March 22, 2005
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2013 | Live from KCRW |
DE51 (1 week) DE |
AT24 (2 weeks) AT |
CH61 (1 week) CH |
UK81 (1 week) UK |
- | - |
First published: November 29, 2013
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2017 | Lovely Creatures - The Best Of |
DE10 (4 weeks) DE |
AT8 (3 weeks) AT |
CH17 (2 weeks) CH |
UK8 (3 weeks) UK |
- |
AU8 (2 weeks) AU |
First published: May 5, 2017
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2018 | Distant Sky - Live in Copenhagen |
DE82 (1 week) DE |
AT67 (1 week) AT |
CH66 (1 week) CH |
UK74 (1 week) UK |
- | - |
First published: September 28, 2018
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More albums
- 2007: The Abattoir Blues Tour
- 2008: Live at the Royal Albert Hall
- 2009: White Lunar
- 2012: Lawless
Singles
year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||||
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DE | AT | CH | UK | US | AU | |||
1984 |
In the Ghetto From Her to Eternity |
- | - | - |
UK84 (3 weeks) UK |
- | - |
First published: June 1984
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1988 | The Mercy Seat Tender Prey |
- | - | - |
UK86 (2 weeks) UK |
- | - |
First published: June 1988
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1990 | The Ship Song The Good Son |
- | - | - |
UK84 (1 week) UK |
- | - |
First published: March 1990
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1992 | Straight to You / Jack the Ripper Henry’s Dream |
- | - | - |
UK68 (1 week) UK |
- | - |
First published: March 1992
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What a Wonderful World | - | - | - |
UK72 (1 week) UK |
- | - |
First published: November 1992
with Shane MacGowan |
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1994 | Do you love me? Let love in |
- | - | - |
UK68 (1 week) UK |
- | - |
First published: March 1994
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1995 |
Where the Wild Roses Grow Murder Ballads |
DE12
gold
(27 weeks)DE |
AT4 (19 weeks) AT |
CH11 (20 weeks) CH |
UK11 (4 weeks) UK |
- |
AU2 (12 weeks) AU |
First release: October 1995
feat. Kylie Minogue |
1996 | Henry Lee Murder Ballads |
- | - | - |
UK36 (1 week) UK |
- | - |
First release: February 1996
feat. PJ Harvey |
1997 | Into My Arms The Boatman's Call |
- | - | - |
UK53 (1 week) UK |
- |
AU26 (7 weeks) AU |
First published: January 1997
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(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For? The Boatman's Call |
- | - | - |
UK67 (1 week) UK |
- | - |
First published: May 1997
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2001 | As I Sat Sadly by Her Side No More Shall We Part |
- | - | - |
UK42 (1 week) UK |
- | - |
First published: March 2001
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Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow No More Shall We Part |
- | - | - |
UK52 (1 week) UK |
- | - |
First published: May 2001
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2003 | Bring It On Nocturama |
- | - | - |
UK58 (1 week) UK |
- | - |
First published: February 2003
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2004 | Nature Boy Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus |
DE89 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
UK37 (2 weeks) UK |
- | - |
First published: September 2004
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Breathless / There She Goes My Beautiful World Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus |
- | - | - |
UK45 (1 week) UK |
- | - |
First published: November 2004
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2005 | Get Ready For Love Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus |
- | - | - |
UK62 (1 week) UK |
- | - |
First published: March 2005
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2008 | Dig, Lazarus, Dig !!! Dig, Lazarus, Dig !!! |
- | - | - |
UK66 (1 week) UK |
- | - |
First published: February 2008
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2014 | Push the Sky Away Push the Sky Away |
DE77 (1 week) DE |
- | - | - | - | - |
First published: February 2014
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More singles
- 1990: The Weeping Song
- 2005: Red Right Hand (UK:silver)
Video albums
- 2014: 20000 Days On Earth (UK:gold)
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- ↑ a b Alexander Nym: Iridescent Dark . History, development and topics of the Gothic scene. Ed .: Alexander Nym. 1st edition. Plöttner Verlag, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-86211-006-3 , afterword, p. 389 .
- ↑ a b Dave Thompson: Alternative Rock . 1st edition. Miller Freemann Inc., Berkley 2000, ISBN 0-87930-607-6 , pp. 62-68, 245-248 .
- ^ Nick Cave & The Cavemen. Retrieved March 7, 2019 .
- ^ NME: Founding Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds member quits , January 22, 2009
- ^ Conway Savage from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds has passed away. triplem.com.au, September 3, 2018, accessed September 5, 2018 .
- ^ Ian Johnston: Bad Seed. The Biography of Nick Cave . Abacus, London 1995, pp. 80 f.
- ↑ Axel Schmidt, Klaus Neumann-Braun: Die Welt der Gothics. Scope of dark connotations of transcendence. 2004, ISBN 3-531-14353-0 , pp. 282 f.
- ↑ Emma McEvoy: Now, who will be the witness / when you're all too healed to see. The Sad Demise of Nick Cave . In: Gothic Studies 9/1 (2007), pp. 79-88, the quotation p. 79 ( online , accessed on July 21, 2014).
- ↑ Andreas Borcholte: Video premiere We No Who U R. Spiegel Online, accessed on July 16, 2014 .
- ↑ Helen Brown: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Push the Sky Away, review. London Telegraph, accessed July 16, 2014 .
- ↑ Nick Launay: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - 'Push The Sky Away'. NME, accessed July 16, 2014 .
- ↑ Dave Thompson, Kirsten Borchardt: Shadow World - Heroes and Legends of Gothic Rock . 2004, ISBN 3-85445-236-5 .
- ↑ Alexander Nym: Iridescent Dark . History, development and topics of the Gothic scene. Ed .: Alexander Nym. 1st edition. 2010, ISBN 978-3-86211-006-3 , The Gothic scene does not exist, p. 13-15 .
- ↑ Jack Baron: Nick Cave: 'I have to spend hours talking to fucking idiots like you'. the Guardian, accessed July 21, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
- ↑ a b c Music Sales Awards: DE UK