Happy Birthday to Nicholas Edward Cave, Australian musician, singer-songwriter of The Birthday Party and frontman of the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, born on this day in 1957
Nicholas Edward Cave(born 22 September 1957) is best known as the frontman for the band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Before fronting the Bad Seeds, he was the frontman for The Birthday Party and has worked with several other artists. I knew his name but was new to much of his music. My friend gave me a proper introduction to his music. I’ve noticed he had a specific type of energy performing earlier in his career that has grown. He has made an occasional appearance in films. His music can be extreme and experimental and mellow and familiar. If you listen to his music, you can see well and hear how he has grown into a “ sophisticated type of energy. Cave is a talented artist who his peers and fans appreciate.
Nick Cave The Bad Seeds - "From Her To Eternity" - Live 1989
Live 1988
Nicholas Edward Cave AO FRSL (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian singer, songwriter, poet, lyricist, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional actor. Known for his baritone voice and for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Cave's music is characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love and violence.
Born and raised in rural Victoria, Cave studied art in Melbourne before fronting the Birthday Party, one of the city's leading post-punk bands, in the late 1970s. In 1980 they evolved towards a darker and more challenging sound that helped inspire gothic rock, and acquired a reputation as "the most violent live band in the world". Cave became recognised for his confrontational performances, his shock of black hair and pale, emaciated look. The band broke up soon after moving to Berlin in 1982, and Cave formed Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds the year after, later described as one of rock's "most redoubtable, enduring" bands. Much of their early material is set in a mythic American Deep South, drawing on spirituals and Delta blues, while Cave's preoccupation with Old Testament notions of good versus evil culminated in what has been called his signature song, "The Mercy Seat" (1988), and in his debut novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel (1989). In 1988, he appeared in Ghosts... of the Civil Dead, an Australian prison film which he both co-wrote and scored.
The 1990s saw Cave move between São Paulo and England, and find inspiration in the New Testament. He went on to achieve mainstream success with quieter, piano-driven ballads, notably the Kylie Minogue duet "Where the Wild Roses Grow" (1996), and "Into My Arms" (1997). Turning increasingly to film in the 2000s, Cave wrote the Australian Western The Proposition (2005), also composing its soundtrack with frequent collaborator Warren Ellis. The pair's film score credits include The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), The Road (2009) and Lawless (2012). Their garage rock side project Grinderman has released two albums since 2006. In 2009, he released his second novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, and starred in the semi-fictional "day in the life" film 20,000 Days on Earth (2014). His more recent musical work features ambient and electronic elements, as well as increasingly abstract lyrics, informed in part by grief over his son Arthur's 2015 death, which is explored in the documentary One More Time with Feeling (2016) and the Bad Seeds' 17th and latest album, Ghosteen (2019).
Cave maintains The Red Hand Files, a newsletter he uses to respond to questions from fans. He has collaborated with the likes of Shane MacGowan and ex-partner PJ Harvey, and his songs have been covered by a wide range of artists, including Johnny Cash ("The Mercy Seat"), Metallica ("Loverman") and Snoop Dogg ("Red Right Hand"). He was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2007, and named an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2017.
Live 1988
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1984–present)
The band with Cave as their leader and frontman has released seventeen studio albums. Pitchfork Media calls the group one of rock's "most enduring, redoubtable" bands, with an accomplished discography. Though their sound tends to change considerably from one album to another, the one constant of the band is an unpolished blending of disparate genres, and song structures which provide a vehicle for Cave's virtuosic, frequently histrionic theatrics. Critics Stephen Thomas Erlewine and Steve Huey wrote: "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."
Reviewing 2008's Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! album, NME used the phrase "gothic psycho-sexual apocalypse" to describe the "menace" present in the lyrics of the title track.[23] Their most recent work, Ghosteen, was released in October 2019.
In mid-August 2013, Cave was a 'First Longlist' finalist for the 9th Coopers AMP, alongside artists such as Kevin Mitchell and the Drones. The Australian music prize is worth A$30,000. The prize ultimately went to Big Scary. In a September 2013 interview, Cave explained that he returned to using a typewriter for songwriting after his experience with the Nocturama album, as he "could walk in on a bad day and hit 'delete' and that was the end of it". Cave believes that he lost valuable work due to a "bad day".
Nicholas Edward Cave AO FRSL is an Australian musician, writer and actor. Known for his baritone voice and for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Cave's music is characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love, and violence.
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Happy Birthday to Nicholas Edward Cave, Australian musician, singer-songwriter of The Birthday Party and frontman of the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, born on this day in 1957
i never ever defend nick cave but a dude recently told me “his last three albums have been BLEGH” and im like dude his fucking kid died and ghosteen is about creating a world for his deceased son to occupy. like have some GODDAMN respect. and it’s like oliviah when in gods name did you ally yourself with nicholas edward cave.
Day Twenty-Seven of asking Toby Fox pretty please with a cherry on top to join my existential crack rp server.
Today, I would like to share the "names that our characters under no circumstances want to be called" masterlist:
Allen - Abel
Guard Austin - Guard Awful
Captain Fordo - Captain Frodo
Charlie Bergeron - Charlotte
Cordelia - Dilly
Dave Strider - Cave Spider
Edward Hyde - Eddie
Eleanor - Ellie, Ellen, Ella, Lenore, Nora, El, Lennie
Fredrick - Freddy, Fredboy, Fred dick
Frodo Baggins - Fordo Baggins
Janitor - Convicted felon
Kokichi Ouma - Kokaine
Kyubey - Bastard, small motherfucker, other accurate descriptors
Milo Koshkin - Kobe
Nicholas "Satan" Johnson - Lucy, diet devil
Nomura Yura - Yui
Nyaldo Colas Wópez - Literally any of the nicknames he gives to other people
Theodore "Teru" Jones II from Wisconsin - Teri, Terry, Toby, Tobey, Tobias, Theo, and, my personal favorite, T H O B E Y
Dr. Two-Brains - Steven, Steve, Professor/Dr. Boxleitner
(Deadnames for trans characters were not included on this list.)