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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Musical Group
Forfans of dark, literary rock; post-punk and blues listeners; readers of in-depth album criticism.
44 Reviews 27 Definitions 119 Charts
Rock Blues Singer-Songwriters

The Profile

Australian rock group led by singer-songwriter Nick Cave, formed in 1983; known for dark, literary songwriting that spans blues, post-punk, gospel and experimental sounds.

Longtime collaborators mentioned in the reviews include Warren Ellis, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld, Martyn Casey and Thomas Wydler. Recurring themes in reviews: grief and mourning (notably on Skeleton Tree and Ghosteen), murder ballads, religious imagery, southern-gothic blues, and periods of reinvention from noisy early records to more minimal recent works.

DeBaser's reviews treat Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds as a long-running, evolving project: early blues-inflected horror and violence, later lapses into tenderness and religious imagery, and recent works focused on grief and minimalism. Reviewers praise songwriting, voice and reinventions across decades.

Notable Quotes

❝ The firstborn is dead... let the sky break, spew out its tears and dress in mourning this red earth.
❝ I don't believe in an interventionist God but if I did I would ask Him to watch over you
❝ Nick Cave was probably (surely) the greatest rock star of the last thirty years.
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