Nick Cave is an internationally renowned musician from the North East of Victoria. He started out in the Birthday Party, a rather weird post-punk band who would become a big influence on Goth rock. In recent years he's formed a third band, Grinderman, who very unusually for him play rather straightforwards rock music.
And he's occasionally acted, most notably in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford he appears as a musician, playing the folk song "Jesse James" , which he and Ellis again scored. His songs range from gentle love songs, to angsty songs of pain, to full-on murder ballads ; he wrote a whole album of the latter. He's also known for deeply held, though unconventional, religious views; his songs and novels are rife with Christian symbolism, though he denies in recent interviews that he believes in a personal or interventionist God so Deist, maybe?
Compare Tom Waits , who has a somewhat similar style, and who is confirmed to be an influence on Cave. Start a Wiki. Sign In Don't have an account? Wiki Content. Troping Utilities. Troper Social Networks. Official Discord Official Subreddit Forum. Fan Central. Nick Cave. Sign in to edit. History Talk 0. One album of his, a recorded lecture titled "The Secret Life Of The Love Song", features him musing on how many alleged songs of love are actually songs of hate.
He proceeds to illustrate a genuine lovesong he found among the dross of pop by playing Kylie Minogue 's "Better The Devil You Know"; him, a piano, and a Stock-Aitken-Waterman pop ditty makes for a profoundly disturbing combination, since - for once - you pay attention to the lyrics. Murder Ballads by the Bad Seeds has at least six songs featuring outright homicidal maniacs.
In particular Lottie from "The Curse of Milhaven" is literally rabid with psychopathic murderous rage. Surprisingly averted in "Jack The Ripper. Many of the members of Grinderman and a few of the Bad Seeds sport Badass facial hair such as Warren Ellis' wild-man grizzly beard. Black Widow : In "Henry Lee" the titular character runs afoul of a rather jealous one. Depraved Bisexual : Stagger Lee. The former CD was harder-edged and the latter was notably softer and more melancholy. As the song puts it, "He's a fat little insect.
