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  Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds is a successful rock/post-punk band with international personnel.
It was originally formed in 1984 by two former members of the Australian band The Birthday Party: Nick Cave (singer, songwriter) and multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds were also in Wim Wenders' movie Wings of Desire (1987).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nick_Cave_&_the_Bad_Seeds   (484 words)

  
 No More Shall We Part - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds and Tony Cohen
Cave had to overcome his heavy heroin and alcohol addictions in 1999-2000 before starting work on the album.
It was met with mostly positive reviews, often called beautiful with its heavy use of piano, though some Nick Cave critics or fans who preferred his earlier music disliked it, saying he had become slow and meaningless (see the Nude as the News review).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/No_More_Shall_We_Part   (392 words)

  
 Cave, Nick - Satan Stole My Teddybear
Nick Cave’s earliest solo output with the Bad Seeds is something that should be approached with extreme caution.
Nick Cave's dark romanticism and range of emotional outpouring make him a very excellent inclusion on CD mix one may make for someone he or she is trying woo, but knowing what songs to pick and where to dive in is the most difficult task of all.
Nick Cave’s narratives fashioned around traditional folk tales (often based on true stories) dealing with murder and the disturbing side of the imagination were delivered with such heartfelt honesty that they were often chilling to behold.
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 Sharon Knolle | Writing Portfolio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Nick Cave used to say he was born with a dead twin, or that he was born with a tail.
Cave embraced this fragment of his idol's psychology as his own dark side, as inspiration for an album, The Firstborn is Dead, and his William Faulkneresque novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel, and as a tidbit to throw to interviewers.
Well, if Cave is haunted by anything today, it's having to face the past 14 years of his band, the Bad Seeds for their first "Best of" album, aptly titled The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
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 Glasperlenspiel Magazine
Documenting the period between the Bad Seeds' 1984 debut From Her To Eternity and 1997's superlative The Boatman's Call, 'The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' is positive proof of Cave's enduring talent as a songwriter, and the realisation of this talent with the peerless Bad Seeds.
The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds shows that Cave is almost unique in being one of the leading lights of the Eighties independent scene who has survived the popularisation and commercialisation of indie music in the Nineties to continue to produce intelligent, credible records.
Indeed the best of 'Best Of...' is composed of the later tracks, indicating that Cave continues to improve with age.
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 TrouserPress.com :: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Cave's characters are tormented by desire but often respond to that desire with extreme violence: "This desire to possess her is a wound / And it's naggin' at me like a shrew / But, ah know, that to possess her / Is, therefore, not to desire her.
Cave is forever obsessed with his usual themes of sex, death, the devil and rhythm, but here he relocates the elusive energy missing from much of his '90s material.
Cave isn't known for his subtlety, and the irony of this song is laid on too thick to be clever or even particularly funny.
www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=nick_cave_and_the_bad_seeds   (4418 words)

  
 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: album reviews and ratings
Thus the Bad Seeds were born, second only to Cave's former band in their ability to create a rumbling caterwaul.
Nick had developed something of a drugs dependency and it was starting to affect his professionalism in the studio.
Nick has reached such a mastery of his craft now, that making this piano laden, dynamics led, darkly humorous music is second nature.
musicfolio.com /modernrock/nickcave.html   (1649 words)

  
 nickcaveandthebadseeds.com
However, The Bad Seeds 2004 are a rather different set up from the band who recorded Nocturama with Blixa Bargeld leaving and former Gallon Drunk frontman James Johnston joining.
The result is a raw, organic, pulsing sound that may well be the best the Bad Seeds have ever sounded, with the added oomph of a troupe of young gospel singers from The London Community Gospel Choir.
Nick Cave has kept smart company over the years, clustered in maleficent, smart-dressed covens, penning dark tales for outsider souls, ever since his days in that gloriously apocalyptic early-80s Australian desperados, The Bad Seeds.
www.nickcaveandthebadseeds.com /biog.html   (1110 words)

  
 Daily Free Press -Online muse Thursday, September 10, 1998
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds stuck mostly with their Best Of material, only deviating for some classics that didn't make the new album's cut, such as "Lime Tree Arbour" and "West Country Girl" (a not-so-subtle song about Cave's former love P.J. Harvey) from 1997's Boatman's Call.
Nick Cave is a modern day prophet, and to his die hard fans a saint (he has, coincidentally, just been tapped to modernize/rewrite the Gospel of Mark in the upcoming English revision of the St. James Bible).
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds proved Monday night that they were indeed true messengers of the Lord, spreading the revelations to the masses.
www.dailyfreepress.com /media/paper87/DFPArchive/muse/0910981.html   (473 words)

  
 Underwurld Review
Nick Cave is a musical enigma, seen by many as a kind of bleak beat-poet with a preference for gothic piano and deep subject matter.
It is simply the best album Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds have put their name to in a long time.
Even when Cave sings 'the mighty wave their hankies from their high-windowed palace' and 'calling every boy and girl, calling all around the world', it is done with such subterfuge and guile that he simply gets away when others would stumble and fall.
homepage.ntlworld.com /sabrewulfe/reviews/nickcave_abattoir.htm   (1801 words)

  
 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds @ Brixton Academy : gig review
Fans of Nick Cave overheard at the rather different venue of The Royal Festival Hall the previous evening were worried that their Prince of Darkness had become too mellow.
Not that anyone would think of The Bad Seeds as puppets (apart from Warren Ellis' unnerving habits of sinking to the floor when he isn't playing and turning his back to the audience when he is).
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - The Proposition
www.musicomh.com /gigs/nick-cave.htm   (612 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: No More Shall We Part: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Cave is not merely in a different league from most of his peers; he's scarcely even playing the same game.
As ever, Cave deals with these with greater agility and imagination than anyone else--with the possible exceptions of his obvious eternal idols Leonard Cohen and Johnny Cash--and, as ever, is frequently funnier than generally given credit for.
One of the greatest achievements of Lord Nick Cave that he is a master of both the ballad form and the more heart throbbing rocksongs, or in Nick’s case, the Old-Testament-like outbursts, and the fact that The Singer is capable of switching from one to the other in less than a split second.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005AMDP   (1465 words)

  
 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: 'The Best Of'
Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Rowland S Howard, Tracy Pew and Phil Calvert blazed through incendiary live shows and a string of albums and EP's of swaggering, raw-boned blues that were at odds with the plastic pop of the early Eighties.
The Bad Seeds were now to re-evolve again with the subsequent departure of Powers and Wolf.
Cave's most intensely personal work to date, the music was pared down to a beautiful simplicity, evoking magical atmospheres, while the singer explored the themes of love, faith and loss in unflinching detail.
www.mutelibtech.com /mute/cave/bestof.htm   (912 words)

  
 Ink 19 :: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Roses growing out of people's hearts and naked cats in bed with spears growing right up out of their backs and seven years of this and eight years of that and it's all really something nobody can really touch (30).
In this latest release, a greatest hits package, we are treated to the assorted characters that populate Cave's dark world.
Since Cave has virtually given up touring this side of the Atlantic, this is the closest thing one can hope to experience of live, new material.
www.ink19.com /issues_F/98_08/wet_ink/music_cf/024_nick_cave_nf.html   (299 words)

  
 NME.COM - News - NICK CAVE AND BAD SEEDS 'GREATEST HITS' DUE IN MAY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will release a career-spanning compilation in the UK on May 11...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are set to release a career-spanning compilation album, 'The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds', available through Mute Records in UK stores on May 11.
The album traces the group's history and its track-listing was chosen by Nick Cave and the band.
www.nme.com /news/70.htm   (473 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Boatman's Call: Music: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Cave makes his position clear in the album's first line; he's not religious, not a believer, but song after song seems to insinuate that he can't help seeing something of the divine and the devilish in the powerful emotion of love.
Cave then turns her love poem into a lament of epic proportions filled with equal amounts of romantic longing and despair.
In 1994 Nick came with the sublime "Let love in", which would be the album with the most perfect blend of manic burst-out songs and paced ballads like the sing-along title track and the beautiful and echoing "Do you love me (Part 2)".
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002NE4?v=glance   (1702 words)

  
 Amuzine review - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - The best of
Cave is a 40 year old singer-songwriter whose degenerate indie blues and folk tales echo the work of Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits and Jim Morrison.
Only Nick could write "Deanna", an exuberant song about a murder pact, in which he craves not his accomplice's love, but her soul.
Cave's writing talent also led to anthologies and a novel, translated into ten languages, which won Time Out's Book Of The Year award.
www.cd.co.za /reviews/nickcavebestof.htm   (431 words)

  
 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds have been treading water for several years.
Having outgrown their youthful rowdiness, The Bad Seeds are soft and somber on No More Shall We Part.
Cave’s lyrics revisit recent themes of longing and loss, but the full-band sound adds a sense of tender beauty and subtle vigor to accurately convey those lyrics.
www.citypaper.net /articles/041901/mus.cdreviews1.shtml   (210 words)

  
 Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus - almost cool music review
In my humble estimation, Nick Cave is one of those artists who can barely do wrong.
It was just last year that Cave stated that he and his band had a goal to try to release one album per year, and it seems that with Nocturama and now this disc, he's making good on his promise.
The first is that longtime guitarist/noisemaker Blixa Bargeld (arguably one of the most important Seeds) left the band before the recording of the release.
www.almostcool.org /mr/284   (781 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Nick has clearly led a troubled life as his music is always of the brooding, melancholy kind.
Whether or not this is the best introduction to Nick Cave I am not the best person to judge.
Cave has famously taken inspiration from the Old Testament, and like that great work of literature his songs and musicianship evoke an atmosphere that is, by turns, beautiful and troubling.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000026ZL7   (1602 words)

  
 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: No More Shall We Part
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds are set to release a new single on Mute on the 21st of May.
Recorded during Autumn 2000 by the Bad Seeds line up of Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld, Thomas Wydler, Martyn Casey, Conway Savage, Jim Sclavunos and Warren Ellis, the new single features backing vocals by Kate and Anna McGarrigle.
The event brings together Nick Cave (and The Bad Seeds) with other previous Meltdown curators for a special show as part of the venue’s 50th Birthday Celebrations.
www.mutelibtech.com /mute/cave/cave.htm   (267 words)

  
 Details for Nick Cave/Bad Seeds/Live Seeds (Reis) at CDconnection.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Exactly what it says it is, and quite good at that -- some fans consider many of the songs on Live to be superior to their studio equivalents, testament to its overall quality.
Cave himself is unsurprisingly in excelsis, his declamatory and quieter sides both showcased with skill.
Three of the thirteen songs are from Dream, with the rest drawn from throughout Cave 's solo career, including a dramatic version of 'From Her to Eternity' that takes the 1987 re-recording as its start and gets an even more punishing makeover.
cdconnection.com /bin/nph-search?part=143406&source=robot   (450 words)

  
 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus | Album Review @ Music-Critic.com : the source for ...
Vastly under-rated and frequently overlooked, Cave is keen to have each album judged on its’ own merit, and they do have a very different feel.
Cave recorded partly recorded the tracks at Studio Ferber in Paris, a location he says added an incredible amount of character to the sound.
It’s the best album from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds for many moons, and seems as they are few and far between I would grab it while it’s hot.
www.music-critic.com /rock/nickcave_abattoirblueslyreorpheus.htm   (319 words)

  
 News, May 11, 1998 - The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
News, May 11, 1998 - The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds released a new album called "The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds"
The album contains songs from all Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds albums except "Kicking Against The Pricks".Tracks was chosen by Nick Cave and the rest of the band.
www.nick-cave.com /news_archive/archive/11051998.htm   (112 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Music: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Although Nick Cave is a definite album artist, and also not someone with numerous hits, an album like this is needed because he has a large catalog and all of his albums are good.
Nick Cave is the preacher who not only speaks TO us, but who speaks FOR us, as well - for the late night romantics.
I never understood Nick Cave's fixation with his uproaring, cheerful sounding song "Deanna", but it is the opening track on an album which is called "The best of Nick Cave" so apparently I must be missing something crusial here.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000062WD?v=glance   (2330 words)

  
 filter magazine - reviews - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
A lot has happened since Nick Cave first emerged as the gothic-blues reverend of darkness 20 years ago.
Still, let's not completely harp on Cave for going Disney, because the guy's still an absolute badass-both live and on record.
With this double-disc record, Cave makes it clearer than ever that he has preserved his biggest talent: an uncanny ability to emote.
www.filter-mag.com /reviews/interior.340.html   (261 words)

  
 Nick Cave Music - Favorite Songs - Lyrics From
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds release a new single on 19 March...
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 101cd.com - Buy cheap UK Nick Cave/Bad Seeds (The) - Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, The (CD Album) - Product ...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds includes: Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld, Barry Adamson, Anita Lane, Edward Clayton-Jones, Hugo Race, Thomas Wydler, Kid Congo Powers, Roland Wolf, Martyn P. Casey, Conway Savage, Jim Sclavunos, Warren Ellis.
Given Nick Cave's history of great songs but uneven albums, THE BEST OF NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS truly lives up to its name, condensing his most intriguing songs into one excellent collection.
Though the compilation highlights Cave's penchant for morbid narratives, it also includes disarmingly sincere ballads like "Into My Arms," "Are You the One That I've Been Waiting For?," and "Straight to You," with the Bad Seeds providing unusually subtle backing.
www.101cd.com /detail.aspx?productid=899   (410 words)

  
 Best of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Music Records Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
If there was ever a need to write a national anthem for Halloween, Nick Cave and his band of unmerry Bad Seeds should definetly be blessed with that accolade.
Though I'm not a diehard Cave fan (especially having only purchased this album recently), this best of collection is definetly a good place to start, stop or bridge a collection, and I'm wholeheartedly glad...
Best of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds : Is this the one you've been waiting for?
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