16 May 2008

NICK CAVE

Nick Cave first hit the music scene back in the late seventies, with his band The Boys Next Door (later renamed The Birthday Party), and later as a solo artist, with The Bad Seeds, and more recently with Grinderman.

Over his four decade long career, he has never had any massive hits. He does, however, have a huge fan following, and the majority of his albums, books, soundtracks, and movies have garnered critical acclaim.

Throughout his career, he has released many songs outside of his albums, many of which were collected a couple years back on the 3 disc compilation B-Sides and Rarities. But that just dealt with his work with The Bad Seeds. Here are several more tracks the hard core fans may be looking for:

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Nick Cave and Anita Lane - “Bedazzled” from Anita’s single “The World’s a Girl”
Nick Cave - “Sunny” (Bobby Hebb cover) Recorded during a radio session on March 3, 1989.
Nick Cave - “There Is A Light” From the Batman Forever soundtrack. Cave has said he was talked into recording this for the film, but he didn’t like the results.
Current 93 with Nick Cave - “All The Pretty Little Horses” (traditional) This is the title track to Current 93’s 1996 album.
Barry Adamson with Nick Cave - “The Sweetest Embrace” Barry is one of The Bad Seeds. Nick did the vocals on this track from Adamson’s album Oedipus Schmoedipus.
Nick Cave and Stanislaw Sojka - “W moich ramionach” This is a Polish version of Cave‘s song “Into My Arms”, performed live by Polish artist Stanislaw Sojka, with Cave guesting.
Nick Cave and Sam Brown - “Kiss of Love” From Jools Holland’s album Small World Big Band Friends 3 - Jack O The Green.

Nick Cave discography:

The Boys Next Door - Door, Door, 1979
The Boys Next Door - The Birthday Party, 1980 (buy) (later re-issued under the band name The Birthday Party)
The Birthday Party - Prayers On Fire, 1981 (buy)
The Birthday Party - Junkyard, 1982 (buy)
Nick Cave - From Her to Eternity, 1984 (buy)
The Birthday Party - It’s Still Living, 1985 (live, recorded 1982)
Nick Cave - The Firstborn is Dead, 1985 (buy)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Kicking Against the Pricks, 1986 (buy) (covers album)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Your Funeral. . . My Trial, 1986 (buy)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Tender Prey, 1988 (buy)
Nick Cave, Mick Harvey and Blixa Bargeld - Ghosts. . . Of the Civil Dead, 1988 (Cave co-wrote the screenplay and soundtrack, and is featured in the film)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Good Son, 1990 (buy)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Henry’s Dream, 1992 (buy)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Live Seeds, 1993 (buy) (live)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Let Love In, 1994 (buy)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads, 1996 (buy)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Boatman’s Call, 1997 (buy)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part, 2001 (buy)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Nocturama, 2003 (buy)
Nick Cave - And the Ass Saw the Angel, 2003 (buy) (readings from the novel (buy) written by Cave, and published in1989)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus, 2004 (buy)
Nick Cave nad the Bad Seeds - B-Sides and Rarities, 2005 (buy) (compilation)
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - The Proposition, 2005 (buy) (soundtrack. The screen play (buy dvd) was also written by Cave)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues Tour, 2007 (buy) (live box set)
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford, 2007 (buy) (soundtrack)
Grinderman - Grinderman, 2007 (buy)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!, 2008 (buy)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow, great blog! I just dropped by (more or less accidentally), as I'm a huge fan of Nick Cave's. And then, stumbling through your archives, I discovered so much more music I really love! So, thanks for posting these Cave rarities & all the other stuff. From now on, I'll visit your blog regularly!

From Holland, with love. :-)

DeadBilly said...

Thank you for the comment. It's always nice to know people appreciate my little piece of the internet.

Anonymous said...

Polish version of Cave‘s song “Into My Arms” is "W moich ramionach" :)

DeadBilly said...

Thanks for the correction. I don't speak the language myself, so I never would have caught it.