Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – 11th Album ‘NO MORE SHALL WE PART’ Released 25 Years Ago Today

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Significant longplayers from yesteryear

2 April 2026

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS released their 11th LP, called
No More Shall We Part on 2 April 2001, today 25 years ago.

Nick Cave had to overcome heavy heroin and alcohol addictions in
1999–2000 before starting to work on this album. It featured guest
appearances by Kate & Anna McGarrigle and was met with mostly
positive reviews.

Pitchfork wrote: ‘If ‘No More Shall We Part’ seems less distinguished next
to Cave’s mid-90s streak and his reinvigorated Anti- output, it represents
an important turning point in the Bad Seeds discography. It marks that
pivotal moment where Cave regains the sensation in his red right hand.”

Turn Up The Volume: Not really top – too many masterpieces
to compare to – on the other hand, the iconic Australian crooner
never made a bad album.

SINGLE

ALBUM


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Band: NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
Album: WILD GOD
The 13th one.

Cave: “There’s no fucking around with this record. When it hits, it hits. It lifts you. It moves
you. I love that about it. I hope the album has the effect on listeners that it’s had on me. It bursts out of the speaker, and I get swept up with it. It’s a complicated record, but it’s also deeply and joyously infectious. There is never a master plan when we make a record. The records rather reflect back the emotional state of the writers and musicians who played
them. Listening to this, I don’t know, it seems we’re happy.”


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Rolling Stone says: “Here’s a sense of abandon and play to Wild God that’s infectious. Produced by Cave and long-time collaborator Warren Ellis, the record continues their
constant conversation, confidently proclaiming that better times are ahead.”

TUTV: Cave is the God of melodramatic balladry. Now here’s a God I can believe in. Again he shows why he’s one of the best ever crooners in the universe. And lyrically it feels as if, after so many devastating, painful years, with the surreal loss of two sons, he lets sparks of light back in his life. God bless Nick Cave.

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Artist: JACK WHITE
Album: NO NAME
His 6th solo one.

Uncut Magazine said: “On No Name, he’s done something special on his own terms,
delighted and surprised his audience, and provided one of the great rock moments of
the year.”

TUTV: White returns to his punk blues roots of the early days. Swipe after swipe,
blue stripe after blue stripe, kick after kick, clap after clap. A total of 13 thunder
strokes. High-wired electricity. Dope record.

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Band: FONTAINES D.C.
Album: ROMANCE
4th LP

NME said: “Knockout, spiritual songs for the end of time The ever-evolving five-piece enter a new phase of transformation on their arresting fourth album – their most considered and intricately crafted work yet.”

TUTV: The Irishmen have become high-quality songwriters (which they already proved on previous LP Skinty Fia– – still my favourite one). Frontman Grian Chatten‘s lyrics show (again) his observative view on the modern, gloomy world and how it affects him emotionally.

This is not their masterpiece yet to my ears, but it’s only a matter of
time that they will come up with a longplayer that will blow us all away.

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Band: KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD
Album: FLIGHT b741

Their 26th album in 14 years!!!


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The Guardian (British newspaper): “A cheerfully rocking album about global collapse”.

TUTV: After 25 albums, it sounds as if the prolific Aussies decided to simply rock out
for a change, and they do it with striking 70s-inspired juggernauts with sultry harmonica-blues echoes here and there. Conventional guitar solos pop up in every track. Listen quickly to the record, if not they will have another one out before you press play.

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Band: OSEES
Album: SORCS80
Their umpteenth one.


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AllMusic said: “Punk without guitars has been done before — everything has. Few have done it with the blend of skill, imagination, and flat-out commitment that Osees exhibit on SORCS 80.”

TUTV: For the first time Osees general John Dwyer has incorporated layers of synths in
the band’s sonic, head over heels turmoil. Don’t expect top-notch tunes. This LP is about bulldozing for 38 minutes with punk velocity and schizophrenic electronics and I like it.

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Now Playing – 10-Year-Old Album ‘PUSH THE SKY AWAY’ By NICK CAVE And THE BAD SEEDS

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Back in Time

18 February 2023

10 years ago today – 18 February 2013 – NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
released their 15th longplayer, named PUSH THE SKY AWAY.

An instantly recognizable record with its darksome ballads and Cave‘s
distinctive crooner voice. Not another masterwork, as he made so many,
but still Cavesque enjoyable. Best listened to with candlelights and a fine
bottle of red Bordeaux wine.

The Guardian (UK newspaper) wrote: “Funeral-paced songs and stripped
down music that calls to mind Leonard Cohen fronting James Blake minimalism.”
Score: 8/10

Stream here.

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NICK CAVE Has Good And Bad News For 2023

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9 January 2023

Living legend NICK CAVE loves to communicate with his
audience/fans via his Red Hand Files platform on his website.

Yesterday, he posted a long message regarding a possible Bad Seeds LP in 2023.
He said that he has good and bad news: “This is both good news and bad news.
Good news because who doesn’t want a new Bad Seeds record? Bad news because
I’ve got to write the bloody thing.”

Cave tells in length about his first working days of the longplayer. Here’s his full story.

“I started the process at 9am on January 1st. It is now January 6th – nearly a week has passed and I’ve written a few things but they aren’t very good, or maybe they are, it’s difficult to tell. A kind of doldrums has set in, perennial and predictable. It’s the same with every record, I feel that familiar feeling of lack, like I’m a big, dumb blank thing in a suit. I’m grumpy as fuck and Susie has decamped for a week. Anything that resembles a creative impulse is burrowed way down in some mossy, froggy hole, asleep, I hope, not dead. I have to call it forth, provoke it from its slumber. It becomes a nasty, punishing, baggy-eyed business. I’m starting to get an infuriating sing-song voice in my head that actually rhymes, like a madness. Like sadness.

The first lines I wrote on January 1st were…

Ushering in the year he knelt down
And crushed his brother’s head with a bone

That felt like an okay way to start a record but it also felt kind
of terminal and didn’t really go anywhere. Then a few days later
I added to it…

Ushering in the new year he knelt down
And crushed his brother’s head with a bone
It’s my great privilege to walk you home
In the rain. Hop inside my coat.

That felt a bit better, like something I guess, but not much.
Then the next day, because I had a rain theme going, I wrote…

The frogs in the gutter are jumping for God
Amazed of love, amazed of pain
Amazed to land back in the gutter again

And that felt like it summed things up. Writing lyrics is the pits. It’s like jumping for
frogs, Fred. It’s the shits. It’s the bogs. It actually hurts. It comes in spurts, but few and far between. There is something obscene about the whole affair. Like crimes that rhyme. I hope this doesn’t last long. I’m actually scared. But it always does. Last long. To write a song. You hope to God there is something left. You are bereft. I’m going to stop this letter. It isn’t making things better. It’s like flogging a dead horse. Worse. It’s a hearse. A hearse of dead verse. Dead, Fred. Dead.

Love, Nick
Happy New Year everybody!”

While waiting for the new one we can listen to the previous one.
Wondrous mystic with Ghosteen released in 2019

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(Images. On top: cover of The Boatman’s Call and in the middle: cover of his live LP recorded in Alexandra Palace in London)

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS Reveal Another Previously Unreleased Track From Upcoming Collection

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17 September 2021

Crooner legend NICK CAVE and his BAD SEEDS bring us a
new, second, collection of ‘B-Sides & Rarities ‘, including
27 rare and unreleased tracks from 2006 to 2020.

Out 22 October, on vinyl and CD.
Have a look here…

The first B-sides/rarities records
came out back in 2005 and will also
be available again on vinyl/CD.

A couple of weeks ago, along with the announcement came
a first taster called Vortex and now we have a second one.
An outtake from the Ghosteen sessions.

EARTHLINGS is a vintage Cave meditation,
sung in his own vintage sombre way…

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‘THE GOOD SON’ By NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS Released 30 Years Ago…

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19 April 2020

Living legend and one of my fav all time artists NICK CAVE and his band THE BAD SEEDS released their sixth album THE GOOD SON on 17 April 1990, 30 years ago. It was the first LP that showed a change in mood and songwriting overall as Cave started to make an art out of crooning, not in a smooth Frank Sinatra way, but more like a modern Leonard Cohen with a doomed voice.

Later Cave commented: “I guess The Good Son is some kind of reflection of the way I felt
early on in Brazil. I was quite happy there. I was in love and the first year or two was good. The problem I found was in order to survive you have to adopt their attitudes towards everything, which are kind of blinkered.”

Drowned In Sound wrote: “The Good Son is much, much more than Cave going soft. As a transitional album, there’s plenty here for fans of both Cave the lover and Cave the fighter.
And Cave the storyteller: still gloriously wild-eyed, yet with the grotesque excesses of yore replaced by a more humane perspective.” Full review here. Score 9/10.

Album in full…

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Singles…

– THE SHIP SONG –

– THE WEEPING SONG –

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NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS – Fifth Longplayer ‘TENDER PREY’ Turns 30…

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Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…

18 September 2018

Artist: NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS

Album: TENDER PREY – fifth LP

Released: 19 September 1988 – 30 years ago

ALL MUSIC review: “With guitarist/keyboardist Roland Wolf and Cramps/Gun Club
veteran Kid Congo Powers on guitar added to the ranks, along with guest appearances
from old member Hugo Race, the Seeds reached 1988 with their strongest album yet, the insanely powerful, gripping ‘Tender Prey’. Rather than simply redoing what they’d already
done, Nick Cave and company took their striking musical fusions to deeper and higher
levels all around, with fantastic consequences…”
Score: 4.5/5 – Full review here

TURN UP THE VOLUME! says:  At times freaky, at times catchy, at times fanatical
but always compelling, vehement and entirely committed. Whether Cave sings,
speaks, shouts, rattles or mumbles his vox is just extra-ordinary and life-giving.

ALBUM in full…

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SOULFUL SUNDAY – Living Legend NICK CAVE Playing My Wedding Song…

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Feel good vibes for the laziest day of the week…

A heartwarming masterstroke. My wedding song. Thanks, Mr. Cave.

Come sail your ships around me
And burn your bridges down
We make a little history, baby
Every time you come around

Come loose your dogs upon me
And let your hair hang down
You are a little mystery to me
Every time you come around

We talk about it all night long
We define our moral ground
But when I crawl into your arms
Everything, it comes tumbling down

Come sail your ships around me
And burn your bridges down
We make a little history, baby
Every time you come around

Your face has fallen sad now
For you know the time is nigh
When I must remove your wings
And you, you must try to fly

Come sail your ships around me
And burn your bridges down
We make a little history, baby
Every time you come around

Come loose your dogs upon me
And let your hair hang down
You are a little mystery to me
Every time you come around

Come sail your ships around me (Come sail your ships around me)
And burn your bridges down (And burn your bridges down)
We make a little history, baby (We make a little history, baby)
Every time you come around (Every time you come around)

From the magical album The Good Son ( his sixth album – released in 1990)…

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