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Nick Cave is an internationally renowned musician from the [[Australia (
He is also the author of the novels ''And The Ass Saw The Angel'' and ''The Death Of Bunny Munro'', as well as the script for ''[[The Proposition]]'', for which he and bandmate Warren Ellis (no, not ''that'' [[Warren Ellis]]) also composed the soundtrack. 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. The film version of ''[[The Road]]'' was scored by him and Ellis, and directed by John Hillcoat, who also did ''[[The Proposition]]''.
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Compare [[Tom Waits]], who has a somewhat similar style, and who is [[wikipedia:Original Seeds#Volume two|confirmed]] to be an influence on Cave.
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* [[Anti-Love Song]]: A number of songs by both The Birthday Party and the Bad Seeds, including "Where the Wild Roses Grow," "Do You Love Me?" parts 1 and 2 and "Jack The Ripper." The love songs on The Boatman's Call are a bit too stark and minimalist to be considered "silly" love songs and would easily qualify.
** 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.
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* [[Creator Breakdown]]: ''Your Funeral, My Trial'' and ''The Boatman's Call.''
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: The Lyre Of Orpheus. ''The well went down very deep/ Very deep went down the well.''
* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: Stagger Lee.
* [[Distinct Double Album]]: ''Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus.'' The former CD was harder-edged and the latter was notably softer and more melancholy.
* [[Duet Bonding]]: Led to his relationship with [[PJ Harvey|Polly Jean Harvey]].<ref>Granted, this was more a case of "filming-the-video-for-the-duet bonding" as their vocals were recorded continents apart and then spliced together for the final recording, but it still applies.</ref>
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* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]
* [[Memetic Outfit]]: Nick's suit. Notably absent in the video for "More News From Nowhere"
* [[Money Song]]: "Easy Money" off of ''Abbatoir Blues,'' although he certainly doesn't sound like he's running the Ritz in it.
* [[Multinational Team]]: The Bad Seeds have had Australian, American, Swiss, German and British personnel pass through their ranks over the years.
* [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly]]: Combines American folk music with gothic post-punk and, recently, blues-influenced rock and roll.
* [[New Sound Album]] / [[Surprisingly Gentle Song|Surprisingly Gentle Album]]: Happened thrice with the Bad Seeds. ''The Good Son'' was a [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|shockingly]] gentle follow-up to the intense ''Tender Prey.'' Then it happened again with both ''The Boatman's Call'' and ''No More Shall We Part'' following a year after the moody and dark ''Murder Ballads.'' ''The Boatman's Call'' was much better received than ''The Good Son,'' perhaps because it was less of a shock the second time to hear the Bad Seeds do an album full of sorrowful songs and [[Lonely Piano Piece]] tracks. Then it happened a ''third time'' with ''Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!'' sounding more like the rock & roll of Grinderman than anything else they'd done previously.
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* [[Soprano and Gravel]]: He's done duets with PJ Harvey (Henry Lee), Anita Lane (I love you... Nor Do I), and Kylie Minogue (Where the Wild Roses Grow).
** Inverted in his duets with [[The Pogues|Shane MacGowan]] and Chris Bailey.
* [[Take That, Critics!]]: "Scum."
* [[The Something Song]]: "The Weeping Song," "The Ship Song," "The Train Song," "The Hammer Song," "The Witness Song,"
** The B-Side to "Loverman" is "The B-Side Song."
** He also covered a different "Hammer Song" by Alex Harvey.
* [[This Is a Song]]: "This is a weeping song, a song in which to weep."
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: The subject of "Song Of Joy" off of ''Murder Ballads.''
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