Nicholas Edward Cave (doğum 22 Eylül 1957) Avustralyalı bir rock müzisyeni, şarkı yazarı, kitap yazarı, senaryo yazarıdır; çok yoğun olmasa da bir aktörlük kariyeri de vardır. Nick Cave, en çok rock'n'roll grubu Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ile ve Amerikan müziğine ve onun köklerine duyduğu büyük ilgiyle tanınır. Şu an Birleşik Krallık'ta ikâmet etmektedir.
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Cave, Dawn ve Collin Cave'in çocuğu, Tim (d. 1952), Peter (d. 1954) ve Julie'nin (d. 1959) kardeşi olarak küçük Avustralya kasabası Warracknabeal'da doğdu.

Çocukluğunda, Cave ilkin Warracknabeal'da ve sonra da Wangaratta'da olmak üzere Avustralya'nın kırsal Victoria bölgesinde yaşadı. Babası bir İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı öğretmeni, annesi ise kütüphaneciydi. Bir Anglikan olarak yetiştirildi ve Wangaratta Katedrali'nin çocuk korosu'nda şarkı söyledi. Yerel okulundaki idareyle başı sürekli derde girdiğinden ailesi 1970 senesinde onu okumak üzere Melbourne'deki Caulfield Grammar School'a yatılı olarak gönderdi. Ertesi yıl ailesinin Melbourne'ün bir banliyösü olan Murrumbeena'ya taşınmasıyla beraber bir "sabahçı" oldu. Evlerinde bir piyano vardı ve Cave, koro şefi Norman Kaye'in gözetimindeki okul korosuna katıldı.

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Bad seeds öncesi dönem: 1970 lerin sonuna doğru Mick Harvey ile "The Boys next door" gurubu

1978 "These Boots Are Made For Walking"
1978 "Lethal Weapons" 1979 "From The Archives"
1979 "Shivers"/"Dive Position"
1979 "Door Door"
1979 "Hee Haw"
1979 "Scatterbrain"
1979 "Hangin' Around The House/Holiday House"
1980 "Samurai Star/The Man From Brashs/Dangerman Theme"
1980 "Happy Birthday"/"Riddle House"

Ardından "Birthday Party"

1980 "The Birthday Party"
1980 "Fast Forward #2"
1980 "The Friend Catcher"
1980 "Mr. Clarinet"
1981 "Prayers On Fire"
1981 "Nick The Stripper"
1981 "Release The Bats"
1982 "Kino Aus Der Kassette
1982 "Junkyard"
1982 "Dead Joe"
1982 "Drunk On The Pope's Blood"
1982 "Fast Forward #10"
1983 "The Friend Catcher"
1983 "Hee Haw"

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Diskografisi

Stüdyo Albümleri

• 1984 From Her to Eternity
• 1985 The Firstborn Is Dead
• 1986 Kicking Against the Pricks
• 1986 Your Funeral, My Trial
• 1988 Tender Prey
• 1990 The Good Son
• 1992 Henry's Dream
• 1994 Let Love In
• 1996 Murder Ballads
• 1997 The Boatman's Call
• 2001 No More Shall We Part
• 2003 Nocturama
• 2004 Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (2CD)

Canlı Albümler ve Derlemeler

• 1993 Live Seeds
• 1998 The Best Of
• 2005 B-Sides & Rarities (3CD)

Diğer Nick Cave Albümleri

• Ghosts...of the Civil Dead Soundtrack - Harvey & Blixa ile birlikte
• To Have and to Hold Soundtrack - Harvey & Blixa ile birlikte
• The Secret Life of the Love Song
• September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill - Cave "Mack the Knife"ı söylüyor
• The Proposition Soundtrack (2005) - Ellis ile birlikte
• Original Seeds: Songs that inspired Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Gayrıresmi" Derleme (1998 ve 2004)

Video ve DVD'ler

• The Road to God Knows Where - ABD Turu belgesel filmi * Live at the Paradiso - Amsterdam'da canlı, Hollanda * Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: The videos - Video Klip toplaması * God is in the House - Lyon'da canlı, Fransa

Kitaplar

• And the Ass Saw the Angel - Nick Cave (1989) ISBN 1880985721
• King Ink - Nick Cave (1988) ISBN 188098508X
• King Ink II - Nick Cave (1997) ISBN 2842610539
• The Pocket Canons Bible Series: Authorised King James Version: The Gospel According to Mark: Introduction - Nick Cave (1998) ISBN 0862417961
• Complete Lyrics - Nick Cave (2001) ISBN 0141005157
• Smack my Crack - Nick Cave ve başka yazarlar

Ödüller

• 2005 Q magazine: Q Classic Songwriter Award
• 2005 AFI Awards: Best Original Music Score (The Proposition)
• 2005 Inside Film Awards: Best Music (The Proposition)
• 2005 Film Critics Circle Of Australia Awards: Best Musical Score (The Proposition)
• 2001 ARIA Awards: Best Male Artist (No more shall we part)
• 2001 APRA Music Awards: The Ship Song voted in the Top 30 Best Australian Songs of the previous 75 years
• 1997 APRA Music Awards: Songwriter of the year
• 1997 ARIA Awards: Best Original Soundtrack (To have and to hold)
• 1996 ARIA Awards: Song of the Year & Single of the Year & Best Pop Release (Where the wild roses grow)
• 1996 MTV Europe Music Awards: Nick Cave formally requested that his nomination for "Best Male Artist" be withdrawn as he was not comfortable with the "competitive nature" of such awards.
• 1990 Time Out Magazine: Book Of The Year (And The Ass Saw The Angel)

Ayrıca Bakınız

• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• The Birthday Party
• Blixa Bargeld
• Mick Harvey
• Anita Lane
• PJ Harvey
• Warren Ellis
• Jim Sclavunos
• James Johnston
• Hugo Race
• Kylie Minogue

Okuma Listesi

• Bad Seed: A biography of Nick Cave, Ian Johnston (1995) ISBN 0-316-90589-4
• The life and music of Nick Cave: An illustrated biography, Maximilian Dax & Johannes Beck (1999) ISBN 3-931126-27-7
• Kicking Against the Pricks: An Armchair Guide to Nick Cave, Amy Hanson (2005), ISBN 190092496X

Dış Bağlantılar

• http://www.NickCaveandtheBadSeeds.com - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Resmî Sitesi
• http://www.Nick-Cave.com - Nick Cave'in Gayrıresmî sitesi

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Come on and help me babe
Come on now
Help me babe
I was blind
The grass here grows long and high
Twists right up to the sky
White clouds roll on by
Come on now and help me babe
I was blind
I was a fool babe
I was blind
Come on now
A loose wind last night blew down
Black trees bent to the ground
Their blossoms made such a sound
That I could not hear myself think babe
Come on now
And help me babe
Help me now
I was blind
I was a fool

L is for LOVE, baby
O is for ONLY you that I do
V is for loving VIRTUALLY all that you are
E is for loving almost EVERYTHING that you do
R is for RAPE me
M is for MURDER me
A is for ANSWERING all of my prayers
N is for KNOWING your loverman's going to
be the answer to all of yours

I took her by her golden curls And I dragged her round and round,
Throwing her into the river
That flows through Knoxville town...
"Go down, go down Knoxville girl!
With your dark and roven eyes...
Yeah, go down, go down Knoxville girl!
You can never be my bride."

I started back to Knoxville,
Got there about midnight.
My mother she was worried
And woke up in a fright
"Say there son, what have you done
To bloody up your clothes?"
I told my anxious mother
I was bleedin' of my nose.

I called for me a-candle
And I called for me a-bed
And I called for me a-handkerchief
To bind my achin' head.
I rolled and trashed the whole night through
Oh, horrors I did see:
The devil stood at the foot of my bed
Pointin' his finger at me.

They carried me down to Knoxville
And put me in a cell.
My friends all tried to get me out
But none could post my bail.
I'm here to waste my life away
Down in this dirty old jail
Because I murdered that Knoxville girl,
Girl I loved so well.

Some things we plan, we sit and we invent and we plot and cook up,
Others are works of inspiration, of poetry,
And it was this genius hand that pushed me up the hotel stairs
To say my last goodbye,
To her hair white as snow, and her pale blue eyes,
Sayin "I gotta go, I gotta go, the bomb and the bread basket
Are ready to blow,"
In this town of men with big mouths and no guts,
The pencil seller's dog spooked by the explosion
And leapin' under my wheels as I careered outta Longwood on my way to you,
Waitin in your dress, in your dress of blue

was just a boy when I sat down
To watch the news on TV
I saw some ordinary slaughter
I saw some routine atrocity
My father said, don't look away
You got to be strong, you got to be bold, now
He said, that in the end it is beauty
That is going to save the world, now
And she moves among the sparrows
And she floats upon the breeze
She moves among the flowers
She moves something deep inside of me

Now I've turned the mirrors to wall
I've emptied out the peopled halls
I've nailed shut the windows and locked the doors
There is no escape, you see
I chase you up and down the stairs
Under tables and over chairs
I reach out and I touch your hair
And it cuts me like a knife
For there is always something
Other little thing you gotta do