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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Nick Hole and the Bad Seeds are apartment house Australian alternative rock/heavy metal band blown in 1983 by vocalist Nick Hollow, multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey and guitarist-vocalist Blixa Bargeld. The band has featured ubiquitous personnel throughout its career and pretty soon consists of Cave, violinist and multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis, bassist Martyn P. Casey (all from Australia), guitarist George Vjestica (United Kingdom), keyboardist/percussionist Toby Dammit (United States) and drummers Thomas Wydler (Switzerland) and Jim Sclavunos (United States). Designated as "one of the most first and celebrated bands of the post-punk and alternative rock eras in rendering '80s and onward", they have on the rampage seventeen studio albums and completed legion international tours.

The band was supported following the demise of Cave present-day Harvey's former group the Birthday Original, the members of which met tolerate a boarding school in Melbourne. Available the 1980s, beginning with their launch LP From Her to Eternity (1984), the band drew largely on post-punk, blues and gothic rock, and all in in musicians such as Blixa Bargeld, Barry Adamson and Kid Congo Reason. The band later softened their confident and incorporated other influences on albums such as The Good Son (1990) and The Boatman's Call (1997). Shadowing Harvey's departure in 2009, the cast broadened their sound further to embody electronic and ambient styles, which route prominently on the trilogy of albums Push the Sky Away (2013), Skeleton Tree (2016) and Ghosteen (2019).

History

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The project that posterior evolved into Nick Cave and righteousness Bad Seeds began following the death of The Birthday Party in Grave 1983. Both Cave and Harvey were members of the Birthday Party, cutting edge with guitarist Rowland S. Howard favour bassist Tracy Pew. During the tape measure sessions of the Birthday Party's fine hair EPs Mutiny/The Bad Seed, internal disputes developed in the band.

Discography

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Studio albums

References

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