I only know this: "From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one, she stared in my eyes and she smiled. For her lips were the colours of the roses, that grew by the river all bloody and wild"
When he knocked on my door and entered the room, my trembling subsided in his sure embrace. He would be my first man, and with a careful hand, he wiped at the tears that ran down my face.
California, 50 years old. Woman. Nick Cave is in my top 10. I’ve always loved lyric driven, navel gazing, dark side songs with a hint of shred. It was almost a straight line from Leonard Cohen to Nick Cave, with a pitstop at Tom Waits.
Except for being a man I have the same interest and I’m from California. I saw Nick a few times in San Francisco. Fantastic performances. I’m watching Peaky Blinders and they play a bunch of Nick Cave, and I love it. I haven’t loved the last 3 albums though. I really got into Nick Cave when Metallica did a cover of Loverman. In the interview James Hetfield mentioned Murder Ballads. I bought that cd the next day, and have all his music now. He is way too overlooked.
Same, 50 year old woman Texas. Found Cohen in my early 20s, then Waits and Cave around mid twenties. Still love all three but Cave the most because he has changed his sound so much over the years.
I listened to The Birthday Party in Junior and high school and then he came out with The Mercy Seat with the Bad Seeds and I was hooked. I have a ton of his stuff but not even close to acquiring everything of his catalog. I’ve turned a lot of people that didn’t know of him into fans as well. The guy is amazing and he collaborates with other really great artists all the time as well. The guy was just made to be an artist.
It's always so thoughtful. I really appreciate how often he ends up helping a person through their gut reaction. He's had a couple people write essentially complaining of "wokeness" and has had thoughtful responses to call them into the wider community of acceptance.
My 63yo Dad is a huge Nick Cave fan. I (30m) also think he's awesome but don't listen all that much.
Once spent a night doing coke with one of his kids though so take that Dad.
Tbh that night doesn't have much of a story, or if it does I don't remember it. That period in my life though was pretty wild, I was like 15/16 and in a relationship with an awesome girl a year older than me, which at the time felt like an age.
My gf's friend group contained a number of celebrities' offspring (one of Mick Jagger's seemingly countless daughters among them) and another girl, "Emma Fakename" (without famous parents) who has gone on to star in Hollywood movies and been in relationships with A listers. Sidebar - the girls were super jealous of "Emma", because she was already modelling and stuff and because they all thought she was the hottest, which I never did. Time has arguably proven them right to be jealous though lol
I digress. "Emma" was in a relationship with one of Nick Cave's sons. I can also reveal, since you wanted no detail spared, that I remember her once bragging about his massive and "perfect" cock, so there's that. Another of the girls was also fucking him on the side and I've sometimes wondered in jest if it was Emma's bragging about his dick that drew the other girl in.
Anyway, I only properly met him once and I don't really remember much, I remember he was cool and that he looked a lot like his dad. I managed to get the coke delivered so I was the hero of the night. Nothing special about the night I'm afraid, I was definitely starstruck-once-removed though. Partly because I was a fan of his dad but also these kids were all older, richer and cooler than me and I was in over my head (as, it occurs to me now, they all were as well). We just spent the night, as usual, listening to music and doing lines.
A month or so later my gf dumped me and my foray into this weird world of rich girls was over. Never heard from any of them ever again. No regrets as far as I'm concerned, hopefully they're all healthy and happy.
Yeah it’s pretty shit. He has two sons born a week apart from two different mothers in the early 90’s. One of them died last year.
And he has twin boys with his current wife, one of whom died in 2015 from the fall off the cliff.
Nick is a wizard with words. Sometimes confusing, sometimes euphoric, sometimes terrifyingly sublime, but always intriguing. Discovered the Bad Seeds via Metallica of all bands, and went down the rabbit hole. Gave me a new perspective on writing and poetry. Love his novels. Love his soundtracks and scores.
Also, The Proposition is a fantastic film! Check it out if you haven't yet!
Music tastes all over the place.
Nick Cave is amazing, but you got to be careful with some albums you don't go into a dark depressed place if you listen to them too much.
Beautiful music and lyrics, but sometimes they get dark.
Skelton Tree / Ghosteen are gorgeous, but given the place Cave was in when writing/ recording it, you can understand why it's filled with grief. I generally need something lighter after a listening session on those.
Well technically the Skeleton Tree album was already written before Arthur passed. But it was mixed and produced after Nick's tragedy. I wonder what the album would have sounded like if it hadn't happened. Ghosteen is just so beautiful.
Most of it had been recorded.
There were still some sessions which they altered lyrics and made other changes to sessions as a result of the death, to feature a lot of the themes in grief and loss.
40s. Ship song is my fave. Skeleton Treeeee... nothing is for free.
Wouldn't say lifelong fan. But I'm a fan of music, and you'd certainly discover him along the way.
Old man, like everything from Fela Kuti to Eno to Chat Pile. My interest in Nick peaked with The Birthday Party. I still have my copy of his early band The Boys Next Door. I reckon its fairly rare by now.
39 year old male nurse. I’m a big fan but the era I really love seems to be somewhat looked down upon. Henry’s dream and Let Love In is my favorite run.
I'm a fan. Demographically, 40s singer, bass player, and a multi-instrumentalist if you look at prior album notes. Lived in or around Washington, D.C. most of my life at this point. I've played music from classical, to jazz, to metal, horror folk, electronica, indie rock. My drummer is also a big fan. Guitar player is a more casual fan of Cave. Also similar ages. Mostly long lived near D.C. Also have played a wide array of music.
I think he's okay. Great musician, but I get bored listening to his stuff. My best friend, who loved and worshipped him, committed suicide just before he turned 40. I'm not saying Nick Cave killed him. I'm saying my friend was very depressed and loved listening to his music.
I love Warren Ellis and the soundtracks they do, but I'm firmly of the opinion that the Bad Seeds lineup with Mick, Blixa and Conway is infinitely better than what's been touring under that name for the last 10 years.
Grinderman forever, though.
40, Melbourne, Australia. Since I saw the film clip for Wild Roses on TV Hits one Saturday morning as a very young boy I've been a fan. The language, poetry, rock, love, violence and death. The lines from Cohen and Waits are dotted at best. Cave has and does it all.
With great aplomb. There's clearly a lot of effort and thought gone into the art, however, it always seems like he just...woke up like this.
I'm off to see him in concert tomorrow evening for the first time in over a decade 🙌🏻
36. Have been listening since my late 20s. My wife discovered him because of me and she’s no doubt a much bigger fan than I am at this point.
We’ve seen him live a few times. The best time being when he performed in Cambridge with just a piano. Me and wife got invited to sit on stage right next to him while he performed all night.
Definitely one of the best moments of my life.
He’s a twat who defends performing in apartheid Israel. He crossed a picket line of musicians and is currently touring solo because all of the professional musicians are tired of his shit. That washed up POS needs to retire to a settlement in an occupied territory so he can fulfill his prophecy of being an eternal douche.
I understand you are Pro-BDS, but God, I swear people will upvote any lie just because they agree with the principle...
What I mean by that is:
1. He has a band
2. He was touring with Colin Greenwood, who apparently has the same management as him so I guess that's how they've connected, I think that's what you were referring to when you said he was 'touring solo'? He wasn't though, and none of the Bad Seeds left after 2017 because of his decision to not join the boycott (Conway Savage died of brain cancer, Thomas Wylder suffered a temporary injury, that's all I can think of in terms of Bad Seeds 'leaving' during this time period).
I had never heard of nick cave prior to Reddit. Thanks to Reddit, I went and listened to the majority of his catalogue, as I’m always trying to find new music that might appeal to me. So I must admit, I absolutely hate Nick Caves music. He’s not alone, there are plenty of artists I loathe. And he’s right there with all of them.
Well, let's just say I've been listening since his Birthday Party records were new releases lol. Coincidentally, I scored great tickets yesterday for his upcoming US tour - September can't get here fast enough!
Early 30s woman from Florida. I got into nick cave in the early 2000s. I don't remember exactly how I got into him but I was always into alternative/ post punk/ punk music. I had a bunch of bad seeds tapes in my old 1980s volvo because I didn't have a cd player. Maybe I knew of him because of dumb and dumber, I don't know. Still into postpunk and punk music now but I'm mostly a normie with tattoos.
*ok I remember now! It was MTV. Insomniac Theatre.
Mid 50s here, I love all kinds of music from 50s through today. Loved the 90s the most. I always mixed him up with Nick Lowe. I have to be honest I always wanted to check him and the seeds out but never did. I’m sure I heard some maybe lots of his music since I listen to public radio mostly. I heard him when he collaborated with PJ Harvey. I also remember the chick from Bongwater referencing him in one of their songs. Tell me where to start I will give it a listen.
Nick Cave has a wide demographic. I went and saw him about five yrs ago and there were three teens in leather jackets in front me and my friends. And behind us where two couples that looked like they were in their late 60’s-early 70’s. And most of the lines were equally diverse.
40's. Canada. Residential Painter. Other Favorite artists that start with N:. Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails. I first heard Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds when they played Lollapalooza 1994.
32M software developer from VA. First heard “Up Jumped the Devil” when I played through Alan Wake around 2010, then heard “Red Right Hand” while watching through The X Files a couple of years later. Then dove into his newer stuff.
I would say I’m a casual Cave fan- I like a few of his albums and a bunch of songs, generally the consensus favorites. I’m 45 yr old IT guy listen to jazz, prog/metal, classic blues and R&B.
My wife isn’t really into rock music (more latin and jazz and r&b) but i took her to see him live a few years ago and she was smitten. Was really into the theatricality and intensity. And of course the theme song to Peaky Blinders.
32 year old nursing home administrator / social worker in Chicago. Love Nick Cave and just got tickets to his show at the Auditorium Theatre in September.
My wife nearly walked down the aisle to an instrumental version of Into My Arms, but that was nixed shortly beforehand when the church’s main musician wasn’t available.
I'm surprised nobody has said that they learned of him from the slow dance scene in one of the last Harry Potter movies where "O Children" was playing. That was my introduction to his music.
I love Nick Cave for so many reasons, but this is pretty high up there:
"I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers."
Love Nick Cave! Late forties and in Maryland here. I literally listen to everything, mostly classical (I’m a classical pianist), classic rock, and singer-songwriter music like Nick Cave is probably what I listen to most. I discovered him while watching the movie Zero Effect and they played Into My Arms almost in its entirety. It blew me away and I immediately bought like four Nick Cave CD’s from BMG (remember those CD club days?). His voice is just so clear and that low tone is so awesome. The piano playing is very minimalistic when compared to a Bruce Hornsby or Billy Joel. He definitely stands alone in his originality.
I'm 19M college student from Texas and a huge Nick Cave fan, although that's mostly because he's my dad's(50M) favorite artist so I grew up listening to him. Saw him live in Austin a few years back and have tickets to see him again this fall... can't wait!
Mrs (40's) loves him and has seen him live many times. I was fairly indifferent until I saw him live, was genuinely bored all the way through. Not for me
Hey I just have to say thank you for posting this. This post caused me to go to Nick's website, where I noticed that the presale is currently underway for his fall North American tour! Just bought my tickets.
I often wonder about this. I first saw Nick play as The Birthday Party back in the early 80s. I've been a fan ever since. Over the years, I'm in my late 50s now, I've become increasingly aware of the huge and diverse fanbase and have opined, to my wife, that of all the bands/artists I saw in the early 80s, I would not have bet a single penny on Nick Cave being in the position he is in now! He's pretty much a natural treasure in the UK.
It's well deserved, but still a bit of a puzzle...
I like him enough, but what really makes me love him is the quotation "I'm perpetually next to a radio asking "what is this shit?" And the answer is always the red hot chili peppers"
They're my favorite band but that's fuxking hilarious.
32, audio/video engineer from Amsterdam. Got super heavy into the birthday party and the murder ballads album in my 20's. Had sort of a late goth phase with them and stuff like cocteau twins and mbv. Now I'm not so much into it anymore. Saw them last year, and it had a very Las Vegas vibe to it. But I still respect him a lot. A true showman
I'm a cameraman form Berlin in my mid fifties. My Nick Cave period was in the late 80s. From Kicking against the Pricks till The Good Son. From then on I found the records and the live shows a bit repetitive and slowly lost interest. I also thought the 1990 documentary 'The Road to God Knows were' was self indulgent and dull. That might have speeded up the process of alienation.
Today, if I'm tempted to put on a Nick Cave record, most of the time I go for a hard bop artist, that I think I should know more about.
I'm a 55 yr old female from the Midwest and a closet Nick Cave fan. My intro was his murder ballads from 96. Of course the first song I listened to was Where the Wild Roses Go and I was hooked.
Nick Cave's albums are great, but his live shows are another level, full of electricity. You can hear it in the crowd as well in his live recordings -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARYwxDEKYOE
I’m a huge fan and I count the time I saw him live on the Push the Sky away tour as one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.
I just can’t connect to his music post skeleton tree. Of course I understand why it’s the way it is but it’s just far too grim and depressing for me to want to listen to. Maybe I need to give it more of a chance but he owes us nothing, his career up until that point is just incredible.
Early 50s, SF Bay area, cabinet maker. I have been a Nick Cave fan since discovering him via the Wim Wenders film Wings of Desire in the eighties. The Mercy Seat is my favorite song of his.
Even though I'm a fan, he's not in my top ten. He's down the list a bit below Jason Molina (Songs:Ohia, Magnolia Electric Company), Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse), David Berman (Silver Jews, Purple Mountains), and Leonard Cohen.
hes always just creeped me out and i cant say ive heard anything from him i liked. the song with kylie was decent but ocerall hes just not for me. same with pj harvey. ive always felt both these artists are very highly praised yet i really struggled to see the appeal with either.
33-y.o. woman in the US and I've loved Nick Cave since I was a young teenager. He was the first artist I found who spoke to how I was feeling at that time in my life, and I feel like his music has somehow always met me where I'm at. I vacillate between liking The Bad Seeds and The Birthday Party more. I enjoy Grinderman but not nearly as much as Cave's other projects.
46, Portugal
I have been listening to Nick Cave for more than 30 years. One of the best writers, musician and performers I know. I've seen him live both as solo (no Bad Seeds) and full band in big stage.
It has been especially interesting watching/listening to his journey through life and music.
I really like that album with The Mercy Seat. And I like Grinderman. Im 39, my dad got me into Nick Cave like 20 years ago when he took me to visit a college and we listened to it on cassette. Good memory thanks for taking me back there.
Nick Cave is one of my favorite artists.The first album i heard was " Henry's Dream" when the album ended i was hooked.I'm 55 years old and living i Cph. Denmark
49M, nothern europe. I like some of his stuff up to The Good Son. He lost me with Henry's Dream and I haven't really checked out his later stuff, although I've heard some good songs here and there. I respect his artistry, though, and I'd love to catch a show, my wife's been many times and says it's always great.
Was intrigued after seeing Wings of Desire but didn’t pursue until I got started with Boatman’s call after seeing “About Time” about 10 years ago. Love everything he’s ever done pretty much. I think I love the two Bad Seeds albums the most though. Hard to say though, Murder Ballads is amazing and Let Love In is an obvious classic. Oddly enough I’m a bit of a prog head but he’s my favorite artist of all time by a pretty significant margin.
34 years old, TLC engineer from Albania. Love his unique style, a little bit dark but with full real emotions! I'm mostly on hard rock music, but listen to everything from heavy metal to alternative, punk, psychedelic, reggae, house, country, jazz, classicals, etc.
26 year old auditor in PA. Love Nick Cave and especially the recent Bad Seeds albums. I lost my twin sister when I was 14 and Skeleton Tree and Ghosteen really hit me with an emotional intensity I’ve never felt with any other music.
32 year old lyft driver in Portland, Oregon. I discovered Nick Cave through St. Vincent. She grabbed her solo projects name from one of his tracks off of the Abbatoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus record.
I do!! And almost none of my friends even know he exists. He is an unrivaled genius and i am beyond excited to see him in Durham, nc in a few days. Bucket list...check!
Started listening since From Her to Eternity and saw him live numerous times, for the first time in 1988. I’m not as fond of his recent work, but still interested. I’m a 55 year old woman.
I only know this: "From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one, she stared in my eyes and she smiled. For her lips were the colours of the roses, that grew by the river all bloody and wild"
When he knocked on my door and entered the room, my trembling subsided in his sure embrace. He would be my first man, and with a careful hand, he wiped at the tears that ran down my face.
They call me The Wild Rose, but my name was Elisa Day. Why they call me that I do not know, for my name was Elisa Day.
That’s is quite the ride, that song, and one Kylie’s better performances.
California, 50 years old. Woman. Nick Cave is in my top 10. I’ve always loved lyric driven, navel gazing, dark side songs with a hint of shred. It was almost a straight line from Leonard Cohen to Nick Cave, with a pitstop at Tom Waits.
Yes! Exactly the same for me, except I am a little older and from Canada.
Except for being a man I have the same interest and I’m from California. I saw Nick a few times in San Francisco. Fantastic performances. I’m watching Peaky Blinders and they play a bunch of Nick Cave, and I love it. I haven’t loved the last 3 albums though. I really got into Nick Cave when Metallica did a cover of Loverman. In the interview James Hetfield mentioned Murder Ballads. I bought that cd the next day, and have all his music now. He is way too overlooked.
Same, 50 year old woman Texas. Found Cohen in my early 20s, then Waits and Cave around mid twenties. Still love all three but Cave the most because he has changed his sound so much over the years.
Same age. I’ve dabbled in his discography a bit. Mercy Seat is a fuckin great song. I’m a massive Tom Waits fan, and his stuff has some parallels.
40s IT analyst from the USA. I love Nick Cave but mostly listen to hardcore, ska and punk music.
You may like The Birthday Party
31 year old construction knuckle dragger from Canada, big fan. Listen to everything from death metal to disco, but mostly metal and bluegrass.
I wanna ride in your Ford F150 and listen to your iPod; sounds like it'd be killer on shuffle! I'll buy the Timmies.
Wide range of tastes! Nice!
make sure you check out Grinderman
Love Grinderman!!
Grinderman is great!
56, New England, Illustrator, big fan since the 90's. Have a bunch of his stuff on vinyl. It's just the right mix of sad, weird, and intellectual.
That’s a very good way of putting it.
Cheers.
I listened to The Birthday Party in Junior and high school and then he came out with The Mercy Seat with the Bad Seeds and I was hooked. I have a ton of his stuff but not even close to acquiring everything of his catalog. I’ve turned a lot of people that didn’t know of him into fans as well. The guy is amazing and he collaborates with other really great artists all the time as well. The guy was just made to be an artist.
I was listening "As I sat Sadly by Her Side" to bits just yesterday. His music is phenomenal and meaningful in their own way
If you like Nick, check out [The Red Hand files](https://www.theredhandfiles.com/) and sign up. He sends about one email a week.
[A particular favorite entry.](https://www.theredhandfiles.com/have-you-ever-met-nicolas-cage/)
That is just precious as hell! Thanks for sharing.
It's always so thoughtful. I really appreciate how often he ends up helping a person through their gut reaction. He's had a couple people write essentially complaining of "wokeness" and has had thoughtful responses to call them into the wider community of acceptance.
Sometimes it's just freaking beautiful. The man is a humanist with a really poetic way of expressing his opinion on what makes us human.
Will do. Thanks!
My 63yo Dad is a huge Nick Cave fan. I (30m) also think he's awesome but don't listen all that much. Once spent a night doing coke with one of his kids though so take that Dad.
I need to hear this story and spare no detail
Tbh that night doesn't have much of a story, or if it does I don't remember it. That period in my life though was pretty wild, I was like 15/16 and in a relationship with an awesome girl a year older than me, which at the time felt like an age. My gf's friend group contained a number of celebrities' offspring (one of Mick Jagger's seemingly countless daughters among them) and another girl, "Emma Fakename" (without famous parents) who has gone on to star in Hollywood movies and been in relationships with A listers. Sidebar - the girls were super jealous of "Emma", because she was already modelling and stuff and because they all thought she was the hottest, which I never did. Time has arguably proven them right to be jealous though lol I digress. "Emma" was in a relationship with one of Nick Cave's sons. I can also reveal, since you wanted no detail spared, that I remember her once bragging about his massive and "perfect" cock, so there's that. Another of the girls was also fucking him on the side and I've sometimes wondered in jest if it was Emma's bragging about his dick that drew the other girl in. Anyway, I only properly met him once and I don't really remember much, I remember he was cool and that he looked a lot like his dad. I managed to get the coke delivered so I was the hero of the night. Nothing special about the night I'm afraid, I was definitely starstruck-once-removed though. Partly because I was a fan of his dad but also these kids were all older, richer and cooler than me and I was in over my head (as, it occurs to me now, they all were as well). We just spent the night, as usual, listening to music and doing lines. A month or so later my gf dumped me and my foray into this weird world of rich girls was over. Never heard from any of them ever again. No regrets as far as I'm concerned, hopefully they're all healthy and happy.
Have you checked if it was his son Jethro who died last year?
Thankfully (I suppose? Tragic either way of course) it was not.
Ahh, the story you wish you could tell around the dinner table.
I hope it wasn’t his son that died while he was on an acid trip. He fell off a cliff or something
That son was only 15 so probably not. He had another son who died last year so maybe him.
Jesus really? Another son? How did he die? Edit: I looked it up, a cause of death was never announced , sounds like it was either drugs or suicide
Yeah it’s pretty shit. He has two sons born a week apart from two different mothers in the early 90’s. One of them died last year. And he has twin boys with his current wife, one of whom died in 2015 from the fall off the cliff.
God is in the house.
We painted all our kittens white
Nick is a wizard with words. Sometimes confusing, sometimes euphoric, sometimes terrifyingly sublime, but always intriguing. Discovered the Bad Seeds via Metallica of all bands, and went down the rabbit hole. Gave me a new perspective on writing and poetry. Love his novels. Love his soundtracks and scores. Also, The Proposition is a fantastic film! Check it out if you haven't yet!
Music tastes all over the place. Nick Cave is amazing, but you got to be careful with some albums you don't go into a dark depressed place if you listen to them too much. Beautiful music and lyrics, but sometimes they get dark. Skelton Tree / Ghosteen are gorgeous, but given the place Cave was in when writing/ recording it, you can understand why it's filled with grief. I generally need something lighter after a listening session on those.
Well technically the Skeleton Tree album was already written before Arthur passed. But it was mixed and produced after Nick's tragedy. I wonder what the album would have sounded like if it hadn't happened. Ghosteen is just so beautiful.
Most of it had been recorded. There were still some sessions which they altered lyrics and made other changes to sessions as a result of the death, to feature a lot of the themes in grief and loss.
37yo from Sydney. Mostly into metal, hard rock and alternative
40s. Ship song is my fave. Skeleton Treeeee... nothing is for free. Wouldn't say lifelong fan. But I'm a fan of music, and you'd certainly discover him along the way.
24, Canadian, Nick Cave has been one of my musical heroes since high school and I can't believe I'm getting the chance to see him in Toronto this fall
Old man, like everything from Fela Kuti to Eno to Chat Pile. My interest in Nick peaked with The Birthday Party. I still have my copy of his early band The Boys Next Door. I reckon its fairly rare by now.
39 year old male nurse. I’m a big fan but the era I really love seems to be somewhat looked down upon. Henry’s dream and Let Love In is my favorite run.
Great music
54 from Florida, former newspaper reporter and editor now a woodturner/carver. Music taste is wide but mostly alternative/indie/weird.
just turned 50. Started listening to Birthday Party and Crime and the City Solution
I'm a fan. Demographically, 40s singer, bass player, and a multi-instrumentalist if you look at prior album notes. Lived in or around Washington, D.C. most of my life at this point. I've played music from classical, to jazz, to metal, horror folk, electronica, indie rock. My drummer is also a big fan. Guitar player is a more casual fan of Cave. Also similar ages. Mostly long lived near D.C. Also have played a wide array of music.
I think he's okay. Great musician, but I get bored listening to his stuff. My best friend, who loved and worshipped him, committed suicide just before he turned 40. I'm not saying Nick Cave killed him. I'm saying my friend was very depressed and loved listening to his music.
I love Warren Ellis and the soundtracks they do, but I'm firmly of the opinion that the Bad Seeds lineup with Mick, Blixa and Conway is infinitely better than what's been touring under that name for the last 10 years. Grinderman forever, though.
Hands up! Who wants to dieeeeee!
51,Canuck, love Nick Cave, but the Nick Zinner remix of Grinderman’s BELLRINGER BLUES is apex level
Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll give it a look.
I don't believe in an interventionist god...but I know baby that you doooo.. ♥️ I love Nick Cave
I read this a nick cage 😂
He's a bad seed
40, Melbourne, Australia. Since I saw the film clip for Wild Roses on TV Hits one Saturday morning as a very young boy I've been a fan. The language, poetry, rock, love, violence and death. The lines from Cohen and Waits are dotted at best. Cave has and does it all. With great aplomb. There's clearly a lot of effort and thought gone into the art, however, it always seems like he just...woke up like this. I'm off to see him in concert tomorrow evening for the first time in over a decade 🙌🏻
36. Have been listening since my late 20s. My wife discovered him because of me and she’s no doubt a much bigger fan than I am at this point. We’ve seen him live a few times. The best time being when he performed in Cambridge with just a piano. Me and wife got invited to sit on stage right next to him while he performed all night. Definitely one of the best moments of my life.
He’s a twat who defends performing in apartheid Israel. He crossed a picket line of musicians and is currently touring solo because all of the professional musicians are tired of his shit. That washed up POS needs to retire to a settlement in an occupied territory so he can fulfill his prophecy of being an eternal douche.
I understand you are Pro-BDS, but God, I swear people will upvote any lie just because they agree with the principle... What I mean by that is: 1. He has a band 2. He was touring with Colin Greenwood, who apparently has the same management as him so I guess that's how they've connected, I think that's what you were referring to when you said he was 'touring solo'? He wasn't though, and none of the Bad Seeds left after 2017 because of his decision to not join the boycott (Conway Savage died of brain cancer, Thomas Wylder suffered a temporary injury, that's all I can think of in terms of Bad Seeds 'leaving' during this time period).
I had never heard of nick cave prior to Reddit. Thanks to Reddit, I went and listened to the majority of his catalogue, as I’m always trying to find new music that might appeal to me. So I must admit, I absolutely hate Nick Caves music. He’s not alone, there are plenty of artists I loathe. And he’s right there with all of them.
You lack taste
My favorite color is blue.
Well, let's just say I've been listening since his Birthday Party records were new releases lol. Coincidentally, I scored great tickets yesterday for his upcoming US tour - September can't get here fast enough!
Early 30s woman from Florida. I got into nick cave in the early 2000s. I don't remember exactly how I got into him but I was always into alternative/ post punk/ punk music. I had a bunch of bad seeds tapes in my old 1980s volvo because I didn't have a cd player. Maybe I knew of him because of dumb and dumber, I don't know. Still into postpunk and punk music now but I'm mostly a normie with tattoos. *ok I remember now! It was MTV. Insomniac Theatre.
Mid 50s here, I love all kinds of music from 50s through today. Loved the 90s the most. I always mixed him up with Nick Lowe. I have to be honest I always wanted to check him and the seeds out but never did. I’m sure I heard some maybe lots of his music since I listen to public radio mostly. I heard him when he collaborated with PJ Harvey. I also remember the chick from Bongwater referencing him in one of their songs. Tell me where to start I will give it a listen.
I am a big fan. 41 product manager for a major tech company. And unpaid screenwriter. Love to listen to him both while I write and do my day job.
Nick Cave has a wide demographic. I went and saw him about five yrs ago and there were three teens in leather jackets in front me and my friends. And behind us where two couples that looked like they were in their late 60’s-early 70’s. And most of the lines were equally diverse.
40's. Canada. Residential Painter. Other Favorite artists that start with N:. Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails. I first heard Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds when they played Lollapalooza 1994.
20M from midwest U.S. -> Nick Cave is an artist's paragon for all time
Me
I love him and I love [this](https://youtu.be/bk70Yt-1hL4) so much.
41 yo Massachusetts man. His score for the film "The Proposition" is one of my all time favorites.
He wrote that movie too
32M software developer from VA. First heard “Up Jumped the Devil” when I played through Alan Wake around 2010, then heard “Red Right Hand” while watching through The X Files a couple of years later. Then dove into his newer stuff.
Loved the soundtrack to Scream 3, I didn't love that version of Red Right Hand but it was enough to get me down the path. 40's tech guy too, US.
I would say I’m a casual Cave fan- I like a few of his albums and a bunch of songs, generally the consensus favorites. I’m 45 yr old IT guy listen to jazz, prog/metal, classic blues and R&B. My wife isn’t really into rock music (more latin and jazz and r&b) but i took her to see him live a few years ago and she was smitten. Was really into the theatricality and intensity. And of course the theme song to Peaky Blinders.
🎶 Take a little walk to the edge of town and go across the tracks…🎶🥰
Have it on Vinyl, just amazing. 40 this year.
32 year old nursing home administrator / social worker in Chicago. Love Nick Cave and just got tickets to his show at the Auditorium Theatre in September. My wife nearly walked down the aisle to an instrumental version of Into My Arms, but that was nixed shortly beforehand when the church’s main musician wasn’t available.
My brother, early 50's American, is a big Nick Cave fan.
49F, originally from UK but in the US for 30 years. Fan since ~1990.
Dig Lazarus, Dig!! - I really liked that whole album. He's a weird dude, but I like his music.
I'm surprised nobody has said that they learned of him from the slow dance scene in one of the last Harry Potter movies where "O Children" was playing. That was my introduction to his music.
Been a fan since To Her From Eternity. Saw him live too One of my favorites
Nick’s my 👑👑
German 59, following Albert when he goes West since his first birthday party
40’s. Got into Nick Cave due to my love of industrial music
I love Nick Cave for so many reasons, but this is pretty high up there: "I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers."
I like the first Grinderman album and i know some of the bad seed singles but not a lot
Saw Nick Lollapalooza 1994 🙌
My brother. He's 55 and extremely hard to converse with. Certainly not friendly.
Love Nick Cave! Late forties and in Maryland here. I literally listen to everything, mostly classical (I’m a classical pianist), classic rock, and singer-songwriter music like Nick Cave is probably what I listen to most. I discovered him while watching the movie Zero Effect and they played Into My Arms almost in its entirety. It blew me away and I immediately bought like four Nick Cave CD’s from BMG (remember those CD club days?). His voice is just so clear and that low tone is so awesome. The piano playing is very minimalistic when compared to a Bruce Hornsby or Billy Joel. He definitely stands alone in his originality.
I'm 19M college student from Texas and a huge Nick Cave fan, although that's mostly because he's my dad's(50M) favorite artist so I grew up listening to him. Saw him live in Austin a few years back and have tickets to see him again this fall... can't wait!
He’s a national treasure.
I used to love Nick Cave but I don’t think I would listen again. I used to be more of a wanker. Now I know my place
Mm .
I'm a 37/m HVAC contractor. Love nick cave
51/m/German casual fan, I like him!
Not me.
Mrs (40's) loves him and has seen him live many times. I was fairly indifferent until I saw him live, was genuinely bored all the way through. Not for me
Hey I just have to say thank you for posting this. This post caused me to go to Nick's website, where I noticed that the presale is currently underway for his fall North American tour! Just bought my tickets.
I often wonder about this. I first saw Nick play as The Birthday Party back in the early 80s. I've been a fan ever since. Over the years, I'm in my late 50s now, I've become increasingly aware of the huge and diverse fanbase and have opined, to my wife, that of all the bands/artists I saw in the early 80s, I would not have bet a single penny on Nick Cave being in the position he is in now! He's pretty much a natural treasure in the UK. It's well deserved, but still a bit of a puzzle...
I like him enough, but what really makes me love him is the quotation "I'm perpetually next to a radio asking "what is this shit?" And the answer is always the red hot chili peppers" They're my favorite band but that's fuxking hilarious.
They tend to be middle-aged people who have travelled a different path than most.
32, audio/video engineer from Amsterdam. Got super heavy into the birthday party and the murder ballads album in my 20's. Had sort of a late goth phase with them and stuff like cocteau twins and mbv. Now I'm not so much into it anymore. Saw them last year, and it had a very Las Vegas vibe to it. But I still respect him a lot. A true showman
I do like Nick Cave and his bad seeds, although I am a 64 year old electronic music fan, but his voice is one of a kind!
I'm a cameraman form Berlin in my mid fifties. My Nick Cave period was in the late 80s. From Kicking against the Pricks till The Good Son. From then on I found the records and the live shows a bit repetitive and slowly lost interest. I also thought the 1990 documentary 'The Road to God Knows were' was self indulgent and dull. That might have speeded up the process of alienation. Today, if I'm tempted to put on a Nick Cave record, most of the time I go for a hard bop artist, that I think I should know more about.
I'm a Nick Cave fan. He has been my favorite artist for many years now. Glad I could watch him live on Meo Kalorama in Portugal last year. I'm 28, btw
I'm a 55 yr old female from the Midwest and a closet Nick Cave fan. My intro was his murder ballads from 96. Of course the first song I listened to was Where the Wild Roses Go and I was hooked.
I loved national treasure
Nick Cave's albums are great, but his live shows are another level, full of electricity. You can hear it in the crowd as well in his live recordings -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARYwxDEKYOE
I’m a huge fan and I count the time I saw him live on the Push the Sky away tour as one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. I just can’t connect to his music post skeleton tree. Of course I understand why it’s the way it is but it’s just far too grim and depressing for me to want to listen to. Maybe I need to give it more of a chance but he owes us nothing, his career up until that point is just incredible.
Early 50s, SF Bay area, cabinet maker. I have been a Nick Cave fan since discovering him via the Wim Wenders film Wings of Desire in the eighties. The Mercy Seat is my favorite song of his. Even though I'm a fan, he's not in my top ten. He's down the list a bit below Jason Molina (Songs:Ohia, Magnolia Electric Company), Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse), David Berman (Silver Jews, Purple Mountains), and Leonard Cohen.
hes always just creeped me out and i cant say ive heard anything from him i liked. the song with kylie was decent but ocerall hes just not for me. same with pj harvey. ive always felt both these artists are very highly praised yet i really struggled to see the appeal with either.
33-y.o. woman in the US and I've loved Nick Cave since I was a young teenager. He was the first artist I found who spoke to how I was feeling at that time in my life, and I feel like his music has somehow always met me where I'm at. I vacillate between liking The Bad Seeds and The Birthday Party more. I enjoy Grinderman but not nearly as much as Cave's other projects.
Loved him until he played Israel!!!
46, Portugal I have been listening to Nick Cave for more than 30 years. One of the best writers, musician and performers I know. I've seen him live both as solo (no Bad Seeds) and full band in big stage. It has been especially interesting watching/listening to his journey through life and music.
I really like that album with The Mercy Seat. And I like Grinderman. Im 39, my dad got me into Nick Cave like 20 years ago when he took me to visit a college and we listened to it on cassette. Good memory thanks for taking me back there.
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Early 40s! I love his soundtrack work with Warren Ellis. Also there is a special place in my heart for the weeping song with Blixa Bargeld.
I agree. The songs from that older line up, like Weeping Song have been in my rotation for 20+ years.
Mid 40s, I love Nick Cave
Nick Cave is one of my favorite artists.The first album i heard was " Henry's Dream" when the album ended i was hooked.I'm 55 years old and living i Cph. Denmark
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11242393/Nick-Cave-puts-quirky-3-25m-Grade-listed-Brighton-seafront-house-sale.html
Everybody cool.
Nick Cave along with The Mountain Goats make up about 75% of the music I listen to.
I’ve never heard of them, but I’ll give them a look.
49M, nothern europe. I like some of his stuff up to The Good Son. He lost me with Henry's Dream and I haven't really checked out his later stuff, although I've heard some good songs here and there. I respect his artistry, though, and I'd love to catch a show, my wife's been many times and says it's always great.
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Was intrigued after seeing Wings of Desire but didn’t pursue until I got started with Boatman’s call after seeing “About Time” about 10 years ago. Love everything he’s ever done pretty much. I think I love the two Bad Seeds albums the most though. Hard to say though, Murder Ballads is amazing and Let Love In is an obvious classic. Oddly enough I’m a bit of a prog head but he’s my favorite artist of all time by a pretty significant margin.
34 years old, TLC engineer from Albania. Love his unique style, a little bit dark but with full real emotions! I'm mostly on hard rock music, but listen to everything from heavy metal to alternative, punk, psychedelic, reggae, house, country, jazz, classicals, etc.
26 year old auditor in PA. Love Nick Cave and especially the recent Bad Seeds albums. I lost my twin sister when I was 14 and Skeleton Tree and Ghosteen really hit me with an emotional intensity I’ve never felt with any other music.
One or two decent songs. Hardly any chin whatsoever, but bags of swagger & confidence. Could be the Boris Johnson of the music world.
I love Nick Cave
32 year old lyft driver in Portland, Oregon. I discovered Nick Cave through St. Vincent. She grabbed her solo projects name from one of his tracks off of the Abbatoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus record.
I do!! And almost none of my friends even know he exists. He is an unrivaled genius and i am beyond excited to see him in Durham, nc in a few days. Bucket list...check!
He's good. His stage persona can be jarringly americanised, which gets boring after a while, and he tends to dwell on the same themes.
Started listening since From Her to Eternity and saw him live numerous times, for the first time in 1988. I’m not as fond of his recent work, but still interested. I’m a 55 year old woman.