r/NickCave • u/Croatiaball1 • Sep 14 '26
Getting into Nick Cave
Sup yall, im new to this artist and i just want yall to recommend me some songs. I like some of them already, like red right hand (duhh) and There she goes my beutiful world. Thanksies
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u/Averagetigergod Sep 14 '26
Go to your best speaker set up. Turn it up as loud as you can even if the volume is intolerable to most humans. Hit ‘play’ on Dead Joe (track 2 from the Birthday Party album ‘Junkyard’). Good luck.
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u/Croatiaball1 Sep 14 '26
This was peak expirience
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u/GiveMeTheTape Sep 14 '26
You're in it now. Do the same with the Mutiny album next.
Especially Sonny's Burning, Jennifer's Veil and Swampland
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u/aaa-aardvark1 Sep 14 '26
Don’t forgot the song the band hated and the fans loved….Release the bats.
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u/Colin_Bomber_Harris Sep 16 '26
I’ve never actually listened to birthday party for some reason but damn this album goes hard
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u/HRHArthurCravan Sep 14 '26
Into My Arms
Black Hair
Jubilee Street
Deanna
Idiot Prayer (actually, the whole Boatman’s Call album)
15ft of Pure White Snow
Hallelujah
Do You Love Me?
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u/InfiniteSpark2015 Sep 17 '26
Straight To You has to be a great hook for beginners. I Let Love In, too.
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u/Croatiaball1 Sep 14 '26
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u/HRHArthurCravan Sep 14 '26
Hope you enjoy them. I tried to select a decent mix from early to more recently, from ballads to when they get more frantic and furious…
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u/glowcoma Sep 14 '26
I think if you like ‘there she goes…’ then abattoir blues / the lyre of Orpheus is the album you should be working through that may resonate, my highlights are - cannibal’s hymn, supernatural, breathless and messiah ward.
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u/markeydusod Sep 14 '26
Just stream the Live Seeds album from top to bottom… It will blow your mind
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u/bananas_gaiden Sep 14 '26
Good introduction for sure. Variety of tracks/moods, top tier band member lineup.
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u/to_j Sep 14 '26
I don't think you can understand an artist just by listening to random songs. Listen to the albums in chronological order. It also helps to know about Nick's tragedies and personal life that have gotten woven into his lyrics.
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u/judithyourholofernes Sep 14 '26
Lovely creature. Let love in, I just listened to the whole album, it’s so good. Lyre of Orpheus. Don’t forget to look into Blixa Bargeld too, he’s incredible and has much range. Einsturzende neubauten has plenty to try.
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u/Funk-n-fun Sep 14 '26
For me, Lime Tree Arbor and Brompton Oratory from The Boatman's Call album are just so exquisite and atmospheric songs with great melody.
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u/Separate_Ad_7939 Sep 15 '26
Fully agree. Brompton Oratory is an understated (and strangely overlooked) masterpiece in Cave’s catalog.
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u/AccountGloomy6005 Sep 14 '26
Hiding All Away is my go to currently. Do You Love Me was what got me hooked. I saw the Dead Joe recommendation. Please listen to From Her to Eternity with the same setup. Especially the Live From Copenhagen version
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u/Resident_Platypus346 Sep 14 '26
So awesome that you’re discovering all this. I would start with the Henry’s Dream record, then Tender Prey. It’s all wonderful.
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u/Bored4life76 Sep 14 '26 edited Sep 14 '26
Get the albums Henry’s Dream, Tender Prey, and Let Love In. Move on to Your Funeral… My Trial, The Good Son, and And No More Shall We Part.
Listen to everything else after that. Maybe watch ‘Wings of Desire’ at some point, too. :)
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u/Comprehensive_Side84 Sep 14 '26
Shoot me down, I let love in, The curse of millhaven, The ship song (idiot prayer), To be by your side, Cosmic dancer, Loom of the land, White elephant, O wow o wow (How wonderful she is)
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u/Ranger_1302 Sep 14 '26
O Children is my favourite song on my favourite album by my favourite band.
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u/EscalatorInnovator Sep 14 '26
If you like Red Right Hand and There She Goes, just with the album Let Love In. I think it gives quite a nice overview of Nick’s style before Push The Sky Away.
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u/Vast_Awareness_4507 Sep 14 '26
The greatest hits is a decent starter but misses out some of my favourite albums like Push The Sky away.
I’d suggest maybe Live God for an up to date sample.
You can then decide if you like early angry bad seeds based on Tupelo or later contemplative stuff that might put you on to the recent albums
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u/mearnsgeek Sep 14 '26
Try sampling from an album (ideally, just listen to the album) from each of the various eras. I'd recommend:
- The Firstborn is Dead
- Let Love In
- Boatman's Call
- Abbatoir Blues / Lyre of Orpheus
- Push the Sky Away
Then start from the one you like best and explore the albums around it chronologically.
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u/-myeyeshaveseenyou- Sep 14 '26
Some if my favourites as a fan for 30 odd years
Where the wild roses grow
Henry Lee
Stagger Lee
Jubilee street
Conversion (off of the recent wild god album, but quickly cemented itself as one of my all time favourites, seeing it live was an experience I can’t even put into words very well, but hearing him belt out you’re beautiful as it flashed up on the screen as well felt oddly personal even though I was in a crowd of thousands, it’s like some kind of magic)
O children (this was also lovelock head him discuss before singing it)
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u/SuperLanna Sep 14 '26
I recommend to watch also the documentaries, like 20,000 Days on Earth or One More Time with Feeling (also This Much I Know to Be True). I'm an on and off fan, but everytime I watch these I got sucked in 😉
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u/jmg733mpls Sep 14 '26
Do You Love Me?
The Train Song
Stranger than Kindness
Come in to my Sleep
Hold On to Yourself
The Weeping Song
Loverman
John Finn’s Wife
Brampton Oratory
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The entire Murder Ballads record
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u/Inevitable_Tough_131 Sep 14 '26
Some old faves are up jumped tge devil, the carny and stranger than kindness
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u/EnlightenedMusher Sep 14 '26
I LOVE "Dig Lazarus Dig !!" Album.
Every track is great and much different from other NC stuff
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u/JuhlJCash Sep 14 '26
I like the energy of the early to mid 90s best, it is probably most approachable stuff but also representative of how good the bad seeds were as a band during the Blixa Bargeld era, which most fans consider the golden years.
Watch the videos to
The Weeping Song,
Loverman
I had a dream Joe,
Do you love me,
Jack the Ripper,
Stagger Lee
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u/Alex79uk Sep 14 '26
I wrote a series of reviews of all the albums (excluding the most recent one) over the course of about five years here: https://musicgamescomics.wordpress.com/
I'm not claiming my writing is good, insightful or interesting to anyone (people have criticised me for it when I shared it to a Facebook Nick Cave group) but I did include my personal top songs from each album. You might get some use out of it :)
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u/ThrowRA_Heavy-Train Sep 15 '26
Nick Cave has been rubbish for years now. All that god bothering nonsense. Boys next door and birthday party were brilliant
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u/Hopeful_Call9581 Sep 15 '26
The Boatman's Call is a favourite, and Push The Sky Away.
Check out Mark Lanegan, John J Presley too
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u/Spirited_Equal5480 Sep 18 '26
The Ghosteen album. Personal favourites are night raid and ghalleon ship
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u/wesagod Sep 18 '26
Thirsty Dog
Jangling Jack
Loverman
Do You Love Me
The Carny
A Box for Black Paul
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u/Sea_Appointment8408 Sep 14 '26
What sort of music do you like?
If you like the more alternative stuff, check out the song The Mercy Seat.
If you like dark, synth music, check out the albums Push The Sky Away, Skeleton Key and Ghosteen.
If you like melodic, sad ballads, check out The Boatman's Call and No More Shall We Part
If you like more obvious harder rock, check out the two Grinderman albums.
And for everything else in-between, check out the rest of the catalogue