Nick Cave discography

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Nick Cave discography
Studio albums1
Live albums4
Compilation albums1
EPs1
Singles3
Soundtrack albums11
Short soundtrack2

This is the discography of Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave. In addition to his career as lead singer of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, he has released 1 studio album, 11 soundtrack albums, 1 extended play, 2 short soundtracks, 3 singles, 3 live albums, and 1 compilation album. Since 2005, the majority of his work has been written & recorded in collaboration with Bad Seeds member and multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis.

Studio[edit]

Albums[edit]

Year Title Notes
2021 Carnage with Warren Ellis

Soundtracks[edit]

Year Title Notes
1989 Ghosts... of the Civil Dead with Blixa Bargeld & Mick Harvey
2005 The Proposition with Warren Ellis
2007 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford with Ellis
2010 The Road with Ellis, 2009 film[1]
2014 West of Memphis with Ellis, 2012 film[2]
2015 Far from Men with Ellis, 2014 film[3]
2016 Mars with Ellis[4]
2017 War Machine with Ellis[5]
Wind River with Ellis[6]
2018 Kings with Ellis, to 2017 film[7]
2021 La Panthère des neiges with Ellis[8]
2022 Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story with Ellis
Blonde with Ellis

EPs[edit]

Year Title Notes
2022 Seven Psalms featuring Ellis

Short soundtracks[edit]

Year Title Notes
2012 Days of Grace with Warren Ellis, 2011 film
2016 Hell or High Water with Ellis[9]

Singles[edit]

Year Title Notes
1992 "What a Wonderful World"/"Rainy Night in Soho" Bob Thiele & George David Weiss and the Pogues cover, "What a Wonderful World" with Shane MacGowan
2002 "Bad Cover Version" split single with Pulp, a cover of "Disco 2000"
2022 "Letter to Cynthia" featuring Warren Ellis, backed with instrumental version[10][11]
"Letter to Daniel & Vera"

Other appearances[edit]

Year Title Release Notes
1989 "Helpless" The Bridge Neil Young cover
1993 "Faraway, So Close!" and "Cassiel's Song" Faraway, So Close! original songs
1995 "There Is a Light" Batman Forever original song
1996 "Time Jesum Transeuntum et Non Riverentum" and "X-Files Theme" Songs in the Key of X with Dirty Three
1997 "Mack the Knife" September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill cover
1998 "The Big Hurt" and "Mojo" Mojo "The Big Hurt" with Gallon Drunk, 1997 film
1999 "Goodbye Marylou" A Tribute to Polnareff Michel Polnareff cover
2001 "To Be by Your Side" Winged Migration original song
2002 "Let It Be" and "Here Comes the Sun" (bonus track) I Am Sam The Beatles cover, 2001 film
2006 "Fire Down Below" and "Pinery Boy" Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys traditional songs
2010 "Ramblin' Mind" and "Free to Walk" We Are Only Riders: The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project[12] based on Jeffrey Lee Pierce demos, "Free to Walk" with Debbie Harry
2011 "She's Not There" True Blood: Volume 3[13][14] The Zombies cover with Neko Case
2012 "City in Pain" and "The Breaking Hands" The Journey Is Long: The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project based on Jeffrey Lee Pierce demos, "The Breaking Hands" with Debbie Harry
2013 "Pirate Jenny" Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys traditional song with Shilpa Ray and Warren Ellis
2014 "Nobody's City" Axels & Sockets: The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project based on Jeffrey Lee Pierce demo, with Iggy Pop
2015 "All the Gold in California" True Detective[15] Larry Gatlin cover with Ellis
2020 "Cosmic Dancer" AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T.Rex T. Rex cover
2022 "Wood Dove" For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. 1 with Ellis

Live[edit]

Albums[edit]

Other appearances[edit]

  • Nick Cave i Przyjaciele (Nick Cave and Friends) (1999). A live tribute album by Polish musicians. Cave appears on "Into My Arms" and "The Weeping Song".
  • "I'm Your Man" and "Suzanne" performed by Cave in the documentary/concert film Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (2006).
  • The Harry Smith Project: Anthology of American Folk Music Revisited (2006), Concert album featuring Nick Cave performing "John the Revelator" and "Shine on Me".[17]

Compilation[edit]

Session work[edit]

  • Send Me a Lullaby (1981), album by The Go-Betweens, features Cave's vocals on "After the Fireworks".
  • Burnin' the Ice (1982), album by Die Haut features Cave's vocals on "Stow-a-Way", "Truck Love", "Pleasure Is the Boss", "Dumb Europe".
  • Annie Hogan Plays "Kickabye" EP (1985), features Cave's vocals and production on "Vixo". Recorded in October 1983.
  • Oedipus Schmoedipus (1996), album by Barry Adamson, Cave appears on "The Sweetest Embrace".
  • "Music for Expelling the Demon" (1999), a short animation by Devlin Crow, written by A-Soma.
  • Punishing Kiss (2000), album by Ute Lemper, Cave co-wrote (with Bruno Pisek) "Little Water Song".
  • Next Wave (2002), album by Chris Coco, Cave performs a cover version of The Velvet Underground's "Sunday Morning" with Chris Coco.
  • American IV: The Man Comes Around (2003) duet with Johnny Cash on "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry".
  • Small World Big Band Friends 3 – Jack o the Green (2003), album by Jools Holland, "Kiss of Love" duet with Sam Brown.
  • I Started Out with Nothin' (2008), album by Seasick Steve, "Just Like a King" includes Cave's vocals.
  • The Real Work (2022), album by Party Dozen, Cave features on "Macca the Mutt".[20]

Unreleased soundtracks[edit]

Compositions[edit]

Readings[edit]

  • "The Atra Virago or the Vargus Barking Spider" (1987) – excerpt of And the Ass Saw the Angel, from Smack My Crack[25]
  • "And the Ass Saw the Angel" (1988) – further excerpts, released with Tender Prey
  • The Secret Life of the Love Song & the Flesh Made Word: Two Lectures (2000)
  • The Death of Bunny Munro (2009) – 7-disc audiobook, with backing music composed with Ellis[26]

References[edit]

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  2. ^ Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - West Of Memphis Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic, retrieved 2022-06-23
  3. ^ Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - Far from Men [Original Soundtrack] Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic, retrieved 2022-06-23
  4. ^ Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - Mars [Original Series Soundtrack] Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic, retrieved 2022-06-23
  5. ^ Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - War Machine [Original Score] Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic, retrieved 2022-06-23
  6. ^ Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - Wind River [Original Score] Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic, retrieved 2022-06-23
  7. ^ Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - Kings [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic, retrieved 2022-06-23
  8. ^ La Panthère Des Neiges (Original Soundtrack) by Warren Ellis & Nick Cave, 2021-12-17, retrieved 2022-06-23
  9. ^ Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - Hell or High Water [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic, retrieved 2022-06-23
  10. ^ "Grief Single". Cave Things. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
  11. ^ "Shyness Single". Cave Things. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
  12. ^ Quantick, David. "BBC – Music – Review of Various Artists – We Are Only Riders – The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  13. ^ "Various – True Blood: Music From The HBO Original Series Volume 3". Discogs. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  14. ^ "Nick Cave joins Neko Case for The Zombies 'She's Not There' for 'True Blood' – listen! – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Facebook news at". Side-line.com. 22 February 1999. Archived from the original on 9 June 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2011.
  15. ^ Original Soundtrack - True Detective: Music from the HBO Series Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic, retrieved 2022-06-27
  16. ^ Minsker, Evan (3 September 2020). "Nick Cave Announces New Live Album and Film Idiot Prayer". Pitchfork. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  17. ^ "The Harry Smith Project: The Anthology of American Folk Music Revisited – Harry Smith Archives". Retrieved 30 October 2021.
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  19. ^ "Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds". Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. 21 September 2009. Archived from the original on 18 January 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2011.
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  21. ^ "The English Surgeon – Credits". Theenglishsurgeon.com. Archived from the original on 24 February 2015.
  22. ^ "Vesturport". Vesturport.com. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
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  24. ^ "Vesturport". Vesturport.com. 13 November 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
  25. ^ Johnston, Ian (2020-03-05). Bad Seed: The Biography of Nick Cave. Little, Brown Book Group. ISBN 978-0-349-14435-1.
  26. ^ Armitstead, Claire (11 September 2009). "Nick Cave on The Death of Bunny Munro". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 20 May 2010.