The band has featured international personnel throughout its career and presently 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). The band has released sixteen studio albums and completed numerous international tours, and has been considered "one of the most original and celebrated bands of the post-punk and alternative rock eras in the '80s and onward".
The band was founded in 1983 following the demise of Cave and Harvey's former group the Birthday Party, the members of which met at a boarding school in Victoria. By the release of their fifth studio album Tender Prey in 1988, they shifted from post-punk towards an experimental alternative rock sound, later incorporating various influences throughout their career. For example, the 2008 album Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! and the side-project Grinderman were strongly influenced by garage rock. Synthesizers and minimal guitar work feature prominently on Push the Sky Away (2013), recorded after Harvey's departure from the band in 2009.
The project that would later evolve into Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds began following the demise of The Birthday Party in August 1983. Both Cave and Harvey were members of the Birthday Party, along with guitarist Rowland S. Howard and bassist Tracy Pew. During the recording sessions of the Birthday Party's scheduled EPs Mutiny/The Bad Seed, internal disputes developed in the band. The difference in Cave and Howard's approach to songwriting was a major factor, as Cave explained in an interview with On The Street: "the main reason why The Birthday Party broke up was that the sort of songs that I was writing and the sort of songs that Rowland was writing were just totally at odds with each other." Following the departure of Harvey, they officially disbanded. Cave also said that "it probably would have gone on longer, but Mick has the ability to judge things much more clearly than the rest of us."[8]
Cave and guitarist Kid Congo Powers during the band's 1986 tour.
An embryonic version of what would later become Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds was formed in the Birthday Party's then-home of London in September 1983, with Cave, Harvey (acting primarily as drummer), Einstürzende Neubauten guitarist Bargeld, Magazine bassist Barry Adamson, and Jim G. Thirlwell. The band was initially formed as a backing band for Cave's intended solo project Man Or Myth?, which had been approved by the record label Mute Records. During September and October 1983, they recorded material with producer Flood,[9] although the sessions were cut short due to Cave's touring with the Immaculate Consumptive, another project formed with Thirlwell, Lydia Lunch and Marc Almond.[10] In December 1983 Cave returned to Melbourne, Australia, where he formed a temporary line-up of his backing band, due to Bargeld's absence, that included Pew and guitarist Hugo Race. The band performed their first live show at Seaview in St. Kilda on 31 December 1983.
Following a short Australian tour, and during a period when they were without management, Cave and his band returned to London. Cave, Harvey, Bargeld, Race and Adamson formed the project's first consistent line-up, while Cave's longtime girlfriend Anita Lane was credited as a lyricist on the band's debut album.[citation needed] The group, which up to this time had been nameless, adopted the moniker Nick Cave and the Cavemen, which they used for the first six months of their career. However, they were later renamed Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in May 1984, in reference to the final Birthday Party EP The Bad Seed.[citation needed] They began recording sessions for their debut album in March 1984 at London's Trident Studios and these sessions, together with the abandoned Man Or Myth? sessions from September–October 1983 that were recorded at The Garden studios, formed the album From Her to Eternity, released on Mute Records in 1984.
And No More Shall We Part
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Lyrics
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It will no longer be necessary
And no more will I say, dear heart
I am alone and she has left me
And no more shall we part
The contracts are drawn up
The ring is locked upon the finger
Sadly, or in the depths of winter
And no more shall we part
All the hatchets have been buried now
And all of birds will sing to your beautiful heart
Upon the bough
And no more shall we part
Your chain of command
Has been silenced now
And all of those birds
Would've sung to your beautiful heart
Anyhow
Lord, stay by me
Don't go down
I will never be free
If I'm not free now
Lord, stay by me
Don't go down
I never was free
What are you talking about?
For no more shall we part
And no more shall we part
In "And No More Shall We Part" by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, the singer reflects on a past relationship that has come to an end. He acknowledges that it was inevitable, and expresses relief that the pain has finally subsided. The couple has signed the necessary contracts, and the singer has come to terms with the idea that he will no longer receive letters from his former lover (which would usually start with a tone of sadness). All the resentments and bitterness have been put aside, and the singer can appreciate the beauty of their former love without feeling any grudges. The birds that sang to his lover's heart – a metaphor for the loving memories they shared – are still there, but he no longer has any claim on them. In the end, the singer begs for a higher power to stay by his side, as he has yet to achieve true freedom even though his lover has left him.
The song is about accepting the end of a relationship, letting go of the past and moving on. The singer seems to have gone through the five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance) and is now ready to start a new chapter in his life. The lyrics are both melancholic and uplifting, as the singer reflects on the beautiful moments he shared with his lover, while acknowledging that it is time to say goodbye.
Line by Line Meaning
And no more shall we part
It will no longer be necessary
And no more will I say, dear heart
I am alone and she has left me
And no more shall we part
The contracts are drawn up. The ring is locked upon the finger. And never again will my letters start sadly, or in the depths of winter
And no more shall we part
All the hatchets have been buried now. And all of birds will sing to your beautiful heart, upon the bough
And no more shall we part
Your chain of command has been silenced now. And all of those birds would've sung to your beautiful heart, anyhow
Lord, stay by me
Don't go down. I will never be free if I'm not free now
Lord, stay by me
Don't go down. I never was free. What are you talking about?
For no more shall we part
And no more shall we part
And no more shall we part
It will no longer be necessary
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Written by: Nicholas Cave
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Love Letter
I hold this letter in my hand
A plea, a petition, a kind of prayer
I hope it does as I have planned
Losing her again is more than I can bear
I kiss the cold, white envelope
I press my lips against her name
Two hundred words. We live in hope
The sky hangs heavy with rain
Love Letter Love Letter
Go get her Go get her
Love Letter Love Letter
Go tell her Go tell her
A wicked wind whips up the hill
A handful of hopeful words
I love her and I always will
The sky is ready to burst
Said something I did not mean to say
Said something I did not mean to say
Said something I did not mean to say
It all came out the wrong way
Love Letter Love letter
Go get her Go get her
Love Letter Love letter
Go tell her Go tell her
Rain your kisses down upon me
Rain your kisses down in storms
And for all who'll come before me
In your slowly fading forms
I'm going out of my mind
Will leave me standing in
The rain with a letter and a prayer
Whispered on the wind
Come back to me
@robinzonkruso2255
1. "As I Sat Sadly by Her Side" 6:15
2. "And No More Shall We Part" 4:00
3. "Hallelujah" Nick Cave, Warren Ellis 7:48
4. "Love Letter" 4:08
5. "Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow" 5:36
6. "God Is in the House" 5:44
7. "Oh My Lord" 7:30
8. "Sweetheart Come" Nick Cave, Barry Adamson 4:58
9. "The Sorrowful Wife" 5:18
10. "We Came Along This Road" 6:08
11. "Gates to the Garden" 4:09
12. "Darker with the Day"
@sarahharland8890
This album has been a constant top 3 for the past 20 years.... always will hold a special place in my heart 🖤
@stephanietournear-gardner8588
Me too - it's my go-to when I need to focus or calm down
@sashashnider9817
please name other albums
@RobertoPacco
@@stephanietournear-gardner8588 😢😢😢
@DerBratznack
This is the album which always connects me with my feelings. Nick Drake plays on the strings of my heart. Over a gap of so many years.
And he always does. I wish I could sing like this.
@chaka47
Melhor compositor de todos tempos para mim ,como não conhecia este álbum em 2023 ? :(
@alirezaeslamian4667
is there anybody else feels addicted to nick cave and his mood? or it's just me?
@LadyBird791
Me too ! ❤❤❤
@deboracolangelo6334
Not just only you!
@chaka47
me too :) Henry Dream my favorite album