The blues had long been a potent undercurrent in the Birthday Party's music, so it wasn't all that surprising that Nick Cave embraced the sound and feeling of rural blues on his second album with the Bad Seeds, The Firstborn Is Dead. What was startling was how well Cave and his bandmates -- Barry Adamson, Mick Harvey, and Blixa Bargeld -- were able to absorb and honor the influences of artists like Skip James and Charley Patton while creating a sound that was unmistakably their own. The moody obsessions of rural blues -- trains, floods, imprisonment, sin, fear, and death -- seemed made to order for Cave, and he was able to tap into the doomy iconography of this music with potent emotional force; on "Tupelo," he makes a sweeping and disturbing epic of the rain-swept night when Elvis Presley was born, and "Knocking on Joe" is a tale of life on the work gang that communicates the pain of the spirit as clearly as the ache of the body. Also, the blues helped transform Cave's music as well as his lyrics; the brutal sonic pummel of the Birthday Party here gave way to a more subtle and dynamic approach that still made effective use of dissonance and bare-wired electric guitar noise while proving the balance of loud and soft only made each side deeper and more resonant. (The stark, barely there guitar and drums of "Blind Lemon Jefferson" are as startling and malignantly fascinating as anything in the Birthday Party's catalog.) The Firstborn Is Dead proved Nick Cave's musical palate was significantly broader than his debut album suggested and pointed to a path (channeling the sounds and emotions of American roots music) he would return to on many of his albums that followed.
这张专辑初版是1985年。

"THIS IS MY FAVOURITE NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS ALBUM." - NICK CAVE

Spanning the full twenty-one years of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds illustrious career, this comprehensive three CD set, entitled B-Sides & Rarities, presents a thrilling and eclectic retrospective collection of material by the band, some of which has been deleted, featured on a disparate number of soundtrack albums or has never been officially released before. From the menacing 'The Six Strings That Drew Blood', through the distraught 'The Girl At The Bottom Of My Glass', the fragile beauty of 'Little Empty Boat', the outlaw romance of '(I'll Love You) Till The End Of The World', the plaintive 'Bluebird' through to the murderous attack of 'The Ballad Of Robert Moore & Betty Coltrane', long term Bad Seeds aficionados, recent converts or the merely curious will find much to appreciate and enjoy in this landmark 56 track compilation.

Nick Cave老师最新2CD现场专辑，录制于今年5月3日晚上在Royal Albert Hall的现场，演出当晚即制作完成发行给现场观众。
Notes:
Recorded Live at The Royal Albert Hall, London Sunday 0 3 May 2015. Sold and produced at the concert venue on the night of the co ncert.
Packaged in a 3 panel cardboard sleeve.
Credits:
Artwork By – Louise Hendy
Bass – Martyn Casey*
Crew [Audio Technician] – Barak Koren
Crew [Backline Technician] – Anthony Oates, Paul Knowles (5)
Drums, Percussion – Thomas Wydler
Engineer [Front Of House Sound Engineer] – Matt Crosbie
Engineer [Monitor Engineer] – Simon 'Davros' Blanch*
Keyboards – Larry Mullins
Lighting [Lightning Designer] – Damien Oxley
Lighting [Lightning Technician] – Grant Hickey
Management [Assistant Tour Manager] – Jacek Kalinowski
Management [Tour Manager] – Ton Maessen
Production Manager – Bart Caels
Recorded By [Assistant], Mixed By [Assistant] – Chris Goddard
Recorded By, Mixed By – Will Shapland*
Violin, Mandolin, Sampler [Samples] – Warren Ellis
Vocals, Piano – Nick Cave

Type O Negative was an American gothic metal band formed in Brooklyn, New York in 1989, by Peter Steele, Kenny Hickey, Josh Silver, and Sal Abruscato, who was later replaced by Johnny Kelly. Their lyrical emphasis on themes of romance, depression, and death resulted in the nickname "the Drab Four".

His new album, a collection of songs about death and murder.This limited edition is a digipak w/56 page color book of photos and lyrics. 10 tracks.

3年后发布了第五张专辑——The Golden Age of Grotesque。同时直到2003年，摇滚乐——尤其是重金属，正强烈需要一个有着高贵形象和宏伟的雄心的艺人，而Marilyn Manson正是这么一位。毕竟，The Golden Age对于日耳曼艺术、歌舞剧艺术以及早已衰弱的Hollywood30年代的魅力，意图通过用节奏强烈的重金属重新加以诠释，为其赋予现代化意义从而能跟上时代的潮流。但在如今这个年代，摇滚艺人对于80年都没有什么印象，更不用说是30年代了，而人们常常会忽略这个因素，尽管音乐不是他们的事业。
从音乐上来说，Manson并没有抛弃他们最本质的音乐特征——他仍在不懈坚持Holy Wood中最根本的音乐元素——但这张由他本人第一次担当制作的专辑却显得肤浅而轻盈，尽管音乐仍笼罩于扭曲和吼叫之中。Manson已从反复处于众人的关注之中解脱，他的音乐也随之变得更加外向。这种新的自由空间也让他有时候显得有点糊涂可笑——比如在“This Is the New Sh*t”中那毫无意义的声音，以及在“Mobscene”中对Faith No More的“Be Aggressive”的借用还有其中的歌词“You are the church/I am the steeple/When we f*ck we are God´s People”——但所有这些并没有为专辑摸黑，而且从其他方面说，也成为专辑的一个显赫之处。专辑所营造出来的那宏伟而壮丽的气势却是压倒Manson所有同行的，而且也不差于他前先的专辑。The Golden Age中也带有稍许的诙谐幽默成分，这也为专辑本身舔色不少。 老美以行动向恐怖教主Marilyn Manson/玛莉莲曼森乐团宣示效忠，单单美国一地至今已累积6百万张的总销售天量，这支哥德式工业摇滚团体在乐界开创惊悚视觉与听觉的地位绝不亚于文坛的恐怖大师史蒂芬金。 向来以惊世骇俗的扮相与挑釁卫道人士的言论著称的Marilyn Manson，’96年首次出辑《Antichrist Superstar/离经叛道》就因鼓吹反宗教无神论而引爆争议，也树立起Marilyn Manson无与伦比的毁灭者形象、’98年苍白人妖鬼魅造型的《Mechanical Animals/机械化动物》更缔创空降Billboard流行专辑榜冠军佳绩、横扫全美，之后再以20世纪末的超猛天碟《Holy Wood/亡命圣林》激销全球150万张，虽然´99年时曾发生Manson崇拜份子扫射校园师生事件的憾事，但他们挑战世俗眼光的大胆言词与创意仍然毫不妥协。 阔别两年全新专辑《The Golden Age Of Grotesque/惊世骇俗》的创作概念是Marilyn Manson发想自30年代好莱坞的灵感，由Marilyn Manson与Tim Skold制作、Ben Grosse混音。首打“Mobscene”夺得英国摇滚单曲榜No.8 (5/4)与德国排行榜No.8；“This Is The New Shit”更雀屏中选为基努李维主演卖座电影系列续集《骇客任务：重装上阵》的电影主题曲绝对值得珍藏

Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) is the fourth studio album by American rock band Marilyn Manson. It was released on November 11, 2000 by Nothing and Interscope Records. A rock opera concept album, it is the final installment of a triptych that also included Antichrist Superstar (1996), and marked a return to the industrial metal style of the band's earlier work, after the glam rock-influenced production of Mechanical Animals (1998). After its release, the band's eponymous vocalist said that the overarching story within the trilogy is presented in reverse chronological order: Holy Wood, therefore, begins the narrative.
In the aftermath of the Columbine High School massacre on April 20, 1999, mainstream media widely reported that its perpetrators were wearing the band's T-shirts during the rampage, and had been influenced by their music. As their first release after the massacre, the record was Manson's rebuttal to the accusations leveled against him and the group, and was described by the vocalist as a "declaration of war". It was written in the singer's former home in the Hollywood Hills and recorded in several undisclosed locations, including Death Valley and Laurel Canyon. His ambitions for Holy Wood initially included an eponymous film exploring its backstory—a project which has since been abandoned and was modified into the as-yet-unreleased Holy Wood novel.
The album was released to generally positive reviews. Several writers praised it as the band's finest work, and multiple publications ranked it as one of the best albums of 2000. British rock magazine Kerrang! went on to include it on its list of the best albums of the decade. In the US, Holy Wood was not as commercially successful as the band's preceding records, debuting at number 13 on the Billboard 200. However, it became their most successful album internationally, debuting in the top twenty of numerous national charts. It was certified gold in several countries, including Canada, Japan, Switzerland and the UK.
Three singles were released from the record: "Disposable Teens", "The Fight Song" and "The Nobodies", and the band embarked on the worldwide Guns, God and Government Tour. In 2010, Kerrang! published a 10th-anniversary commemorative piece in which they called the album "Manson's finest hour ... A decade on, there has still not been as eloquent and savage a musical attack on the media and mainstream culture ... [It is] still scathingly relevant [and] a credit to a man who refused to sit and take it, but instead come out swinging."

Nick Cave 講他的寫作、他的父親、他的上帝。講自己的小說 And the Ass Saw the Angel。還有他的歌如何預示了愛情的終局、比他更清楚知道。關於情書、愛歌的寫作中經驗的渴望與憂傷。

保持原有阵容的Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds在1994年中旬完成了感人至深的专辑Let Love In，该作的制作人Tony Cohen早在The Birthday Party时期就与Nick合作过。随后Nick Cave回到伦敦定居，他和Viviane Carneiro的关系已经逐渐冷淡下来，儿子Luke成了他生命中最重要的人。像任何一个幸福的父亲一样，他在许多访谈里带着难以掩饰的骄傲喋喋不休地提起宝贝儿子。原来那个黑暗之子似乎不见了，现在的Nick Cave可以冷静的面对这个世界了，他变得谈吐不俗彬彬有礼，相当友善。

Nick Cave的最新专辑《No More Shall We Part》，再一次宣示Nick Cave的音乐风格，已经从过往的火焰般地狂热，降温为冰冷般的霜雪。不见得看得到成长的轨迹，却是Nick Cave选择的另一种音乐着墨。专辑中全部的舒缓古典歌谣，即使偶然出现的摇滚节奏也被冷却得稍纵即逝，Nick Cave在这张以情感为主题，至死不渝的专辑中，把对爱情的执着与不安，铺上深深的忧郁，将悲伤的情绪向下无限探底。
十二首歌曲都是叙事曲的型式，一首首陈述着相连的故事与际遇，没有开怀地欢笑，Nick Cave如受过风霜的慢调嗓音，就说明了悲剧的性质。《No More Shall We Part》从开头曲As I Sat Sadly By Her Side，就把专辑中通篇的绝望做了清楚的交待，而Nick Cave如散文诗般的文字依旧美丽，善于描绘出如电影图画般的意象，将人与人之间的情感，藉由简单地比喻，传神地表达出来，使得歌曲中的故事仿佛跃出歌中。身兼钢琴手的Nick Cave，也把琴音处?淼猛鹑缍斓挠甑我谎坏我坏蔚氐温湓谝蕴崆倨坛傻娜崛硌┑兀械拿恳皇赘瑁己虯s I sat Sadly By Her Side一样，词意感性而曲调优美，吉他手Micky Harvey和提琴手Warren Ellis负责的编曲，高密度的原音器乐成份让稀疏的琴音不致感到轻浮。
忧伤的情绪持续蔓延，渴望的心情不断沉潜，可能是呼天喊地，可能是大叫“上帝”，总之一切都天昏地暗，缺乏光明。而从忧伤的眼中，看到的也尽是不快乐的人、事、物。即使是就在身旁，也有仿佛即将分离的危机，即使是彼此相对，也都仿佛距离遥远。Nick Cave痛苦的吶喊，也在压抑中从头延伸到尾。
或许Nick Cave的转变，会让人他既往的乐迷无法适应，感觉Nick Cave背叛以往的反叛型式，而《No More Shall We Part》专辑的音乐色调太过一致，陈述的情感也缺乏多层次的变化，也可能遭人诟病。但是品味一下Nick Cave具有文艺气息的歌词，以及以吉他、钢琴、提琴组合而成的古典忧郁，Nick Cave在音乐气氛的塑造上，无疑是极为成功的。虽然Nick Cave可能再也无法走回头路，如果想要藉由优美的旋律，感染爱情中的酸苦本质，《No More Shall We Part》仍然是出色的专辑。