| Nick Cave Family (Skeleton) Tree |
| 1 |  | Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
The Boatman's Call
His many collaborators, from constant companions, to exes and duets, to one-off apparations.. |
| 2 |  | Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
Lydia Lunch has come and gone through Nick Cave's timeline on several occasions.. they've cut plenty of singles together, and her presence in his life goes all the way back to The Birthday Party days.. they've also come together for a string of shows as a little-known no-wave band called The Immaculate Consumptive.. Lunch's own projects have been as varied as they've been chronic - aside from her first blip as lead singer of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, she sang for a fantastic punk band called 8-Eyed Spy, as well as Bone Orchard and a long line of solo records.. |
| 3 |  | 8 Eyed Spy
Live |
| 4 |  | Bone Orchard
Swallowing Havoc |
| 5 |  | Lydia Lunch
Honeymoon In Red |
| 6 |  | Lydia Lunch Retrovirus
Retrovirus |
| 7 |  | Big Sexy Noise
Big Sexy Noise
one of her most recent projects, Big Sexy Noise was a solid slab of goth rock decked out in trumpets and screeching guitars.. |
| 8 |  | Rowland S. Howard
Teenage Snuff Film
The guitarist of The Birthday Party, and an incredibly underrated player, Howard has played with Cave intermittently for years until his death in '09.. He's the original writer of 'Shivers,' as well as the leader of several collaborations with other Cave cohorts, like Crime and the City Solution, These Immortal Souls and the many more.. |
| 9 |  | The Birthday Party
Hee-Haw |
| 10 |  | Crime and the City Solution
Room of Lights |
| 11 |  | These Immortal Souls
I'm Never Gonna Die Again |
| 13 |  | Blixa Bargeld
Commissioned Music
if you listen to Cave talk about Bargeld in interviews, he adopts an exclusively reverential tone, and for damn good reason.. Bargeld was vital in Cave's sound evolution, bringing both gothic industrial tints to his louder work, as well as a knack for arranging strings that were equal parts beautiful and sinister.. his own work has included being part of the seminal industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten, and a series of neo-classical duets.. all beauty |
| 14 |  | Einsturzende Neubauten
Haus Der Lüge |
| 15 |  | Teho Teardo and Blixa Bargeld
Still Smiling |
| 16 |  | ANBB
Mimikry |
| 17 |  | Mick Harvey
Intoxicated Man
one of Cave's longest-lasting partners in crime, Harvey's career has flown largely under the radar, which is a shame, given how talented and strangely ornate he is.. he goes back all the way to The Boys Next Door days, has played with PJ Harvey extensively, and released three cover albums of Serge Gainsbourg songs, converting the French king pervert's songs into Southern Gothic paeans.. |
| 18 |  | The Boys Next Door
Door, Door |
| 19 |  | Nikki Sudden
Kiss Your Kidnapped Charabanc
Sudden's presence in Cave's timeline is strenuous, only in the sense that they've shared the stage on only a number of occasions.. yet he holds close connections, both musically and personally with most of the artists on this list, and his style and work connections have generally stayed along the same path as Cave.. his own life as an artist is long and interesting, beginning with post-punk pioneers Swell Maps, and running across all sorts of sonic goodness, like Jacobites, and a ton of achingly obscure outfits.. |
| 20 |  | Swell Maps
Jane From Occupied Europe |
| 21 |  | Nikki Sudden and Dave Kusworth
Shame for the Angels |
| 22 |  | Dirty Three
Toward The Low Sun
Warren Ellis has been by Cave's side for decades now, and his volatile and painfully pretty violin work has become a trademark in both the Bad Seeds and his post-rock project Dirty Three, not to mention the fantastic scores he and Cave have co-written for films like The Assassination of Jesse James and The Proposition.. he's also played a huge part in Cave's latter-day side projects like Grinderman, and played violin and arranged on albums by everyone, from Marianne Faithful to Cat Power |
| 23 |  | Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
White Lunar |
| 24 |  | Grinderman
Grinderman |
| 25 |  | Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers
Teenage and Torture
Shilpa Ray has lent her vocals to a number of Cave songs, and they've collaborated on a string of singles for compilations and tribute records.. her own music has pastoral elements to it, but generally sticks to the realm of indie glam.. |
| 26 |  | PJ Harvey
White Chalk
what else can be said about the fantastic and fantastical Polly Jean Harvey.. |
| 27 |  | PJ Harvey and John Parish
A Woman a Man Walked By
really, I mean, if you don't know by now.. |
| 28 |  | The Cramps
Songs the Lord Taught Us
Cave's lineups have had plenty of crossover with these lovely monsters as well.. |
| 29 |  | Various Artists
We Are Only Riders
he's done some duets on a trio of tributes to the late Gun Club leader Jeffrey Lee Pierce, including a great duet with Debbie Harry.. |
| 30 |  | Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Let Love In
and a shitpile of others.. all of these are well worth checking.. |
| 31 |  | Kylie Minogue
Let's Get to It
oh yes, and she was also there for a bit.. |
| 32 |  | Jacobites
Robespierre's Velvet Basement
another lesser known project from Nikki Sudden, along with his brother who goes by the moniker Epic Soundtracks.. |
| 33 |  | Epic Soundtracks
Rise Above
who himself has had plenty of crossover with the Cave family tree, recording and touring with Howard and Harvey and Lunch.. |
| 34 |  | Anita Lane
Dirty Pearl
Anita Lane has been recording with Cave for a few decades now, and has become the expected stand-in for the touring versions of his duets with PJ Harvey and other female co-leads.. she's put out quite a few albums of her own, all of which feature Cave's contributions in one way or another.. |
| 35 |  | Die Haut
Head On
Berling's Die Haut started off as an experimental post-rock band, putting together spacey rock slabs that were mostly instrumental.. Once their timeline crossed with Cave's Berlin period, he started fielding vocals on a lot of their songs which had grown noisier and gothier, as well as introducing him to his rolodex, which is why this particular album sports vocal cameos from Kim Gordon, Lydia Lunch, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Debbie Harry and even Suicide's Alan Vega.. |
| 36 |  | Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds
Gorilla Rose
Kid Congo is a guitarist of elite levels in the realm of underground punk.. He's played lead with The Cramps, The Gun Club and has floated through Cave's own projects more times that one could count.. He's got a peculiar rockabilly slant to his playing, reminiscent of Billy Zoom from X, which has always amped up the pace and rowdiness of the gothic outfits he often finds himself in.. |
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