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Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave, in addition to his career as lead singer of the Bad Seeds, has released 1 studio album, 14 soundtrack albums, 1 extended play, 2 singles, 3 live albums, 1 compilation album, thirteen music home videos and two non-music home videos as a solo artist. Since 2005, the majority of his work has been written & recorded in collaboration with Bad Seeds member and multi-nstrumentalist Warren Ellis.

Studio recordings

Cave performing in 2008

Albums

Year	Title	Notes
2021	Carnage	with Warren Ellis

Soundtracks

Year	Title	Notes
1989	Ghosts... of the Civil Dead	with Blixa Bargeld & Mick Harvey
1996	To Have and to Hold	with Bargeld & 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
2012	Lawless	with Ellis
2014	West of Memphis	with Ellis, 2012 film
2015	Far from Men	with Ellis, 2014 film
2016	Hell or High Water	with Ellis
	Mars	with Ellis
2017	War Machine	with Ellis
	Wind River	with Ellis
2018	Kings	with Ellis, to 2017 film
2021	La Panthére des Neiges	with Ellis

EPs

Year	Title	Notes
2022	Seven Psalms	featuring Warren Ellis

Singles

Year	Title	Notes
2022	"Letter to Cynthia"	featuring Warren Ellis, backed with instrumental version
	"Letter to Daniel & Vera"

Other appearances

Year	Title	Release	Notes
1984	"I Put a Spell on You"	Department of Enjoyment	Screamin' Jay Hawkins cover with the Cavemen
1987	"The Altra Virago or the Vargus Barking Spider"	Smack My Crack	spoken-word
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
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"	I Am Sam	The Beatles cover, 2001 film

Contributions

• September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill (1997) produced by Hal Willner. Cave sings a cover of "Mack the Knife".
• "Bad Cover Version" single by Pulp (2002). Cave contributes a cover version of Pulp's "Disco 2000".
• The Passion of the Christ – Songs Inspired By (2004), Nick Cave "Darker with the Day".
• Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys (2006). Cave contributes the tracks "Fire Down Below" and "Pinery Boy".
• "Ramblin' Mind" (solo) and "Free to Walk" (with Debbie Harry) for the tribute album We Are Only Riders: The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project (2010).
• Nick Cave and Neko Case cover The Zombies song "She's Not There" for HBO show True Blood. (2011)
• "Pirate Jenny". Shilpa Ray with Nick Cave and Warren Ellis on Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys (2013).
• "Nobody's City" from the various artists album Axels & Sockets: The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project, with Iggy Pop.
• Nick Cave and Warren Ellis covered "All the Gold in California" from Larry Gatlin for the ending of first episode of the second season of True Detective (2015).
• AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T.Rex (2020). Cave contributes "Cosmic Dancer".
• "Wood Dove", with Warren Ellis, from the various artists album For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. I (2022).

Live recordings

Albums

• Live at Hammersmith Apollo (2015)
• Live at the Royal Albert Hall (2015)
• Idiot Prayer (Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace) (2020)

Other appearances

• 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".

Compilations

• White Lunar, soundtrack compilation (2009) – composed with Ellis (2CDs. Disc one contains highlights from The Proposition, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and The Road. Disc 2 contains excerpts from The English Surgeon and The Girls of Phnom Penh, as well as four unreleased pieces from their archives.

Readings

• And the Ass Saw the Angel, readings of the novel (1989), plus theatre score (1993) – text by Cave, music composed by Harvey and Ed Clayton-Jones
• "The Secret Life of the Love Song & the Flesh Made Word: Two Lectures" (2000)
• The Death of Bunny Munro, (7CDs), audiobook read by the author plus soundtrack (2009) – composed with Ellis

Session work

• Send Me a Lullaby (1981) album by The Go-Betweens, features Cave's vocals on "After the Fireworks".
• Die Haut and Nick Cave: Burnin' the Ice (1982), 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 on "Vixo". Recorded in October 1983, Cave also produced.
• 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.
• Ute Lemper's Punishing Kiss (2000). Cave co-wrote (with Bruno Pisek) "Little Water Song".
• Next Wave (2002). Cave performs a cover version of The Velvet Underground's "Sunday Morning with Chris Coco on Coco's album.
• American IV: The Man Comes Around (2003) duet with Johnny Cash on "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry".
• Kiss of Love (duet with Sam Brown) from Jools Holland's 2003 album Small World Big Band Friends 3 – Jack o the Green.
• Seasick Steve's song "Just Like a King", from the album I Started Out with Nothin' (2008) includes Cave's vocals.
• Cave features on Party Dozen's song "Macca The Mutt" from their 2022 album The Real Work.

Unreleased work

• Wings of Desire (1987). Cave appears in the film performing "The Carny" and "From Her to Eternity".
• Woyzeck, theatre score (2005) – composed with Warren Ellis
• The Metamorphosis, theatre score (2006) – composed with Ellis
• The English Surgeon, soundtrack (2007) – composed with Ellis (only available on White Lunar)
• The Girls of Phnom Penh, soundtrack (2009) – composed with Ellis (only available on White Lunar)
• Faust, theatre score (2009) – composed with Ellis
• The Metamorphosis, (Forvandlingen – Norwegian national theatre) soundtrack (2012)
• The Case Against Adnan Syed, soundtrack (2019) – composed with Warren Ellis