Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Albums Ranked
Chorus ranks Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds's public discography by ChoruScore, then review depth, so you can see the best-reviewed records, the tightest consensus, and the sharpest critical splits in one place.
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Wild God
Highest ChoruScore in this discography at 93/100 across 3 reviews.
Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Critics landed between 60 and 100 across 29 reviews.
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus
Scores run from 60 to 100 across 18 reviews.
Live God
Best balance of score, review depth, and critic agreement for a first listen.
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Critic-Ranked Discography
Ranked by ChoruScore first, then by review depth and release-date tiebreak. Only albums with at least one counted professional review are included.
Wild God
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds's Wild God arrives as a late-career revelation that transforms private grief into communal uplift, and across professional reviews the record earns high p...
Live God
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds's Live God captures the band's arena-scaled gospel revival with thrilling force and occasional theatrical excess. Across four professional reviews, critic...
Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds's Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! arrives as a bracing return to jagged, narrative rock that finds Cave both mordant and oddly rejuvenated. Across professional revie...
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds's Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus plants a flag where theatrical gospel meets elegiac storytelling, and across 18 professional reviews critics largel...