He successfully party-crashed Hollywood and 'Top of the Pops', all while the college-radio charts filled up with emergent artists- PJ Harvey, Tindersticks, Afghan Whigs- cut from the Bad Seeds' black-velvet cloth. Where the previous decade saw Cave successfully transition out of the Birthday Party's combustible punk toward a more urbane, theatrical brand of rock, the 90s elevated him to the realm of archetype and institution.
The 1990s were very good to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
