Editing Nick Cave (section)

== Legacy and influence ==
In 2010, Cave was ranked the 19th greatest living lyricist in ''[[NME]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/list/the-greatest-lyricists-in-the-world-today-1392|title=The Greatest Lyricists In The World Today|last=nme|date=15 April 2010|website=NME|language=en-US|access-date=6 September 2019}}</ref> [[Flea (musician)|Flea]] of the [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]] called him the greatest living songwriter in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/nick-cave-the-greatest-living-songwriter-766596|title=Nick Cave – The Greatest Living Songwriter? {{!}} NME|date=22 August 2011|website=NME Music News, Reviews, Videos, Galleries, Tickets and Blogs {{!}} NME.COM|language=en-GB|access-date=4 February 2020}}</ref> Rob O'Connor of [[Yahoo Music]] listed him as the 23rd best lyricist in rock history.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/the-25-best-rock-lyricists-104712684916.html|title=The 25 Best Rock Lyricists|last=O'Connor|first=Rob|date=15 December 2014|website=[[Yahoo]]|language=en-US|access-date=6 September 2019}}</ref> ''The Art of Nick Cave: New Critical Essays'' was edited by academic John H. Baker and published in 2013. In an essay on the studio album ''[[The Boatman's Call]]'' (1997), Peter Billingham praised Cave's love songs as characterised by a "deep, poetic, melancholic introspection".{{sfn|Baker|2013|p=13}} Carl Lavery, another academic featured in the collection, argued that there was a "burgeoning field of Cave studies".{{sfn|Baker|2013|p=29}} Dan Rose argued that Cave "is a master of the disturbing narrative and chronicler of the extreme, though he is also certainly capable of a subtle romantic vision. He does much to the listener who enters his world."{{sfn|Baker|2013|p=98}}

Songs written about Cave include "Just a King in Mirrors" (1983) by [[the Go-Betweens]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://foruli.co.uk/blog/go-betweens|title=The Ten Rules of Rock 'n' Roll|website=[[The Quietus]]|last=Jelbert|first=Steve|access-date=4 August 2015|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304101437/https://foruli.co.uk/blog/go-betweens|url-status=dead}}</ref> "Sick Man" (1984) by [[Foetus (band)|Foetus]],<ref>Johnston, Ian (2020). ''Bad Seed: The Biography of Nick Cave''. Little, Brown Book Group. {{ISBN|9780349144351}}.</ref> and "Bill Bailey" (1987) by [[the Gun Club]].<ref>Pierce, Jeffrey Lee (1998). ''Go Tell the Mountain: Jeffrey Lee Pierce'', 2.13.61 Publications. {{ISBN|9781880985601}}.</ref>

A number of prominent [[noise rock]] vocalists have cited Cave's Birthday Party-era work as their primary influence, including [[the U-Men]]'s John Bigley,<ref>Tow, Stephan (16 October 2011). [https://www.seattlemet.com/arts-and-culture/2011/09/seattle-bands-invent-grunge-october-2011 "The Strangest Tribe: How a Group of Seattle Rock Bands Invented Grunge"], ''[[Seattle Metropolitan]]''. Retrieved 14 March 2021.</ref> and [[David Yow]], frontman of [[Scratch Acid]] and [[the Jesus Lizard]]. Yow stated: "For a long time, particularly with Scratch Acid, I was so taken with the Birthday Party that I would deny it",<ref>Warmowski, Rob (10 November 2011). [https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/david-yow-of-scratch-acid-talks-to-rob-warmowski-of-sirs/Content?oid=4968066 "David Yow of Scratch Acid talks to Rob Warmowski of Sirs"], ''[[Chicago Reader]]''. Retrieved 14 March 2021.</ref> and that "it sounded like I was trying to be Birthday Party Nick Cave—which I was."<ref>Herzog, Kenny (27 June 2013). [https://www.spin.com/2013/06/david-yow-jesus-lizard-solo-album-interview/ "The Lizard King: David Yow on Three Decades of Music and Mayhem"], ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''. Retrieved 14 March 2021.</ref> Often compared to Cave in his vocal delivery, [[Alexis Marshall]] of [[Daughters (band)|Daughters]] said that he admires the personality and energy within Cave's voice, and that his early studio albums "exposed [him] to lyrical content as literature".<ref>Cartledge, Luke (13 December 2019). [https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/interviews/alexis-marshall-daughters-favourite-songs "Nine Songs: Daughters"], ''[[The Line of Best Fit]]''. 14 March 2021.</ref>