* BlackSheepHit:
** "Where the Wild Roses Grow" from ''Music/MurderBallads'' made it to the top of several European charts and received much play on MTV. The video won an MTV Music Award which Cave politely declined by essentially stating "I don't believe art should be rated."
** American audiences mostly know him as the singer of "Red Right Hand" from ''Music/LetLoveIn'' which was featured in ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'', ''Film/DumbAndDumber'', the ''Film/{{Scream}}'' movies, ''Series/PeakyBlinders'', and ''Series/TheXFiles''.
** While ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fans may know him as the singer of "O Children", memorably used in ''Deathly Hallows Part 1''.
* CreatorBreakdown: Led to the somber releases ''Your Funeral, My Trial'', ''The Boatman's Call'' and ''Skeleton Tree''.
** ''Skeleton Tree'' especially considering that while he was already working on the album, his son's abrupt passing is what lead to the bleak and somber tone of the album.
* DyeHard: Has been doing it since he was sixteen, and promised to keep doing so until he dies.
* ShoutOut: To the Creator/PeterStraub novella ''The Juniper Tree'' in "Do You Love Me? (Part 2)". The story is about a young boy repeatedly molested by a stranger who meets him in a movie theater and his searing lifelong guilt and shame over the abuse. The song might as well be a soundtrack for the story.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: He wrote a script for Gladiator 2, where Maximus fought demons in Hades and lived long enough to see the 20th century ...huh.
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