Anita Lane - Bad Seeds

Bad Seeds

Lane is sometimes credited as a founding member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, which was forged from the debris left behind by The Birthday Party's demise. She had an undeniably strong influence upon Nick Cave and his work, often cited as his "muse", although her only recorded performance with the band is a verse on the Bob Dylan cover "Death Is Not The End" from the much later recorded album Murder Ballads in 1996. Lane and Cave duet on a cover of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's "Bedazzled" on the B-side of her 1995 single, The World's a Girl. She co-wrote the lyrics of the title track to the band's 1984 LP, From Her to Eternity, as well as the lyrics of the song "Stranger Than Kindness" from Your Funeral, My Trial. She also began to perform and record her own songs. She worked with the German band Die Haut before recording Dirty Pearl under her own name. She was joined on the record by Nick Cave, and Bad Seeds Barry Adamson, Thomas Wydler, and Mick Harvey, who produced.