Crowning Music of Awesome: The Mercy Seat, a very popular work by the The Bad Seeds', and with Nick Cave himself.
Face of the Band: Doesn't help that they're called "Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds" and that Cave is so charismatic that he steals all the attention anyway. Only music nerds tend to recognize that Rowland S. Howard, Warren Ellis, Blixa Bargeld, Mick Harvey, Conway Savage, J.G. Thirlwell and other utterly brilliant musicians have been involved with Cave's projects over the years.
Averted during The Birthday Party years when Cave was just the lead singer, although they never experienced anything remotely close to the fame the Bad Seeds have.
Ho Yay with Blixa Bargeld: their duets of Where the Wild Roses Grow and The Weeping Song. Oh, and that time they made out on stage...