Jim Sclavunos
Biography
James Sclavunos is an American multi-instrumentalist, record producer and writer. He is best known for his work as a drummer, having been a member of two seminal no wave groups in the late 1970s, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks and 8 Eyed Spy, both alongside Lydia Lunch. He is also noted for stints in Sonic Youth and the Cramps, and has been a member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds since 1994. Sclavunos has led his own group the Vanity Set since 2000 and was a founding member of the Bad Seeds spinoff band Grinderman.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Murder Ballads
1996
Push The Sky Away
2013
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus
2004
The Boatman's Call
1997
Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
2008
Skeleton Tree
2016
Grinderman
2007
Ghosteen
2019
No More Shall We Part
2001
Idiot Prayer (Nick Cave Alone At Alexandra Palace)
2020
Grinderman 2
2010
Nocturama
2003
Live From KCRW
2013
Lovely Creatures (The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds) (1984 – 2014)
2017
Confusion Is Sex
1983
B-Sides & Rarities (Part II)
2021
The Best Of
Live God
2025
Let It Be Revisited (Mojo Proudly Presents The Beatles Final Album From 1970 Re-Imagined)
2010
Look Mom No Head!
1991
Distant Sky (Live In Copenhagen)
2018
Give Us A Kiss
2014
More Light
2013
I Started Out With Nothin And I Still Got Most Of It Left
2008
Credited work
956 releases · 153 albums · active 1979–2025
- Performance · 2,141
- Other credits · 836
- Production · 151
- Engineering · 118
Studios: Sing Sing Studios · Sarm West Studios · Abbey Road Studios · Metropolis Audio
Frequent collaborators
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
- Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
- Grinderman
- Various
- The Jim Jones Revue
- Lydia Lunch
- Wendy James
- Sonic Youth