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Grinderman by: Grinderman List Price: £16.99 Price: £8.90 You Save: £8.09 (48%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0094638509127 Label: Mute UK Manufacturer: Mute UK Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Mute UK Release Date: March 05, 2007 Studio: Mute UK Sales Rank: 5494 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Grinderman is the sound of indie rock legends growing old disgracefully, and that is by no means a criticism. From the opening rant of "Get It On", this is an album with all the menace of an angry drunk, dripping with anger and testosterone (as the surfeit of facial hair in the band's interior photo will attest). It could even be the sound of Nick Cave's midlife crisis, but it doesn't matter, because Grinderman rocks. It's the sound of four musicians having a grand time, turning the volume up to eleven and really cutting loose. For that reason, it's the more upbeat tracks here that are probably the best: "Honey Bee (Let's Fly to Mars)" with its driving electric organ, the primal urgency of "Depth Charge Ethel" and the strutting album closer "Love Bomb". After all the po-faced seriousness he's displayed in recent years, it's good to know that Cave has rediscovered his sense of humour: "I cleaned the sheets on my bed, I combed the hairs across my head, I sucked in my gut and still she said, 'I don't want to'", he sings on "No Pussy Blues", with his tongue firmly in cheek (amongst other places). Simply put, Grinderman is a hoot. --Ted Kord Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - GreatHave to confess to being a Birthday Party fan more than Nicks later work but this album is a bit like welcoming the Birthday Party back. Great album played by old men with a real bad attitude problem. If you like your music angry & dirty this is the album for you. I have had this album for several months & it still gets lots of plays. Rating: - v v v v good!This album is fantastic - really earthy, brilliant opening track, wonderful lyrics great melodies. 'Get it on' and 'I don't need you to set me free' are as good as any tracks on any Nick Cave album. Puts the rest of the rock world to shame. Rating: - Cave Astonishes Me - Again!When will this man not stop amazing me, what an album! The base line in 'No Pussy Blues' just makes my hairs stand on end (and that Fran blokes as well, him from Travis, judging by Grinderman's performance of the song on Later.....(check it out on You Tube). Absolutely stonking album from Cave, what next??!! Rating: - return of the maxNick Cave and a handful of his Seeds stroll into town with this grinding hog's maw of a record. The Dark Lord re-grasps the crown of Worlds Greatest Lyricist that he lost some ten years ago with a clutch of darkly humorous cartoon punk songs,howls and atmospheres. He sings movingly of his father on Man On The Moon and comes over all lustful on No Pussy Blues. The whole record thrashes, bleeds and provokes and is a direction that Saint Nick should have pursued after the uber-lush No More Shall We Part. Sweet damnation but its good to have the old heavy blues gun slinger back in the neighborhood and to hear a bunch of musicians who really know how to play together, making all manner of exquisite shapes and strategies. Now, bring on the next Bad ... Read More: Rating: - ClassThis is amongst the greatest recordings Cave and co. have accomplished (yes, I did mean to use the word accomplish). For those of you who have wondered, misty-eyes, what The Birthday Party may have sounded like if carried on, this is a good example. So good, I can hardly find words that fit. The bollox. |
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