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Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!

by: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Release Date March 03, 2008
To say Nick Cave isn't the force he once was, is like saying Vlad the Impaler had minor anger management issues. Glories LONG gone, he's resorting to loose balladeering and conventional rock in a vain and desperate attempt to disguise the fact he's got nothing new to say and should've given up on this music thing a long time ago.
A new Nick Cave album is cause for despair, where once it was cause for celebration. Ok, you can't go on re-living past triumphs (ask Morrissey) but the guy must have SOME of that early threat and purpose kicking around somewhere. Where's the gusto and urgency that drove classics like 'Nick the Stripper' or 'Mr Clarinet' ?
He's become a rock dullard, a pale imitation, a caricature of all he once meant.
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Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (+ 54 Page Booklet With Lyrics and Photos)

by: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Release Date March 03, 2008
After the release of the magnificent "The Boatman's Call" it seems Nick Cave has chosen to release an album as soon as he had two or three inspired songs ready. It was certainly true for "No More Shall We Part", "Nocturama" and "Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus" and it goes for "Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!" as well.

On this latest release the songs "Hold on to yourself" and "Jesus of the Moon" hold the standard we have come to expect from Nick Cave over the years, while the rest are bland and leave no lasting impression, even after repeated listening. When Nick Cave finds his inspiration he is an exceptional songwriter and performer so I'll give three stars for the two songs alone. If only he had put the best songs from the last four albums ... Read More:

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The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

by: Nick Cave

Release Date May 11, 1998
I am no Nick Cave afficianado but it seems the man is making a real come-back into the critical consciousness with his most recent album, Dig!!! Lazurus Dig!!! Of course, critical trends mean almost nothing, and if this excellent compliation tells us anything, it's that Cave has been writing strange and powerful music for three decades. What is nice about this Best Of is that there is no contemporaneous filler - no bonus tracks or live outtakes - used to market the CD. The selection - though always debateable on artists who have had such a rich discography - seems representative (if not totally comprehensive) of their best work.

While Cave and the Bad Seeds have continued to release bold and challenging music in the new millennium, this compilation ... Read More:

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Let Love in

by: Nick Cave

Release Date December 13, 1994
I discovered Nick Cave properly after seeing his name appearing in random and varied places - singing with Johnny Cash, on a free magazine compilation CD, on a Jools Holland song... when I bought Cash's American III and heard Mercy Seat, that was the final straw. Away I went to YouTube to listen. And I wasn't disappointed. I went off to buy albums - strting with Boatman's Call, it was good but not the side of Nick Cave I had been intrigued by. Then Murder Ballads and, ecstatically discovering he had a new CD out, Dig! Lazarus Dig! and barely a week ago form today, I bought Let Love In along with 2 other albums. From experience, buying albums together usually means I don't get to know thm well enough, or the songs seem to blur together. Not so on this one.

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The Boatman's Call

by: Nick Cave

Release Date March 03, 1997
I'm not going to bore you with a sophisticated coffee table critique that actually says little and bores you to tears. But I would say that if you are in to music with a realistic edge, with a tune, but a dark slant on the human physche, then this album's a must. I think it's superb.

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Murder Ballads

by: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Release Date June 23, 2003
Tales of murder and death, sometimes hilarious though often heartbreaking... regardless of how far he goes with his lyrical content, Cave’s genius has always been in creating and sustaining a mood that the listener can totally lose themselves in.

Here the underlining concern is in the creation of a bleak and suffocating atmosphere, only occasionally broken by Cave’s amazingly dark wit and always-colourful use of language. The form is taken straight from the tradition of the English ballad, with confessional structures, biblical imagery, lurid subject matter and larger than life caricatures all jostling for our attention. It works because Cave doesn’t take it too seriously. Songs like Stagger Lee, The Curse of Millhaven and the epic O’Malley’s ... Read More:

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The Good Son

by: Nick Cave

Release Date December 31, 1993
Watching the recent Nick Cave special on BBC4 brought home to me, if indeed it needed bring home, what a phenomenal band the Bad Seeds are. It also started a conversation between my partner and i about what Nick Cave song we would have played at our funerals( We,re jolly like that us) My favourite is "The Mercy Seat", hardly ideal funeral fodder( unless you have a warped sense of humour) , but hers was "The Ship Song" and that led to me re-visiting Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 1990 and sixth album The Good Son, from which the "The Ship Song", incidentally the first single released off the album , came from.
Many critics and fans felt Nick Cave had gone a bit soft when they heard The Good Son and there is no argument that it is a far mellower album than it,s predecessor 1988,s claustrophobic ... Read More:

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Music From The Motion Picture The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

by: Original Soundtrack, Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

Release Date November 05, 2007
I don't think I can say much more than what has already been so I'll just say that this soundtrack is very much worthy of such a special movie. If you love movie soundtracks like myself you will definately want this one in your collection, I have a lot of soundtracks and this has to be one of my favourites.

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Tender Prey

by: Nick Cave

Release Date December 31, 1993
Tender Prey, as another reviewer has suggested, is the album that straddles the great-divide between the more volatile and shambolic early Bad Seeds style (still reeling from the excesses of The Birthday Party, perhaps?) and the polished, professional (though no less volatile) sound of their more heartfelt work in the 90's and the new millennium.

The sophistication of Cave's song-writing was here beginning to take shape, with songs like The Mercy Seat, Up Jumped the Devil and Mercy becoming (sort of) modern rock standards, the former even getting a stripped-down cover version from Johnny Cash on his Solitary Man album. The original incarnation of The Mercy Seat is raw and ferocious in its sound, with The Bad Seeds creating a shifting sense of dissonance for the intro, with Cave recounting ... Read More:

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Henry's Dream

by: Nick Cave

Release Date December 31, 1993
Nick Cave is one of those artists that you suddenly discover has created a masterpiece and that you've owned it for about 10 years. I went back to this album after seeing the Bad Seeds perform Papa Won't Leave You Henry live at Hammersmith, where it honestly gave me goosebumps. He can create a rich world within a 4 minute song that would take a novelist 200 pages and this album is full of some of his best narrative (as opposed to confessional) tracks. The most compelling of these are Papa Won't Leave you Henry, I had a dream Joe and the sweeping, majestic John Finn's Wife - but every track on Henry's Dream will leave you feeling a strange and profound affinity with their grimy, anti-hero narrators who somehow pick a noble path through all that muck.