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nd part of this album is a little quieter a little more laid back and a little more stripped down it sounds if anything a lot more traditional bad seeds than the full on first part i can t honestly say i enjoy it as much as abattoir blues but it s still a very worthwhile listen the gorgeous breathless and easy money lead the listener in to the first song where nick really lets loose the almost pirate shanty like supernaturally what a great song that s really the only point of high energy on the disc though as the closing three tracks ease you out as gently as you went in standout tracks easy money supernaturally all in all abattoir blues the lyre of orpheus is an absolutely fantastic album which successfully avoids the pitfalls becoming of most double albums mainly by them being two completely different pieces of work if the band had put these out as seperate records a year or two apart nobody would have minded as it is we ve got possibly one of the greatest double albums of all time grinderman 2007 i wasn t sure whether to include the two grinderman records in this retrospective but why not grinderman a side project made up mainly from bad seeds members was formed in 2006 supposedly as a way to escape the weight of the bad seeds cave 2010 quite what this means i don t know because grinderman sounds a hell of a lot like the bad seeds to me well sort of the songs tend to sound a little more disjointed deliberately avant garde and vitriolic to me more garage rock even before listening to this album the only song i d really heard was go tell the women and as it turns out it s pretty indicative of the rest of the album i really like it a lot of the songs start off fairly innocuously before descending in to something resembling crazed mania no pussy blues is a perfect example of this the title track is brilliant and i could have quite happily had it go on for another three or four minutes looking at release dates it seems this album was recorded around the same time dig lazarus dig and it s easy to see a little crossover here and there so overall this is pretty much excellent stuff and an easy recommendation to any bad seeds fan all i m wondering now is whether i need to go back and do some birthday party records too standout tracks no pussy blues grinderman and i don t need you to set me free nick cave retrospective part 5 no more nocturnal partings december 2 2019 july 31 2020 alex79uk 11 comments i m a nick cave fan who is listening to the entire back catalogue in release order during my drives to and from work so that i can better evaluate how i feel about the latest album ghosteen introduction post part one part two part three part four part five part six no more shall we part 2001 i must admit this was the part of my nick cave odyssey that i was least looking forward to the first two albums of the new century frequently appear lower on rankings lists than the bad seeds other work i m happy to report that those doubts were absolutely and completely unfounded no more shall we part is a terrific album and shows cave s writing has absolutely matured over the years he s always had a way with words but there are songs on this record that are outright poetry set to music god is in the house is perhaps the best example of this with one of the finest two line lyrics he s ever written well meaning little therapists goose stepping twelve stepping tetotalitarianists it s observant it s smart and perhaps most importantly of all it s funny the rest of the album contains some of my favourite tunes from the band so far fifteen feet of pure white snow oh my lord and the sorrowful wife have all earned their spot of the very best of nick cave spotify playlist i ve been creating as i go i can honestly say this is what i consider to be one of the bad seeds best albums one final note the first time i listened to this record a couple of weeks ago i was driving home from work it was dark and around guy fawkes night as the manic crescendo of oh my lord was blasting out of my car speakers i glanced over to my left somewhere against the dark night sky someone was letting off fireworks the noise in the car coupled with the explosions in the sky lent and incredible air of well epicness it was fucking brilliant standout tracks fifteen feet of pure white snow god is in the house oh my lord nocturama 2003 consistently considered amongst the weakest of the bad seeds output nocturama is by no means a bad album on the contrary i rather liked it wonderful life sets the usual melancholic mood we ve become accustomed to by now and the following few tracks do little to raise spirits this is far from being a criticism by the way the album really kicks it up with the double whammy of bring it on and dead man in my bed the first of which is a real highlight of the record and doesn t sound a million miles away from the incredible grindermen track palaces of montezuma the tail end of the album doesn t really drop in quality other than rock of gibraltar who s only crime is just being plain boring finally we get babe i m on fire a 15 minute 43 odd verse colossal tune that finishes off the album splendidly a weaker album it might be but i d rather listen to a weaker nick cave record than 99 of anything else that s ever been recorded standout tracks bring it on there is a town mike patton corpse flower november 30 2019 alex79uk 3 comments mike patton has a new album out a collaboration with french pop legend jean claude vannier what immediately strikes me about the album corpse flower is just how easy it is to listen to as any patton fan will know most of his work outside of faith no more require a little commitment and effort from the listener in order to fully appreciate it no such effort is required here its instantly accessible and i welcome that the record is largely patton s trademark lounge with a tinge of horror style there are songs in which he pulls off an almost flawless impersonation of leonard cohen and others that would feel more at home on a nick cave album i m not sure whether or not i would put corpse flower in front of someone as an introduction to mike patton but for anyone even slightly familiar with any of his side projects or solo work this really is an essential listen it stands alongside the very best of tomahawk fantomas and any of the more esoteric stuff he s put out over the last couple of decades this is mike patton doing what he does but god he s doing it well nick cave retrospective part 4 loving murderous boatmen october 31 2019 july 31 2020 alex79uk 16 comments i m a nick cave fan who is listening to the entire back catalogue in release order during my drives to and from work so that i can better evaluate how i feel about the latest album ghosteen introduction post part one part two part three part four part five part six let love in 1994 until i began this project if anyone had asked me for my favorite bad seeds album i d give my stock answer let love in whilst i m not sure that would still be my reply it really is a terrific piece of work do you love me is a perfect album opener and it was whilst listening to this song it occurred to me that it s got all the hallmarks of some kind of trip hop or dub track then i noticed a few of the other tracks on the album have those slow repeating basslines which remain unchanged against the melodies the percussive roll of the drums and the kind of string organ stabs that would usually sound more at home on a massive attack or mad professor record i thought someone else must have made that connection so i googled it and no i m claiming it as my own let love in is a trip hop album in disguise classic nick the musical chameleon elsewhere on the album we range from slow comically dark ballads to the outright noise punk of jangling jack and thirsty dog loverman remains one of the best bad seeds tunes to date and red right hand needs no introduction to anyone the album really does stand up 25 years later as one of the all time greats it s a classic standout tracks do you love me parts 1 2 loverman red right hand murder ballads 1996 back to where it all began as i wrote in the introductory post this was the first bad seeds record i ever bought i won t lie it took me a few listens to get it i d never heard anything like it before and i ve heard little else since loosely a collection of old folk tales with a common theme you guessed it murder the first track on the album song of joy is almost a perfect distillation of everything great about the bad seeds sound the slightly off kilter melody the menacing half sung half spoken lyrics and the suitibility epic crescendo to finish it s an absolute treat to listen to it s not a perfect album and there are songs on here i ve warmed to far less than others but the jazz leanings of crow jayne the sad tale of mary bellows in the kindness of strangers and whatever deranged dark corner of his mind cave pulled o malleys bar from never get old i m not a huge fan of the duets with pj harvey and kylie but there are no bad songs on here really just some i enjoy a lot more than the rest and let s not forget about stagger motherfucking lee probably the most viscaral representation of pure carnage ever committed to song standout tracks song of joy stagger lee the kindness of strangers the boatman s call 1997 coming only a year after nick cave s tribute to murderous folktale anti heroes the boatman s call couldn t have been more different easily the most accessible of the bad seeds work it s the closest the band has ever come to mainstream i feel a much slower more sedate affair than any of their previous work the album feels almost desolate and barren in comparison but that s not a bad thing the music on the whole steps back and allows cave s lyrics to really shine though has there ever been a better opening line than i don t belive in an interventionist god but darlin i know you do this might be the bad seeds masterpiece it s not my favorite but it s hard to argue against this being their best work the album flows from one beautiful track to another with very little disrupting that journey standout tracks brompton oratory there is a kingdom nick cave retrospective part 3 good dreams live october 19 2019 july 31 2020 alex79uk 16 comments i m a nick cave fan who is listening to the entire back catalogue in release order during my drives to and from work so that i can better evaluate how i feel about the latest album ghosteen introduction post part one part two part three part four part five part six the good son 1990 let s get this out of the way this album is an absolute fucking masterpiece easily the finest work so far from the bad seeds the album flows from one incredible tune to the next lush strings accompany most of the songs with more than one of them sounding like they wouldn t be out of place as a bond theme there are hints of americana sporadically dropped through the record the almost traditional gospel stylings of the title track to the mad preaching of the witness song the hammer song is nick cave at his most harrowing finest spitting out his lyrics with pure malice and terror then completely out of the blue comes possibly one of the finest love songs of all time one of my all time favorite songs not just from nick cave but ever the ship song is just magnificent live versions arguably better the studio recording the first time i ever heard the song was on the live at the albert hall cd bundled with the first best of compilation but even so this song never fails to hit hard if nick cave and the bad seeds retired after this album they d have gone down as heroes even then but they didn t there is much much more to come outstanding in every way if you only ever buy one bad seeds album you wouldn t go wrong with this one standout tracks the ship song the hammer song the witness song henry s dream 1992 following up the good son was always going to be an impossible task there was just no way of topping that record and fortunately it doesn t seem like they tried henry s dream is quite a radical change in sound once you dig a little beneath the surface there appears to be more of a party atmosphere in the bad seeds camp and the songs sound a little looser and a little more frenetic for it i would argue that the album doesn t really contain many long standing bad seeds favorites but what we do have is a very solid collection of songs which all fit together quite nicely personally i think this is a good album if not a great one standout tracks brother my cup is empty loom of the land live seeds 1993 who doesn t love a good live album i was in two minds whether or not to include the bad seeds live recordings in this retrospective but they re pretty much essential listening this is a fantastic showcase of the bands best up to this point absolutely terrific renditions of the mercy seat the ship song tupelo the weeping song are the highlights for me but every song is worth listening to i read that the album only came about because nick was unsatisfied with the production on henry s dream but i never noticed any issue with that regardless the recordings on this album sound fantastic man i wish i could have been there standout tracks the ship song the weeping song jack the ripper nick cave retrospective part 2 tender pricks october 12 2019 july 31 2020 alex79uk 16 comments i m a nick cave fan who is listening to the entire back catalogue in release order during my drives to and from work so that i can better evaluate how i feel about the latest album ghosteen introduction post part one part two part three part four part five part six i ve gone and got your funeral my trial and kicking against the pricks the wrong way around but never mind kicking against the pricks 1986 i m not usually a fan of covers albums but this is pretty good the bad seeds versions are on the whole so wildly different from the original recordings that it makes for very interesting listening i m not familiar with all of the source material but this is a great album regardless diversity is here in abundance as cave co swerve from the cheesy lounge pop crooning of sleeping annaleah to the menacing intensity of hey joe the real highlight though is the epic impenetrable wall of sound rendition of the velvet underground s all tomorrow s parties standout tracks all tomorrow s parties by the time i get to phoenix tender prey 1988 the album gets off to such a strong start with a trilogy of some of the bad seeds finest and doesn t really let up with the excellent mercy and city of refuge but as you head towards the tail end of the record it does become apparent that tender prey is ever so slightly top heavy there s nothing particularly wrong with the final couple of tracks and even nick cave album filler is worth listening to although sugar sugar sugar is entirely forgettable but i personally feel like it just kind of drifts out without a bang and the stronger tracks could have been a 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