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1.Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! by: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds March 03, 2008
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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. Read More:

2.Let Love in by: Nick Cave December 13, 1994
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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 ... Read More:

3.Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (+ 54 Page Booklet With Lyrics and Photos) by: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds March 03, 2008
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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 on ... Read More:

4.The Boatman's Call by: Nick Cave March 03, 1997
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Goodness. A featherlight touch on the piano, unobtrusive backing by the Seeds, plaintive violins... is this really the same people who romped through songs like 'Loverman' and 'Stagger Lee'? Those in the know (who know these things, you know) claim this album is the result of Cave's break-up with PJ Harvey (but you knew that). If so, the grounding of all these songs in reality certainly adds to the poignancy. True tales or not however, this is full of richly detailed, melodic heartbreak. Nick Cave has always written songs of remarkably high quality, but here he delivers a break-up album that stands toe-to-toe with the finest in the genre; Blood On The Tracks, Heartbreaker, Blue, No More Your Lover, Gentlemen... and The Boatman's Call.

5.No More Shall We Part by: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds April 02, 2001
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I've followed and enjoyed Nick Cave's work from The Birthday Party through to Dig Lazarus Dig!!!, but I'm afraid I'd have to say that this album is not his finest hour, for me. That's not to say it's without any merit - the title track, God Is In The House and The Sorrowful Wife are strong, while Darker With The Day is sad and lovely. However, having stripped things back from the violence of his early work on the beautiful Boatman's Call album, it seems almost as they don't know quite where to go with this one. Many of the ballads aim for the rawness and tenderness of his previous album but somehow fail to convince, as if his lecture on the art of writing a love song had dried out this frequently wonderful aspect of his work into a stuffily intellectual ... Read More:

6.The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds by: Nick Cave May 11, 1998
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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 is a great ... Read More:

7.The Good Son by: Nick Cave December 31, 1993
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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 ... Read More:

8.Henry's Dream by: Nick Cave December 31, 1993
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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.

9.Music From The Motion Picture The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by: Original Soundtrack, Nick Cave & Warren Ellis November 05, 2007
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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.

10.Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus by: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds September 20, 2004
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Well what an impressive piece of work Nick Cave has managed yet again. This is without a doubt Nick Caves masterpiece. I had my doubts that he could never top the immense, heartbreaking No More Shall We Part. But belive me... he has. I was slightly worried when reading this was going to be a double album, i think maybe we all did. Maybe one or two brilliant tracks and a load of fillers, ecspecially after Nick Caves last album, the slightly dissapointing Nocturama. But Abatoir Blues/Lyre Of Orpheus is absolutly amazing. Tracks like There She Goes My Beautiful World, O'Children, Spell or my personal favourite Easy Money really show Nick Caves amazing talent. After making albums for twenty years, artists tend to slip. Nick Cave and the amazing Bad Seeds only get better. Just listen to the recent ... Read More:

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