With 11 releases under his belt (with the Bad Seeds), Nick Cave's dark musings and emotional flatline have become both expected and predictable. No question, Cave is...
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No More Shall We Part ends a four-year silence from Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. A best-of was issued in 2000, but no new material has appeared since 1997's landmark album,...
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Sometimes it's hard to grasp music of real depth. When bosom-implanted divas croon toothpaste anthems and hip hoppers grin for the bling bling, music on the whole suffers...
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Everything on Nocturama sounds like something Cave has done before. "He Wants You" is a smooth love song, "Still in Love" is a gothic love song, and "Wonderful Life" has a...
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Nick Cave is unquestionably an album artist. Each of his records has a specific mood and theme, standing as an individual work. That said, his albums have also been...
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It ain't like he's never sung ballads or about murder before. "Death Is Not The End," with its all-star cast from Kylie Minogue to P.J. Harvey, is amusing, but a lot of...
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In some ways, Murder Ballads is the record Nick Cave was waiting to make for his entire career. Death and violence have always haunted his music, even when he wasn't...
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Minimalist in the worst sense--as in nothing happens. On BC, Cave walks languidly through the garden of Eden with his loved one at hand. He stops and smells the roses with...
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Murder Ballads brought Nick Cave's morbidity to near-parodic levels, which makes the disarmingly frank and introspective songs of The Boatman's Call all the more startling....
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Nick Cave is unquestionably an album artist. Each of his records has a specific mood and theme, standing as an individual work. That said, his albums have also been...
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In the tradition of such great records as David Bowie's Pin Ups, Dylan's Dylan and that damn Bryan Ferry album, Nick Cave delivers some classic blues, some classic schmaltz...
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Besides being noteworthy as an astonishingly good all-covers album, Kicking Against the Pricks is notable for the arrival of a new key member for the Seeds, drummer Thomas...
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Reduced to a quartet for the most part, with Adamson joining Cave, Bargeld, Harvey and Wydler on only a couple of tracks, the Seeds turn from the interpretive triumph of...
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The blues had long been a potent undercurrent in the Birthday Party's music, so it wasn't all that surprising that Nick Cave embraced the sound and feeling of rural blues on...
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Cave's debut includes the momentous "A Box For Black Paul" (in which Cave barks drunkenly at some poor guy's funeral), an ace cover of Leonard Cohen's "Avalanche" and a...
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Nick Cave launched his solo career in style with From Her to Eternity, an accomplished album mixing the frenzy and power of his Birthday Party days with a dank, moody...
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Continuing the creative roll of Tender Prey and The Good Son, Henry's Dream showed the band in fierce and fine fettle once more. The biggest change was with the choice of...
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Keeping the same line-up from Henry's Dream, Nick Cave and company turn in yet another winner with Let Love In. Compared to Henry's Dream, Let Love In is something of a more...
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Exactly what it says it is, and quite good at that -- some fans consider many of the songs on Live to be superior to their studio equivalents, testament to its overall...
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With guitarist/keyboardist Roland Wolf and Cramps/Gun Club veteran Kid Congo Powers on guitar added to the ranks, along with guest appearances from old member Hugo Race, the...
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Losing Wolf, aside from the final reprise of "Lucy," but otherwise making no changes in the line-up, the Seeds followed up Tender Prey with the equally brilliant but...
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Few split EPs have the feel of a group effort, but this collaboration between Nick Cave and Shane MacGowan (with Cave's Bad Seeds serving as the backing band) is a wonderful...
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When Blixa Bargeld left Nick Cave's Bad Seeds, who would have predicted his departure would result in one of the finest offerings in the band's catalog? Abbatoir Blues/The...
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Nick Cave finally gives the dedicated fans what they've desired for years (and have probably amassed in various guises in shoddy bootlegs): an official career-spanning...
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