The Boatman's Call

I understand his genius but I did find this album a bit dull. It is haunting and beautiful and there are a few key songs that I enjoy and listen to. It suits a particular mood but won't make it on to my regular rotation.

I love the poetry but this one had less punch than the other Nick Cave albums I've gotten so far

Nick Cave, babe, please, we're begging you to get a vocal coach. Please

Piano album. Beautiful opener. Somber mood, but lovely. Melancholy. Immaculate vibes to lie around and stare into distance.

3/5. I do see the appeal of nick cave now, which I think got overshadowed by the loud post punk of his other albums. Akin to Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan, dark and serious lyrics while still have a hint of pessimism and yet optimistic at the same time. These are dark times but we'll make it through. I would say it could be better since it does get kind of similar sounding as the album progresses. It started at a 4 but now it's a 3 which is unfortunate because I had high hopes. Oh well, maybe next time Cave. Best Song: Into My Arms, Are You The One I've Been Waiting For?, There Is A Kingdom

Intensely amazing

Hmm, I know many people LOVE Nick Cave, but I’m not exactly feeling it. The musicianship is good, but if I’m being honest it’s kind of boring… I counted 2 songs with cat references, don’t get me wrong I love my cats, but I’m not often singing about them. Then you have all the biblical references, especially with his vocal range it gives me a budget Johnny Cash vibe, but maybe it’s my mood today… So it goes.

I'm just not in a frame of mind where I can concentrate on this. Zero interest in a nice quiet album where I need to focus on the lyrics. Someday in the future I'll bet this is going to be a great album that I'm thrilled to discover.

Well, I was a certain I wasn’t gonna like this album, but I was wrong. Parts of it gave me Morphine vibes solid album it I may never listen to it or Nick Cave again. We will see.

Slow and dark. Cosy and reassuring. Soulful music that resonates with me a lot. I like this album more than I thought I would when I started the first song. Great album over all even if it doesn't fit every time and place to listen to it.

Probably my least favorite of the three Cave albums I've heard so far, but still pretty damn good. "Into My Arms" is undeniable. A light 4 stars for now. 4/5

A bit moody but I should expect that from Nick Cave. Decent. Some good songs on here. Don't think I'd listen to it all the time but it is a good listen when I'm having a bad day.

It was fine. I like post-punk Nick Cave so I don't think I'm the target audience for an all ballad effort from him. But it was fine. I really like his singing voice and his raunchy melancholia that his albums have, boring as most of the songs in this one are.

Music for a wine-drunk mom: bad poetry set to bad music

Production stands out. Flood is brill; wish he produced Leonard Cohen's songs.

Extremely appropriate and level-headed reaction to getting dumped by PJ Harvey. I'd do the same. Probably the weakest Nick Cave album I've heard - still a 3/5. Has the song from Shrek 2.

Music to listen to while making dinner - specifically, dinner for one after a nasty breakup.

My first foray into the music of Nick Cave. This was an absolutely beautiful album. Musically and lyrically it has blown me away. Can’t wait to listen to more of him now.

The most boring Nick Cave album I’ve heard yet. I miss when he was killing people.

The first 3 songs alone had me ready to give this album a 5. Finally, a moody male vocalist with a smooth, listenable voice! *cough* Leonard Cohen *cough* I will admit, he lost me a bit between the slightly pervy Black Hair and Green Eyes. What even is a “twinkling cunt”? Ehh, I guess I’ll excuse it since he’s Australian.

Into my arms is one of my favourite Nick Cave songs. Some great lyrics, but overall, the album is a bit pedestrian for me.

Dull

Really really good Beautiful and moody. First track is a classic Last track is a miss but everything else is great

I don't think that it's Nick's best work but I definitely still incredible.

Like a darker Lou Reed on the piano. Cave’s lyrics are poetic, complex, and almost always melancholy. A couple more songs like “west country girl” to break up the dour piano ballads would’ve been welcome but overall I can certainly see why this is album is so acclaimed

3.5. Into my arms is one of my favorite songs of all time (used it for my 1st dance wedding song too) and there are a handful of other standouts. This album can be a bit of a slog in parts though. I think caves writing in this is still accessible, some of the latest stuff is extremely cryptic. If you haven't signed up to The red hand files an online newsletter, please do so,

i rarely ‘like’ (on spotify) nick cave songs. but i always really enjoy the albums as a whole. this one was an unexpectedly good running album - it has a slow but heavy intensity that really makes you get going. always surprised that he shows up in this list so much but it’s always a good listen

Optimist: The glass is half full. Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Nick Cave: People destroyed my glass but at least I have the Lord.

It's nice; I've been a bit generous with the fours lately and wasn't sure if this quite gets there. Once again, I wonder - if only there were any other more interesting albums released this year. Even if we were to delve into an obscure country like, I don't know, Iceland! However...the first half does grab me, and if we removed a couple of tracks it would be a great length. Overall a solid album. 7/10

Would’ve been 3 stars until I got to Black Hair

Formative album for me, one of my all time favs. The shift from sexy and dangerous vampire Nick Cave to sexy and wistful vampire Nick Cave is a career defining move.

Lovely

Love nick cave. There were some interesting choices musically that I’m not sure panned out too well but it’s a nice quiet album. I’d give it a 4.

"If Tom Waits sang Leonard Cohen songs." So two of my least favourite on this project sung a third member of the there's too many albums by these shit artists on this list club.

La première chanson est très belle mais c’est dommage que tout l’album soit sur le même plan tout du long et n’évolue pas.

Got to the Nick Cave game late. Discovered him with Peaky Blinders theme song. First listen to this album. Listened 3 more times… Sounded like some subtle use of the accordion which was cool. Only a few bands that can pull that off-Cowboy Junkies and Spirit of the West.

Sounds like this band had 1 musical idea that was played out across almost every song on the album. Not a bad idea. Just one idea.

Comically plain and direct lyrics on a long-winded album of self-indulgent ballads. I was going to give it 3 stars for a minute there, which in my system is something that maybe I don't love, but I can see how other people could love it and it's at least real music. But, after that last song and so many that came before it, nope. Maybe it's supposed to be funny and I didn't get it?

i love you and your black hair nick cave

muy chill mood

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Not an album to listen to if you’re already depressed. Darkly pretty in some moments, but a little hard to get through otherwise.

I found it hard to stay focused on the album. The songs all have a similar sound and the vocal aren’t jumping out at you. That being said the songs I listened closely to were nice but I don’t necessarily need to hear it again. 6/10

Dork really enjoyed this. Goof preferred Nick Cave's other work.

This is my third Nick Cave album on the list. Like "Ghosteen" it is somber and contemplative. The songs focus on the loss of a relationship and it is easier for me to relate as I have experienced a break-up more than grief for the loss of someone close, but both records explore the emotions related to a loss and its effect on oneself. It is a stripped-down instrumentation, so I still prefer, "Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus" to this, because I prefer a bigger sound with music. It works here because of the intimate nature of the songs. I am glad for this project because before this I had not listened to Nick's music before. I don't like every song on this album but the ones I do are fantastic, so for me, it's 5 stars.

People Ain't No Good. There Is A Kingdom. This album is a 5 based on these alone. A story-teller in the vein of Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen, and Johnny Cash.

I liked the whole thing. I’ve always liked Nick Cave’s vibe, but never dug too deep. This is more soulful than I’d have imagined.

A wonderful Sunday morning with coffee album.

Nick Cave has a gift for finding new and uncomfortable emotions to convey through honest and beautiful songs. 9/10 Breathtakingly honest songwriting.

Man hasn't invented an up-tempo version

It was going well until Green Eyes. Glad I was listening to that on my own...

A nice listen whilst I worked. His voice is very calming

Put me to sleep.

Love Nick Cave but this isn’t my fave 3.5

I’ve got a lot of respect for Nick Cave, but man…I can’t really get into his music the way that a lot of people do, which is a shame because I can see why they love it.

осилила один раз! хватит ставить Ника Кейва!

A great juxtaposition of romance and sorrow. Cave's deep and gravelly voice really helps steer the ship straight as it flows from side to side.

If Tom Waits were less hatefully intoxicated and more Christmassy you'd have this album...which is a pretty good thing. It's not really for me but I feel like it occupies an important place. The man has talent.

Nick Cave's music never speaks to me. I find his singing annoying, the lyrics trite, and the arrangements and instrumental selections boring, no more matter which genre he approaches. While he may have been experiencing true pathos after the collapse of his relationship with PJ Harvey, this comes off as a terrible inauthentic artifice of hymns and blues. This god and drug addict expels no heartbroken true wisdom on this album. Here is a secret that not many seem to have caught on to: Nick Cave is a not a particularly gifted lyricist. How he has managed to fool so many for so long is baffling.

This is the guy who sings the song Harry and Hermione dance to in Deathly Hollows?

Nice enough songs, just not my speed. Prefer his earlier, punk-ier music, this gospel-y stuff is…eh.

There is entirely too much Nick Cave on this list. It’s dull and void of passion. Just sad music without anything that comes across as credible.

Was looking forward to finally hearing Nick Cave. This album wasn't my kind of thing though.

I don't think this one was worth my time.

Love this album.

Well, that was a whole lot of moping about. This was definitely trying to be artsy, maybe for the sake of being artsy. I can't tell if there was sincerity behind it. Liked it well enough, though

I mean this in the most respectful way. My initial reaction was, it's like a Tom Waits impersonator with a smooth baritone voice.

I liked People Ain’t No Good, mainly because I recognised it from Shrek 2, but overall this was just boring, boring, boring, with an extra helping of boring on the side. It just drones on and on and on. Each song would be ok on its own, but 50 minutes of them back to back is coma inducing.

Fairly run of the mill. Into My Arms is a good tune and have heard it before. Nothing else really stood out. Simpsons: No

Boring, don't understand why this guy features so frequently here. An album or two, fine, but I definitely don’t need to listen to his entire discography before I die.

I feel like I’m supposed to like Nick Cave but I just don’t. Dudes trying too hard.

It was okay. If it was fifteen or twenty minutes shorter, it might end up in my rotation but the theme and vibe didn't really change for almost an hour.

-from everything ive heard about nick cave and the bad seeds I was not expecting this to be so… peaceful? comforting? sort of? the piano was very nice. it definitely felt a little drawn out but it was great to listen to on a walk through town at night -Favorites are People Ain’t No Good and West Country Girl

Much better than Murder Ballads

52 minutes passed by faster than I’d thought. Many good songs, Into My Arms and Are You The One… being the pick of the bunch.

A little self-serving. Their spotify about us is hilariously self-important.

I don't know much about Nick cave and the Bad Seeds, but this album sounds like a guy who is a frontman for another genre of music trying to be a singer. His voice isn't *awful*, but it's definitely not great. In fact, his voice - and the album - is just boring. It's not bad, per se, but it's boring, and repetitive, and just plain bland. When the primary backing is a piano, the voice better be otherworldly. Nick Cave's voice is *not* otherworldly.

A 4 star album with Into My Arms, so it's actually 5 stars.

Geweldig album met mijn favoriet op (People Ain't No Good - shout out naar Shrek) en Into My Arms, wat natuurlijk een tijdloze klassieker is. Voor de rest nog degelijke nummers, maar geen nummers die er nog uit springen. Daarom een 3.7.

Genius, by an artist whose work I have grown to love over my time with the list

Альбом плохой если все песни сливаются в один трэк тут две песни разные а так все сливаются в один трэк

Mentally ill white guys LOVE to made an album like this

Yeah I can't with this. Sorry Nick. 2 Stars.

Well that’s gorgeous. Heartfelt. He’s just incredible.

Gentle, kinda mysterious instrumentation with his low, gravelly lyrics

70% Fav: There Is a Kingdom, (Are You) the One...?, West Country Girl, Idiot Prayer, Far from Me Must-Hear? Depends on your mood. Want to relax or be romantic? Yes. If not? Go ahead and skip it.

3.5/5 Cave's poetic writing and wistful singing create an intriguing listen, but ultimately the quality is lacking on many of these tracks. It's good, but a bit boring. The peaks are truly exceptional though, and we mustn't forget the colour of her hair was black. Into My Arms 5/5 Lime Tree Arbour 3.5/5 People Ain't No Good 3/5 Brompton Oratory 3.5/5 There Is a Kingdom 3/5 (Are You) the One That I've Been Waiting For? 3/5 Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere? 3/5 West Country Girl 4/5 Black Hair 2.5/5 (LEAST FAV) Idiot Prayer 5/5 Far from Me 5/5 (FAV) Green Eyes 2.5/5

This was ok. Sounded like a Leonard Cohen album, but his voice isn’t as good.

3.2 1x catchup 10/11

Definitely liking this more than the other Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds that I've had so far. Feels more consistent. I have a thing for wandering lyrics so this works for me. His voice doesn't blow me away but it does the job. Simple arrangements work well for the sad vibe. Overall would listen to again while sad.

My only dealings with Nick Cave’s music is his collaboration with Kylie. Haha. But I know someone who admires him and his music so when this came up as my review I was intrigued and a bit excited. And you know what I enjoyed it. I imagined that he was hired by a classy wine bar in a city to sit at a piano and sing while people were enjoying themselves and his goal was to suck their happiness out of them so he could feel a little better about himself. He was the in bar entertainment and I liked it.

Ok so I tried to give us a chance. After 3 or 4 songs that I was dreading the rest of it. Way too down in the dumps. Dark & dreary for the two star win

This guy is moody af. Musically it’s a beautiful album, Nick makes it weird though.

I love Nick Cave's music. He is one of the most influential artists to me personally and my own poetry. So naturally an album that focuses on his lyrical skills will turn out perfect right? Not really... I like so much this album has to offer but when compared to "Let Love In" or "Murder Ballads" or even his other "love" inspired Piano Rock album "The Good Son"... I am much more uninterested here. I love many songs here and a couple are some of my favourite songs ever but when looking at the album as a whole, I am rather disappointed. But as "bad" as this sounds, it is still a really good release with many great moments that really make me sob. One of these incredible moments is 'Into My Arms' which also opens the album. It is like most songs here, mainly driven by piano and the incredible lyrics Nick has to offer. In fact this is one of his best love songs ever. It is so beautifully written with a chorus that is simply but so effective and on top of that are the lyrics that have a perfect mix between christian references and universally divinity as well as a sentimental undertone that results into something that I simply call perfection. With 'Lime Tree Arbour' there is not only some Rock but also some Jazz mixed. The song also names the albums title in its lyrics. It is another beautiful song that blends the melancholic sound with romantic but also magical notes into perfection yet again. I also love the vocal performance a lot. And yet again, 'People Ain't No Good' is another incredible song that has a very Chamber Pop feel song and is also featured in Shrek!!! It is lovely both in lyrical matter but also in musical. But I do not think that it's perfect. It's a little too long with too many uninteresting moments. The chorus, although great, sadly doesn't save it from being "just" incredible. 'Brompton Oratory' gets weirdly trippy and ambient. It is a much more interesting and magical listen all throughout and the organ keyboard adds the ambience that I was talking about and it adds so much to the experience that this song is. If only this had the lyrics that 'People Ain't No Good' had because than it would've been perfect. The more uplifting 'There Is a Kingdom' returns to the magical thematic that the was there before but it now features my favourite chorus on the album. It is such a great hook that always returns to my mind when think of the album. It is a pure bliss to listen to this song. There are just a couple of moments that hold me back from giving this a perfect score but it is very close. Another really catchy song is '(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?' that returns to the sentimental sound from the start but even more heart-wrenching when he sings the chorus. This is another absolute masterpiece with perfect lyrics and instruments all throughout. 'Where Do We Go Now but Nowhere?' starts the albums second half with one of its darkest songs. The mix between Country and Goth Rock together with the Chamber Pop and the dark lyrics make one of the most atmospheric songs on the album. And while I think that if he did this song in his true Punk Blues fashion, it would've been better, this is still a great way to do it even if it looses itself after a while. The Gothic Country sound is extended even more on 'West Country Girl' and while it is a very interesting but weirly fitting way for Nick Cave to deliver his music, I am not very fond of this song. I just don't really care for it much as it just doesn't really have the edge that I like so much about his darker stuff or the heart-wrenching lyrics that I like about his love poems. It's cute and good but not really more. Similar fate with 'Black Hair': just not interesting enough even if the accordion does add some nice atmosphere. The folkier approach is quite fitting with the rest of the albums styles but it ultimately fails to project much of what makes Nick Cave great in the first place. It's a solid but boring track and he could've cut it off the album without me missing it. With 'Idiot Prayer' there is a slight resurrection of the albums greatest moments. It has good lyrics and very solid songwriting but it in the end fails to make another great song, just a really good one. 'Far From Me' is way too long, right of the bat. It feels streched the moment that the chorus ends the first time. There just isn't much stuff here that makes this great. The lyrics... that's it. It's a very average song with an average delivery and a couple of good moments with the instruments. It's an okay song but nothing that elevates the albums quality. The albums closing track 'Green Eyes' might be a nice ending to the album but not a great song. Again, it is average like most the second half has to offer. It's bluesy, has a nice melody and interesting spoken word additions on top of the vocals. Cute, but not really interesting. favourites: Into My Arms, Lime Tree Arbour, (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?, There Is a Kingdom least favourites: Black Hair, Far From Me, Green Eyes Rating: light 8 https://rateyourmusic.com/~Emil_ph for more ratings, reviews and takes

If I’m being honest this was sort of a downer.

Never liked him but I liked this. Shades of Leonard Cohen but pretty sometimes too.

A lovely stripped down immersive piece

Nick Cave, as always, has created and released something hauntingly beautiful. In this project, it’s more beautiful than haunting, though. I enjoyed it, but the writing isn’t quite as good as his some of his other albums. In addition, the whole thing does drone on a bit without any grand instrumentation or anything else to break up the songs. I did enjoy it, though. Not sure if I’ll ever listen to the whole thing again, but surely I’ll put on a song or two from it. It’s good. 3/5

4-

What I know about Nick Cave has been based mainly on his look - I assumed he was some goth who wrote angsty, punky songs about being misunderstood. Instead this was a pretty album that had a bit of whimsy to go along with touch of melancholy.

Hauntingly brilliant

Did Nick Cave write this book?

Classic - not as good as murder ballads but one of the big man’s finest :)

I just can’t get into Nick Cave - his voice grates and he seems like the most miserable man on the planet. This album especially - I had to split up the listen over an entire day to get through it without wanting to drink bleach.

I kind of liked it? I also stretched listening to this out over 3 days because I got immediately burnt out after one song

Excellent singing and lyrics are great. I have heard some of these songs before but never the whole thing. I think it's really good, but just not a style that I am into. Probably won't listen to this one again despite it being well written and performed.

I found this particular record a bit more compelling than the other Nick Cave record (s?) that I've had in the 1001. Kind of a dark Johnny Cash vibe. This record had a bit more variety in the sound and lyrics, so I liked it more than the other one (s?) that I've had.

Actually really enjoyed this album. Never really like any Nick Cave before

This album was beautiful. So many well thought out melodies and grooves, very lovingly created and meticulously layered and considered. It expresses the sadness and despair (and sometimes love and happiness) of Cave’s life. Yes this album was beautiful. It was also boring as hell. I mean my god. Every fucking song is at the same damn tempo. There is so little variety in terms of tone and tempo and mood that I literally could not tell you one song from another unless you gave me the lyrics. What the hell man? The wiki article says this is one of his most acclaimed works. REALLY???? He did nothing more exciting or interesting than this?!?! Come on. Again this was beautiful but I was just so, so bored. It was like going to an art exhibit of an artist and seeing that he painted the same painting twelve times and made only small changes each time. At the first you’re interested in finding the changes and comparing them, but after a while they’re all so similar to each other that you don’t fucking care anymore and just want to go to a different exhibit. That was this about half way through. Also, there’s a band attached to this? They have no identity here, and it all comes across way more as a singer-songwriter album than a band. Two stars. Not sorry. Standout Tracks: (not that I can tell the difference between most of them but ok fine) Into My Arms, West Country Girl (because it was slightly different than the rest)

Meh. Kinda boring

Relationship songs and middle-age religious angst for grownups, and. I’m all for it. I’ve never listened to any Nick Cave before but his influence is all over a bunch of indie bands I love, so it was only a matter of time before I had to get here. Beautiful piano chords, and I like his voice. The album’s swampy, moody, yet austere vibe sucked me in pretty early on. I hear a little of the moody musicality of Tom Waits, combined with songwriting chops that reminded me of Leonard Cohen but with more lyrical spit & vinegar. A great first listen.

Nick has always been one of those great songwriters who shouldn't sing their own songs. Not ever.

I like Nick Cave and this album was a bit of a rollercoaster... Initially I did not like the lyrics, but loved the voice. Instrumentation is minimalistic, but also very cool. Then I was draw in by the atmosphere and I loved it. Then it kept going for 1-2 tracks too long. Well, I like it more than Deep Purple and I gave 4 stars there, so 5 it is...

This album clearly cemented Nick Cave's status as one of a musical genius. It walked into a completely different direction than the weird humouresque 'Murder Ballads' released shortly before. It has sparse instrumentation (but no solo stuff, there's always at least one Bad Seed with Nick) and is focused on the confessions of a man with a broken heart. Here he was strongest in his lyrics with so much romantic imagery that made you feel everything the protagonist of these songs felt. Much has been said about 'Into My Arms' or 'People Ain't No Good' so I like to highlight 'Lime Tree Arbour' and 'Brompton Oratory': The first one has amazing running baseline they never could produce live while the second one is a perfect combination of love and religion and why they can be so intertwined.

Deep lovely stuff that doesn’t murder anybody this time. Nice!

Into my arms on erikoinen aloitus ja niin hyvä biisi, että innostun tätä kuunnellessa aluksi tosi paljon. Mutta sitten pitäisi jaksaa kuunnella sanoituksia tosi tarkasti. Onneks välillä haitari herättää. Tunnelma pysyy loppuun asti vähän liiankin tasaisesti silti. Heikko kolmonen.

Artistin fiksaatio romanttisiin kliseisiin on rassaavaa, jopa hämmentävää: hän kuulostaa kaikessa melodramaattisuudessaan siltä kuin uskoisi, mitä laulaa. Ja silti tämä levy on kiistaton onnistuminen, sillä Cave on valjastanut joukon tavanomaisia mutta tehokkaita melodioita ainakin A-puolen runoilujen tueksi. En ymmärrä, mutta tällä kertaa ei tarvitsekaan ymmärtää.

Another fucking Nick Cave album? No fucking thanks!

blessed to hear nick cave this day

quite gooid i like 3/5

Would normally prefer more upbeat music with more going on. This was still good tho

Trolling me now

Fuckin hell, Nick Cave again? Almost exactly the same as the last album. No fuckin way they both need to be on this list. Boring.

I don’t like albums like this. Cave’s voice grinds my gears. I find the lyrics quite cringeworthy. Green eyes was particularly bad.

Ah, a classic. I just love the mood of this whole album. It's chock full of winners. An easy five stars.

the album is dense, even after 2 full listens i still don’t really understand everything that’s going on here. it’s not my favorite nick cave album but i can see why it’s revered so heavily even if there’s some awful production choices. maybe i’ll enjoy this more once it clicks

I was like that kombucha meme girl. "No. ..weellllll, maybe? ... No. No." I feel like maybe there was potential here, but too many things were not working. Felt a bit like depressing gospel music.

Nick Cave is one of those artists I thought I would enjoy more or at least like, but I find his music a difficult listen, often depressing and annoyingly strange. With several Nick Cave-affiliated records previously on the list, The Boatman's Call is a more piano-based, mellow album with Cave's vocals reminding me of a non-French Canadian, Leonard Cohen or at least his delivery and talky-sing style. I must admit, I don't mind this record, I had no problem getting through the songs and kind of enjoyed the overall sound. I still don't know if I like him enough to listen to more than what's on the list, if this is considered his most essential works.

Beautiful Nick Cave album still like the fuller sound of the Good Son,.

All a bit samey

Loved the first song, then a spiral of depression enveloped me and I put on The Struts to cheer myself up.

Dark, bleak, bare, challenging, and yet at the same time beautiful and rewarding. The simplicity of the arrangements, coupled with the raw honesty of the lyrics addressing the loss of faith and love, had me engaged throughout. Truly wonderful. On first listen a solid 4 stars, but I know that on further listens it'll be a 5, as any album that opens with Into My Arms deserves to be.

Unusually I prefer nick caves later stuff. Into my arms is lovely and was a deserved single. The piano is somber , quiet and doesn’t have the heroin haze or pretension of his really early stuff. Should it be here? I’m not sure. But it’s a solid 3.5 rounded up.

As an album, a very good reminder of the stylistic reaches of this master when he does different work. It makes me rethink how i listen to him - this album hangs together SO WELL as a mood and style. Many of his albums are distinct in mood from the others. This one I hadnt realised - and maybe as i get older I want this gentler tender soothign stuff form him. Still I often wonder - "who actually listens to Nick Cave as much as I do?" If there are 2 obvious "types" of Nick Cave songs, there is this - accessible sweeping almost sentimantal ballads that senak into film soundtracks. He does very specific sentiments exquisitely. And the sonorous warmth of his voice - when not snarling - sure works. So, here is a whole album of it - the kinds of Cave songs that make it into films (Shrek satirically used "People they aint no good" so welll, and Harry Potter has "O Children" would have worked well on this album ). and the other type of song? His rocking frightening doomsday mock gothic anthems - stuff like "Red Right Hand" and "stagger lee". He really nailed it here, career wise - after grabbing popular attention with a Kylie duet in his p[revious album, he holds course, showing off really, and sweeping into a showcase of range and style in these coming albums, going into new spaces not filled, and the genuis of his always wry and playful and devastating lyrics, his intensity swoon and swagger, brought down to an intensity people can handle, bringing contemplative but not quite confessional intimacy. Well he does ithere - the sweeping atmospherics and style of Warre Ellis, they go on to do heaps of soundtracks and colabs together ... Its a very 'soft' album for Nick. And it starts with a song that became a wedding if not love anthem for so many. I am adding this to the "oh yeah, play that MORE!" pile.

As I’ve said before, I’m definitely not a staunch Cave man. But I have to hand it to him here for one of the greatest opening lines to a song, or, indeed, an album : “ I don’t believe in an interventionist God”. Hear, hear. Into My Arms is a fantastic song. And Brompton Oratory is not far behind it - beautiful lyrics. In fact, after 3 or 4 listens, I’m warming to the album as a unit. It’s all a bit down-tempo, but it works well.

I am not a fanatical Nick Cave fan, but it turns out I own (check notes) nearly a dozen of his albums, by the time you take solo, Bad Seeds, Birthday Party, Boys Next Door and soundtracks into account. But not this record, probably because it came out in the mid 90s when I wasn't buying as many new releases, and it wasn't really around on vinyl anyway. I really liked his late 80s, early 90s work; it's raucous and smart and sexy and dangerous and noisy. I like a bit more piss and vinegar in my Nick Cave records, and this album leans heavily into the quieter, more melancholic, ballad material. So, reading reviews of this more 'mature', introspective and sensitive material and hearing a few tracks on the radio suggested that this was not really in my wheelhouse at the time, so I think I let this album slip past me at the time. Indicative of this new approach, I note that Blixa Bargeld appears on only a few tracks on this album (and a lot of the out-takes). Clearly his sturm-und-drang, noisy influence was being sidelined on this record. Blixa scares the shit out of me, but he does bring a real rock and roll edge to whatever he does. Now, I think both Nick and I have mellowed with time, and this is much more to my taste these days. Just recently, I went to see Nick perform solo (accompanied only by Colin Greenwood, from Radiohead, on bass) at the State Theatre during his extended residency in Sydney. It had been about 15 years since I last saw Nick Cave (solo, with a stripped down band, supporting himself as Grinderman) at the Enmore Theatre, a much smaller venue that he had filled for one night only. These days, he sold out a string of ten or more large shows in Sydney over the space of a few weeks. At the Enmore, he was rocking out, but these days, he was just playing piano and singing, leaning towards the softer end of his now extensive catalogue. He can still hold an audience in the palm of his hand with genuine emotion and humour. He is a wonder on stage. The highlight of the night was 'Into Your Arms', where he firmly (but kindly) guided the audience into softly singing the chorus. It was a beautiful moment. This album is, I think, an early indicator of his more mature works. I honestly believe that he has become a poet laureate of grief, sadly through some terrible experiences in his own life. I find the way he speaks about grief, love, loss and humanity both in his music and his blog (https://www.theredhandfiles.com/) touching and eloquent, and I appreciate it more and more. This is the first album where he leans into his emotions, with less character and artifice, although the themes are loss of love, arising from failed relationships where he clearly behaved pretty badly. I think I prefer his more recent material, overall, but this is an important turning point in his career. But it does have 'Into Your Arms' on it. There is an argument that this is Nick Cave's best song (and possibly his most loved). There's a reason he sang this at Michael Hutchence's funeral, there's a reason that a theatre full of people will quietly sing along like a whispered hymn, like a prayer. This song just resonates with people, it operates on a magically human level. It is a song for the ages. Any album that delivers a song like this really must be heard,

Some beautiful dong but alot were a bore

I would give this another listen.

Man, does this guy ever have any fun?!?! He's such a downer all the time. He's a great songwriter, but everything is just so dreary. I don't know why he even bothers with names for his albums when they should all be called Depression Vol. 1, Vol. 2, etc. People Ain't No Good is a great track though. I liked it a lot. Once in a while you do need brooding and cathartic music, but a whole album of it is too much. Give me something uptempo once in a while, will ya? I hope this is the last of Nick Cave, he’s another artist who has been way over represented on this list. Especially since his schtick is the same every time. Sad boi cry music, oh I’m so dark and despairing. Bro, you need some fucking Prozac.

Gentle American music. Good for sleeping on as it has a lullaby effect. Not my cup of tea. Not bad just abit boring

Brooding and quite minimalistic; this album is full of very pretty songs like Into my arms and Idiot prayer, will definitely re listen.

Hard Pass

Great album but I never listen to it as it was way too apt at the time it came out. My obsession with it probably wasn't helpful and now it almost provokes a Pavlovian response. Gee thanks album generator for bumming me out for an hour.

Not usually a fan, but this rocks

Hard to rate. I fell asleep after 1,5 songs or so.

Has some fine moments

I had 4+ hours of travelling to do. I was hoping for a nice album to relax in to. Nick Cave was not it. I enjoyed it more than the one I had a couple of weeks ago. I don’t mind his voice, but I just can’t get in to his music.

Melodically very pleasant. Liked West Country Girl and Far From Me but not my genre overall.

Nothing too special I don't think. But not boring either. Nice one to start the day. 3/5

Truly enjoyed this one!

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Nick Cave parece fazer parte de um grupo de músicos de uma latura muito especifica, lembra-me muito de um ponto estilístico o Tom Waits. Este é um álbum que é uma uma viagem, acho muito interessante, mesmo que não seja assim tão criativo. Acho que o arranjo musical e a instrumentação do álbum foram bem conseguidos. Não tenho muito para dizer sobre este álbum para além de ser um bom álbum. No futuro acho que faria sentido voltar a ouvir este álbum. Destaco a música West Country Girl. Nota: 7/10 Data: 09/06/2024

Well-produced music with some of the most dogshit lyrics imaginable, sung by a shithead who's simply too hard to stomach. Like Morrissey without the wit, in the bin.

Really?

Take a shot every time he says "black hair" in the song, you guessed it, called "Black Hair". I still am not sure whether Green Eyes was a piss take

Started okay and then I was ready for it to be done

Can’t believe this guy sings the Peaky Blinders Theme song

This starts real strong but it fell off for me over time. None of it bad, I'd say. But whatever pulled me in that top didn't hold on.

Wasn't really in the mood for this sub-Cormac McCarthy hokum. Maybe in another state of mind its charms will reveal themselves to me - but not today. 'Green Eyes' was a very long three and a half minutes.

I can't find anything to connect with on these Nick Cave albums. I saw an art installation of his in a gallery and liked it a lot, more than any of his albums I've heard here. Glad I'm done with all 4 of them on this list. Into My Arms is a beautiful song, so this is the best of the 4 albums as it has Into My Arms. I've already forgotten the rest of the album.

Some of this I liked, but some of this I absolutely hated. I liked the imagery he uses in some of the songs as well, but others made me feel insane. Unfortunately what I liked doesn't do enough to lift this out of a 2 star for me. A big part of that is that the song Black Hair made me feel crazy with how bad it was to me. Not that I'm that far into this list, but out of everything I've listened to off the list that is the song I hate the most. I'm no song writer so I won't even say that I can personally do better. But, somehow I think you should be able to write a better song about your lover with black hair. Something that doesn't state that she had black hair almost every line at least? Green Eyes is a close second for how much I hated it to me. Similarly he doesn't seem to do very much here with the concept. A lot of singing "green eyes" over and over again. The weird talking over his own singing is also off putting to me. In the end I think very much not for me. I see the value in listening though.

Always been aware of Nick Cave and sort of considered him a Leonard Cohen-lite. Probably a bit unfairly, but this album has done little to deter me from it. That said, there is some stellar songwriting here, he does a superb job of stripping back the production to make the lyrics the focal point. Would have liked the odd change of pace but in the right mood, it's an excellent record.

This is good, but it didn't make for an uplifting commute home. I've liked a couple of the previous Nick Cave records I've gotten so far, but this one was the hardest of them to listen to so far.

Can’t quite figure this out. I want to like it but I don’t hate it. Just not sure anymore what the requirements are for this list. Why is this considered one of the albums that I should listen to before I die. If you tell me this cutting edge or classic I would call bullshit. If someone asked me if I had ever listened to Nick Cave I can now say yes but don’t ask me details because it truly was forgettable

if i could give this 1.5 stars i would. i didn’t dislike this album really i just thought it … wasn’t … interesting … at all. i liked maybe one song? but as an album…its really not doing much

Dette er et mesterverk i enkel arrangering. Det er ikke et løp eller vanskelig parti i løpet av hele albumet, men allikevel så sitter alle låtene som et skudd. Definitivt verdt å høre på, og mange sanger som også gjerne kan leses som dikt.

I couldn’t stand this man’s voice, and since this was a paired down album, that’s very unfortunate.

I got bored. I understand why the people who like Nick Cave like Nick Cave, but to me he feels a little too "brooding college coffee shop" to me.

Nick Cave is one of those artists that I've always tried to like...and failed to. Years later I still don't get what the hype's about, especially considering the fact that there are many different modern artists with a similar style who are way more interesting musically. The thing about stripped-back piano ballads for me is that they need that little something to grip me—be it the vocal delivery, interesting lyricism or a catchy melody—while this album had virtually none of that. It's all so broody, depressing, monotonous and repetetive... It's not that I think it's a bad album—it's okay, I listened through twice—but his music might just not be for me. I can't believe I'm saying this but if I was in the mood for some piano ballads I'd put on my Adele's vinyl over this, 'cause at least her vocal delivery never disappoints. This guy's voice makes me want to simultaneously fall into a deep slumber and jump out the window.

- Definitely not feeling this; largely an excessively lugubrious, tedious dirge. - "West Country Girl" seems to have the correct style for Cave's voice; this feels like it all should be closer to Johnny Cash than to Rufus Wainwright. - I actively do not like multiple songs here, including "Lime Tree Arbour," "There Is a Kingdom," and "Green Eyes." A real chore overall.

Kind of a 3.5 for me. Dilemma!

This one was quite a change of pace from the others on the list. Much slower honestly better

Singer songwriter, Mag ich gerne hören Sehr beruhigend.

C’est vraiment la semaine des albums péniblement vaseux à écouter. Là on a droit à un wannabe Leonard Cohen emo tout droit kicked out de la troupe de théâtre du secondaire parce qu’il rajoute à ses lignes des tournures de phrases edgy et faussement profonde juste pour tenter d’impressionner ses compères, les rendant malaisé en sa présence. Bref, ça pue du cul, 1 étoile parce que jsuis tanné

I'm indebted to Shrek for introducing me to Mr. Cave, a really deep-cutter. Listener: explore his other works, as they are diverse and deep.

Plaintive, poetic, poignant (not trying to stay with the 'p' words deliberately). Sombre (there, no p). Biblical emotions but personal (sorry back to a p). Sometimes I fear he'll just slow down so much he falls off the stage. But he starts again after I help him back up.

No-one does it quite like this. Stripped back, bare, haunting. Into My Arms is just beautiful.

Both this record and I started out strong, but by the end of it, I was tired, and the tunes seemed monotonous and overlong.

I'll admit, when I first saw we had another Nick Cave album, I was not enthusiastic. I've really liked the records of his so far, but it felt too soon on the heels of Ghosteen. But damned if I wasn't reeled in and forgetting all about that as the record played. It didn't have the immediate vacuum suck pulling me in from the opening notes, and the first lyrics made me wonder if this might be where the limerence fades and I come to Earth. I know, that's all a bit dramatic, and this was great. Lean production, let the songs to the work, I'm more and more impressed by Cave's versatility. Adler listened along with me and he dug it too. Said he heard a bit of a Johnny Cash vibe in Cave's delivery.

I do like Nick Cave. These last two albums of his, though, were a bit of a chore to get through. I still like him, but I just want his albums to have more variety. Also, I tend to like my Nick Cave with more bite. Individually, these melancholic songs were all cool. Taken together though, they were a bit much. Give me Murder Ballads or that double album we heard that had that Harry potter song on it. Those were my kinda Nick Cave albums. unsure how to rate this one. as an album, it's a 2, but like i said i thought the songs themselves were all right. let's go with a 3

Nick Cave is a real darling to so many. Not me. Mid.

Was ok.

I guess maybe you need to be in the mood to listen to his music? I should set my alarm to this and maybe it will grow on me. More Nick Cave albums than I would have though.

An easily approachable and mellow Nick Cave album. The songs are pretty quiet and somber, and other than Green Eyes, nothing too unusual. After listening to it a handful of times, it is just fine, without much that i really attach to or connect with.

DNF. Fand den ersten Song langweilig und der zweite klang genauso wie der Erste.

Deep melancholic lyrics made me feel reflective? Interesting lead vocalist too

Oh great, another Nick Cave album. Surely this one won't be boring, pretentious crap. Just yelled "Oh, shut the fuck up, already" during Black Hair. Things are going great. Welp...it was boring, pretentious crap.

Similar to Murder Ballads, but slightly more cheerful. At times.

no ome does melancholy like nick cave

My dad is a huge Nick Cave fan, so he was a fixture of my childhood (he took me to see Nick Cave when I was like 5). All that is to say I always have a soft spot for him. This isn't my favorite of his albums, but I still very much enjoyed it. This one just barely crosses over from 3 to 4 stars, but I'll definitely keep listening to it. Album Cover: B

Mood: a little down Setting: puttering around in the morning after waking up Sometimes an album meets you right where you're at for any given moment. I don't think I will ever listen to this album all the way through again. That said, it was perfect for this morning. I am giving it a 4 but it was very close to a 5.

Maybe it's just me, but Nick Cave is kind of hard to listen to? This album is different sounding than the last Cave album we were given. He doesn't have a good voice, and he just kind of talks at you. This album was 10 very similar sounding piano songs with him talking over them in the same way on each one. Despite this, I see people remarking online that this album is amazing, so maybe it's just me who doesn't get it? Not a single song stood out to me. I was bored the entire time. Didn't actively dislike it, but what is there to love about this? 5/10

This is a great example of separating the quality of the album versus how much I enjoy listening to it. This is my second Nick Cave album, and I can see he is a good songwriter and they are able to accomplish what they want with a track, so I give them props for being a good band. I don’t enjoy listening to most of these tracks, but they’re certainly not garbage.

Classic nick cave openings ong fire

Having listened to a few Nick Cave albums already, I really wasn’t expecting this to be to my taste, but I’m very happy to say how wrong I was. This is melancholic singer songwriter folk music at its best and I love it from front to back. It’s quite impressive just how versatile Nick Cave is. I’ve despised some of his music, and yet I love this album. That’s interesting in itself.

This album is solid off of into my arms alone!

Really was not a fan of his voice, it was all very boring and sounded the same

man, "Black Hair" really killed the vibes. first half was really strong, ended kinda weak tho.

So much Nick Cave on this list.

This was more chill than I was expecting from a Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album. Usually they are all-in to the experimental post-punk style. This one was way more stripped back. Simple piano, bass, and some orchestration here and there. Unfortunately, I'm not a big fan of Nick Cave's voice. I think the songwriting was a bit weak here too. This musical style is better suited for a shorter album. This one seemed to meander which was amplified by the lack of variety in the overall sound of the songs.

Couldn't finish. Bored to death.

4.5+/5

Wow. Absolutely nothing redeeming.

I SWEAR TO GOD IF I GET ONE MORE NICK CAVE LABUM ON HERE. PLEASE, MAKE IT STOP

I think I like this but it definitely feels like music for a particular mood. Just not sure what that mood is

i liked it. it reminded me of pj harvey and also shrek.

Wow, I initially hated this but something clicked part way through, need to listen a few more times. 3.08

Stop saying "black hair". Oh my god! The rest of this is no better.

Tone deaf AF. Just the same drolling over and over with minimal music behind it. I finally gave up and moved on to something worth listening to.

Ok. 3.

What did PJ Harvey do to Nick Cave?

This was alright. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are a little hit or miss for me most of the time. My favorite songs were “Into My Arms,” “People Ain’t No Good,” and “Far From Me.” Overall I didn’t love it, but also didn’t hate it. Pretty average.

Ahh Nick, you silver tongued crooner

альбом меня абсолютно снёс никак я не ожидал такого от Ника Кейва ну ооооочень проницательно

Жанр мужик говорит под музыку намного интереснее раскрыт у Боуи Но в целом отдельные треки получились хорошо и можно погрустить под них Алкоальбом: бутылка рома

good love songs

Very good!

This really wasn't worth listening to. I was going to give it a 2 because there were parts of it that were listenable as background noise, but then Green Eyes came on and it dropped it down to a solid 1 again.

Lite one-noted men mycket extremt bra låtar med en väldigt unik emotionell ton.

good voice but kinda boring, first track was great though

Not usually a fan of Nick Cave, but I really enjoyed this album. Very Leonard Cohen-esque.

A bit melodramatic and tacky at times, but cool soft tunes and melodies. The Lyre Of Orpheus is still better though.

I liked the performances but the mood was a lot. Better than a 2 but not a 4.

Good music.

This is normally something that I think I might like, but something about Nick Cave really sets my teeth on edge. It just strikes me as angst ridden faux introspection. The music itself I thought was fairly well done. Not something that I will seek to listen further to.

Very somber. Still have a hard time processing Nick Cave’s voice.

I love Nick’s type of voice - it’s the type of voice I want to hear and tends to ground me for some reason. I think I like that it is approachable and gritty and how it fits with the songwriting. I am a fan of Leonard Cohen and his way of singing and genre feels similar which is why I’ve enjoyed Nick Cave in the past. And yes I do really like Into Ny Arms.

I love Nick Cave but there are other albums I like more.

Pretty decent. Sounds like Fiona Apple and a baptist preacher having dinner at a seafood restaurant and cocktail lounge in 1996.

Muess zuegeh, au wenn people aint no good en spezielle platz ih mim herz hett isches chli es lahms album? Aso sicher ned mis lieblings nick cave album

ha s erste nick cave album sehr schö gfunde wo uf de liste gsi isch. erste song nur piano, sehr schnulzig aber huere schön. aaaah s album heter gschriebe noch rehab und nochdem d PJ harvey mit ihm schluss gmacht het. guet so find pj harvey komplett überbewertet. find etz song 2 und 3 chli sehr langsam und schleppend vorallem. aso schön, aber würkli chli pathetisch. brompton oratory isch no cool, drum machine isch funny. und d chords sind sehr nice. there is a kingdom isch chli chrizzo time findi. wäh west country girl cool. chli doomy. voll nice. bi black hair seiter öppe 1000000 mol dass sie schwarzi hoor het ich checks jo. ultra langwilig. idiot prayer isch schl aber ich bi z wenig 40i und depri zum mega geil finde. s gliche gilt für far from me. bin irgendwie froh isch das album bald fertig? irgendwie schön aber s schleppt halt scho huere. green eyes ahaaa sie het grüeni auge??? was nick?? singt wie n schlosshund echt.

oke du chasch tüf singe iwie für das, dass es es schöns lied als opener isch, deliveret er d emotione nöd so ganz? aber suscht söne lied oke sind alli lieder langsam lime tree arbour naja people ain't no good mega schön wennd striicher chömmed aber nachane töneds iwie schräg? aber suscht seehr cute er probiert mengisch tüfer z singe als er chan?? mr. nick cave ich fang mich ah langwile west country girl isch jz nöd mega mis gsi aber wenigstens mal chli e anderi pace ah ok back to 3 bpm omg black hair findi gad würkli katastrophe "the smell of her black hairrrr on maaaaa....pillowwww" gott was isch das "tdaaaaaay...... shetookatraaaaaaiiiiinnn..... totheweeeesttt" bruuuder idiot prayer hani wieder recht cool gfunde aber finds jz nöd schlimm wenns jz denn ufhört OMG WAS HAHAHAHAHAHA NEI HÖR UF ES ISCH NÖD COOL WENND GSCHISSE DRÜBER REDSCH ok höch chaner au nöd singe also s het doch paar schöni lieder aber het sich das zooooge und das fucking black hair lied git definitiv 1 stern abzug

This album is mostly pretty droning, the tone just doesn't work for the majority of the tracks. There are some highlights that brooding atmosphere really sell the story behind the music. I think more could have been done instrumentally to enhance the ideas presented here. Cave's vocals are fairly hit and miss and all. If I lost PJ Harvey I would act the same way.

A Marmite album: obviously a very talented singer-songwriter, but this is such a depressing album - Leonard Cohen for the 1990's, so it has to be a no from me. I had to check that Spotify hadn't started playing Lou Reed when "There Is a Kingdom" started because I thought that I was listening to "Perfect Day".

Into my arms People ain’t no good Brompton Oratory (Are You) the one that i've been waiting for? Idiot Prayer Far From Me

Into my arms was fine and the rest was just very blah. Sometimes terribly boring. Some cringe lyrics. The end of the album was hard to get through. Glad it’s over.

didn't really enjoy this one. last song was particularly bad.

really don't like nick cave!

Easily the best of the too-many (by a factor of 2) records in this esteemed list. This works because musically it doesn't try to do too much and it's lyrically raw, obviously. It's lovely and haunting and played with understatement, if slightly one-note in tone. In general, one finds NC to be significantly overrated, but this provides at least some justification.

Decent easy listening. Not a great overall album though. Got a little repetitive and wanted it to be over sooner

I was teetering towards a 2 because there were a couple of songs that I didn’t mind, and the rest of the albums biggest crime is that it’s just a bit slow and samey. But Green Eyes really took away any good will I had toward those tracks. Who on earth thought it was a good idea to let Cave record that?

Not really my style...

In a mood I might live it more.

One of the NCATBS albums I would point as somewhere sensible to start. Full of Nick in Love vibes and with the Bad Seeds in a classic lounge band mode. Some of his loveliest tunes (Into My Arms and Are You The One particularly) and less gnarly guitar from Blixa and 8 minute old testament workouts. Not my favourite though, a solid 4.

DNF. I respect this for what it is, sad and beautiful it’s not for me

Love his stuff and this is a stand out album in a great discography

Also wenn der Bootsmann so ruft... laufe ich im Piano-Nebel auf Grund.

7/10

It was fine, I did not like that last song though

Another artist that I had long heard about but never heard. Started out well until I realized the entire album was going to be the same monotone slow sound. The man is a poet but not a creative musician to me. I am well past my emo early twenties phase, so this one didn’t get me in the feels the way it probably would have back then. I listened to the entire album but about halfway through checked to see how many songs were left. The Black Hair song has to be a punk to see how many times two words can be repeated

March 5, 2024 HL: “Into My Arms”, “There is a Kingdom”, “West Country Girl”, “The One I’m Waiting For” Hm, Murder Ballads was musically intriguing but also gross n’ gruesome. Boatman is often sweet, but its purposefully slow and sombre nature made me long for the variety of the former album, or at least the riot of “Curse of Millhaven”. Can’t believe he made the song from Shrek 2 real though. Wild Apart from The Boatman’s Call, Nick Cave has 2 five-stars and 2 three-stars from me- plus 2 Cave-adjacent ones (Punishing Kiss, Oedipus Schmoedipus) that weren’t the greatest but I gave 3 stars for their uniqueness.

I feel like I am listening to hymns, with different lyrics and the organ was replaced with a piano, alongside the flattest vocal performance known to man.

Faultless. Best NC&BS for me.

Zzzzzzz…

Pretty similar throughout. Good voice and melodies. Standout songs: Into my arms People aint no good Black hair

Pretty cool. Very good voice.

Sommige nummers mooi, sommige beetje saai, maar mooie stem

It sounds pretty good, but I am not a fan of how spiritual some of the lyrics are.

ein paar gute songs, aber es existieren bessere nick cave alben da draußen

Chatão, todas as músicas soam igual

One of my favourite songwriters. Beautiful album with lots of dark twists and pretty turns. Great voice and a very good band to lift the songs to a higher place. Standout tracks: Into My Arms, Lime Tree Arbour, People Ain't No Good, Brompton Oratory, There Is A Kingdom, (Are You) The One I've Been Waiting For?, Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere?, Idiot Prayer, Far From Me. 8,5 out of 10

I really liked it . I don't know how but it just does it for me

o que somos nós senão putinhas do sr. Nick Cave? preciso me redimir por não ter comentado no outro álbum, então: inaugurar com a música de Questão de Tempo acabou comigo, foi lá naquele ponto... me senti uma menina de alma velha deitada no colo desse homem sensível que me faz cafuné enquanto declama seu amor. ele é ateu e essa mulher é sua religião. não tive problemas com isso, eu quero ser ela! ps. Green Eyes com vozes sobrepostas foi meio vergonha alheia

Lindo. Apaixonante. Não esperava gostar tanto de um álbum tão "stripped down" feito por um homem. Quero ouvir muitas outras vezes!

Haunting, melancholy, personal, beautiful. Nick Cave is one of my favorite artists, and this is one of my favorite albums of his.

1997 Standouts: Into My Arms, People Ain't No Good, The One I've Been Waiting For, Exceptional: 4/5

i dig it.

Kind of like a new generation Dylan, I thought all of his songs sounded the same

# Playlist track - Into My Arms # Notes - Great opening act with "I don't believe in an interventionist god" - The album then proceeds with more or less the same tone throughout, and tracks kind of blend together. - Good, but not great. 3 stars.

I started listening to this album, and it started raining outside. So I have to give it 5 stars if only to avoid messing with the magic it holds. Jokes aside, it is fascinating how the stories and moods in the lyrics are brought to life with seemingly simple musical tools. The texts themselves paint a vivid picture, and then you add a dark melody that isn't catchy but creates the right atmosphere on an almost subliminal level along with Nick Cave's haunting voice and get a song that transports the listener into another world. And the thing is, the illusion works really well, at least for me: the lyrics are dramatic, but the songs do not come across as theatrical because it is easy to go along with the words and allow them to make sense in the moment.

As much as I adore Nick and even though there are a few good songs on this, I just can't give it full marks. Few too many dull moments for me personally.

It gets as close as one can get to singing in a monotone. I almost took out the digital tuner just to see if he actually hits more than three notes in the entire album. I thought maybe I was missing some lyrical brilliance but then I started reading the lyrics and nope. I don't see the appeal. Sad Boomer music. There are many better sad options out there. And, wow, I really, really hate Green Eyes. That's a bunch of nonsense with a pompus voice over. Good grief. Wth was that? Ugh.

If you want Nick Cave, you'll get it. Sounds like Waits sings Cohen (or simmilar). No need to be heard before I die :-(

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I’m finding myself to really be enjoying Nick Cave.

Nice, but a bit slow for my liking. Proper posh hotel bar music.

Thank you Polly Jean - we all know Cave is at his best when he is grieving and his raw emotions are on display It's an album I surprisingly very rarely revisit in Caves Arsenal but most certainly one of his most influential records to date 4.5 / 5

He’s a harrowing bloke Nick Cave but boy can he make some fantastic music. In love, in love, in love you laugh. In love you move, I move And one more time with feeling 4/5

Cheer up Nick

Surprised me how much I enjoyed it, great songwriting. Moody bloke but it’s all part of the mystique

There's a certain melancholic reverence held within anything I've ever heard by Nick Cave, and this album's no different. Feels like I ought to like it, but I just can't.

Tom Waits vibe. Very low key but enjoyable enough.

I wonder if this album would be as highly regarded if it had been their first. It seems like it’s appreciated more for its departure from their typical style than for how it stands on its own. The lyrics are more notable than the music. Overall, I find it ordinary. 2.8

What does it say when the two Nick Cave albums on this list are both considered "departures" from his normal work? The accompaniment is good, but I get the same feeling from this as I did the Leonard Cohen album -- okay but a bit unfulfilling. (WTF with the Casio beat on that song?!) 3.3

This was my gateway album into The Bad Seeds, alongside Lyre of Orpheus/Abbatoir Blues, and while I now prefer their rougher and more violent early work than this more polished effort, it’s still a great work of songwriting. “Into My Arms” is truly one of the most remarkable songs of the last 30 years

Can't do it

I like the backing organs on Lime Tree Arbour. I feel like People Ain't No Good would resonate a lot with my dad. Growing up I heard the phrase all the time as part of his refrain coming home from work in the service industry. Brompton Oratory is a really pretty to me. Deadpan vocals, but really luscious instrumental backing with organs and a drum machine. High point so far for me. There is a Kingdom is a straightforward Christian rock song. Instrumentals are fine with really nice production, but I have a hard time getting down with the hokieness inherent in scripture hymns of this variety. Accordion drone pairs wonderfully with his depressed monotone delivery on Black Hair. I've listened to Nick Cave albums before, and I come away from this one in a similar place. I enjoy the atmosphere and find the instrumentals to be really pretty, but I don't find myself really wanting to come back for more. This album had some real high points (Brompton Oratory) but also merged into gospel territory that I didn't love (There is a Kingdom). Overall its a solid enough album, but not something I plan to listen to again soon. 3 / 5

Great voice and I definitely like some of these songs but it's tough to get through a 52 mins of what sounds very similar. I probably liked the intro song Into My Arms the best.

Good, but definitely a slow and heavy album. Not exactly what I'm looking for on a Friday. No doubt Nick Cave has a wonderful, clear voice with strong lyrics. Not quite as good as I remember the last Nick Cave album, but still enjoyable for what it is.

Such a unique album with the deep soft voice gives it a spooky sort of tone. The piano, bass, and quiet drums all in the background throughout are a great compliment. The strings that come in every so often are another very nice touch. Green Eyes was a bit weird to end it I must say, maybe could have done without that song. But other than that it was a great album. I didn't mind this at all being almost an hour long, it seemed like it flew by.

Nick Cave has such a calming voice, but I'm a fan of some melancholy shit and this is just a biiiiiit too much for me. Some real beautiful stuff in here though. Green Eyes is weird and took a double take when he said "cunt." Pretty middling 3 for me and liked the last album we listened to by him more.

I know people love Nick, but it just isn't for me. Maybe its the time of day. I should listen again at night.

This one was meh for me. I just wasn’t really feeling it, dawg. I kept getting wrapped up in her black hair and some depression listening to this one. I’m sure it has its place in the world, like a sad movie or something. But not something I’d choose to listen to much.

Best Song: People Ain't No Good. I really like when a writer articulates themselves not just through complexity (metaphors, symbolism, etc.) but also throws in simple, unassailably "plain" bits. "People, they ain't no good" conveys at least as much in its simplicity as the verses do in their complexity. Worst Song: Green Eyes. This is a weird one, because although I liked the lyrics and the sung and spoken versions of the songs independently, the overlaying of the sung and spoken vocals totally detracted from the track for me. It was a jarring device to use only once, snuck in at the very end of the album. Overall: Great songwriting with heady and brooding lyrics. Pleasantly melancholy. Definitely an album to come back to.

Nothing for me here.

Not great. Need more eclectic sound. can't always be white boy rock and roll.

this record is a head scratcher. There's at least 3 other Nick Cave records I would pick over this one. Its too slow, too samey and rather boring. Its not bad, just boring. Listen to Dig Lazarus Dig instead.

I like some of it but not all of it. Seems to be hit or miss.

Really liked the feelings and the groove of this album, specially the voice.

The bad seeds are not that bad after all. I would say they are easy going seeds.