The Boatman's Call

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

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

Cheer up Nick

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.

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.

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.

One or two tracks less monotonous and boring than the rest. I found myself shaking my head at the comments on YouTube - I didnt think the music and/or lyrics were amazing, unlike everyone else. Maybe you need to listen several times to develop an appreciation, but I have no desire to put myself through more listenings!

Not the biggest prog rock, but i can see how people would really like this album

I settled in to listen to this album, expecting something different. As someone who's not usually into slow balladry alternative rock, I found it slow-paced and lyrically important, which is commendable. However, it didn't quite hit the mark for me on a Thursday evening. Maybe it's just not the right vibe for a midweek listen

So boring

Olis varmaan pitäny keskittyy enemmän lyriikoihin.

I'm sure this will be an unpopular opinion but I just don't know why Nick Cave is so revered. He just seems to spend an awful lot of time making sure he looks and sounds angst ridden and edgy. I like some of the soundtracks he has produced but find this solo stuff too 'up itself'. Cheer up Nick

I feel like I SHOULD like this but I don’t. I just don’t get it. Some of it would be ok if someone else sung it or arrangements were different. The last song I couldn’t even sit through.

First lines of first song: “I don’t believe in an interventionist God / But I know darling that you do / but if I did I would knee down and ask him / not to intervene when it came to you”…. Dylan it ain’t. I guess it’s supposed to be deep. Musically, this is pretty good; spades, piano driven Melodie’s. I don’t much care for the singer’s tone/style, has a spoken feel, not a lot of tonal variation, and sometimes seems to be straining to reach. But the killer for me is the lyrics themselves. As above, who actually uses the word “interventionist” in a melancholy song? And where’s the faux depth of “seasons came, seasons went / the winter stripped the blossoms bare / a different tree now lines the streets / shaking its fists in the air”. The overall affect is just irritating. Melancholy songs, atonal singing, stupid lyrics. The more I listened the more irritated I got. A d the lower my rating. I’ll settle to 2/5, even though it irritates me.

I like nick cave but this album is a bit too “slow for me. Only liked a couple of songs enough to listen to again - west country girl and idiot prayer. This is gonna be like 2.5 out of 5 for me

Beautiful yet depressing

Man....raise your hand if you miss "Murder Ballads" ✋. (im jk - I know you all hated it). Seriously though, Nick lost his gritty edge on this one. Lyrics are pretty good, but music is meh. The good news is we only 17 Nick Cave and Tom Waits albums to go....

I wasn’t ready for another Nick Cave album so soon either.

The piano sounds nice.

Dull. Could do with more Bad Seeds and less pretentious pub crooner.

Maybe it's because I'm in a rare good mood this week but I really struggled to get into this. Its very melancholic and dour. I also found it a bit dry as there wasn't much in the way of instruments...I guess minimalist is the term but truthfully I just found it sad and a bit dull...

Too broody for me.

bad elevator music

I really should like Nick Cave. I stumble across his songs here and there and really really like them. He’s a story teller and I like his voice. So I should like him. But then I look up an album and give it a play and it bores me to death. This is no exception, but there’s not even 1 banging track here that might have lead me to this album. ‘Idiot Prayer’ was as good as it got for me. Scrapes a 2 based on his voice and a nice violin here and there.

Begrafenismuziek

Meh

Pretentious

Not my favorite. A bit slow and a bit clunky. I get the appeal and some of them were enjoyable but overall it seemed strange sad Christian music.

Brani Preferiti: - "Into My Arma" - "West Country Girl" Note: Nick ha una voce non male e la musica è fatta bene, però questo album non mi trasmette niente. È un album che potrei mettere come musica da background per poi dimenticarlo totalmente, considerando che è un disco a tratti noioso, è possibile godersi l'album ascoltando solo qualche canzone. Ha però una canzone che compare in Shrek 2, quindi nice.

🥱 I don’t think I got to the end of this, it got really samey really quickly.

I don't know that this album makes me feel like I've been missing something by not listening to Nick Cave all these years. I don't find the lyrics particularly interesting, don't particularly enjoy his voice, nor do i find the music particularly creative. Not sure why this wound up being "important."

Eh. Boring. Slow. Weird. Don't really know what to think but don't really like it.

Good wallowing in self inflicted pain music, but its not a "great album." In fact, its repetitive and boring, and not great. 2/5

Boring

If I was prone to depression this album would send me over the edge. Far out. Could it be any more emo?

2/12, 17%

Mehh

This was a load of boring shit, but it has a vibe

More Nick Cave..

I wasn't very fond of this album. There was too little variation between the songs for my taste, and I particularly didn't like that it was so low-tempo and mellow. I am not someone who appreciates the lyrics that much, and this certainly feels like an album that is for those who do. Still, 'People Ain't No Good' and 'West Country Girl' stuck out to me, and I really liked those. I am going to give this a strong 2 star rating, knowing that it probably deserves better. And it would've gotten more if it was more my thing.

I feel like I should like this album but I really don't. I mean Nick Cave has some amazing hits such as "Red Right Hand" but other than the opening "In to Your arm" the rest just comes of as pretentious and moody. Maybe it's an acquired taste but i have not acquired it yet.

Don't like this as much as I do some of his other work - it's a bit too brooding and ballady, lacks the energy of some of the other stuff. Also gets a bit cringey lyrically - the first track is a bit too on the nose with its atheism, and People Ain't No Good is a bit much too. 2/5.

pretty good i guess. a little boring. made me kinda depressed tbh. green eyes was cringey. ya.

-so far very slow and sad -his voice is very deep and interesting -i’m really not trying to be a hater but they all sound really similar -i like the lyrics for the songs tho! -the piano is nice

It's just not that exciting is it.

Nick z’n hoofd ziet eruit zoals m’n muziek klinkt. Saai

This album suffers heavily from “nothing special” syndrome. I was a pretty big fan of the first two songs, but the album just remained sounding the same. Eventually it got boring and started sounding the same.

I enjoyed this at first but his vocals as well as the slow pacing of this album caused it to drag quite a bit

I'm sorry Nick, this album did not do it for me, it was so boring and I felt nothing hearing it. I am still eager what else you have to offer.

I don't know what to do with this one. His other stuff is better and that last song "Green Eyes" was really weird.

This album just ain’t no good

Wannabe Leonard.cohen

Yeah, not a fan. I did like the line "this useless old fucker and his twinkling cunt." But overall, just didn't connect with his style.

Not my cup of tea. Lyrics are good, vocals not so good.

He's got a very interesting and dark voice. Not grim, just a feeling of a lot of like... melancholy? Ovreall not a bad album. I recognized a track and will take one or two

This was a better Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album than the previous albums on this list. I stand by my comments that Nick Cave cannot really sing and he just speaks lyrics. Also they managed to release and album that was not a double album and was not 70 plus minutes long. It is better than a two, and not really a 3.

Sleepy time honk shoo album of the year

Some good songwriting, but this guy only sang like 3 notes this whole album. Relaxing for the most part, but felt like the music didn't do enough

Drab! I really don't rate NC's vocals, and this album is just derivative drivel. No good songs, all just tat

I dislike Nick Cave's voice and find his songwriting alternates between pompous and cringey. He is particularly good at love songs that churn your stomach whilst simultaneously boring you. The music is fairly solid in a plodding and unexciting way. I've now listened to a fair number of his albums, so I'm comfortable in my informed opinion: me no likey. 2*

Meh, it's kinda bland?

Starting off a bit interesting, dare I say good, but then just got a bit depressing and rambly as it went on. I'd have a couple of the songs on an atmospheric playlist but an entire album was a bit too much. Last track was so bad.

Gevoelig hoor

Didn’t really like it. Good album overall, but not my thing atm.

Fml wieso kommen zwei Nick cave Alben nacheinander. Ist au nix für mich

Music isn’t bad but too much God.

There's been some recent press about Cave explaining his (extremely well-reasoned) motive for shifting towards lighter, happier music, but damn if it's not boring as hell. The songwriting here is repetitive and milquetoast as hell, and the muzak-level piano and guitar focus isn't helping either – expected way more out of this one :/

i didn’t really like the vibe of it

So when I first heard this guy's voice, I thought, The National. Unfortunately, there wasn't much to this album that excited me, like The National. I think the best thing I can say, related to listening to this album on Spotify, was a Velvet Underground song came on right after the conclusion of this dude's album. Listened a couple times, wanting to be turned on by something, but it just didn't happen. Kinda like his voice. Not so much this album. Just did nothing for me...... 1 for the songs 2 for the voice. 1.5 but score as a 2

2.5 I’m not really sure if this is the best entry point for Nick Cave since I’m pretty sure the sound of this album was a one-off thing, but since I’m at the mercy of a randomized list here, I guess I’ll just let it be known I’m pretty unfamiliar with the group and probably lacking some context. Anyway, it’s a nice sounding piano-driven album. Cave has a great voice that pairs with the music nicely, but the somber, one-note tone of the album really makes this feel more like a situational listen. In particular, it came off sounding like funeral music… like one of the slow piano covers of a popular song you might hear at one. Now, normally I’m a fan of that kind of dark, broody, sentimental stuff, but this one didn’t really resonate with me much. Generally speaking, I didn’t find much of it overly interesting, and most of it seemed to run together. As far as piano music goes, it didn’t feel like anything I hadn’t heard before. Didn’t dislike, but didn’t particularly like either. I’d say it’s 50/50 I listen again. Favorite songs: Into My Arms, People Ain’t No Good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4mqHdd5gzo

Kind of slow. A little like Leonard cohen.

Evocative. Somber. Romantic. Miserable. Two stars. Goes to show how many songs about different body parts of a woman you can write. Probably won’t listen again. And definitely not the whole album.

It was okay - was kind of disappointed as my first proper listen to a nick cave record given I know how beloved he is in Indie circles. Just kinda fine?

I like his voice, and some of the musical bits and melodies are nice, but it's just so sombre. There's a few standout tracks, but the whole album certainly didn't fly by, let's say that.

Meh

Just like yesterday’s Carole King, this one’s first and second tracks were both boring so I turned it off. This reminds me of Harvest Moon from Neil Young in the way that the music is as still as a lake. Boring. But at least the lyrics were somewhat interesting. 2/5.

i mean it’s fine?

To sąd at the time

Klaver-drevet, melankolsk, lyrik i fokus

Why's Nick Cave sound like a poor man's Lou Reed? The first two songs on this album had me really excited, they were deep and thoughtful and the sound was truly distinct. And then, it just kept going, and going, and going. There's absolutely no way this album is less than two hours. It dragged endlessly, and I can't explain why I listened to it's entirety.

The same song written 12 times. 2.5/5

I've never given Nick Cave a chance. I've heard a song here and there and I'm well aware who he is but the interest to listen to more of his songs and dig deeper has never been there. So what do I think after listening to this album? Well it's not for me. It's very somber but doesn't keep my attention at all.

Just as sad as all of his albums

I enjoy the depth and tenor of Nick Cave, but there are very few songs that he performs that I enjoy. I found none that wanted for a return listen on this album whatsoever.

Nick Cave is a bad seed. Dude cannot sing for shite. I dig the music for this album, but my lord I cannot listen to him sing. Hire a lead singer!

*sigh* okay. another nick cave album. keep an open mind. keep an open mind. this is pretty good. at least relatively speaking. I'm sucker for the piano. but honestly, pick any song and it sounds like an average karaoke performance to me. Still the best nick cave album we've been dealt to date.

I prefer Nick Cave when he's more unhinged than somber. Sounds like he's doing his best Leonard Cohen impression here. The constant miserable bellowing gets old pretty quickly. Sounds like it would be one of those amazing farewell albums if he had made it when he was like 75 years old something, but he was only 24 at the time. Just look at that face! Do you think when he was born he had the appearance and demeanor of a fully formed teenager, like he was some sort of Greek God's punishment to his mother?

Beautiful at times, but overall pretty boring.

Didn't like it as much as the previous Nick Cave album.

Nick Cave's one of those artists I've meant to check out but never gotten around to. The only song of his I really knew before this was "Red Right Hand," which is pretty cool, so I had high hopes for this album. It was not at all what I expected or wanted. Too slow and morose for my taste. Bummer.

Too softy

slow, mopey, not a fun listen in the slightest. the opening is a solid piano-driven slow jam but i personally don't need that for an entire album

I liked the instrumentation--folksy. But ultimately too religious for me.

So, Nick Cave is Australia's sad, less-talented version of Johnny Cash? Joking aside, the lyrics are great - poetic even. But - and I say this genuinely - it would have been more enjoyable as poetry than as music. The music and Cave's vocals left a lot to be desired.

If a boatman called me and started singing songs like this I'd probably hang up and call the police. Honestly though, Nick Cave is pretty good in doses (and he's put out some more recent albums that I dug more like Ghosteen) but I can't really get into this one at album length. He's in the rare category of singer-songwriters like Leonard Cohen or Tom Waits who operate in the style of like a haunted Las Vegas residency performer. Not generally my cup of tea anyway, but it can be done better than this. Favorite tracks: People Ain't No Good, Green Eyes. Album art: Cool picture, he looks menacing. Nothing special though. 2.5/5

Listened Before? N I've heard of Nick Cave a million times. He's a guy who always seems to be playing in concerts that are just before or just after concerts I go to in the same venue. I have never listened to him. If this album is representative of his work, I see why. It was sleepy, slow, and boring. Decent lyrics but I couldn't listen to it for fun.

Nick Cave is overrated. Some of his earlier stuff has a fun wild feel to it, but this album is just dreary. I've heard it before - Gen X loves Nick Cave and heaps of my mates were born in the 70s - and 50min of the Leonard Cohen impression is just too much. Into my Arms and People ain't no Good are bearable enough as singles, but the full album is a struggle. Ultimately, I think the only reason Nick Cave albums make lists like this is because he's a Pitchfork darling and music critics want to be seen as liking him. It's cool and offbeat and cultured to say you're a Nick Cave fan. But bugger that, this shit is boring. Give me big dumb arena rock any day. Also, Aussies that abscond to the UK for their entire careers/lives can take a long walk off a short pier. Take the Minogue sisters and the ugly bloke who was in Bad Boy Bubby, and stay off our radar. At least fucken Barnesy just lives somewhere in the Adelaide hills, content to actually be a humble rockstar while "depressed introvert" Cave rubs shoulders with celebrities in London. 2/5.

If you're looking for the cure to insomnia this album is it.

I just couldn’t get into it

This is a quite a different experience from "Murder Ballads" where Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds received an apropos rating of 1. Nick Cave is clearly a creative singer/song-writer and there is a place to respect what he brings to music regardless if one likes it or not. However, in the context of 1001, he does not really seem so much a prerequisite for death. The album is subdued, as is Nick Cave. This is a beautiful album just a few tracks in, lacking the aimlessness of other singer/song-writer types that usually end up with the dreaded "1" score. "There Is A Kingdom" has a Pink Floyd-vibe that earns significant appreciation. The chorus and the noticeable hooks are well done here, such a great song. Overall, still not a fan of Nick Cave and this BS.

Found this really boring

not my style

Demasiado plano e insustancial. Un tanto monótono. Buena voz y templanza, pero le falta bastante. Música un poco anodina

Ok but not really my thing.

I have liked the most post punk side of Nick Cave, but this ballad version wasn't the greatest. 2/5

The last song is aggressively bad. As for the rest, cause and effect are confused where I took four days to finish the album. I understood the sound as misanthropic wedding music, but, while I appreciated the organ, the string arrangements were lacking and the presentation thin. This list seems to be teaching me that Nick Cave is not for me.

A little less of a blind spot than he was before, which is something to be pleased about. I still find him too humourless, his voice unmoving, the lyrics slightly hackish, the melodies often flat. But boy, does he put in work. Everyone’s got a schtick, and Cave works fucking hard at his. That gets me through the many moments when the ignition doesn’t take. Often, those moments are when I’d expect it to. 'People Ain't No Good' and ‘Green Eyes’ should be my thing, but… just… aren’t. Never mind. At least I’m ready and waiting when he finds a spark. ‘Lime Tree Arbor’, ‘There is a Kingdom’ (probably because it borrows the tune from ‘Perfect Day’) and, most of all, ‘Idiot Prayer' get off the ground and give me the aerial views of Caveland I’ve been promised. When I’m up there, I like what I see. I just spent most of my time on the ground, waiting for the captain to say we’re ready for take-off.

One paced.

La musica fa solo da sottofondo alle sue parole, non è da buttare via eh, però... Are you the one i've been waiting for molto bella devo dire. Le altre mi sembrano un po' tutte uguali.

enjoyed at the beginning but got quite boring and repetitive after not very long. happy it was short. disappointed x

3/10 i just don't understand how can you make this many songs that sound the same and not see anything wrong with it. Black Hair and Green Eyes both made me cringe supremely.

I just don’t like this type of music. It’s very boring

There wasn't a lot here for me. It wasn't offensive, but nothing really stuck out as massively good. Best song on there for me was mostly likely There Is A Kingdom. I'm glad to have gotten this album, as I now know who sang the Peaky Blinders opening.

There's so much Nick Cave on this list, but I can't really get into any of this. It's not awful it's just a bit boring, not sure what mood I'd need to be in to enjoy it

Dreary and a bit self indulgent.

Very slow. Not bad but not for any mood

It's a whole album of sad bluesy ballads that fail to move. I did not enjoy it at all, but at least it wasn't painful to listen to.

Some good songs but too much of the same for me. Found it a bit dull and dreary overall

I dont mind this type of music, but it's pretty boring after a few tracks

These songs all sounded the same. I didn't care for the style, but even assuming I did, the songs are all one long, slow dirge.

I did not know this singer, it is not bad but for my taste his compositions are very slow.

This was not good. Very boring. Every doing sounded very similar.

Slow piano ballads with a good voice, it's OK. Going for big important lyrics It's all a bit meh

Slow and melodramatic. Not bad, not my favorite.

Made me fall asleep.

I found this album to be very boring personally but well made objectively. Nick Cave’s voice was monotone but the minimalist production was solid along with good songwriting. Not horrible but not enjoyable. Fav song, ig: black hair

Incredibly boring

I'm a huge Nick Cave fan, but this is one of his most boring albums.

why does anyone like this more than anything else? kind of sucks

Garbage. Not sure what I'm supposed to like about this. I guess some of the songs would sound good in a movie soundtrack in a scene where a guy walks into a room where his whole family just got murdered. No thanks.

Not my thing

Nothing special

Really good songwriter but the songs are a bit one note when listening to the album as a whole

agradável, mas todas as músicas pareciam a mesma

Couldn't really get into it.

Literally who listens to this. Absolutely not

liked a few songs

Not bad, but not my cup of tea. Lost our cat this week so thought it might be actually the right time for this dirge-type music, but sadly I just wasn't into it. I did read some entertaining writing on how to become a Nick Cave fan.

Starts brilliantly but drags by the end - bit of a chore

First track great. The odd one is pretty good.

A bit dreary and tracks all similiar tone and vibe. Not for me.

The Boatman is Eeyore and wants you to slow down, you kangaroo. Telling moment: Brompton Oratory had a similar chord progression and "prosidy" to Keane's smash hit Somewhere Only We Know, so I put that song on and ended up enjoying myself much more than any Boatman track. But Boatman is not for enjoying. Boatman is art for careful consideration. Keane is chiming beauty for forgetting reality for a minute. Boatman is poetic trudging and mining reality for meaning. But I have to make PowerPoint presentations and finish work in time to take my pickle boat out on the river before the sun sets. I can't mine for meaning while making slides. The Boatman inside me wants to be an actual boatman. C

Nick Cave is to music what Jim Jarmusch is to film: Pretty good, doing interesting things, playing with traditional forms and adding generality dark elements and a strong cult following have ascribed a certain level of genius. I’m unsure if genius is warranted. It’s a generation X thing I think. To me he’s like Neil Diamond dark with less catchy melodies. Some times his choruses hit just right and you can feel it. Sometimes it feels like he’s forcing words in that don’t fit in the structure or melody if the song. Perhaps if I listened to his whole catalog, but if it’s anything like this album, it will all fade into the background. 2

Maaaaaaaan I really didn't like it very much. Too lovey dovey/piano-y for my taste.

Not my thing

ziemlich lame auf ganzer albumlänge. bei aller sympathie.

ist aber sehr traurig - 2

Just not for me.

Really slow and boring

Some of the lyrics are interesting and thought provoking, and some of the instrumentation is nicely done, but for whatever reason Nick's voice just isn't my bag, baby.

Nice sound, and a big departure from yesterday's Iron Maiden. Dark, slow, sombre mood. No real stand-out songs. Not enough to make me come back to this album

"Into my arms" sounds very familiar, I'm sure I heard it somewhere without realizing it was Nick Cave.

I don’t get it

Started interesting but just too mellow and depressing

A melancholy walk around Great Park. 12 nearly identical songs, was just waiting for it to end.

A couple songs were kind of beautiful, but the rest were just horrible. He’s just too sad.

Me pareció todo una misma balada y me aburrió. Casi que ni me di cuenta cuando terminó y spotify empezó a recomendar parecidas.

Sink the boats It's so slow and monotonous. Unbearably boring And of course the last song is extra turbo ass, as if the album wasn't bad enough

As a Nick Drake lover, this guy is just worse in every aspect. The one guy commenting that he changed Drake's surname to Cave "just to see what the music's like" and found a new favourite, you are stupid. Great music, Mr. & The Bad Seeds. Haven't heard anything like this from the other FOUR albums of theirs I have given a rating of 1 so far

Boring

It's about time I'm done listening to this guy, please give him 2 albums max Will I listen to again: 0%

I just can’t get into this dudes music!

terrible

Only shrek stopped this getting 0

Leanord Cohen wannabe ahh

I am a bad Australian and goth music fan - I don’t care for Nick. This album even hit when I was a moody teen and I still don’t get it. Sure he has a few listenable tracks, but none of them exist on this album. The wrong sort of dreary. So bored. Warren Ellis can’t save it. Is there a Dirty Three record on this list? 1/5

This was shite. Depressing and the last song was absolutely dire. I don't see the appeal of Nick Cave.

Nick Cave again!! Oh come on, is the compiler sleeping with him or something? It was dreadful

Meh.

Is there anyone more over represented on this list? So many great jazz, blues and world artists but FIVE Nick Cave Albums??! 5! Idk, it’s…fine..SO boring and relying on the fact that its brooding to make up for any musicality at all.

Everyone loves Nick Cave. But not me. He's kinda dull and his voice kinda wobbles in an unartistic way. Sorry, fans, but i'm not one. 1/5

seemed like some of the songs were reused. Like same song, different lyrics. Not enough variety to justify 50+ minutes Lethargic and morose, but he swore a few times so that's cool

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

It is unique I will give it that but not all creative or good in my opinion. More like a poetry slam with the same middle school band playing the same chords over and over in the background. Definitely could live without ever hearing this album.

I will sooner see the 2026 Supergirl film than listen to the THIRD sad-sack Nick Cave album from this list.

stop please

Nico Cueva es como si Johnny Cash hubiese nacido y se hubiese criado en Palermo...y sin talento.

Not for me. 1/5

Melancholic to say the least.

1.5/5 Best Song: Into My Arms Worst Song: West Country Girl Weirdest Song: Black Hair Honorable Mention: People Ain't No Good Made me sleepy and sad.

Could this album be more depressing? If you have started to lose faith in humanity, the song "People Ain't No Good" isn't going to help with that. I was having a really great day and then I started listening to this album and suddenly I was depressed and just wanted to crawl into my bed and not leave. 1 star

Parece música de iglesia, terrible, me aburrió mucho

nick cave & the bad songs

1/5

laaaaaaaaame. this guy STINKS

Just dreary. All of the songs have a small chord progression that loops for 5 minutes at a time. I understand that there is some poetry going on but without any vocal inflection at all, I don't care about the poetry. Just dragged on and on and on and made me feel depressed.

I was very patient with this album. I waited and I listened. And I was not rewarded. I found this album to be depressing and not in a satisfying way. It’s just so boring and dry and slow, it’s the antithesis of everything I struggle to relate to and connect with. My biggest gripe with this album is I find Nick caves voice very bland and underwhelming. Nothing about this album does anything for me.

Really not a fan

He looks like one of the bad guys from The Goonies. Listening to this is like an exercise in trying to stay awake while being read the most intensely boring bedtime story you've ever had to endure.

Not this stupid ass guy again. Fucking hate this

Enough with the Nick Cave already. Every album I think "this is the one" but no just another hour I wont get back.

Geen ritme ✅️ geen rijmschema ✅️ elk nummer hetzelfde ✅️ iam14andthisisdeep tekst ✅️ yep, 1 ster tijd

It's bad. Pretty boring until West Country Girl, and dropping off again after. I don't understand why this album would make anyone's list of albums to listen to before you die. It's not good nor is it revolutionary in any way. Perhaps if I was clinging to life and someone wanted me to give up then they could play this album for me.

So boring, and doesn’t catch me at all.

I don't like Nick Cave's music. There. I said it.

two Nick Cave albums in two weeks is not what I call fun. This album sounds like Tom Waits from Wish mixed with Leonard Cohen from Kijiji. The discount Cohen is so strong on songs like "Into my Arms", this is more then inspiration, its practically parody without self awareness. But most importantly holy shit is this a boring album. It's like Cohen without the smart writing, dull ranting set to sparse instrumentation. I rated down the last Nick Cave album for the slower late section, but gave it a 3 based on there still being sections I liked. I actually hated this album. Even the songs that pick up the pace like "There is a Kingdom" sound like shitty church music in the worst way. I seldom call things pretentious, but this album thinks it is so much smarter then it is that it gets actively annoying. Struggle to Finish. 1 star.

I hate Nick Cave.

Is Nick Cave Australia's Tom Waits? He definitely feels like it. Maybe with touches of Leonard Cohen? Just like those two, I just don't get Nick Cave. I'm glad he believes in love, but you could have fooled me with his weird cadence and monotone singing voice.

Didn't like it at all.

he looks like an older Derek Zoolander

Get Nick Cave the fuck out of my face

Every song sounds like an ode to complete misery, even if it isn't meant to be. A real challenge to get through it. There are other albums where I've struggled to get through but not like this one, terrible.

More portentous piano ballads from the world's dullest Leonard Cohen wannabe.

Didn’t listen, didn’t sound like something I’d like

If Frankenstein had clinical depression and recorded an album, it would sound like this, but might actually be better. "Green Eyes" is the only track you really need to hear to determine if you want to subject yourself to the rest of this drivel, and trust me, you won't want to.

Monotonous, a suggested song come ok after and i thought FINALLY a good song but nope it was a completely different artist.

Was gonna give it a 2, but "twinkling cunt" made it loose a point. Dear god. Basic ass straight white man music.

man whines over piano

Ugh

I don't enjoy Nick Cave's voice.

Little slow for me personally

I still don’t get it.

Kinda boring

Ich wüsste wirklich gerne, wann ich das letzte Mal derartig belanglose Musik gehört habe. Ganz fürchterlich.

Depressing af

Whos gonna tell the bloke he cant sing? +3 ponts for the utterly beautiful aesthetic on "Into your arms", and minus 2 points for the last song (Green Eyes) which would be enough to qualify him for legal euthanasia

This is one of the most boring albums I’ve ever heard.

How many times is this guy in here? I can only give so many low ratings

I hate this type of music. It's performative depression set to music. Why do so many people try to tell me how great this is?

More like No thanks mate and the bad album

genuine torture to listen to the lyrics are so mind numbing its actually crazy everything else is pretty chill tho

I used to be ambivalent about Nick Cave. Now I hate him. Four albums? Pardon me while I blow my brains out.

Not my style of music. Did not like at all.

I just don't like Nick Cave.

This is terrible and creepy. I still listened to the whole thing.... NOPE!

fuck all the way off

Ahh Nick Cave. An early pariah in this endeavour as he produced what I believe was my first 1-star review. I will NOT check. His bombastic Elvis impersonation stretched over 90 minutes did not make for a pleasant experience sometime last year. There was the more forgettable murder ballads record as well. Looking back, I stand by my disdain for the records, but I will say, I love “Fable of the Brown Ape.” That shit rips and it’s probably worth the full 1 star I gave Abbatoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus. Alas, I’m hoping this is a more mellow Nick Cave with a nod to songwriting and lyricism rather than Vegas stage shows with hack poetic tendencies. I hold no place in my life for performative male Elvis impersonators from the USA of Oceania. With that horrible, biased opener out of the way, it’s time to blast the foghorn in anticipation of the boatman’s call. Or the Coatman’s Ball. Why are you gagging so, he brings you your coat every time you hand him the coat check ticket. Into My Arms - Holy man. This is pretty fucking stinky. Nick Cave, the irredeemable “artiste” composes a boring piano riff to deliver substandard poetry over and I’m in store for about 48 (minutes) to life. Lime Tree Arbour - Slight interest piqued. Nah, this is Leonard Cohen with a brain injury. People Ain’t No Good - I think this was in The Simpsons. Or something like that. This is a fine enough song. Like I would probably tune this out effectively if I were at a bar or something. At least for the first few minutes. Too long! Boooo! Brampton Oratory - Two twos crodie fam. My word fam. Oh I thought this said “Brampton Oratory.” There is a Kingdom - The gardens of Mesopotamia dance with the life of a thousand planted seeds. Not a one planted by the king, yet all turn to the sunlight of his rule. Nourishing to those who can synthesize it, scorching death for those who fall under its radiant scrutiny. Speaking of scrutiny! This song sucks the big brown ape’s weird fuzzy nuts. (Are You) the One I’ve Been Waiting for - Imagine the guy who imagines his love life to this kind of music. The type of guy who criticizes his girlfriend for reading a copy of People magazine in a waiting room. Or maybe the kind of guy that criticizes his girlfriend for getting McDonalds when there are no other options available. A real winner. The keeper type of guy. Where Do We Go But Nowhere - There are people who are attracted this man in a carnal fashion. There’s hope for anybody. Although there is a demographic who are easily swayed by bad poetry. Alright, I audibly heaved when he said that him and his victim uhh I mean partner “fucked up the sun and fucked it down again.” That’s not even a cogent metaphor. West Country Girl - I don’t wanna go to school today. No I won’t get up. Black Hair - Wow, cool song about some poor woman’s hair. What terrible decisions she makes. Idiot Prayer - Please, whichever deity is on the clock, strike down this music. I’m hoping it’s one of the vengeful evil deities people worship for some reason. Good chance it will be as I’m pretty sure that’s all of them. Far From Me - What is where I want this album? No im sorry, it is where is a Nick Cave legally allowed to be from the perspective of his most recent partner. Green Eyes - The background vocals sound like that Bo Daddy Harris guy from instagram. Whoa he said a swear!!! Get this guy a record deal. Oh wait, they did already. Best song on the record and it’s because it’s the only attempt to do something that is in any way interesting and different. Too bad the execution reminds me of a botched execution. I am squirming against the straps of the execution floor’s gurney. Please end this. Nick is the most insufferable front man in music history. No! It’s Bono, but we’re in the same rarified air. This depresses me in a way I didn’t think was possible. I don’t think making depressing music is the artistic benchmark it’s seen as, considering people with real mental health issues don’t actually want to have them (crazy right??). It’s not an aesthetic. It’s not artistic. It usually just means sleeping for 48 hours and eating saltines right out of the sleeve. Not even Prozac could touch this record. It’s earnestly recorded as an artistic statement and fails in every possible way. Music for guys who are writing screenplays in which they are irresistible to several women. Coming to a gentrified café near you. Cover your 7 dollar coffees, ladies. 0 HIGHLIGHTS: *BIG FOGHORN NOISE*

No.

I was all set to give this a generous 2 but then Green Eyes came on. And I gotta say, that may have been one of the worst songs I've listened to for this entire project.

Too dark and doomed for my taste.

Old school country vibe, he/ they might be country. Not bad, but not my jam

So this is where that Shrek song is from! I played this album twice, from start to finish, and fell asleep both times. Not sure if that means this is a 1/5 or 5/5. I already knew Nick Cave though and he has far better stuff in other albums so I'll have to go with 1. Great find though if I need to fall asleep.

Did not finish. It was dreary, boring and piano heavy. It's a shame because I liked the last album of his I did. But, this stunk. A friend was doing the dishes while listening and these are her comments: That song only has one lyrics on repeat! Every song is worse than the last! Boo! Hiss! (Okay, that was me). Dan, this really sucks! No stars. I mean, 1 star.

This guy is the villain of 1001 Albums Generator, so funny that I got him within the first week or so. Michael hated this dudes two hour LP. Thank God this isn't it. "Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere" was awful. Such a droning, aimless, sauntering drag. A lot of these were like that. That being said, it's not that bad. I'm giving him a mid. It's music and he has a good voice but God is it BORING. Do anything with that voice, man. This is one of two things I find objectionable in art: bad and boring. A moron once told me "There's no such thing as bad music," which isn't true, but I appreciate the sentiment. This isn't bad music, it's just a snoozefest. Just finished it. Mid as hell. Fuck it, it's a 1.

Just so boring. And what the fuck is up with the lyrics? The adoration is all surface level so that it comes off a bit creepy.

Nick Cave and The Bad Songs

Bro empezo de abajo y ahí se quedó

Sounds like if Nick Cave wrote a Leonard Cohen album.

Dire, depressing, dirge-like music that went on far too long. I had a moment when I felt the album must be near the end, only to find there was still over twenty minutes left, and wondered if I would make it there. The last song is probably one of the most awful things I've ever heard. One star.

Tenía un review pensado y todo se fue a la mierda en la última canción. Nunca una canción me había dado un cringe tan grande que hiciera que se me revolviera la guata, el tipo tratando de llegar a las notas un poco más altas como sufriendo, el locutor a lo rojo fama contrafama repitiendo la letra de la canción en algunas partes. Hay un círculo del infierno donde tienen esta canción en repeat.

Temu Leonard Cohen* *Talent and insight not included.

Strongly dislike, DNF. Sounds like church music.

Mopiest man on earth

No

Boring.

Complete trash. Shit from a butt. Almost puked at some point. Hate his voice. Stupid recommendation. Needed to listen to ben folds as a palate cleanser after this

Still don’t get the fascination with this fella. Singing voice: below average. Lyrics: not cleaver, nor powerful. Musical Composition: simple and slow. Somebody help me understand! If he wasn’t taking himself so damn serious, he’d be having a good chuckle at all the adoration. Deep down, you all know he sucks.

CHEGA tortura psicológica não é entretenimento!!!!!!!!

another connection to the punk scene that i don't really care for. this might be a 1/5 because of how aware of this artist i am, how much i know they have an impact on the scene, but i just can't get into it.

Liking this is equivalent to liking that one Oscar movie that critics loved but it’s just boring as hell.

Oh joy, more of this twat waffle

If David Bowie was boring and sang a lot of about God. Only got halfway through it before I was bored out of my mind. 1/5

Meh

Give it a rest, buddy.

I haven’t found an instance where lyrics are so phenomenal that the way they could be sang like shit and it wouldn’t matter. Cohen, Waits, and Cave are one and the same to me and I don’t like it.

He's unbearable.

I DONT LIKE NICK CAVE

I guess I just dislike Nick Cave. His voice sucks, and the songs are slow and boring funeral dirges. Sorry. Not impressed. 1/5

very difficult to make it through this slow, plodding funeral dirge. it is obviously subjective but to me this is barely music. just torture

HONK SHOO

Listened to this in 3 D. Dreary depressing dross

That was really boring. Usually, I need to be drunk before I hear people talking about their breakups. This album is just way too self loathing.

Edgy, I don't like the voice, I don't like the lyrics, the music is forgettable to me.

I did not like his voice unfortunately

This album was difficult to endure and it really dragged on. His voice affect (especially noticeable on "Green Eyes") is really deranged, he's putting it on like a bad drama kid and I don't believe this tone deaf man at all. "Black Hair" creeped me out, please stop talking about the smell on your hands, I'm pretty over Nick Cave. The boatman goes down with the ship (boat). 0.85 because it "Ain't No Good."

I did feel like I was on a old boat, heading down a dark and swampy river with the oarsman wearily singing these ballads. Did not like the direction Nick took on this alum compared to his other list spots. Surprised this even made it. I have liked some other slow, somber albums that have appeared but this one didn't land with me...1.1.

Was pleased to see Nick Cave on the list again as his prior entries have been pretty good for an artist I was previously unfamiliar with. He had proven to be a competent songwriter with some pretty varied rock roots with a band that dabbled in other genres. Unfortunately The Boatman's Call swayed way way too far from what I previously appreciated. I have a pretty wide range so I tried to keep an open mind. Maybe this would be a fresh look at something new and different from Nick Cave? Nope. Instead we got a painfully slow acoustic album with a couple really somber segments. This album dragged from song 1 all the way through. I tried to hold on and keep an open mind but it was pretty insufferable by the end of it. I couldn't wait for this to finish and don't ever want to hear this again. This was like taking all the worst parts of a bad Bruce Springsteen's acoustic albums and making it drag even more. Overall a painful listen. I get that this could be a critical darling forbringing something different from Nick Cave but this was a surprisingly huge miss for me. 1.04 stars

Hard No

Depressing monotone music. I couldn't wait to get this album over with.

Ooof dude. Seems like you’re not ok. I feel for you but don’t know if we needed 6 minutes of People ain’t no Good. When the last song, Green Eyes, finally came, I laughed out loud at the dubbed echoing of himself. As if I hadn’t gotten the point yet…

On the river Styks and the man is Charon I can believe it because this album makes me want to cuddle a toaster in a bathtub.

Kein vibe, 0

Ok

Boring and repetitive. Cave endeavors to be more boring than Leonard Cohen

shite

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

Dull

"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.

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?

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

Did Nick Cave write this book?

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.

Another fucking Nick Cave album? No fucking thanks!

Trolling me now

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

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.

Hard Pass

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?

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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.

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

Wow. Absolutely nothing redeeming.

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

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