Ghosteen

Crap

Best Song: Waiting for You. This is where I think Nick Cave shines: extremely minimal production and a simple chorus around which he can weave more verbose stories in the verses. Worst Song: Hollywood. I don't like Nick Cave's falsetto. Overall: Can an album be too understated? This album feels so lyrically dense - even more so than the other Nick Cave albums I've listened to - that it almost feels like this album should be read more than it should be listened to. The sheer density of it does work against it as an album, as the moment you stop giving it sufficient attention to hold its lyrics in mind, the album drops easily into the background and out of mind.

Fine, not sure when I’d be in the mood to listen to it though

Brilliant, moving, heart-breaking at points, but also with an eye on recovery and the future. One of the most astounding and memorable pieces of music I have heard in a very long time. 5 Stars

Oh my God this album is beautiful. Nick Cave, I'm sorry for the awful ratings I have given you in the past. This album has made me see your music in a new light, I promise I'll be open to the rest of your stuff from now on.

Music was good lyrics🤷🏼

Beautiful album but drags in certain areas.

not for me

Compelling and strangely beautiful.

Wow! That was tragically beautiful.

A more heartbreaking and authentic expression of grief you will be hard-pressed to find. Devastating and beautiful.

Oh Nick Cave my ear has such a complicated relationship with your works. What to make of this fantastical album cover that would be completely at home on a pre-teens sweatshirt? For me, promise… I admit a not-so-secret love of such work. From the outset I felt very at home in this world. It’s a very dark place we are traveling but there is something hopeful to be found in these ethereal shadows. I can’t stop reflecting on this album, staring at the cover art while I lose myself in the haunting music.

Sem nenhuma afetação, todo o esplendor da beleza a partir da melancolia. Ou o uso da arte para enfrentar a dor.

RIP Arthur

Sphärenklänge

Damn what a sad album. I kinda like the atmospheric vibe.

Intense soundscapes, deep lyrics. If I hadn’t known that this album was about his son’s death I might not appreciate the heaviness.

I have some curiosity about Nick Cave, this album didn't grab me though.

I’m not a Nick Cave fan so I’m glad I read about the background of this album first. I don’t care for his music but only a monster wouldn’t have the utmost sympathy for what happened to Nick’s son. RIP Arthur Cave

Otherworldly. Haunting. Gothic. Beautiful.

restrained, introspective, excellent

boring

It’s fine I guess…

Really beautiful record - especially if you feel like remembering someone who has passed away

Another Nick Cave album ! Really ? This one was easier to listen to than some of the others but I am still not a fan and can’t understand the appeal. However, having said that it was fairly easy listening first thing in the morning so somewhere between 2-3*

I'm sure this will be a divisive album. I found bits of it a bit awkward, bits of it very nice. Not my favourite NC...

I just don't get the appeal. I can tell a lot of care and talent is put in this album, a lot of emotion too, yet it leaves me completely unfazed and it quickly turned into background noise. It does not grab me.

What is this nonsense? Started on a bad foot with the self-written Spotify description describing the band as "one of the world's most exciting, influential, innovative, and compelling bands." Get out of here with that pretentiousness. This is garbage. Vocals are creepy with empty ambient music backing them. Just write poetry instead. Turned off after 3 songs. 1.5/10 (0.75/5)

I liked it, it was weird and a bit slow and sad to be great, but overall I thought it was ok. Average

Strange and atmospheric. Not something I would put on to get the party started, but definitely something I would put on for a chill day by myself.

Brutal

Perfect as always!

I like nick cave. Really. And I know griefing is hard. But why change your sound so much? This is really boring. Sorry to that but it’s true. Luckily his next record is more rock oriented.

this story music not for me

Ok album if in the right mood. Very slow and mellow. Kind of reminds me of something to listen to in a planetarium but with lyrics

Very haunting and sad album, which is -as it is known - about the Cave's son who died aged 15 after he took LSD for the first time and jumped off a cliff. At my first listen it is a 3 star album, because while lyrically it is beautiful and incredibly sad, the music is solemn and ambient, but is not very varied and therefore those nearly 70 minutes are way too long. Some songs were gorgeous but it was a bit tiring to listen to at one go. 3.5/5.

"Ghosteen" is the 17th studio album by Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It is a double album, the first from the band since 2004 and the final part (album) of a trilogy. The album was written in the aftermath of the death of Cave's son, Arthur, in 2015 and the grief from that is at the focal point of the lyrics. Speaking of lyrics, they are a deviation from Cave's usual narrative-based style and explore themes of loss, death and existentialism, empathy and optimism relying heavily on imagery. The music is ambient and electronic with extensive use of synthesizers and piano. Critically, the album had wide-spread acclaim and, commercially, hit #4 in the UK and #108 in the US. An ambient synth and organ keys open "Spinning Song." Cave's deep baritone comes in and eventually a background chorus and strings. He tells the story of a king dying but his feathers will eventually spin to the sky and peace will come. The lyrics in all these songs appear to be imagery to his dealing with his son's death. Electronic pounding followed by piano keys and a background synth begin "Waiting for You." Cave's painfully emotional vocals are the highlight of this song. Christian imagery and the return of Jesus is used as he dscribes his wife and his emotional state and waiting for their son. "Ghosteen Speaks" continues his mourning with some great lyrics..."Nothing is something. Need to forget to remember." His friends are besides him. A Rush "2112"-like synth intro goes into into a lush string sympathy. The 14-minute epic "Hollywood" closes the album. A repetitive bassline and an ambient, circular synth loop carry the song. Cave is near the end as he is going to go to the hills and wait for the end the come. He then tells the story of Kisa who seeks help after the death of her child and discovers that no one is untouched by loss and she is not alone in her grief. Cave sings this part in a falsetto. This is a haunting, moving, compelling and beautiful album. Cave uses abstract imagery (burning horses, Jesus, sun, rain, snow and stars) to describe his grief and feelings. The ambient music is sparse with synths, a piano, strings and vocal choruses yet very effective with its tone. Cave's vocals are emotionally charged and drenched. Cave never really completely finds the answers for dealing with his grief other than everyone has gone through grief and loss...he is not alone. A superb album.

Depressing. Did not enjoy listening to this.

Not a feel good album, not a fun, happy, upbeat bop, it's just Nick Cave with his usual haunting beauty, this may plunge you into the depths of grief you never knew you could go to.

The sound of the dreams the BFG uses to knock out insomniacs. Favourite track: Night Raid.

Good album. Very sad mood.

This is kinda boring. I think his kid died or something, rip and all.

i feel like i said this about the last nick cave album but it’s very leonard cohen and over the garden wall and house of leaves. always pretty cool with 1 stand out song

Not his best

heartbreaking

You can hear the emotion, Nick has been through some shit. Musically I like this more than the many other albums of his that have appeared so far. But, honestly, I can't helping thinking that the thing that ruins Nick Cave's music for me is Nick Cave. At least his voice. It's like my brain just instantly disengages the second it rumbles onto the track.

somebody too much naval gazing

This sucked. Sounded like a miserable musical.

#288. This album sucks. Start to finish. Look, I get it he made it about his dead son and all that, and that's fine if that helped him cope, but maybe he should have just had one copy made, and put it on his own shelf at home, and then carried on. 2/5: an extra star because I really quite like the album cover Song added to playlist: Galleon Ship I've created a playlist on Spotify that consists of the best and/or my favorite song from each of the albums in this book. This list can be found here if you are interested: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7MAXDGLWlwLkFLb8veGfkA?si=FqkQQPgZTFWG0jAUJXLFZA&utm_source=copy-link

Bellísimo álbum del gran Nick Cave. Melancólico, sutil y envolvente.

So haunting and intense.

Emotional album and it feels like a very personal conversation between Cave and the world, almost like a prayer. Is it the most enjoyable album? Not really. It's like being read a poem for 1 hour. It is beautiful, full of grief, and tranquil at the same time, but also largely the same throughout and, as an album, doesn't really scratch that itch for me.

This is my first exposure to this record. This list has exposed me to Nick Cave's music. This album is unlike the previous "Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus" which was my first exposure. This album is much more atmospheric and lyrical than the other but also requires the proper frame of mind to listen. It explores the emotinal side of grief and will reqire addtional listening sessions to truly appreciate it. While it is an excellent album, I would not see it as one I put in heavy rotation on my play list.

Too depressing

Hard listen tbh

This was quite a peaceful album for an evening on the beach, but I can’t see myself listening to it casually. The lyrics were pretty powerful, especially given the context, but it didn’t justify the long runtime for me.

Bright Horses Sun Forest

It's a bad sign when I'm already bored during the opening track. This is tiring, boring, pointless audio. I can't even call it music, because swells of chords and repeated lines barely feels like it qualifies. The lyrics are vapid. The singer's voice tries to sound wise and elderly but comes off as tired and dehydrated. You could not pay me to listen to this again.

I think I’ve heard enough Nick Cave

Absolutely excruciating. time has never moved slower

No thanks

Is this some sort of pretentious trap? Does liking this album get me a job at Pitchfork? Because sign me up. The lack of drums on this record creates almost this unreal space, like Nick Cave is on a theater stage with a single light. I know this probably isn't going to be a hit with everyone, but this connected with me and warrants some further listening and study. Favorite tracks: "Galleon Ship", "Leviathan", "Fireflies"

I was very torn rating this album. I wanted to find something to like here and to see why this album made the list. At times there were some rumblings of something interesting happening that made me think upon further listens I might find something to like here. Unfortunately I am only listening to each of these albums once and giving my initial gut reaction for rating them and I could not find it in me to rate this anything higher than a one. The album drones on in a very monotonous way throughout the duration of its run time with fleeting glimpses during the albums climax at what could have been had they decided to try anything different. I can appreciate that it is wholly different from anything I’d ever seek out to listen to and that there may be something appealing about it to someone but that someone is not me. Entirely boring, utterly forgettable.

This absolutely works as a father dealing with the death of this son. It doesn't feel like a typical "Nick Cave album", he's taking risks and going in other directions.

This is not what I look for when I want to listen to music. I'd probably rate it higher if it was a spoken word performance. But apparently it's "Alternative" or "Rock."

The music is like a super soft bed. It is really mystical and spherical.

Nick is good

Incredibly difficult to get through.

Would say that he's "my kind of weirdo", but he's actually a very different type of weirdo that I don't like so much. Didn't hate it though.

There were some very pretty moments here and there, but everything else felt like I was listening to an audiobook. I feel like this should've garnered a more emotional response from me, but it just didn't

My first album was Nick Cave and it was shite, so it's amusing to see him pop up again over 400 albums later. Story behind this is very sad, and it comes out completely in the music. Not normally my thing, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much it resonated still. Saved a couple songs, but most aren't the kind of thing you would pop on for a quick listen. Once to absorb fully, though I'm not sure I would again.

I thought Nick Cave was better.

The world is indeed full of crashing bores.

Kinda slow for me.

I liked the instrumentals on this album a lot. It was all very grand, slow, and epic sounding. I still don't really like his voice, which keeps me from actually enjoying it. The songs did feel very samey, it felt at likes like I was listening to one long continuous song. It felt a little sigur-ros-y at times, but then Nick's voice came over it and kind of ruined the vibes. 5/10, I likely wouldn't ever put this on again.

One of the best expressions of grief I've experienced. One of the great artistic statements of the twenty-first century, full stop.

Dull - sorry Nick!

No sé qué opinar ... bastante rollo, la verdad ... pero a veces tiene un uauuu.

Nick Cave is always a captivating artist.

This album is so theatrical and immersive, but in a really dull way. It doesn't have the down-home kitschy charm that Gris Gris (a few albums prior) does, another very theatrical and strange album. I like Nick Cave's voice, but I always find myself wondering who he is making music for? I don't know anyone who has ever told me he's their favourite artist or even that they like him or think he's cool. He's flying under the radar intentionally I guess? This music is just so cold and inaccessible. But I guess he's living in his own private musical soundscape and it all makes sense to him. Oh wait, wrote it after the death of his son. Omg. Okay, this is grief music, I understand! Listening again through another lens and yeah, I get it. Poor man. My deepest sympathies and condolences. I think this is now a very beautiful hereafter that Nick Cave has created for Arthur. Albeit, boring and not for me. This album cover is absolutely gorgeous. It really does transport you to a magical fairy realm. Just too bad it's so marred by sadness.

No sé qué opinar ... bastante rollo, la verdad ... pero a veces tiene un uauuu.

I feel like there is something of emperors new clothes about Nick Cave. You would look foolish to dislike him. But I can't get past the overwrought lyrics and spoken word like delivery. The music is fantastic though. I would listen to an instrumental version of this no problem and it somewhat saves it. 3*

Nick Cave is a SERIOUS artist.

Very strong. Not the kind of thing I’ll quickly return to. But it’s beautiful without losing it’s Nick Cave-ness.

Is this a rock album or a game of Dungeons & Dragons? Nah.

On vahva levy! Tosi kiinnostavaa mihin homma etenee tästä kun tämä ambient-trilogia on saatu loppuun. Tää ilmestyi jotenkin yllättäen aikoinaan ja ostin tän kuulematta yhtään biisiä vinyylinä. 4/5

Vahva ja vangitseva, vaikkei ihan Caven suosikkeja

Ihailtavaa miten Cave on pitäny näin varman otteen hyppysissään näin pitkään. Kiinnostava ja monipuolinen levy tämäkin, solid 4/5

This album is fucking beautiful. Nick Cave wrote it after his son died. It's super heavy and emotional, understandably so. Favourite songs: Bright Horses, Spinning Song, Sun Forest, Galleon Ship Least favourite songs: Leviathan 3/5

This sucks ass, couldn't pass track 4

This is my 9th album. I saw the beautiful, breathtaking cover and already knew I would give 5 stars, but listening to it felt nice again. I will probably give every Nick Cave album here 5 stars, because they're all amazing. Nick Cave is a poet, a God and overall someone who understands grief, sadness and love at suc a deep level. Ghosteen is for some people his best -or one of- work. I understand that, though I disagree. Bright Horses is monumental and beautiful, like the Colosseum in Rome or so, but the rest of the album does not have a standout song in my opinion. With more easygoing songs, I would give this album probably 6 stars, but it's not an easy one to listen to, partially due to the length. 5 stars. And I recommend listening to Bright Horses to everyone here.

If you're ever wondering why Nick Cave has so many albums, and ask why one from 2019 is on the list, all it takes is one listen to understand why. Haunting, haunting record. Heart breaking every step of the way. Proving without a shadow of a doubt how great Nick Cave is as a songwriter. Multiple times throughout the album I nearly cried (title track got the closest). This record is phenomenal and a true instant modern classic

Nick Cave is so intense! You have to be in the mood or proper state of mind, to listen and fully enjoy - - I wasn't this time.

Perfect morning to listen to this after a difficult day yesterday. Deep, stirring, rich, sad. I enjoyed it. 4

It was... boring.

Not good, could not listen

The authors of the 1001 book really love "Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds". Even though I do not consider all their work among my favorites, I can understand why they have so many albums on the list. Each of these albums is so different but also so aligned with each other that it is hard to select just one to represent the whole work of the band. This also creates a problem: wrong choices like this one. I still like the final result of the album with all this speech poetry, but it's far from the best found on the list.

Not my cup of tea

When does the music start? 1/5

story telling HAHAHAHA

I'm sure if you're high this is a spiritual experience.

Quite tired of ambient bad seeds. Miss the filth. Worst album cover of their career. That aside, still quite great, feel the heartache. P.S. Good lord this list needs some diversity. @me

This album is undeniably beautiful. The arrangements, vocals, writing, lyrics, and instrumentation is all stunning, but there is little that I feel will be remembered from this. I’ll enjoy listening if I ever need to again, but don’t know that I’ll feel like it’s worth it. 4/5

Not only does this album not qualify as an album that anyone should have to hear before they die, it DOES qualify as an album that is almost impossible to listen to at all. Its bad in every way. The production is bad, the lyrics are bad, the vocals are bad, and the music is not good. 1/5

Yet another from Nick Cave. This one more ethereal and seemingly more of a concept that has some profundity to it. But mostly I'm just glad there's no more of him on the list.

Double album, well produced, first song mentions kings. 2nd song, pianos, strings, ethereal female voices, feels of grief. 3rd song same, no female extra voice or chorus. The wife says this album gave birth to the Nationals.The 4th song has hotel imagery, the female chorus is back along with bells. All these songs are slow, so slow, Nick speaks sometimes instead of singing. I just read, he made the album after his son died, he used loops, synths and no percussion. I'm up to Galleon and suitably depressed. Don't know if I can last a whole double album. His son was 15 when he died, I can't through this.

I want to love Nick Cave but I just don’t.

boh, particolare, ma lento e noioso. Non da buttare ok.

very challenging record. as someone who really enjoys slow difficult listens like lulu i find this to be charming but i need to listen more to really understand it. im more of a rock fan so the repetitive ambient pop style here gets boring at points which i dont hold against the record as thats more my fault. strong 6/10 for now, will probably go up in the future.

Super interesting. Maybe a little slower for an entire album than I would love but definitely enjoyed it.

Not an album you can listen to very often because it's about grief and associated emotions. Beautifully written, it's more poetic than musical in my opinion. Not at all familiar with this band's work but this album is very personal and its worth a listen. It's quite haunting.

Really not my cup of tea.

I love Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, but Ghosteen is not an album that I enjoyed.

meh

Very sad, but very good. Knowing this is about grief after the death of Nick's son really helped open up this album for me. It's a cathartic listen yet also heartbreaking.

This is bleak. This is painful. It is also beautiful in the way that only the bleak and painful can be.

Ratings: 5: I will happily play this album anytime 4: I may occasionally play this album of my own free will 3: I will happily listen to this if someone plays it in the background 2: I will tolerate this if it is playing in the background 1: I will leave the room if someone plays this in the background Lands somewhere between 3 and 4 really. This album has potential and would benefit from closer listening and repeated listens which I'm just not able to do these days. Moving on.

Album follows the death of his 15 year old son, who died falling of a cliff near Brighton having taken LSD for the first time. The tragedy is felt in the lyrics of the songs.

Usually Nick Cave rubs me the wrong way for some reason, but this one won me over. Maybe I prefer his voice when its over more ambient music

What a sad album. As a parent of a teen boy that kind of freaked me out to listen to.

Everything Nick Cave has ever released is on this list. As always he sings monotone 90% of the time while the soundtrack to 80's PBS specials plays in the background.

Why is this on the list. His 'music' is not must listen unless you hear it in a movie. Not completely without value so 2 stars

This band is hot dog water.

Hey, tu sais quoi? J'ai pas envie de l'écouter. Congé d'album, en plus il avait l'air plate, j'ai juste écouté la première toune. Hey, en plus de ça, il était même pas dans la liste originale des 1001 albums, faque boycott bitch

So many of the reviews are praising the lyrics and I just don't get it. It's so fart smelly you could cut it like cheese. [Verse 1] Once there was a song, the song yearned to be sung It was a spinning song about the king of rock 'n' roll The king was first a young prince, the prince was the best With his black jelly hair he crashed onto a stage in Vegas [Verse 2] The king had a queen, the queen's hair was a stairway She tended the castle garden and in the garden planted a tree The garden tree was a stairway, it was 16 branches high On the top branch was a nest, sing the high cloudy nest In the nest there was a bird, the bird had a wing The wing had a feather, spin the feather and sing the wind [Verse 3] The king in time died, the queen's heart broke like a vow And the tree returned to the earth with the nest and the bird But the feather spun upward, upward and upward Spinning all the weather vanes And you're sitting at the kitchen table, listening to the radio I get it's about Elvis but is this really the tone that you set for a song about Elvis? The fuck?

Heavy shit

Terrific album for sad, somber contemplations of love and loss. Big anthemic themes from Nick Cave with delicate soft instrumentations. When listening bring your kleenex for sure... 😪

Low pace is what you need sometimes, and this album is perfectly that, although it can bit melancholic. Art is an expression, and in this album there is only the expression of sadness nothing else. 3/5 Be prepared 3/5

It's a nice atmosphere, but the overall feel of the album is very angsty and slow. It broods a lot, which is a bit of nick cave, but it seems like it's constantly trying to be edgy, but only in the form of poetry. It's not hitting me in the right headspace today.

Quite a difficult listen. I've listened to it before and it's not something I'd really want to listen to again.

Perfectly whatever. Their other stuff is great this didn't need to make the list

There may be a day where this album resonates with me. Today is not that day!

Can someone please wake me up when this album is over? Ok thanks!

This is the first album after 1001. It's just not my thing. It's dark, moody, melancholy. Long. I guess it's some peoples' wheelhouses. I haven't understood it, yet.

I wanted to like this. Nick Cave typically has a style and attitude that is pretty interesting. This is really a curve ball, and it is the strangest sameyness with it's ambient lightweight almost non-existent music. Maybe there is something deeper in the lyrics that i'm missing, but the musical side of this album is pretty "one note" to me.

I thought I was going to like this more but wasn’t to my taste! I do like a few songs from our nick cave but nothing rlly stood out to me :(

I stopped listening after track 5 - couldn't get past listening to this from my mum's perspective and I don't like crying at my desk on a Thursday morning. Despite the obvious grief in this album, I can't give it higher than a 2/5 as this is simply not for me - my god I am so so so sad.

4

I feel a deep sadness that Cave's son died unexpectedly. I expect songs driven by such unimaginable grief to be lyrically hoping for redemption and sonically orchestral, with droning synthesizers, zero percussion, wavelike numbness permeating the evocative voicing. If you would like that, go for this album. If you don't, stay away.

Love some Nick Cave. Lots of soulful lyrics. I would have enjoyed some variety in style and beats.

Stunning - round about 2008/9 he wrote music for a theatrical version of Kafka’s Metamorphosis which is the most beautiful haunting music but can’t be found anywhere on the internet apart from snippets. This has the same ethereal vibe.

Damn. I guess I'm a Nick Cave fan. Got a lot of catching up to do — he's got like 250 albums. Yeah, this is long. But I sank into the sonic sea and was mesmerized by Cave's haunting moan.

This album is probably better than the 3 I'm giving it, but this is how I felt about it today, hearing it for the first time. I can hear the songcraft and the arrangements and performances are all great. But it is mostly one mood—and a downer of a mood at that. (yes, I know what the album is about.) I think Nick Cave is a gem and very many of these songs were pretty great, but hearing the whole thing in one go is a lot. So it's probably at least a 4, but it hit me like a 3 today.

Nick Cave has long confused me. I just can't pinpoint how I feel about his music. I guess I'm mostly ambivalent. I listened to this in two parts across two days. I'll admit today's listen was enjoyable. But he is not someone I would veer to on my own.

Not the best album if your starting out on NC

really enjoy this artist and like the dreamy tranquil vibe but could not get into this album... 4/10

I can't think of a situation in which I would enjoy listening to this, it doesn't sound bad but is just dull and doesn't really appeal to me. 5/10

Very interesting. I thought there were some missed opportunities for drums and percussion to bring up the energy, but it wasn’t bad. Kind of long and got boring after a while, but never bad. Not sure why this is so highly acclaimed 6.5/10

3/10 - This is some of the weirdest things I have ever listened to. It is extremely chill Christian Rock that does not really go anywhere. So many of the songs dragged on and on and on it felt. There was no build up to anything. And a 12 minute and a 14 minute song for nothing is awful. All in all it was not enjoyable to listen to but in a completely different way when compared to most of the albums I have not liked so far.

Was pretty uninteresting, got pretty bored of it

Summary says the album is about how his son died, which obviously is very sad, but I couldn’t really get into the music. Weird voice 5/10

I know Cave has experienced great loss and sadness in his life, this album feels like an ode to that grief. More like poetry with musical accompaniment than songs it is nevertheless very beautiful.

I consider this music that Nick Cave is planning on using to haunt people.

It was too depressing for my taste

This is poetry with background sounds, not really music. Lyrics are tough and beautiful. Great songwriting. Butttttt its as depressive as they come. If I ever end my life, this will be tue album that will be playing when done. Soooo depressing yet such dark and great lyrics.

Well, that was absolutely dreadful, and I have no idea as to why “Ghosteen” is even on this list… I’ve seen comments along the lines of “great lyrics” and “subtle instrumentation changes throughout are awesome” and I’m like WTF are they talking about??? I get that this is an authentic album, and was born out of grief – but that alone doesn’t make it awesome… To be honest, it sounded like one long, drawn-out funeral dirge – which is fine if you like that sort of thing… Also saw that this was rated as one of the best albums of 2019, and I’ll stick with my premise that it’s NOT because this was a great album, but because there is a real lack of musical “greatness” today – especially the authentic kind, as compared to what was being produced in the 70’s… Normally, I highlight some of the best songs on the album, but nothing to show for this one… The ONLY song that I bothered to look at title throughout the album, was the last song – “Hollywood”… Not sure if there was a little more in that one, as compared to all of the rest, or after about an hour, I had been completely worn down – but ether way, even that track is nothing to write home about… This was incredibly rough, but I’ll give it a 1, as at least if was authentic…

When this first came out I hadn’t liked it as much as the previous two but I was kind of burnt out on his stuff at that point given three albums with a similar vibe and now a double. I like it a bit more now. It is hauntingly beautiful but is quite long without much tonal variation, not that more would be appropriate.

bro.

Fist listen I got sleepy and though it was boring, but when I listen to it really I realized it is one piece of beautiful work and musical complexity. Full of emotions and grieve that, I do not wish upon no one. It's hearkbreaking and yet so beatiful. I'll give it a 8/10.

I’m not a fan of post-Mick Harvey Bad Seeds.

Did not enjoy

Not exactly something that I want in heavy rotation. A seriously heavy record. But it's also pretty incredible at accomplishing its goals.

This might NEARLY take the record of worst album on this list for me, but I have had some slightly worse ones then this. There is nothing worse then spoken word albums, NOTHING

What? Apparently spoken word is popular in this list.

This benefitted greatly from being on in the background but I don’t know man. It sounded nice but was so long. Also what’s with all the Nick Cave on here? Low 3.

Maybe the most boring album so far. Might work as a movie sound track. As an album boring af

I'm sure that this is a deeply personal, heartfelt album for Nick Cave given the death of his son, but it is just too morose for me.

Wow I hated this. Here are a list of better and more relevant albums from 2019 that won’t be on here but should have been in this ones place: Vampire Weekend, ‘Father of the Bride’, Lana Del Rey, ‘Norman Fucking Rockwell!’, Ariana Grande, “Thank U, Next”, Brittany Howard, ‘Jaime’.

He strikes me as an Australian Leonard Cohen. Interesting and intriguing.

Dark, very dark. I'm not sad enough to enjoy this right now but I bet it's just right for some people.

Monotonous

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Nick Cave’s acceptance of grief leading him to a path to rebirth is as beautiful of a concept as The Bad Seeds’ instrumentation and Nick’s songwriting itself.

What utter dross, nick cave has a couple of good hits, but that was dire listening!

I think I have found the album to listen to when you are having a hard time falling asleep.

Hauntingly beautiful. And with reason. Nick Cave poors his grief out in this tribute to his son. I'm not one to be emotionally sucked in by music but this album tears me apart. 5/5.

Album 368 of 1001 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen Rating : 3/ 5 Kind of depressing...but done in Nick Cave style. Can't really listen to this one for enjoyment. If I decide to listen to Nic Cave again, I might listen...but he has others that are better. Written and recorded soon after his son's death, the album "explores themes of loss, death and existentialism, as well as empathy, faith and optimism.". Not really one to dance to.

Nick Cave has a knack for writing albums that tip me into a different (parallel? complementary? contrasting?) emotional space. I love his songs individually, but I do struggle with listening to a whole album in one go because of this. This album is particularly haunting, knowing that it was part of Nick's processing of his son's death. It's a beautifully produced sparse soundscape that swells and ebbs in an emotional flow. So, while I am giving it 5 stars for its musical ambition (and the fulfilment of), I'm unlikely to listen to it regularly at this point in my life. I hope I never find occasion to need this to speak to my soul 🧡

Knowing what he had just gone through makes this album hit hard. The tragedy carries it. Not sure I like it too much...but it sucked me in from start to finish. Credit where credit is due

My favourite album from Nick Cave, can't stop listening in loop waiting for you.

never listened to this before, it’s not what i was expecting ( in a good way ) . Really hypnotic and compelling. I will be listening to this more from now on

Although I don't care for it, this fairytale album is the best of Nick Cave that I've heard so far. It's less self-serving and less performative than his other work. I keep asking myself, what occasion calls for this album?

I thought we were done with Nick Cave!? But here we are back again, with 2019’s “Ghosteen.” The website I’ve been using with a listing of the 1001 albums is evidently incomplete. “Ghosteen” must be in a newer edition of the book? We recently saw “Hadestown” on Broadway, and Nick Cave’s spoken intro at the start of “Ghosteen” reminded me of Hermes setting the scene and introducing the characters to open the musical. Beyond that, the music is not reminiscent of “Hadestown.” But it’s also not reminiscent of Nick Cave. And that’s a good thing. Cave’s singing is much more tolerable, and fits the haunting atmosphere well. “Ghosteen” is long, and drags in parts, but it's a great package. It doesn’t come from the same dirty dive bar as Cave’s 90s work - the evolution in his style is appreciated. The “Hadestown” reminder is also serendipitous since Cave did his own retelling of Orpheus’ story on “Lyre of Orpheus.”

It was a grey and rainy day and I enjoyed this melancholy backing track. I can't tell if my enjoyment means this is the best Nick Cave album on the list or if I just needed the right setting for the other albums....

“I’ve been naively hoping that he [Nick Cave] stopped making music a long time ago, but alas here’s an album from 2019.” - Me prior to listening to this album This album is best described as an atmosphere. A lilt sheet flapping in the breeze. NC&TBS brought the electronic aspects to bear just so the listener feels like they are a buoy bobbing up and down with the waves of mood. I must say Nick’s voice still bothers me too much that I can’t not notice it and think twice about this rating. But for the most part, his voice adds to the melancholy in a positive way. I have to say that I am quite surprised by this album. It only took until The Bad Seeds’ 17th album, but they got this one right.

Not my cup of tea

I really hated this. Didn't get it at all. For something so emotional the music was devoid of feeling.

I appreciate that music is art, but I can't imagine anyone thinking "ooooh ill listen to Ghosteen today" (and I listen to radiohead)

Nick Cave’s previous album, Skeleton Tree, was bleak. His teenage son Arthur tragically died during the recording sessions, and the sound of the album as well as some of the lyrics were imbibed with grief, and this is clear from listening to the record. Ghosteen was the first album that was directly inspired by Cave’s son’s death, and is even more emotionally charged as a result - yet where Skeleton Tree often sounds cold and discomforting, Ghosteen sounds celestial. It can be a difficult listen due to the subject matter, and the lyrics do not shy away from this, but the timbres throughout the album are bright and rich, like Cave is communicating with the heavens. This is a long album, and mostly deserving of it though some of the songs do meander slightly. The songwriting isn’t quite as tight as some of Cave’s other albums, but the emotion is impossible to deny I saw Nick Cave live at Primavera Festival in 2022, his second live show since the release of Ghosteen and since the pandemic. It was also the second show since the passing of another of Cave’s sons, Jethro, the previous month. It was an incredible and uniquely personal performance, especially the songs from Ghosteen that were so directly about losing a child, and I never want to experience a performance like it again

Good album, great listen

It's a beautifully sad album. I don't think I will ever want to listen to it again.

Oof. This was like listening to beat poetry from someone whose mother should have told them they couldn't sing, all lumped on top of lackluster instrumentals.

I do feel bad for the nature of the album however I still couldn’t figure out the greatness of it. I’ve definitely heard worse from him: this was the best album I’ve heard from him so I’ll give him that. Some songs I could listen to again but just not incredible.

It's now almost a rite of passage to mock the fact that Elvis Costello has a bizarrely out-weighted representation on this 1001 list. But at Costello's worst he's at least palatable. ...and so here I was when I initially wrote about how there are (at least!) 4 Nick Cave albums. FOUR - and how at some point you've gotta read the room - I get it, absolutely give us 1 since everyone should hear (almost) everything/everyone once, and if you insist on a 2nd fine but you have to know half the audience is gonna nope right out. Even my favourite artist I'm gonna push 2 on you tops and after that you're on your own to discover more of them. I wrote all this and more (including questions about the album cover) without having yet listened ... ..annnnnd then great: I then read that he wrote this about and for his son who died. So who's the asshole now. Sigh. So. I listened. Here's the amazing and fun thing - it is and was nothing at all like I'd expected (i.e. nothing like the previous 3 of his I've had). The music is actually undeniably ...lovely?? Soaring, sad, dramatic. Almost hints of Brian Eno. His voice is ...emotional and tentative? Sensitive? Of course too often he reminded me of Leonard Cohen whose vocals I can't abide by. But there is definite distinction - this is definitely better in that I feel more emotion (although I'm likely reverse engineering this knowing what I do about his inspiration for the record). In the end maybe a different singer but definitely with the vocals backed off a little in the mix and I could have bumped this to a 4. Still I never expected to give Nick Cave a 3 and will tip my hat to him for a surprising, different, and emotional ambient project. I guess that's the point of this damn thing (I've only said that at least 10 times). TL;DR: Shockingly and unexpectedly different. 7/10 3 stars

This is beautiful. Heavy but beautiful.

More like spoken word poetry than music.

Was Waiting for You in the Sun Forest, looking for Fireflies and Bright Horses, but all I found was this album.

It's certainly a vibe. Just not my vibe.

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

I think I’ve had a fair few Nick Cave albums at this point, in his various forms. Honestly, they’ve ben quite hit and miss for me. I’m hopeful for something pleasant today, but there is that part of me that thinks back to how terrible The Birthday Party were. Fingers crossed for something good! Songs I already knew: none Favourites: Bright Horses This album wasn’t bad, but it certainly didn’t blow me away. Perhaps it was my naivety, but the album cover had me expecting something fantastical and different, but this was an album of slow maudlin tracks. For what they are, they are good. However, I think I need to be in a state of real misery to get an other from albums like this, and I’m unfortunately in quite a happy place right now. Ah well.

Música ambiental y Nick Cave hablando. Un poco rollo. Ni fu ni fa.

No sé qué opinar ... bastante rollo, la verdad ... pero a veces tiene un uauuu.

Worst album ever

Background music is good. With the lyrics included, the album appears to be best for those in mourning.

Really beautiful sad album

Very sad

Not my favorite songs that I've heard from Nick Cave, but this is a very well put together album. Disk 2 was my favorite part of this by far.

A bit depressing, well produced

Every Radiohead album since OK Computer has been absolutely amazing. This isn't my favorite, but it's still in a class of its own. I think every single Radiohead album except Pablo Honey is a 10/10. I love Pablo Honey, but it's not in the same league as everything after it. In Rainbows has some of the cleanest, most satisfying production I've ever heard. The "In the Basement" live version of this album is so, so much better than the studio version.

Prior to starting this journey of 1001 albums, I held no expectations that I would give a first time listen all five stars. I must give five stars to Ghosteen. Only Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush move me such as this music.

This record is far from a new one for me. I follow Nick Cave's works almost religiously, and this is no exception. This work, is in a way more sombre and morose compared to some of his other albums. Musically, it's so beautifully written, and lyrically, well, Nick Cave is a wordsmith. This record, broke me down quite a few times. It's one that's grown to become special to me, but it's a difficult listen at the same time, given the events that preceded. But for sure a special album that deserves the recognition! Standout tracks: Spinning Song, Bright Horses, Waiting For You, Sun Forest, Galleon Ship, Ghosteen, Fireflies, Hollywood 8,5 out of 10

I think it was good to be forced to listen to Ghosteen again, because it really is one of the most beautiful records ever made. It's just much too depressing to listen to on a regular basis.

“I am here and you are where you are.” Should have picked a different time to be cutting onions.

2/29/24. Will see if I'm still keeping up with this on the next leap day in 2028! Unfortunately this album didn't resonate with me too well. I like the vocals and easy going nature, but was waiting for something to progress or change as I kept listening. Not terrible, but don't think it's my cup of tea.

I loved it musically, but the droning vocals began to wear on me a bit by the end. Enjoyed it enough to go back to a couple of tracks in the future.

I’m not with this one

Even more ambient than Skeleton Tree, but less experimental and less dark. This is Nick grieving at the same time that he opens himself to love. That being said, as poignant as some of these songs can be, I don't think it's as interesting or consistent as its predecessor.

I understand it's a grieving album, but that was really boring.

A great tortured, depressive, dark and melancholic output from the prolific Nick Cave. I loved the introspective new age/ambiant aspect of this piece of art. The synth tones were so on point. That said, I can't really tell why it finds its way through this list, as this artist have other very important albums within his career.

Utterly beautiful music that does absolutely nothing for me.

If he didn’t look so badass, people would mock him for this poetry slam claptrap.

nope

It is so painful and emphatic, never heard so sadly music, but it is great!

The lyrics are way too "woo woo" for me. With each song, Nick Cave's alternative spirituality and mysticism went from bizarre ... to comical ... to annoying.

Profoundly moving. Really quite amazing.

Absolutely lovely. It’s said that great art comes from great suffering and I’m sad that such a beautiful album wouldn’t exist without such pain. Definitely one to revisit.

I was a bit daunted going into this but Clare said “it’s sublime”. It is. It’s also very, very moving and I’ll listen to it again.

Relaxing, kinda moody, and extremely cringe

I like several of these songs. I know they were very influential and popular in Australia, but the music is a bit out there for me. Still, it was kind of fun

Didn’t really enjoy it, not a huge fan of his vocals. There’s some interesting lyricism and harmonies, but overall I was not a fan.

ok the first song is.... something its like being high for the first time LMAOA the first song is lit ngl. OH WOW THAT PART. OH MY. second songs now, piano yum. ok the second songs kinda sad.... im having it. yup, lit. the 3rd song also..... wow what a great album. lit.

Grief comes in a myriad of forms. Nick Cave took the more humanistic form in regards to its expression. The sudden, tragic passing of his son in 2015 has colored not only the music made by Nick since but people's views of him as he tapped into the very emotions and thoughts that were deemed unexpected of him. Ghosteen, however unfortunate the situations surrounding it were, could very well be the best work of his long, well-traveled career, which shouldn't be a thing one says in regards to this but it applies. Not a note is wasted, not a word misused as a light is shone ever so beautifully on life, death, grief and all the corners that represents it. Whatever Nick does next, it will be hard to top this. But there's no doubt that he'll find a way.

Heavy album but good somber sound for most of it

Ok

Very interesting - kind of gave some Tom Waits vibes. Very mellow and chill - the vocals are not super polished but I like it. some of their other work was also decent but i'll rate that later. Overall, a new band that I dig the groove of!

Felt like a spoken word album to me. Not usually my thing. I should probably sit and just read the lyrics to this one - prob enjoy it more.

Too dreary and depressing. Especially given the inspiration for it.

Good

schönes Cover (,sehr), Musik gepflegt, ruhig, langweilig

Push the Sky Away is the last Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album I was familiar with. It is an excellent record, but they have so many killer records (basically anything during the period: From Her to Eternity - Let Love in) there is always a better album to get back too. Ghosteen: knowing the back story I understand it is a highly personal album, and that might be one of the reasons I could hardly connect with the record at all initially. The other reason is that most of the tracks at first just sound like (very) sad, slow soundscapes, often with some spoken word / minimal singing over it. It is only until Ghosteen Speaks that things changed a little. A really good song. Leviathan also good and the rest of the album stays on track. In fact, Ghosteen is pretty impressive too, especially after a couple of listens. So, initially, I thought I would probably not listen to it again but during the afternoon I backtracked completely and now believe it is another truly outstanding Nick Cave record.

Extremely intense and truly beautiful. Also a (too) long ride in slow motion.

atmosphärische musik, packender gesang - und trotzdem nicht meins.

Kenne zwar viel von Nick Cave, aber dieses Album nicht. Und finde es super!

Admittedly I only joined the Bad Seeds fan club a few years ago but they seem to be maturing like a fine wine, and this album has a legitimate claim to being their best. I won’t pretend to know what all of Nick’s lyrics are about but there are some devastating lines that cut through, and his poetic imagery really compliments the ethereal, fairytale soundscapes that Warren Ellis helps to create. It’s far more graceful, beautiful and euphoric (or maybe cathartic is a better word here?) than an album about grief has any right to be, really. And then it closes on a song as bleak as Hollywood, suggesting that the grief remains after all, partially or completely unresolved. That jarring change in the bass pattern at 9 minutes in… amazing stuff.

To weird for me. Didn’t like it

When I worked at Eventbrite there was a small, but loud group of Nick Cave stans who were insufferable. Kind of ruined him for me. 2

I liked this a lot. Calm and evocative, or something. I don't know all that many adjectives. This is apparently the third in a trilogy for the band, so I guess I should listen to the previous two as well.

oopsies sorry i fell off for a bit but i'm back listening to ghosteen. this is kind of just like spoken word poetry there's so much emotion and meaning behind it but the music itself isn't really my style

Horrible.

Absolute mindless drivel. Shame on anyone for adding it to this list. It was effectively BAD spoken word poetry, with weird music in the background.

Another Nick Cave album? No thanks.

the most beautiful album about death. without being directly spiritual it takes to fairy worlds, the great unknown and makes it all not so bad. It's a beautiful exploration of heartwrenching feelings

The first song was actually pretty interesting. Building a mood, setting a scene for what's to come. It felt like a solid intro piece. But then the next song and the ones to come kept feeling like intros. I kept expecting something to build but it just never happened. So its a great album if you like intros but no body to any song.

Acoustic sad boy music. Did not care for, but respect for Nick Cave.

You might be cool, but you'll never be Nick Cave cool.

Leur 17ème album! Un de meilleurs albums de 2019 supposément. Pas pour moi. C'est soffffffft, c'est relax, ça traite de sujets triste (la mort de l'enfant du chanteur), ça vient pas me chercher. C'est astral tout ça.

Track 1: Kinda like the story telling but the beginning noise is kinda interesting and adds a different element to it. Track 2: very somber tone. Track 3: kinda follows the theme of the other songs. I liked the industrial drum start and had good instrumentation. Just very slow. Track 4: another similar song to the album getting the vibe. Track 5: another long slow song. I like the end of the song though when it changes vibes. Track 6: decent song. Track 7: seems like a religious song from the god of the album following a lot of lyrics about Jesus. Track 8: kinda a different song with background vocals. Not bad. Track 9: another long song that’s kinda a slow build. The vibe of this song matches everything else except the long building of the first lyric showing up. Track 10: reminds me of the first track with the vocals. Different vibe compared to some of the album. Track 11: I like the bass of this song. Overall: 4.2/10. I really didn’t like this album. It was very slow for me and I really couldn’t get into it. It also just isn’t really what I like to listening to.

A really good album. I’ve listened to the songs on shuffle with other things several times but never as an album. Enjoyed it a lot as an album but would probably never listen to it all at once again.

3.5 stars. I have not enjoyed other NC&TBS albums, but this one I did. The singers vocal performance is actually complimented by he arrangements, rather than him simply talking over a more interesting backing track. "Waiting for You," is actually pretty good, and the singer actually sings! The title track is pretty good too. Lyrically the songs are also more story driven and not as vague and abstract like on the album "Abbatoir Blues." At 68 minutes/11 songs, some songs do feel rather drawn out. It was actually beneficial to not listen *too* closely sometimes otherwise it would feel like these were going on forever.

Hated. Too ethereal// taking music too seriously.

I love his voice, his excellent songwriting & the superb musicians he works with. The tribute he sang at Shane MacGowan’s funeral was so moving.

Powerfully sad, I'd listen again but hopefully not for a long time

Ghosteen is an extraordinary listen. A really powerful articulation of grief and love. But it’s hard to listen to more than once Bright Horses aside which reduces me to tears on every listen

This strikes me as incredibly 'I'm 14 and this is deep' with the score to match. Nothing about this grabbed me. Still very pretty and atmospheric.

Words like "favourite", "flawed", or even "boring" feel so redundant here. It's impossible to separate "Ghosteen" from its context, and really we shouldn't try. The snatches of interviews and quotations from Nick Cave around this album are etched into my brain: after the death of his son, Arthur, in 2015, he had "turned a corner and wandered onto a vast landscape." The songs presented here were his "fever dreams." In the last weeks of her life, Cave's ninety-two year old mother was lost in thought listening to the album over and over. These impressions are all woven into "Ghosteen": hazy and blurred images of a family stumbling through tragedy, and something haunting and beautiful emerging on the other side. Effectively a collaboration between Cave and long-term creative partner Warren Ellis, "Ghosteen" is built around synth pads, loops and textures, with occasional piano. Every song is rich with poetic detail to fill every corner of the vast soundscapes: a thousand galleon ships falling and flying; a spiral of children climbing up to the sun; bright horses breaking free from the fields, their manes full of fire; Baby Bear going to the moon in a boat. Every image is a sweeping pastoral painting, reflecting the cover art. Meanwhile, Cave mines every nuance from his rugged and broken 61-year-old vocal: sometimes sinking into spoken word as in "Fireflies", sometimes reaching into cracked and tender falsetto as in "The Spinning Song" and "Hollywood", sometimes dipping into prayer, as in the hypnotic mantras of "Ghosteen Speaks" or "Leviathan". The whole set aches with sadness and longing: the unbearable personal weight of a man processing his grief. In particular, "Bright Horses", "Night Raid" and "Galleon Ship" are some of the most beautiful songs of Cave's long career, while the 14-minute closer "Hollywood" is a black-hole of intensity which I didn't fully appreciate until hearing it live. I'd been a Nick Cave fan for four years when this album was released, having also seen him live on the "Skeleton Tree" tour of 2017. When "Ghosteen" finally came, via livestream on YouTube, I shut myself in my flat, switched the lights off, and watched the rain in the car-park as the album slowly unfolded… and everyone in the comment section trashed it for lack of driving rock or drums. It still isn't my go-to Cave album, but over the years I've come to appreciate that it exists on a whole other plane to any other Nick Cave albums, and indeed most of the other albums on this list. "Faith, Hope and Carnage", a series of conversations between Cave and journalist Sean Hagan, give bottomless insights into the process of making "Ghosteen". If you want to understand this album more, and consider why a verdict of "boring" or "depressing" might be a tad reductive, it's a perfect place to start. Oh, and one final fact: the industrial-style drum loops at the opening of "Waiting for You" originally ran throughout the song, and were taken out at the suggestion of none other than Coldplay's Chris Martin. A bizarre thought.

“Nick Cave presents: all of his albums plus a few more you need to hear before you die”

I dunno... It felt like a good album, but not really my style

I can really dig this album for the story behind it and the evident emotion in a lot of the songs. It was on the slightly longer side of albums but nothing to out of the blue from a record like this. The sound itself wasn't the strongest but I wouldn't want to take away from the feel to this project.

Very good, too sad

Hauntingly beautiful

Upon starting this album I had a feeling this would not be for me, at least not now. But it was ok and I was accepting it for the first few songs. By the time Night Raid came on I felt the album was spinning away upward from me and I started to look for an escape. The rest of the album was uncomfortable and I was impatient for it to end. That was the first album, I did not play the second part.

I've listened to this a couple times and every time I do I feel like I'm doing it an injustice because I'm not paying enough attention to ever single lyric. It a really well done album that has so much feeling and emotion to it in every song. As I also know a bit about the album and have friends that went through the same thing ... it really hits hard for me. Excellent listen and added to my rotation of listening.

A heavy, haunting listen. Incredible weight to the album, cathartic, intense, beautiful, and the minimal production punctuates it perfectly. I won't give it a 5 because I won't listen to it again but it's pretty close.

Yeah, there are certainly too many Nick Cave albums on this list, but this is definitely not one to cut. Not one to listen to if what you really like is the high energy version of Nick Cave - this is an album that is mourning the death of his teenage son, it's beautifully reflective and soulful. I'd put it alongside You Want It Darker and Blackstar as top quality albums that tackle the theme of death/grief/loss (although in this case it's mourning the loss of someone else rather than his own impending doom). Can imagine it was an immensely difficult album to write, but probably quite cathartic. Could it've done with being a little shorter? Yeah, from the listener's point of view. That, alongside not having a really outstanding song (although Bright Horses gets pretty close), makes it a 4 rather than a 5. Best we've had in a little while though.

This is a soundtrack to something... Bleak, haunting and stretched to the limit.

6/10

Is it well made? Definitely. It feels like a portal into the writer's soul. Now would I ever willingly listen to it again? No.

It seems that the author of this project is a huge fan of Nick Cave and Damon Albarn with how many of their albums are on this list. I think both artists each deserve a single album on this list, but not 3,4,5+ albums. They have a unique sound and style that I can appreciate, but they are definitely not on the level of say a Beatles or Led Zeppelin who definitely deserve having multiple albums on this list.

Ethereal, dreamy and colorful. These are all words you’d normally not associate with Nick Cave but on this album he is exactly these things and so much more. There is an epicness to the quiet moments and subtle vocal inflections that brings an emotion and a feeling with it. Brilliant stuff here!

Not sure if this was planned, but Ghosteen was preceded (on this list) by Junkyard, an album from Nick's band, the Birthday Party from 1982 and this album was released 37 years later. A lot has evolved in Cave's sound through the years and Ghosteen is definitely a mellow, haunting and sometimes beautiful album. It's an album of grief and reflection (his son died in 2015) and it comes through in the music quite well. Not a record to spin during a party, but instead a listen in a dark room with headphones would be appropriate.

Always loved Nick's voice and persona- magnetic even Taking into consideration the reason this album was created it's obviously deep, brooding and intense. It's relaxing and introverted- voice, voices, synthesiser and orchestration.

I really like Nick Cave's style. This is such a beautiful album. 4/5

prefer upbeat music however this is so beautiful. Not a regular listen though

A sparse, poetic and heartbreaking expression of a father's grief. One can only hope the act of making it helped bring some sort of peace to its creator. Rating: 5/5 Playlist track: Ghosteen Speaks Date listened: 27/12/23

Super boring

4.4 Pretty hard to write a review for this one. I think you need some context on when and why the songs came together for Nick (and band) to grasp the concept. I could see how one could say this is a total piece of shit but I appreciate it more with each listen.

Very emotional and fitting for what he was going through while writing this. Overall not something I would want to listen to.

Very emotional with some good lyrical imagery. Unfortunately it doesn’t feel like there is enough variation between songs, which, combined with the tone and his voice, makes this really drag.

Beautiful sounding album with enchanting synths and pianos, the lead singer's voice belongs in the Smithsonian.

what the hell. i guess the concept was cool but jeez louise, i will never listen to it again. i will think about it though which i guess is the driving point? it felt very self indulgent and long and i necessary but it doesn’t mean that it isn’t good deep down somewhere…

I am fortunate enough to be in a time in my life where I cannot relate to this album, but it is quite beautiful

Een en al pracht.

Enjoyed the synths in the first tune, the vocals were painful. Starting to doubt the integrity of this list

2/5 - individually the elements are quite nice and pleasant to listen to, combined this is just some bloke talking over a nice piece of music, not my cuppa.

I think it's a good album, very atmospheric. Probably the most melancholic music I've heard since I heard the album A Crow Looked At Me by Mount Eerie. Hard to rate and I probably wouldn't listen to it again in a hurry. A 3 I think.

Previously rated: Murder Ballads (3/5) ************************* There has been some bullshit on this list, but this album takes the cake. Hated every single minute of this dull, boring, silly pseudo-deep lyrics, garbage. I shouted many expletives at Mr. Cave while listening to this.

nsomma, alla fine non mi fa impazzire, un po' troppo lagna pure per me

Sad old man recites poetry. Not how I want to spend my Friday.

I haven’t been able to give this album the time and space it needs, but I’ve listened enough to get the feels and know it’s very good and I will be playing it again when I have the opportunity. It put me in mind of the Leonard Cohen album earlier; it’s another album that deals with death but with a different take. Listens: 1 Fave Track: Don’t know yet Rating: 5

4.5