Ghosteen

fome

I don’t know man, I get you’re proud of your words and all but ya gotta give me a bit more music. I’m not down to listen to ya talk. 2.5 stars

Every song sounds the same. Too many mentions of Jesus. Dragged on 30 minutes more than it needed to and I couldn’t wait for it to end. Really not my thing but I appreciate the effort.

I’m familiar with Nick Cave and I think I’ve listened to his music before while on a road trip with a friend who’s a huge fan. But I forgot just how much I do not enjoy this. This feels more like spoken word poetry than music, and for me, it was impossible to differentiate between any two songs. The background instrumentals and album art are pretty, though.

I had heard Nick Caves name a bunch but had no idea that his music was like that. I’m kinda torn between it being good or just im14andthisisdeep. It definitely grew on me later in the album. He wrote the album after his 15 year old son died, which gives some context to the dreary sound. Idk, I may have to give this one another shot.

The backstory behind this album is sad and tragic. I don't know why this album is considered a "must listen" as I can't imagine at what point would I listen to this album again. I feel Nick Cave's emotions but this is an album that feels "important" so therefore it is considered important. I feel sad for his loss, but there isn't much here to draw me in.

I really don't understand why this is rated so highly

For the most part its a broad expansive sombre album, with lyrics like a café hosting poetry night. I feel like I haven't grasped the true meaning and feeling but that's ok, it's not for me but I appreciate the artistry he was going for. Favourite tracks Waiting for You, Leviathan.

Just not getting this one

meh

Youve really gotta be in the right mood for it

Writing this review feels a bit like listening to this album... let's just get this over with. In general, I don't like Nick Cave's music. This album comes in at a solid 2.5 stars. Much of the music was okay and would have been good material to play at work to drown out the noise around me without distracting me from my job. The often spoken lyrics are a drag, and I don't know what Cave is trying to get at. The album was consistent, but I don't know why Cave would make a whole album of this. I thought about rounding up to three stars, but when it comes down to it my recommendation to others would be to skip this album. There's so much other stuff out there, why waste time with mediocrity?

Monotonous

Can't imagine how tough it must be

Not my thing. Never understood the appeal of Nick Cave.

2.8 - It feels like consoling someone you don't know very well, maybe a distant relative at a funeral, or a roommate that just got broken up with. Being a decent person you offer a tentative hug hoping it'll be brief. But as you wrap your arms around them, they collapse into you, slobbering and blubbering onto your shoulder, clinging to your back. Inside you're searching for empathy but you're desperately anxious to escape. When it's all finally over, you chastise yourself for not being kinder and more understanding. That guilt nibbles away at your soul for the rest of the day.

I had a hard time listening to this one. I can feel the anguish here, and I did not enjoy this. It was too one-note for me, but I can appreciate what's happening here. 2/5

My initial reaction to opening the Wiki was "What the Fuck Rob Dimery, an Electronic album from 2019 has zero place on this list" My sentiment remains similar, I think there are much better albums from the era that could take its place. It is not another horrible electronic album. It certainly leans more towards the Ambient genre it is listed as. The first three tracks are actually very good. It gets a little more forgettable after that. Didn't dislike the album, just not something that is a must listen. Especially considering he has four more albums on this list.

Not what I’d pick as a good Nick Cave album.

Meditation sounds with the voice of Nick Cave of them. Each of them ok, however I don't really understand why this is in the list. Bored to sleep while listening...

This album is a strange one to me. It is very obvious why it's made the list: the music is objectively beautiful and extremely well produced. But for some reason, I'm not enjoying it? It almost feels like an AI reproduction of all the things that it takes to make a beautiful album, but it cannot produce the feeling and emotion that goes into it. None of the tracks stood out to me in a way to have me pick a favorite one.

I just struggled with this. Lyrically I didn't connect.

Muutaman biisin kerta-annoksina voisi toimia ja olla tunnelmallista, mutta pitkäsoittona käy kovin tylsäksi ei fanin korvissa. Toimisi livenä varmasti paremmin kuin konttorirotan kuulokkeista.

Yksi hetki päivässä tätä jaksaa kuunnella ja se on nukkumaanmenon aikaan

This must be what taking a fist full of quaaludes is like. And the description that this is a double album with part two being two songs and spoken word. Oooff.

Rather dull, seemed very rambly without much sense of direction. I appreciate the album came about due to bereavement, but it's not an record I could get along with

Initially, I was upset about another Nick Cave album. Then the music started and it was not great. Still, I kept listening and somewhere, somehow, I started liking it. It is deep and emotional and beautiful. But still does this list need another Nick Cave album?

In all of my mis-spent youth listening avidly to Birthday Party, I never imagined there would be such a thing as a Nick Cave ambient album. I didn’t mind this, and probably should have focused more on the lyrics, but I just let it all wash over me. Nothing really jumped out, sadly. Wasn’t terrible, but it’s no ‘Sonny’s Burning’.

This album demands your full attention. I didn't quite follow the full story. It's all or nothing - I couldn't make that full commitment. The melancholy didn't do much for my mood.

The album is certainly interesting, but is it really one of the albums I must listen to before I die?

Does this really need to be on here?… The album opens with spinning song It is a spoken word track over a droning electronic noise, certainly interesting and a good choice for track one but it ain’t a favourite. I thought nick cave done a little bit of singing and not just talking? Well guess I’am wrong as bright horses is just like the first sonic but with backing singers and good ambient piano work. Okay the album’s evolved a little bit as waiting for you has cave singing and I know he’s not the best vocalist but this was a nice thing to hear. The piano in this track is also more frequent so I hope that occurs more with time. Night raid is a step back in quality in my opinion as he’s gone back to just talking at your ears ( well, for the most part) and it’s backed by an instrumental akin to if Radiohead’s treefingers was slightly more rhythmic actually the only pleasantry from this song are the backing singers so yeah not my cuppa tea so far. Surprisingly, I actually really like sun forest it contains a mix of cave speaking and singing over one of the best ambient noises I’ve ever herd but that noise only works across its time length because of the piano. The last minute seems to be like a hidden track of sorts and It just adds nothing. Galleon ship is also one of the better songs, it’s a slightly darker and gloomier song with probably the most singing from cave in the whole album. The creepy backing vocals also add a touch of greatness missing from the album. Ghosteen speaks has another set of the best instrumentals in the whole album and cave is singing which is good but it’s just too repetitive and being ambient music that isn’t really meant as much for the foreground of the mind this music is getting repetitive. The first act of the album ends with leviathan another repetitive one but still one of the albums best songs by a country mile having a sound akin to being submerged in the deep blue sea. Ghosteen would be the album’s best song if it wasn’t for the 12:10 time stamp that isn’t really filled with much. But it’s good background music. And Nick went back to just talking as now for one of the worst songs on the album, fireflies it’s just boring and feels longer than the two overblown epics either side of it. Hollywood is a 14 minute long epic and a grand/ satisfying conclusion to the album this song isn’t one of my favourites due to the time length but for people who are good with long pieces like this there is something to really enjoy! This album reminds me of if Radiohead's kid A was long, dragged out and sung by nick cave; where’s my red right hand at? Oh yeah the album with that song wasn’t even in the book.

Really? Of all the Nick Cave albums?? Very sorry for his loss, but this may be my least favorite of his mightily impressive oeuvre.

ganske sutrete, men ikkje på den gode morrissey-måten + for sang om hesta

Coveret ser ut som at da blei AI-generert. Føltes ut som at da aldri tok slutt. Begynne å bli klar for nåken effektive album på 35-40 min no

This is so slow and yieldingly bleak sounding that it will require many more - full concentration - listening sessions if I am ever going to have its pleasures revealed to me. Not enough evidence after two listens to say that it will ever merit more than 2.5 stars

I'm sure he is a genius, but not to me. Can't make it through any of this stuff

Helaas niet voor in de stemming.

quite dreamlike and peaceful. good music to dissociate to. perfectly produced but by halfway through it had reeeally started to drag on. This album might be better if you classify it as "poetry" rather than "music" I was feeling 3 about halfway through, by the end it was a 2.

Beautifully crafted and ethereal, but to my ears tough going.

Wtf serieux j3 comprend pas l'album, cest poetique mais trop c'est comme pas assez 2.5

Is this new age Christian music? I thought it was all 1 long song. Hollywood was decent

Very different and unique. As a concept album it's fine, the themes are pretty strong, even if the lyrics themselves are a little too esoteric in an "I'm 14 and this is deep" way. Standout Tracks Bright Horses Hollywood

Interesting, but too much of a downer

Im a fan of some of Nick's work butthis is just depressing and he barely gets out of spoken word.

Not my favorite Nick Cave Album

Overall was an ok album. It felt churchy quite a bit but his voice is very soothing. Don’t no if I would opt to listen to it again

I don’t know how to comment on this. It’s not bad, the music is beautiful it’s just a bit too slow and boring. Maybe in a movie it would fit on the background.

Much like some people think cilantro (corriander) tastes like soap, and others don't have an internal voice, I think I was born with something that prevents me from enjoying bands like this, Tom Waits and most of Leonard Cohen's work. The tracks were sleepy and the lyrics felt so packed that their density shrouded their meaning. I'm sure there are millions of people, for whom this is exactly what they are looking for, but I just couldn't connect with it. I couldn't even power through the whole album. I don't know why, but I feel like I'm letting someone down.

couldn't really get past the singing. Like Timbre TImbre, maybe if i listened more I could get into it.

Nope

Have to be in the right mood for Nick. I was not in that mood. Noteworthy track: Galleon Ship + Ghosteen Cover art is nice though

The newest album on our list so far. Appreciate the artistry but didn’t really do anything for me.

Meh. Some pretentious shite. Not really interesting listening

Did not like much. Some songs have great lyrics, Nick Cave’s chords are moving in Bright Horses, but don’t really enjoy it much even on the second listen

Good voice but every song is slow. No variety to keep me interested.

Es ist mir zu ruhig gewesen. Ich mag die Stimme von Nick Cave aber sehr gerne

Not stoned enough to enjoy.

Brooding. Reminded me of the fake musical the guy writes in Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Just not really my style

2 - TERRIBLE

I don't enjoy this style of music. The album was depressing as well. Not a good listen.

I didn’t think spoken word was really a thing in 2019.

Fucking hell another Nick Cave album. Gag me with a spoon.

Enough with the Nick Cave

Listening to Nick Cave makes me want to jump out of a window. I do not get this list creator’s fascination with him. I really hope this is the last album of his I ever have to listen to.

Ovo nije album koji moraš odslušati prije nego što umreš. Ovo je album koji možda nije loše odslušati kad HOĆEŠ da umreš pa da te pogura, što od dosade što od želje za samoubistvo u svakoj sekundi predugog trajanja.

Nick Cave is unbearably awful. It's talking with barely any music.

No thanks.

Crap

Forgettable. I was not impressed, this felt like random music to have in the background and then you forget it's playing.

I didn't know this was about the death of his son or a way for him to grieve, so maybe that's why I didn't like the album, but I had to force myself to listen to the whole thing. It's so boring and depressing, and the lyrics made me cringe sometimes. I don't know how this got Album of the Year in 2019.

I knew i wasn’t going to like this before even listening, but i persevered in the name of science. Can confirm that it is hot ass.

This was a surprise. A lot of heavy feels alongside gorgeous instrumentation. I don’t think I will listen to this album again, but I’m glad I got this one time with it. I’ve never heard anything like this before.

I'm forever near a stereo saying, what the fuck is this garbage? And the answer is always Nick Cave.

This sounded like an overly-ambitious soundtrack to a bad movie nobody saw.

This is bad boring Tom Waits.

I summoned this one with my last review. I know Nick Cave has a fantastic reputation but I’m guessing that’s only among the deaf

Heard before?:❌️ Will listen again?:❌️

Very talented. I like songs of his orher more

Unfortunately Nick Cave's good favor that he established with me as a new artist early on this list has been eroding. The Boatman's Call was a tough listen and Ghosteen was only marginally better. I much prefer when Nick & The Bad Seeds roll into some punky blues rock to the slow, depressing, acoustic nonsense that we got on this one. I'm sure some stuffy critic can take inspiration out of this but I found it comparable to a trip to a bad off-broadway spoken word art show. The whole thing was a pretentious mess of pretty obnoxious "ambient pop" that I can do without. How this is the highest rated album of 2019 and shows up on countless end of year lists is truly a surprise. Nick Cave is certainly a polarizing artist in my book. He's run the gamut from bad to good on this list and I'm starting to lean more towards bad than good when I think about his music now. "Universal acclaim" for an album like this only further makes me reject critical reviews for what is to be considered high art. 1.20 stars

This is just awful. Please just write your words in a book and then I'll ignore that as well.

1,2/5

I'll admit this started out ok for me. I can appreciate the instrumental work but after about 30min even that couldn't overcome the cons for me. I'm just really not into the free meter spoken lyrics.

This was truly such a boring and nothing album. I really don’t have anything good to say about it. barely made it through, by the halfway point i just started scanning through the songs. Really not a notable album.

Why

"Well, sometimes it's better not to say anything at all." - Should learn to practice what you preach Nick. Pure self-indulgent toss.

Insufferable

Es el segundo disco de Nico Cueva que me toca. Increíble que tenga más de 1 dentro de los 1001. Está ya la intro me hizo querer sacarlo antes de que empiece. Update escuché 4 canciones y me hace creer que "goodbye moonmen" de Rick and Morty puede ser un gran tema y no una huevada irónica humorística.

I just really do not like nick cave.

Uggh. I have sympathy for his loss. But, musically, this album is all but unlistenable for me: banal, Enya-esque, new age tracks with Nick Cave’s pretentious spoken word and atrocious singing covering almost every moment. No thank you.

1/5 Favorite Song: Night Raid

utter bilge. Self indulgent maudlin crap. Didnt finish it

Ooof another Nick Cave. I mean he's fine but just way too mellow for me. Great now he's discovered synth. Not sure I am going to make it through this album if this first song is any indication, it bad. Okay, I'm out - this album is just so damn depressing and slow I can't take any more. I know there is some Nick Cave out there that I like but this is definitely not it.

Spoken word poetry with backing music = no thanks

I really disliked this. Way too long. Way too brooding

Painful. I know this album was written in the wake of a personal tragedy, but it’s so far up its own backside that it’s difficult to care. Easily one of the worst albums so far.

I love Nick Cave, and I don’t want to take anything away from him dealing with his loss, but everything he has recorded in the last twenty years is unlistenable.

It feels like I’m in the corner of the room while Nick is mourning his lost child. I can’t relate to his grief so I just feel uncomfortable like I’m somewhere I don’t belong. Nice cover art. Rating: 1.4

Boring, as always.

darkie

An album exploring loss, death and existentialism, as well as empathy, faith and optimism with synthesizers, loops and ambient elements = really not for me

I understand powerful grief is entrenched in this album but it didn't make the listen any less excruciating.

Wie Öde und langweilig und immer die selbe Stimmlage. Warum verleiht der Musikexpress 6 Sterne dafür?

грустно, что у тебя корзина умер,да крутой альбом записал, но чееееееееееееееееееееееееееееееел мне скучноватьо было энто слушать почетная 1/5

Terrible

Couldn’t finish I fucking hated this

excruciating

Write a book instead.

he's just talking

Meh

Terrible music - could not get past the third song - felt like torture

Through this project I've found many new artists who I never heard of who I now love. I've also had a chance to learn about artists I had heard of, but never took the time to listen to, and now love. Then there's the other group, that Nick Cave falls into sadly. The group of artists I didn't know much about who I now dread as they're just so terrible. I thought this album would be dreadful and it indeed was. Overlong, overwrought, vocals that reminded me of a goat bleating, awful ambient background noises, songs that just drift along going nowhere, a total waste of my time when I could be listening to just about anything and it would be better. One star.

Overrated hype

Nick cave continues to be overrepresented here for how I didn't even know of him before. This album is insufferable. I listened to 4 songs (3 of which were highlighted by apple music), and I was just done. I don't need this to drag me down on a Friday. 1*

I really hated this.

this project has made it quiet clear that i'm not a nick cave fan.

ANOTHER NICK CAVE ALBUM WTF. What's with music critics loving this guy?

Nick Cave out here submitting his own albums.

lo peor q escuche en mi vida harcore

sorry, but this was simply boring

E.T go home auditory aesthetic, love the whimsical cover. Favourite track: Spinning Song

Music for English teachers with awful taste.

1 - I’m sure it tells a heartbreaking story but it was a slog to listen too

Not 4 me but not made 4 me

Just a bad idea. 1 star or F-.

Damn. I like Cave, but this was difficult to hear.

¿Por qué está este álbum en la lista? Solo porque es Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, nada más que por eso. El álbum es malo y punto.

Eu amo eles mas não peguei a vibe desse álbum

With all respect to the origins of this album, I didn’t like this.

this is cheeks😑

I don’t think I needed to hear this before I die

Awh hell naw

Who would ever put this on

Deep songs sounds like going thru a religious change Replay. No

I can’t listen to another album from this dude

I understand the reasoning behind the album and the grief he was probably feeling but damn it was borderline unlistenable. Every song essentially sounded the same with the 2005 emo kid diary poetry and the swelling shrieks from background singers. Might be someone else’s cup of tea but def not mine

I think this could end up being album #1001. I think this huge nerd is singing about being sad? Good, hope he's as miserable as I am after having to listen to this. Lower bpm than an Olympic gold medalist marathoner's resting heart rate.

I don’t get it. Mainly a dude talking over sound. Songwriting feels pretty lackluster to me.

The Good: This is all about youth! The Bad: Being sung by an old fart… The Ugly: Age… it’s ugly… when you can’t accept it… To the horror of horrors I was presented this album today… to the even greater horror of horrors I found out that this is only the third in what sums to FIVE FUCKING ALBUMS that mr Nick Cave with his badseeds have on this list… Badseeds my ass, they impregnate even the unwilling… I don’t know what this is album is supposed to be about. I can’t be arsed (to use a British expression for once) to find out why this album is included in this list… I am fearful of the potential shit album that I will be presented with tomorrow in the morning. Thankfully I was presented with a song by The Subdudes and this made me go down a slight Treme inspired rabbit hole that was so much more enjoyable than this album… Hurray for a sensitive volume knob which decided to lower the volume all by itself during this album… silence is better. 1* out of pure spite

I didn't really need this one, guy is just a big nick cave fan Will I listen to again: 0%

What is this, spoken word

Not a Nick Cave guy.

I legitimately hated this. The house that jack built without the sense of self awareness

I don’t get this. At. All.

This is an album? I can think of 50 other artists that should have made this list. This is bulllshit putting me to sleep

Overly dramatic poetry. I'll bet this is the favorite band of people that think poetry slams are awesome. So the other Nick Cave albums I've got on this list were interesting and even though I wasn't a fan they were enjoyable. This. This album is brutal. It's not even a good depressing album. It's just boring and makes me hate Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Also Nick, see a shrink, maybe some brain candy, it will be alright man.

I'm really not feeling this one. I've never been a fan of Nick Cave's voice and his songwriting isn't enough to keep me interested and engaged with these songs. I wonder why this album was chosen. It doesn't seem like Nick Cave's best or his most important work.

Weird, idk why it’s on this list

Why? Just... why?

No

🤮 This album farted in the elevator

I am 11 albums in today and I have to listen to another Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album. Please... don't piss me off. Stop trying to piss me off

Meh

Hors de question que je me farcisse cette merde en entier

Over blown. Overcooked. Undertalented. I’d nearly rather listen to Neil Yoong or Costello . 1 star.

I gave it a go. Put it on with no interruptions so that I didn't do my deadshit cynical thing, even though I really struggle with this guy, the persona, the biblical references and Jesus allusions. The songs literally have the same fade in intro, every single one. The same arrangements, which is a criticism of Ellis as much as Cave. The same portentous intonation, here comes Hebrew Bible Nick to bestow his wisdom. The same playing as whatever the last Cave album was on this list. To be frank I was utterly bemused, but I get that he's got a thing that seems to cut through which I don't and will never get. I gave it a go.

1/5

Oh lovely, music to suicide by. Needs a warning label - caution: depressing AF.

kinda really bad i could not listen to it. stories? odd singing?

I would give a negative number if I could

Not my cup of tea!!

So sorry you went through that Nick :( Subject matter aside, I feel I have to review this from the perspective of whether I enjoyed listening to it, and I just didn't. It was so boring, and so not for me.

if youre gonna be shit at singing at least pretend to be good, good god. and i dont like this idea that just cos hes mopey and the subject itself is sad that it works together. like its just boring. it can be sad and not boring.

couldn't finish tbh

Overly academic and artsy

I just don’t like Nick Cave

Christian ... no thanks.

I’ve always said it’s much harder writing a beautiful, sad melodic song than any rock music song. Here’s the thing about this album though; beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Even knowing the backstory, these songs aren’t sad or beautiful to me. They are simple, repetitive, and shallow musically (not lyrically). Nick’s style of singing, and along with his voice, is so off putting to me. He sounds like the Beast from Beauty And The Beast and that this is a stage production. There is a thing that happens with me sometimes with really fantastic, sad music. I could be having the best day of my life, in an upbeat mood, and a sad song will come on and the first few haunting notes of the song will instantly make me feel morose and like I could literally cry. No lyrics have been uttered yet, it’s just the musical composition of those specific notes and melody that changes my mood. That is completely devoid in this album. It’s simple, basic boring background music (or just sounds) with the Beast singing his stage songs atop. This album is frustratingly terrible.

This is my second Nick Cave album in the last ten days, and it’s somehow worse than the first one. Ambient, drippy bullshit with some of the worst vocal “performances” I have ever heard. Melancholy dogshit music. This will enter the Hall of Shame as my eighth 1/5.

6 times Nick Cave is on this list. I don’t know 6 people that care for his music. His film scores are better than any of these albums. I get it, the person/people that made this list fangirl over Nick. I don’t.

Merry Christmas Eve to me, here is another shitty Nick Cave album sigh

couldn't make it through this sad, mopey pile of shite

Genuinely, who is this for?

Not sure what that was other than terrible.

So this isn't musically terrible, I just kind of hate it.

Hated it. Overly pretentious psuedointellectual nonsense noise

I don't get it

I usually like Nick cave and I know music is subjective, but this is subjectively just bad. It just drones on and there isn’t anything memorable to me.

Weird. I can't appreciate it. 1/5

I refuse to listen to albums by men who sound like they would tell their girlfriends whom they cheated on that they should "bear some of the responsibility"

Jesus fuck. I have zero patience for this shit.

It may be crass to give a negative review of an album on which the artist is grieving for their recently lost child, but I hated this. It's warbled beat poetry accompanied by some (admittedly nice) soulful backup singing, all played over the sort of ambient nothingness you might try to fall asleep to. I play every album in this project in it's entirety to provide an honest opinion, and this one was the toughest to get through, even more so than Leonard Cohen's quarter-speed snooze ballads. That seems harsh given the circumstances, but Cave marketed the shit out of these circumstances, with a documentary, an album, a "live recreation project" (of the album, not his child's death) and a concert tour. There's nothing wrong with expressing grief through art, but grief as commerce leaves me feeling squirmy and Grief On Tour seems like the kind of thing a burgeoning cult leader would show up for to find recruits.

Dull. 0.5 if I could score lower

Another album that I just didn't gel with. I turned it off before the end, it was just so dull and monotonous. I found it difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish between the tracks.

That was a long, boring hour. Not thrilled to see the other reviews mentioning there's a lot of Nick Cave on this list.

0 out of 5 What the fuck was that?!? I have no words.

First listen. 1.5 I'm not sure I really get this. It's pretty boring to me, but maybe I'm missing something. It felt like most/all of the songs on the first disc were slow songs, made up of 2 or 3 notes on a synth pad. The second disc was a little more interesting, but even then, just when I thought there was something interesting, it'd lapse into a long lyrical part that I didn't care for.

Nick Cave is just private school Kanye

This is such a weird album. It sounds so experimental. There are times where it could be good but it isn’t.

Man, what a tough listen. I am just not a big fan of Nick Cave's singing style. This is also the second Nick Cave album this week, which does not help this rating. But I feel this album is significantly worse compared to the Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus double album. This album features a lot of heavy religious lyrics, which also do not appeal to me at all. Easy 1/5 unfortunately.

Is this the score to a musical? This is my second time trying to listen to this. It just puts me to sleep. There may be something here that I'm just not hearing, or even listening for, but my God this is not my jam. To me music is supposed to be joyous, a celebration. This is just....odd 1 outta 5

The Bad Seeds must be planted in the soil of the music because what the hell is this album?

Absolutely not. How many shitty Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds albums does this list need. More like albums that make you want to die… good lord, this author needs to get out of his bubble more than he does.

Yeah. I don't even know what this is. 1 Star

Yay another Nick Cave album! Said nobody, ever.

There is another one of these albums on this list, what???

Joy. MORE Nick Cave. AND IT'S AN HOUR LONG??? Unraptured joy! My god, Nick Cave sucks.

Absolute garbage

Not a single banger. Poor effort

This is just noise, and not the good kind

Ai, ik kan de Stem van Nick Cave echt NIET verdragen. Wat een zeik muziek. Sporadisch melodisch mooi, maar over het algemeen te emo voor mij

Boring

Who actually listens to this bullshit? And what kind of mental breakdown did the guy who made this list have to include these guys FIVE times?? Horrible and I hope Nick Cave sees this review. 1/10

I've heard some Nick Cave here and there, but never really cared for it. "Ahh, this must the album with all the good stuff." Nope. Even worse than the stuff I'd already heard. Much worse. What is this??

Bad. What the fuck is ambient pop? 🤡

Second album du groupe après 'Abattoir blues ...' qui ne m'avait pas convaincu (noté 2/5). Cet album commence mal avec un morceau long et sans intérêt. Et c'est pareil pour les morceaux suivants, musique d'ambiance sans plus. Je ne suis pas allé au bout. =>1/5

More shite

I’ve heard like one Nick Cave song from a movie soundtrack, and it was… fine, but otherwise am unfamiliar with his music. But this album is so weird and so BAD. I seriously thought it was a joke, but the Wikipedia page has it listed as ridiculously well-reviewed: most places have it as 5 out of 5 stars, 96 of 100 on Metacritic, and says it was rated as the Best Album of the Decade, tied with Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butteryfly. All of which makes it feel even more like I’m being pranked. When I was younger, my aunt was really into Ray Boltz, the Christian music singer who also did narrative songs. You’d know him from the terrible “Christmas Shoes” song (all of his music is like that). This album makes Ray Boltz sound like Sinatra. The music itself is... fine, but the sing-talking… ugh. And his vocabulary oof. I get that this is supposed to be deep, and there’s a good amount of imagery, but the actual sentence construction sounds like it should be sung by William Shatner. The insane praise is what boggles my mind. Every weird music has its dedicated fans, not gonna yuck other people’s yums, etc. But this things gets five stars across the board - a 96 out of 100 on Metacritic. “Highest rated album of 2019 and tied for highest rated album of the 2010s with Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly”. I’m looking out the window for zeppelins man.

Got so bored after 3 songs, I'm sure his other stuff is great (the song in Harry Potter was good) but this just felt like someone moaning about shit. Trying to be Leonard Cohen without the imagery.

Just gets more painful to listen to as it goes along

Wow. Omg. What‘s that?! I mean.. I have a „I‘ll hear every album from the generator 100% before rating it“-rule. But.. I couldn‘t stand this one.

Not for me

Boring waffle, feels bad to say when knowing the albums context but not for me at all

0,1 stars. The worst thing i've listened in my lifetime

I hate Nick Cave.

What the hell was even that

Not the biggest NC&TBS fan, and this was bad by those standards. 1/5

No thank you

Dreary lyrics. Singer doesn’t add much to the music. Listened all the way to the end and felt tortured!

This isnt it. Poetry, sure. But not much worth noting beyond that.

This is my first album I’ve given a 1 to. I really don’t like this. It started like someone was storytelling or preaching in the sound bath tent at a music festival. And then became a very long funeral dirge. He talks rather than sings on most of the tracks which I don’t like. All the tracks bleed into each other and I feel like the rhymes are weird and awkward on Hollywood. Not a fan of this.

Well that was a chore

poetically good musically bad

It has a nice album cover, at least.

Didn't completely hate the second half of this album, the subject matter is heavy and the sparse synths work quite well for it. Would not listen again though. First half was pretty dire, as with other nick cave albums I feel a dodgy pub singer was given too much license to experiment and it's a big joke that I'm not in on. His success shows I'm in the wrong but I've heard enough to know he'll never be for me.

no likey, slow, and.. weird?

Not for me. 1/5

Not my vibe.

For the artist, there is probably something deeply and personally profound about this, but musically, it's distilled shit. Why bother with the pauses between "songs" when you're going to resume with the same droll nonsense. Much like the films of Wes Anderson, this is the type of bullshit that pretentious people like because they think they are supposed to. I like the album cover.

Each song is a bad poem disguising itself as music. Like the opposite of leonard cohen, terrible lyrics but pretty good vocals. The backing instruments do not belong in a song, they belong in a video game montage. Most notable song is Leviathan, the by far worst in the album. Hollywood seems to be the favourite of Nick Cave, as it’s the only one with any emotion behind it. Or maybe he was just grateful that the album was finally over, like me. (A little harsh, i didn’t actually mind listening to hollywood)

I truly feel for Nick Cave and his loss. However, I do not enjoy wallowing with him in his grief. This album is not for me.

All due respect to this project, We do NOT NEED to hear ANYONE'S 17th studio album. We DONT

Dette var en snodig introduksjon til Nick Cave. Alle disse sangene er omtrent identiske, både strukturelt og sonisk sett. Det gikk så utrolig treigt, og jeg ble ufattelig lei av å høre på Cave lese opp de endeløse diktene sine med den samme trøtte stemmen. Jeg stiller meg sympatisk til de triste omstendighetene rundt Ghosteen, men det endrer ikke den personlige vurderingen min.

Ghosteen is a snoozefest of epic proportions. It’s like Nick Cave set out to make a more depressing, slower, and somehow less engaging version of Leonard Cohen’s You Want It Darker — and totally missed the mark. The whole thing just drags on in a haze of whispery musings and ambient filler. Good thing I was mowing the lawn while listening or I’d have passed out. Easily one of the most lifeless albums I’ve sat through.

Nick Cave & His Bad Music

I’ve never heard anything from Nick Cave but I’ve only ever heard good things. And when it came to Nick Cave’s voice I was not disappointed, his voice is spectacular and full of nuance and subtlety. That being said I have nothing positive to say about this album outside of Nick’s vocal talent, well that’s not true I can tell that the band is wildly talented as well. The problem is I just hate the direction of the album. I don’t like the cover, I don’t like the production decisions and I hate the sound of the album. It actually made me go through his other work briefly cause I was stunned at how much I hated this album. Needless to say he has a lot of other sounds that I ended up liking more and some I liked less. It is also clear that the band has a clear intention to always try to do something different which I can deeply appreciate. But ultimately that just makes me more comfortable saying how much I hate this album. If you’re interested in Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds just try sampling alittle of each album and you should find something you like. For instance I liked the “Let Love In” album the best personally. So ultimately this album might be for you, but I’d still recommend skipping it.

Välillä sai nauttia oikein kauniista harnoniasta ja välillä tuntui kuin olisi kuunnellut surkeaa äänikirjaa seaworldin ambienssiraidan kanssa. Ei meikäläisen pala kakkua.

Couldn’t get into it after 5 tracks. Not my style, perhaps I’ll try to revisit it another time when I’m in a more depressed mood.

я конечно сочувствую Нику Кейву, потеря ребенка - это пиздец. Поэтому альбом и такой тоскливый. но кроме скорби здесь нет ничего интересного, по крайней мере для меня. опусы не отличаются вообще друг от друга

My GOD no

We are due for a good album. C'mon algo!

what the fuck nonsense is this? Bullshit lyrics pretending to have some deep meaning. Like they got their lyrics from Seb Pearse's New Age Bullshit Generator. The music is lame, too. Every bit as fake as the album art.

I did not care for this at all. Wound up skipping through most of the songs. It’s a 1 rating for me. 1/5.

It feels very odd and sort of depressing to review an album about the loss of a child on a scale of 1-5. Its unthinkable and any art that results from it surely has merit. If this helped Cave deal with that loss, then that's a great thing. That being said I will do my duty. 1. Not a Nick Cave fan - do not get it. 2. This album offers something I am not seeking. That may be immaturity, but I don't seek music about loss. I also don't seek spoken word poetry music. I think I primarily listen to music to feel better about life. I'll work on expanding what I get from music, but I won't start with Nick Cave.

I don’t get it …

I hate this guys music. Of all the albums ever made there is no justification for having everything this cunts put out on here. Jesus Christ

Sehr düster und deprimierend. Ich konnte nichts damit anfangen. 1/5

Only here because it's a Nick Cave album. Would rather have seen newer artists than someone who peeked in the late 80's/early 00's This album wont turn a classic

I wanted to like this so bad because the idea is super cool. But his voice is borderline unlistenable to me

I can’t even

boring af

Snore.

Nope. Not for me.

Fuck Nick Cave - Zionist scumbag

I don't know why there are so many Nick Cave albums in 1001 generator - they are all so bad. He is a terrible singer, no musicality - reminds me of Shatner.

Not good

This sounds like David Bowie singing Tom Waits.

i thought i liked nick cave and the bad seeds but this tells me i was mistaken? could i write poetry to this? n

Look...I just don't like Nick Cave, okay? Please stop trying to make me like his music. I made it through five songs of this before I gave up and listened to "Songs in the Key of X: Music from and Inspired by X-Files, starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson: Only on Fox Television: Check Local Listings for Broadcast in Your Area" instead. This compilation includes the only Nick Cave song I kind of like, "Red Right Hand."

I don't think I could be convinced that this isn't one hour long song.

two nick caves a week apart was more than i could handle. was absolutely not feeling this one. 1.5

Come on, this one guy has 3 albums (so far) in the Top 1001? I call "BS"! The introductory song was interesting, but boring, really boring. The second song, "Bright Horses", was the most played track according to the stats. Dreary, boring, monotone, why, fantastical, those are the words that first come to mind. If you're into spoken poetry over music, this one's for you. Otherwise, this sounds like a fantasy movie soundtrack. I could see fairies and elves dancing in the forbidden woods. WTF, what am I missing? How did this make anyone's Top 1001 except the ultimate Nick Cave groupie? You know that sound at the end of Family Feud when they get the 3rd X?! That's what I want to do right now! One star because somehow 14M people have listened to "Bright Horses".

If someone put this on the aux I would crash

Aburridísimo

Não é meu tipo de música. Mas tem o seu valor. Acho que posso dar uma segunda chance depois.

chato chato chato chato

Not for me

Dull piano, slow, boring songs. Voice is cool. I found myself wanting this album to be over. If I had to choose either listening to this album or being held down in a fire ant bed, I’d pick the fire ant bed. 1001 album worthy: No - 4/7

not for me. kinda mopey and slow

This album did not work for me at all. Incredibly pretentious "musicality" that amounts to spoken word over synth pseudo-melodies that sound pretty, but don't actually do or say anything. Maybe this would've worked better as an instrumental album, because I can't stand the Leonard Cohen-esque sing-speak poetry style of lyrical delivery. Complete fail of an album

Had to turn it off. Couldn’t do it

I like the title and the picture on this album. Kinda perfect for the Halloween season. Sorry this album sucks. I don't do this often, but 1 star

Not for me

I would like a refund for the last hour of my life please

Awful, just awful. Horrible voice, horrible music, horrible sound.

Can't stand this artist, everything i hear is whining, not music

Not my type of music.

mehhhhh, feel like this is just spoken poetry over some background music. Might be great, but isn't what I am looking for in an album

I have never been a fan of like the low crooning. I'll say that I wasn't feeling well this day and had a headache, but I honestly just could not wait for this album to end.

Crap

Music was good lyrics🤷🏼

boring

this story music not for me

This sucked. Sounded like a miserable musical.

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

Incredibly difficult to get through.

Dull - sorry Nick!

This sucks ass, couldn't pass track 4

Not good, could not listen

When does the music start? 1/5

story telling HAHAHAHA

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

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.

This band is hot dog water.

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!

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.