Bad Seeds, Nick Cave - Abattoir Blues Tour (2CD+2DVD)
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Artist: Bad Seeds, Nick CaveEdition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2007-03-20
Music Label: Mute U.S.
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- O Children (Dusseldorf)
- Hiding All Away (Manchester)
- Breathless (Dusseldorf)
- Get Ready For Love (Dusseldorf)
- Red Right Hand (Cophenhagen)
- The Ship Song (Paris 1)
- The Weeping Song (Munich)
- Stagger Lee (Munich)
- Carry Me (Dusseldorf)
- Let The Bells Ring (Lausanne)
- Easy Money (Milan)
- Supernaturally (Paris 1)
- Babe, You Turn Me On (Paris 2)
- There She Goes, My Beautiful World (Amsterdam)
- God Is In The House (Paris 2)
- Deanna (Hamburg)
- Lay Me Low (Munich)
- Hiding All Away
- Messiah Ward
- Easy Money
- Supernaturally
- The Lyre Of Orpheus
- Babe, You Turn Me On
- Nature Boy
- Get Ready For Love
- Carry Me
- There She Goes, My Beautiful World
- God Is In The House
- Red Right Hand
- The Ship Song
- Stagger Lee
- Bring It On
- Babe, I'm On Fire
- Nature Boy
- Breathless
- Get Ready For Love Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus, A Short Film
- Christina The Astonishing
- Wild World Short Film: `Bring It On' Video ShootPromotional Videos:
Free Music Notes for Abattoir Blues Tour (2CD+2DVD)
Free Music Review: Brilliant Latter Day Cave & Bad Seeds
Hit: 5 Stars
I was excited the day this was finally released on our shores. When it was first announced in the UK, I was tempted to order it there, but my slim wallet reminded me that patience was indeed a virtue.
It was well worth the wait.
The 2 Audio CDs, are great. The quality is top notch, and performances are very solid. However, Nick Cave's pipes aren't in tip-top shape, so when his back-up singers are hitting every note pitch perfect and he's falling flat, one can notice. Not too big of an issue tho, because the performances themselves are great regardless. The other thing is that the set leans incredibly heavy on the Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus. I would have liked a more varied setlist, including some old favorites like "Papa Won't Leave You Henry," "Mercy Seat" or even more recent ballads like "No More Shall We Part" or "Lime Tree Arbor." But the inclusion of "Deanna" did make me dance around with joy.
The 2 DVDs are the real attraction here folks. The promotional videos from Nocturama are cheesy but enjoyable, and the little doc. entertaining. Great stuff for big Cave fans and collectors. The live set from the Nocturama tour will satisfy old fans because of the inclusion of obscure songs in the setlist, such as "Christina the Astonishing" and others. However, I find it to be a very morose set. So I guess if that's your mood it will please, but I was expecting a tad more energetic performance, which brings me to...
The other DVD, from the Abattoir Blues tour, which is energetic, fun, serious, and grandiose. It contains the sort of performances I expected on the other DVD as well. The song selection is great, even if it is very heavy on the new albums like the audio CDs were. But to see him perform "Stagger Lee" is an utter treat, no matter what. I get a kick out of it every time. The extra videos and "making of" Abattoir Blues doc are highly entertaining, if even for only one initial viewing. I love being able to look into an artist's creative process, and this was a fascinating look.
So would I recommend this set to any fan of Nick Cave? Definitely! There are great performances and interesting videos and insights into one of the greatest artists of our time (whether very many people on this side of the pond even realize it)! But is it a good place to start or to get an idea of his full range of work? No. For that, I would recommend the other performance DVD, "God Is In The House." The setlist and performances are top notch, amazing stuff. I know some people have a problem with the audio quality, which admittedly isn't 5.1 cream your shorts Lucas crap, but it's good enough, and you'll be so enraptured by the performance that somewhat lacking sound will hardly ever even enter your mind.
Abattoir Blues Tour (2CD+2DVD) Poster
THE ABATTOIR BLUES TOUR features songs from critically acclaimed 2004 double album ABATTOIR BLUES / THE LYRE OF ORPHEUS, plus an array of classic material from the band's repertoire. The 2 CDs contain live recordings from various dates on the 2004 "Abattoir Blues" tour. The 2 DVDs contain footage from two live concerts: first disc taken from one of the bands' 3 sold out "Abattoir Blues" concerts at London's Brixton Academy (November 11th 2004); second disc offers excerpts from London's Hammersmith Apollo show filmed during 2003 "Nocturama" tour. The DVDs also include all the promotional videos from the last two albums, plus special bonus behind the scenes footage of the "Bring It On" video.It's a delirious treat, watching the full weight of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds open their November 2004 Brixton Academy gig with the menacing thwack of "Hiding All Away," as they do on the first of two DVDs in this live mega-set. They're swept away, Cave and his mates--Warren Ellis and Mick Harvey and the keyboardists and drummers and background singers. Feet stomp, hair flies, the sounds wallop. Without Blixa Bargeld for the first time, the Bad Seeds have a gospel-tinged bigness, an urgent intensity. The multicamera DVD shots are brilliant, the sound impeccable. Of course that last bit is all that matters on the pair of CDs that round out this set, and they sound phenomenal. Cave knows drama, from the lyrics to the vocal bellow to the full-on unrelenting orchestral power of a guitar, a bass, a violin, a couple keyboards, and a couple drummers--backed by four ingeniously true-to-form backup vocalists. If you've even a passing interest in the ecstasy of live musical abandon, this is a necessary indulgence. If you're a Cave fan, you won't be able to get enough. --Andrew Bartlett
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