Bad Seeds, Nick Cave - Henry's Dream
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Free Music Review: Album's Dream
Hit: 5 Stars
One of the best albums ever, directly from the best times of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds. FUll of rage, passion and... hear yourself.Free Music Review: the master storyteller
Hit: 5 Stars
Nick cave doesnt' need a thousand words, only one, awesome. Henry's Dream is the pivotal work of the master storyteller.Free Music Review: A lil' bit of all things cave
Hit: 4 Stars
After we all learned to keep work & artist appart, it's time to keep work & the artist's-opinion-on-his-own-work appart as well. 'Henry's Dream' is a top Cave production. There is a lot of everything we love & want from Nick & the Bad Seeds there: energetic, weird, cathartic and a bit dirty pop (''Papa Won't leave You Henry'', ''I Had A Dream, Joe''); dark tale-telling songs with character construction (''Christina the Astonishing'', ''Jack The Ripper''); lovely ballads (''Straight To You''); a lot of well working irony (''Brother My Cup Is Empty'').
The output here is heterogenic, but not messy at all. It's coherent in its own way. 'Henry's Dream' is a brigde between the still chaotic albums of Cave & the Seeds after the end of the more-chaotic-than-chaos Birthday Party, like 'The First Born Is Dead' and 'From Her To Eternity', and also marks the beginning of the sparkling sophisticated register of later albums like ''The Boatman's Call'' and ''No More Shall We Part''.
Probably not the band's masterpiece, but highly enjoyable, beautiful, solid and while it is still a safe bet for fans, it's also a very nice introduction to Cave for those who are beginning to fall in love with his amazing music and imagery.
Free Music Review: Cave and the Seeds - their most direct and powerful songs
Hit: 4 Stars
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are the epitome of quality music infused with such an unmistakable, overpowering signature that you end up either loving or hating them in the first 30 seconds of the first song. Anyone put off by literary theatrics, sardonic humor, or overwhelming darkness and passion will probably scream "Enough!" before the first song's even over. And Henry's Dream is the acid test - if you love Cave, here he is at his finest; and barring live performances, this is the finest work the Seeds have ever done. The works here range from throttling hysteria (I Had A Dream, Joe) to alluring, poetic ballads (Loom of the Land). What most impresses is how each song's details, filled with pathos, give you an insight into the workings of human emotion. The funniest and most pathetic moments (such as in Christina the Astonishing, when the delerious woman springs awake at her own funeral) are followed by the most profound revelations. It's really hard to explain - but if you can endure the diametric opposition of crude, vivid pulp and the beauty of the sublime, here you've found a home. This is very challenging music, but fun, enlightening, and rewarding as well.Free Music Review: Cave... 'nuff said
Hit: 4 Stars
I would have to maintain that this is far from being Nick Cave's best album, but it's a very good album by any other standard. This is one of Cave's most lyrically dark and compelling albums, with the excellent opener Papa Won't Leave You, Henry (probably the album's best track) a chilling, near apocalyptic tale with strutting acoustic backing and some ferocious vocals from Cave kicking the album in to gear. Other choice cuts include Brother, My Cup Is Empty, the pseudo-horror gospel of When I First Came To Town, and the mordid John Finn's Wife. There are several things about this album that set it apart from the rest of Nick Cave's releases. First, the production and vibe of this album are different. Most of the songs are acoustic guitar-driven and there is very little reliance on piano, a rarity for The Bad Seeds. In this way, the songs are mostly patterend on traditional folk songs, some being inspired by them, some containing their relative structure; and some, such as the closing Jack The Ripper, in their lyrics. A good album, certainly, but he does have better. Pick it up after your Cave collection has grown somewhat large.