Bad Seeds, Nick Cave - No More Shall We Part
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Free Music Notes for No More Shall We Part
Free Music Review: Outstanding
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm typically pretty selective when it comes to purchasing CDs. I won't buy a CD just because I like one song, or because the artist wins an award. Like many artists, Nick Cave is one that I have come to expect will have several disappointments to go along with several songs that stick with me on every CD he produces. As the years have passed, the number of misses has declined with each new CD. This CD is as complete a CD as I own. There is not a single track that I skip past.
The majority of the CDs I own, I listen to only a handful of songs. Not this one. I will not place this one in my CD player without intending to listen to the entire set with no outside distractions. It's that stunning.
I have no need to break down down each song for you or describe why the songs appeal to me. I'm certain that each listener will construct his or her own personalized meaning to the music and lyrics much like we all do with other forms of art.
Of course there are a few awkward lyrics, but I feel like this artist put them there for a reason and it's up to me to find out why. I don't hesitate to give this artist the benefit of the doubt.
This is the time to buy it. I've always felt Nick Cave's music creates more feeling for me during the fall season. The chilled air and falling leaves provide the perfect background for the introspective verses this guy has begun to master.
Get it and be prepared to listen to it about three times before it grabs you and never let's go.
Free Music Review: Cave's best ... so far
Hit: 5 Stars
This is one of the few albums that I can honestly say, I liked every track. Some of the songs took awhile to grow on me as is the case with most of Cave's work. "Darker with the Day" took me some time to get used to, but the rest of it sank in pretty well from the beginning. It all has a subdued pop sensibility, which means that it's very subtle, but still there.
This album contains some of Cave's best writing such as "Hallelujah", "God is in the House", "Oh my Lord", and "We Came Along this Road", but actually they're all written well, so there's no reason to keep listing great ones.
There's an incredible depth to this album. Every emotion is here, even humor if you can believe (albeit morbid humor, heh). I would rate this album up there with the great ones (Plastic Ono Band, Highway 61 Revisited, Five Leaves Left, Led Zeppelin III, Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, All Things Must Pass, Mellow Gold, The Doors debut, Electric Ladyland, Magical Mystery Tour, and all those others I can't fit on here).
And for those wanting to get the limited edition, I would recommend it. The songs, "Grief Came Riding" and "Bless His Ever-Loving Heart" are great B-sides, purely in mood of the album. Also included in the limited edition is a fairly short 'documentary' on the "And No More Shall We Part" recording sessions. These have some different scenes than the ones on the "God is in the House" dvd. To me it was worth it to pay the extra $$$.
Free Music Review: All grown up
Hit: 5 Stars
For years, Nick Cave has given his audience wonderfully written albums about life, love, and death. However, there are always seemed to be a bit of cynicism and darkness looming as he sang such songs as From Her to Eternity or Let Love In. On Boatman's Call, he delivered a bitter, emotional testemant about love, and here, Cave takes no prisoners as he croons his way through the twelve song opus about love and loss.On No More Shall We Part, Cave stands out crooning about love in such wondefully written tracks as Love Letter, where Cave is writing in hopes to woo a lost lover. Songs like this and the title track have the listener hearing Cave almost shed a tear on and obviously emotionall cinged voice.
Other songs, such as As I Sat Satly By Her Side and God is in the House are tactful points of view about society and Cave's cynicism. The former is almost a self parody, where the woman in the song is observing all the beauty while Cave is observing the darker things in life. God Is In The House observes a community untouched by anything deemed "sinful" which shows a happy, but ignorant community.
This album successfully bridges itself from the rest of Cave's career as this is an emotionally charged effort, not emotionally despondent, as some of his previous efforts may have seemed. Nick Cave is finally where he wants to be and his music is all grown up.
Free Music Review: Nick Cave Does It Again...
Hit: 5 Stars
I just picked this CD up today and all I can say is "Wow". The evocative introspection, mixed with the heavy use of piano, is reminiscent of the excellent "Boatman's Call" from a few years back. What distinguishes this album from the Boatman's Call is a less "sparce" sound: there's a little more emphasis on the use of orchestral instruments (e.g. violas, chellos and the Dirty 3's Warren Ellis on violin). But don't fret, Cave's signature melancholy pervades the entire album.Another aspect of this album which I dug was the use of female backing vocals from the McGarrigle sisters. This is why I loved P.J. Harvey's vocalizations on Murder Ballads so much. The two stand out songs are "Love Letter" and "Darker With The Day", interestingly neither of these have been released as a cd singles (I think Fifteen feet of Pure White Snow and As I Sat Sadly By Her Side have been though).
"Old-school" Nick Cave fans who have lamented his slower, more "toned-down" works (such as the Boatman's Call) may not enjoy this album as much as some of his earlier "rocking" albums like "Let Love In" , "Tender Prety" or "From Her To Eternity". If you ARE one of those that enjoyed TBC (or are into The Dirty 3), then I am quite confident you will love this album.
Free Music Review: My Personal Favorite Seeds
Hit: 5 Stars
I qualify this review by saying that I began with Nick Cave with the Birthday Party, and he still remains, 2 decades later, one of my absolute favorite people on the planet. He's a master of words and music. This CD is my personal favorite Seeds, if not piece of music. Definitely a desert island selection. When I first hear it, its perfect melding of beauty and tragedy blew me away. I find it to be extremely passionate and intense. Its "Let Love In" (another of my most prized Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds CDs) nearly 10 years later, when the Devil clawed through the door and settled comfortably into his bones. The music and lyrics are completely saturated with a "matured" angst- not the kind that needs to screamed but that will beat you over the head with its quiet strength. Its an amazing piece of work- I can't get over its greatness and genius. I have been running to buy Nick Cave's subsequent albums and, his newest release, Abbatoir and the Lyre is another piece of art- get it- none have yet surpassed this one for me. It just may be their crowning achievement. To see them perform these songs live was pure ecstasy. By the way, if you haven't read his book- And the Ass Saw the Angel- get it. He is one of the foremost poets of our times. It's a novel but the words are shocking in their beauty, suffused with tragedy ala Nick Cave. He's just amazing.