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Free Music Review: The garage band from Heaven? Try a little further south...
Hit: 5 Stars
Oh, Nick Cave. Can ye do no wrong? Apparently not. This album, for lack of a better word, rocks. It rocks soft, it rocks hard, it rocks sideways and upways and slantways and every-which-ways you can even begin to imagine. It's a short little record--well, compared to a regular Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds release--but it's certainly not a forgettable one, whether it's Cave screaming for someone to get the baboons out of the basement, or muttering "damn, damn" when he can't find a woman to...well...fornicate with.
Along with three of his Bad Seeds (Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey, and Jim Sclavunos), Cave has crafted another fine record. Well, I use "fine" losely. I can't even call it "good," can I? Compared to a typical Cave record, there's not a lot of depth here (you don't have to think too hard to figure out what "No Pussy Blues" is really about), though some tracks (especially the dry-wit of "Go Tell the Women" and the pondering "Man in the Moon") do dig beneath the surface. Still...it's mostly a record for fun. Which is nice, because I don't want to say that recent Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds records have been boring...but...they've been rather ponderous, how's that? As Cave himself has stated, when he stood up from the piano and strapped on an electric guitar, he started singing different. We're still anxiously awaiting his return to form with the rest of his Bad Seeds crew (DIG!!! LAZARUS DIG!!!), but this is a nice little twist of talents. Wait...there I go, using words like "nice" again. Dammit...I guess you can't really describe this record. Just listen to the damn thing. And rock on.
Free Music Review: An Explosion in Angst
Hit: 5 Stars
This one's for all the angry, frustrated, aggrieved souls who, knowing slightly better than to act on impulse and commit some egregious violation of either the legal or moral sort (preferably both at once), just need a good splash of hard rock and roll for cleansing. This is my first introduction to Nick Cave, and dare I say I'm all tingly with adrenaline after listening to `Grinderman'. For me, it's a nearly perfect melding of Iggy Pop and Tom Waits, where punk meets dark, folky blues. This is a loud and commanding record. Other reviewers have used the words vitriolic, raw, primal, vicious, and seething...and rightly so. That about says it all, but the newbie like myself might get caught into thinking that this is a one-dimensional album. Not so. Looking more deeply, there is ominous substance here. It evokes the creepy feeling that this is what you'll feel when you finally surrender your youth. All that angst and fury released into a gratifying but nevertheless pointless display of over-indulgent self-expression. But what Cave and Co. do is soak it all in, bask in one's powerlessness and thereby getting all the more pissed off. The result then, is an explosion of some awfully good and therapeutic rock. My favorites are: `Get it on', `No Pussy Blues', `Go Tell..', `Honey Bee', and especially `Love Bomb'. This is Rock and Roll with no consequence. We need more of this.Free Music Review: Wild, funny and dark Cave got back on the track with this one!
Hit: 5 Stars
I think it was a kind of a let down from Caves' late work like Nocturama and Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus for many of his fans. And you might argue that Grinderman is not The Bad Seeds, however Nick Cave IS behind it and he's the mind and the heart of the groups. And with Grinderman he did a great job. You get the point from the first few lines, especialy when you know Caves' pre-No More Shall We Part work. I remember when I first put the disc in the car cd player and how Nick started his "I had to get up to get down to start all over again", I almost jumped out of the window, that was exactly I needed to hear from Nick Cave again. And it didn't stopped there. It's very hard to find an album where every single track is memorable and good enough you have an urge to play it again. First two tracks, Honey Bee and I Don't Need You to Set Me Free are the very highlights of the album, though that doesn't mean the rest is not worth it. I mean if you'd took the highlights out, you'd still end up with much more better album than the latest Bad Seeds stuff. It's Cave as we knew him. It's dark, yet funny. Raw, yet bright and clear. Somehow desperate and angry, yet something you can easily identify with. At some point it could be easily the soundtrack for the book The Death of Bunny Munro.
5/5, let's see if he'll do it again with Grinderman 2.
Free Music Review: Life IS Pain
Hit: 5 Stars
When we were kids Nick scared the baby crap out of us with Birthday Party. We grew up with him and weren't quite as scared because The Bad Seeds' stories were night-time fables told by a benevolent campfire master. Just leave the light on, we'll be OK even if dreaming of being buried under ten feet of snow white snow.
Now we're all grown up. Middle age, actually and Nick's still right here in the room. Maybe he's exorcised his personal demons. Maybe he hopes we have too. Yeah right.
Grinderman wakes us from the complacency of midlife. We stopped bitching and fighting and we started whining. Like old men on the porch. "In my day there were fights at every show." Blah,blah,blah.
But Nick reminds us that we're still pissed off. And it's OK to be pissed. Maybe we've slowed down. But we're not dead. Yet. And neither is Nick.
When we were 21 we had to juggle girls like Naomi Watts juggling for King Kong. OOOps, dropped a few. Now, after break-ups and divorces and rehabs the woman don't seem as ethereal, sweet and horny. Do they? We've got the "No P-ssy Blues" and thank God Nick is still here with us to commiserate. Play it over and over on the way home from the party. Loud. And don't forget to feed the cat before you go to bed. Alone. Thanks Nick for sticking around.
Free Music Review: A seething masterwork...
Hit: 5 Stars
This record is one triumphant release. Grinderman transports the listener to a sparse landscape, dust blowing in the street, sand in your teeth, and a drunkenness bubbling over and out of your corrupted and decaying soul. Anger and rage. You can smell the smoke as this monster burns you up and melts your face. Nick Cave plays the guitar with so much intensity that my nose began to bleed. Punched drunk in the kisser, lurching and boiling at the seams. The bass and drums entangle you, dragging you to the depths of this torrid, boozy affair. Grinderman is a night out on the town, that moment you stare deep into your own soul and face the demons within. A bender from hell with friends in the night, only to wake and have to face that maddening reality - life is pain. Grinderman is here to remind us that we all grow old, and in the end our mispent youth, hallowed and raw is a fleeting moment. To linger is to live in the hell of vanity forever.