No band on their 10th album should have much more to say, but taking this turn for the reflective helped reignite The Bad Seeds and further secured their legacy. The album is entirely piano-based, alternately somber and romantic in mood, making it a marked departure from the bulk of the band's post-punk catalogue up to that point.

It’s such a gorgeous song that Peaches Geldof even has its lyrics tattooed on her (but don’t let that put you off). His brief dalliance with Polly Harvey, whom he became infatuated with after their Henry Lee duet on Murder Ballads, is referenced on Green Eyes, Black Hair and the more direct West Country Girl. The songs are arranged around acoustic instruments and would reveal any pressing faults or imperfections like pops or background noise. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. For my part, it was "No More Shall We Part" which introduced to me to the dark delightful work of Mr.

A album about the despair of breaking up, this album is one that suits a certain mood, at 48 years old I found myself in similar situation. Celebrated as the band's most starkly moving work, key tracks include the single 'Into My Arms' and 'People Ain't No Good', featured in the soundtrack to Shrek 2. The religious motifs of Brompton Oratory, an album highlight, and There Is a Kingdom lend an air of a man coming to terms with his place in the world, with subtle churchy murmurs over drum machines. After a career spent tearing down the world with horror and disgust, Nick Cave finally sounds ready to start rebuilding from scratch.

and furthermore, with the emergence of acts such as PJ Harvey and The Afghan Whigs, there was a sense that The Bad Seeds had ushered in a new wave of evocative, imagery-based rock songwriting. These are your actual songs of faith and devotion, and by Cave’s own admission his most personal album to date. Into My Arms" is of course a classic and a song I was aware of (and loved) before listening to the whole album. Cleary uncomfortable about the process of spinning one’s own feelings into poetic form he has often addressed the album as “a big heroic melodrama out of a bog-standard rejection.

Celebrated as the band’s most starkly moving work, key tracks include the single “Into My Arms” and “People Ain’t No Good”, featured in the soundtrack to Shrek 2. Some songs are thought to be directed at either the mother of Cave's oldest son Luke, Viviane Carneiro (in "Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere? You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

El álbum sigue con un nivel insuperable, "Lime Tree Arbour", "People Ain`t No Good", "(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For? Amid the ashes of a world unable to exorcise its demons, Nick actually finds love; a strange, twisted, doomed love, perhaps--but love nevertheless. This is as faultless a pressing as I have on either ordinary vinyl (covering over 4 decades) or 180g vinyl, which only enhances enjoyment of this wonderful set. Classic Album Sundays tells the stories behind the albums that have shaped our culture and in some cases, our lives. Each album has been re-mastered (overseen by Mick Harvey, former Bad Seed and founder member), and all album artwork reflects the original release from the cover to the printed inner sleeves.

Its sincerity feels all the more poignant following the band’s latest full-length, 2016’s Skeleton Tree, written and recorded in the wake of the tragic and sudden death of Cave’s teenage son Arthur. Podemos hablar de disco en solitario ya que el papel de los Bad Seeds queda reducido a lo practicamente testimonial, no sólo por que es basicamente un disco de Cave sentado al piano si no porque es un disco de autor donde Cave se desnuda interiormente. As the 1980s drew to a close Cave was deeply addicted to heroin and writing some of his darkest songs yet. Having collaborated previously on the Murder Balladsfolk-cover ‘Henry Lee’, the pair had hit it off on the video shoot for that very song – an erotic, bare-bones scene which found the two-singers wrapped around one-another, locked deep in lustful stares and lyrical whispers. Behind the scenes, several issues had aligned in Cave’s life; a traumatic break-up, a second stint in rehab for a still persistent heroin addiction, and, most famously, a passionate but swiftly extinguished love-affair.