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NICK CAVE'S GREATEST ALBUMS!
5:26 PM GMT 21/01/2009
Last year, the MOJO4music readers helped us pick Cave’s 10 best works. Here are the results…
NICK CAVE, AND BAD Seeds band-mate Mick Harvey first made an impact in early-’80s Melbourne. Their group The Birthday Party set tales of death, bats and car crashes to a kind of decapitated jazz-punk. The sleeves came with swastikas and titles like Drunk On The Pope’s Blood. Violence was routine, as was heroin. Yet, 25 years later, Cave and selected Bad Seeds played on the same bill as Ronnie Corbett. Prince Charles was guest of honour, watching as Cave and colleagues gave an elegant performance to mark the centenary of Sir John Betjeman’s birth. Between these two poles - between The Birthday Party and the Betjy party - sits the most impressive back catalogue of the post-punk generation.
Cave and his collaborators have drawn on William Faulkner, William Shakespeare and Willie Dixon. Their work has been sung by both Kylie Minogue and Johnny Cash. But, this career is also distinguished in another way - in the simple fact that, over time, the records have got better rather than worse. Cave has been conspicuously assisted in this by his fellow players in the Bad Seeds - variable in line-up, rarely in quality. Mick Harvey has been with Cave since school bands. Latterly, violinist Warren Ellis has become a key foil.
With Cave it really is difficult to exclude LPs from a career-best selection. The first two Bad Seeds LPs are intriguing, but primordial. The 2007 Grinderman album is a striking, distinctive thing, but it can maybe be accounted for by the Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! album it led to. And that’s without even touching on the soundtracks for films including Ghosts... Of The Civil Dead, scored by Cave in collaboration, variously, with Harvey, Ellis and Blixa Bargeld.
This year’s double-disc reissue campaign will see The Bad Seeds album catalogue digitally re-mastered in 5.1 surround sound, with extra tracks and a short film.
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 5:26 PM GMT 21/01/2009
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How on earth No More Shall We Part was omitted from the top ten is beyond me.
Posted by Mike at 1:33 AM GMT 31/01/2009 Report Abuse
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RE: Mike
Exactly man, complete nonsense!
Mine in chornological order is
1) Junkyard
2)Mutiny/The Bad Seed
3) Your Funeral... My Trial
4) Tender Prey
5) Henry's Dream
6) Let Love In
7) Murder Ballads
8) The Boatmans Call
9) No more shall we part
10) The Lyre of Orpheus/ Abbatoir Blues
Saint Huck might be my favourite song... it depends... (all the albums are deadly by the way!!)
Posted by Anonymous at 6:42 AM GMT 31/01/2009 Report Abuse
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1) Nocturama
2) Let Love In
3) The Good Son
4) Dig, Lazarus, Dig
5) Murder Ballads
6) Henry's Dream
7) Abbatoir / Lyre
8) Door, Door
9) Tender Prey
10) Boatmans Call
And the b-sides to the singles from every album from Boatmans Call to Dig are all amazing and should have been on the albums. Accidents Will Happen should have been a A-side single itself. One of his best!
Posted by Stender at 1:38 PM GMT 12/02/2009 Report Abuse
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1) Nocturama
2) Let Love In
3) The Good Son
4) Dig, Lazarus, Dig
5) Murder Ballads
6) Henry's Dream
7) Abbatoir / Lyre
8) Door, Door
9) Tender Prey
10) Boatmans Call
And the b-sides to the singles from every album from Boatmans Call to Dig are all amazing and should have been on the albums. Accidents Will Happen should have been a A-side single itself. One of his best!
Posted by Stender at 1:39 PM GMT 12/02/2009 Report Abuse
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1) Nocturama
2) Let Love In
3) The Good Son
4) Dig, Lazarus, Dig
5) Murder Ballads
6) Henry's Dream
7) Abbatoir / Lyre
8) Door, Door
9) Tender Prey
10) Boatmans Call
And the b-sides to the singles from every album from Boatmans Call to Dig are all amazing and should have been on the albums. Accidents Will Happen should have been a A-side single itself. One of his best!
Posted by Stender at 1:40 PM GMT 12/02/2009 Report Abuse
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1) Nocturama
2) Let Love In
3) The Good Son
4) Dig, Lazarus, Dig
5) Murder Ballads
6) Henry's Dream
7) Abbatoir / Lyre
8) Door, Door
9) Tender Prey
10) Boatmans Call
And the b-sides to the singles from every album from Boatmans Call to Dig are all amazing and should have been on the albums. Accidents Will Happen should have been a A-side single itself. One of his best!
Posted by Stender at 1:41 PM GMT 12/02/2009 Report Abuse
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1) Nocturama
2) Let Love In
3) The Good Son
4) Dig, Lazarus, Dig
5) Murder Ballads
6) Henry's Dream
7) Abbatoir / Lyre
8) Door, Door
9) Tender Prey
10) Boatmans Call
And the b-sides to the singles from every album from Boatmans Call to Dig are all amazing and should have been on the albums. Accidents Will Happen should have been a A-side single itself. One of his best!
Posted by Stender at 1:45 PM GMT 12/02/2009 Report Abuse
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What happened here?
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"What happened here?"
post, refresh, refresh, refresh, refresh, new post
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