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NICK CAVE'S GREATEST ALBUMS...#1
4:16 PM GMT 21/01/2009
The Boatman’s Call
(MUTE CD STUMM 142, 1997)
You said: “Beautiful. Blackly romantic. Cuts bone deep… The first time I heard Into My Arms I cried.” Cavale, mojo4music
After the brutal Murder Ballads came the most beautiful Bad Seeds record. This gorgeously meditative LP has three songs drawing on Cave’s romance with Polly Harvey - and another addressed to his former wife Viviane Carneiro. This personal content is mirrored musically - often it’s little more than Cave and keyboards. Alongside the album’s sumptuous solemnity, a wonderful dry wit enters with the opening couplet: “I don’t believe in an interventionist God / But I know, darling, that you do.” Cave has maintained this arch tone when evaluating this album: “I’d got dumped by some bird and here I was making this great statement - about some fucking sheila!”
...AND HERE'S WHAT TO AVOID!
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Posted by Ross_Bennett at 4:16 PM GMT 21/01/2009
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have you actually heard these albums properly!!!boatmans a worthy number 1,but no more shall we part has to be a very close 2nd.and why is murder ballads so low.
Posted by dawson at 7:52 PM GMT 06/02/2009 Report Abuse
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To be honest I couldn't get away with The Boatman's Call, and neither can the guy who got me into Nick Cave, who's got releases I don't even think Nick Cave remembers recording. But hey it's all just personal preference anyway, at least his recent output got an airing, although I'd have actually put grinderman in there somewhere just because it's great.
Posted by Josh Danby at 11:51 PM GMT 11/02/2009 Report Abuse
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No more Shall we part is the best album of Nick Cave and one of the greatest in the history of music. Bye.
Posted by Federico from Argentina at 3:08 PM GMT 19/03/2009 Report Abuse
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This list is a joke. As said, No More Shall We Part is not only Cave's best, but so far the album of the Century.
Posted by coleridge at 4:12 PM GMT 06/01/2010 Report Abuse
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Boatmans Call, I went off Nick Cave for years after this, his best is Let Love In, Tender Prey and Kicking Against The Pricks. What's the Good Son doing in the list as well, where is Live Seeds?
Posted by Buxton69 at 12:04 PM GMT 10/03/2010 Report Abuse
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I think this one's slightly overrated. Too meditative and spare. It does have some great love songs, especially Lime Tree Arbor and People Ain't No Good, but too many songs border on the tedious.
Posted by Red Gamer at 6:43 AM GMT 10/05/2010 Report Abuse
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as has already been said, while this is a great album, "no more shall we part" is surely nick's best. just staggering genius. with lyrics such as this...
"And in my best shoes I started falling forward down the street
I stopped at a church and jostled through the crowd
And love followed just behind me, panting at my feet
As the steeple tore the stomach from a lonely little cloud"
Posted by Robin at 10:59 PM GMT 04/09/2010 Report Abuse
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as has already been said, while this is a great album, "no more shall we part" is surely nick's best. just staggering genius. with lyrics such as this...
"And in my best shoes I started falling forward down the street
I stopped at a church and jostled through the crowd
And love followed just behind me, panting at my feet
As the steeple tore the stomach from a lonely little cloud"
Posted by Robin at 11:01 PM GMT 04/09/2010 Report Abuse
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please, please! not a bad list, but it is absolutely outlandish not to include No More Shall We Part on a list of Nick Cave's top ten works. Really, do I even need to explain? Ok, briefly, it is his most cohesive and accomplished set of songs, and the perfect elaboration, or culmination, of the brilliance that first shone through in Boatman's Call. Absurd not to include this album on the top 10.
Posted by Anonymous at 2:17 AM GMT 25/12/2011 Report Abuse
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please, please! not a bad list, but it is absolutely outlandish not to include No More Shall We Part on a list of Nick Cave's top ten works. Really, do I even need to explain? Ok, briefly, it is his most cohesive and accomplished set of songs, and the perfect elaboration, or culmination, of the brilliance that first shone through in Boatman's Call. Absurd not to include this album on the top 10.
Posted by Anonymous at 2:17 AM GMT 25/12/2011 Report Abuse
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please, please! not a bad list, but it is absolutely outlandish not to include No More Shall We Part on a list of Nick Cave's top ten works. Really, do I even need to explain? Ok, briefly, it is his most cohesive and accomplished set of songs, and the perfect elaboration, or culmination, of the brilliance that first shone through in Boatman's Call. Absurd not to include this album on the top 10.
Posted by Anonymous at 2:19 AM GMT 25/12/2011 Report Abuse
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