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| The Boatman's Call | 
 enlarge | Artist: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Label: TOCP Japan
Category: Music
List Price: £8.99
Buy Used: £4.65
You Save: £4.34 (48%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 124049
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 46530
UPC: 936246530288
EAN: 0093624653028
ASIN: B000002NE4
Release Date: March 4, 1997
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Into My Arms | | • | Lime Tree Arbour | | • | People Ain't No Good | | • | Brompton Oratory | | • | There Is a Kingdom | | • | (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For? | | • | Where Do We Go Now but Nowhere? | | • | West Country Girl | | • | Black Hair | | • | Idiot Prayer | | • | Far From Me | | • | Green Eyes |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
After a career spent tearing down the world with horror and disgust, Nick Cave finally sounds ready to start rebuilding from scratch. He has begun to find a quiet grace, and perhaps even beauty, past all the darkness that's long consumed him. Amid the ashes of a world unable to exorcise its demons, Nick actually finds love; a strange, twisted, doomed love, perhaps--but love nevertheless. On The Boatman's Call, the singer-songwriter finds room for the personal, the spiritual and even the hopeful in his grey psyche. With only the sparest accompaniment--often just a piano or organ, light percussion and violin (courtesy of Dirty Three's Warren Ellis)- -Cave employs traditional folk song structure and simplicity to weave tales saddened less through tragedy than through emptiness. Songs like "Into My Arms" and "(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?" are among Cave's most self-assured and soulful to date. Stripped down and grown up--though still ghoulish and grave--Cave the storyteller has turned into something of a vampire Bruce Springsteen. Ultimately, The Boatman's Call sounds like Cave's attempt to poison his cake and eat it too. For a record so resolute in its denial of divinity, its obsession with religious themes and imagery might seem contradictory if they hadn't come from someone like Cave, who fancies himself a fallen angel searching for a ladder back to heaven. Where Gothic meets cathedral, there resides, for better or worse, our dark saint Nick. -- Roni Sarig
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 dark slant on the human physche January 11, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm not going to bore you with a sophisticated coffee table critique that actually says little and bores you to tears. But I would say that if you are in to music with a realistic edge, with a tune, but a dark slant on the human physche, then this album's a must. I think it's superb.
Exquisite October 18, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This album is beautiful; exquisite. It contains the kind of emotional honesty and philosophising that comes across as hokey and ham-fisted when attempted by inferior songwriters. With Nick Cave, it lifts itself into the stratosphere with it's own beauty. Cave's clear, vulnerable voice perfectly matches his wistfully contemplative lyrics, and beautiful pianos complete the entire effect, of beauty and effortless splendour. This album has 100% converted me to this thoughtful, talented artist.
 Worth a place in your CD collection January 30, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I purchased this album after hearing the inspirational "People ain't no good". The rest of the album proves similarly successful, Cave's powerful lyrics combining with some well-executed music to produce a stunning album. A few tracks flew straight over my head, but for the most this is a very pleasing listen.
Highly recommended July 11, 2006
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This was the first Nick Cave album I'd really properly listened to. I picked it up after seeing it listed on someone's top 100 albums list on the web. I thought I'd give it a try and was suitably very, very impressed. This was Cave and the Bad Seeds' 10th studio album. At that stage of most bands' careers all the inspiration is gone and those that carry on just put out the same old stuff again and again (or inferior material). Not Cave though. 'The Boatman's Call' is a heartfelt exploration of Cave's recently ended relationships. It is extremely personal, so much so that Cave himself has said that he regretted this. However, the product of all that soul-searching is a beautifully dark but heartfelt work of genius. From the opener 'Into my Arms' to the final track 'Green Eyes' there is not a bad track on this album. Its highlights are the two tracks puportedly about Cave's relationship with PJ Harvey ('West Country Girl' and the haunting 'Black Hair') but it also includes a track lifted for use in Shrek 2 that people will be more familiar with 'People Ain't No Good'. All of the album is played in the same minimalist style giving preference to Cave's voice and words. One word of advice - don't play it around the kids when you first put it on as like some of Nick Cave's other works there is liberal use of the F word. Highly recommended.
The album on which he bowed out for four years. April 16, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
After remaining tremendously prolific since the inception of his new band The Bad Seeds, by 1997 Nick Cave had over fifteen years with them and a relationship with PJ Harvey behind him. The previous year's self-parodying Murder Ballads album had made him a star, partly thanks to the censor-baiting 'Stagger Lee.' But, perhaps due to his breakup with Harvey, Cave chose once again to confound the expectations of those around him.
The Boatman's Call is like an anti-Cave album. Of course, Nick Cave had done ballads before, some beautiful, some tender, some ironic, but never before had he put together an entire album of crooning, skeletal songs rarely featuring more than a piano for company of the man himself. Often regarded as the best he ever made, I find it not quite so good; but it's certainly fractured and beautiful.
'Into My Arms' lets you know how the rest of the album is going to go. With little instrumentation, the Bad Seeds are all but absent across the disc. But when they do appear, it's worth it, lending polite synthesizers to 'Lime Tree Arbour,' or even a solitary bass guitar to 'Into My Arms.' What emerges is some of the most pleasant music Cave has ever produced (excluding 'Green Eyes') and certainly the most hymnal, as on 'There Is A Kingdom' or 'People Ain't No Good,' the latter remaining a staple in his live sets to this day.
I only really appreciated this album after seeing Nick Cave live; when you hear his punked-up, ravaged version of 'West Country Girl,' a mess of feedback and piano smashing, you'll long for the quiet sanctity of this album. A fitting end to the first phase of his career, before he re-emerged four years later.
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