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| Artist: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Label: Mute
Category: Music
List Price: £15.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 1480
Format: Extra Tracks
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
EAN: 5099951830427
ASIN: B000ZN258M
Release Date: March 3, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW - Sealed IMPORT!! -
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| Customer Reviews:
 How does he do it? April 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After so many albums I completely fail to understand how on Earth do Nick and his Bad Seeds continue to produce such wonderful music, almost on a yearly basis.
Maybe one reason is Cave's astonishing level of energy and emotive power, that appears to grow stronger as time goes past. Whether storytelling in a semi-autobiographical fashion (More News From Nowhere) or the delightful toying with religious themes (Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!) Cave is constantly inventive with lyrics that reward close listening, often with gloriously dark humour (More News From Nowhere particularly on this album).
Of course, one of the things Cave does best is the shambling, rolling tracks that sexily dash, drag, pull and push you along for minutes at a time. We Call Upon The Author fulfils that brief nicely, a sure classic along with the eponymous title track.
Oh, and if Cave's love songs do it for you, he's thrown them into the mix too.
So, no re-invention of Cave, but a continuation of the rich form that started somewhere around The Good Son and has so far not missed a beat yet.
Such a mystery then, that one great album after another and much exposure in the music press, and still the vast majority of the public have not heard of Nick Cave. This album won't change that, so we'll have to treasure him for ourselves.
A+ for the b-side! March 17, 2008
Even if you already have the album, this single is worth it for 'Accidents Will Happen', which for my money is as good as anything on the LP. 'I used to be down with the faithful,man, now I'm hanging with the Doubting Thomases' is now one of my favourite Cave lyrics, and the song also features a great piece of crappy guitar playing, presumably courtesy of Nick himself. I can't understand why this didn't make it onto the LP in place of one of the more mediocre tracks like 'Jesus of the Moon'
The Bad Seeds continue to germinate spectacular fruit March 16, 2008
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are incapable of making a poor album .Dig Lazarus Dig , their 14th , doesn't break their hot trot either . Even so it's the album most in thrall to another facet of Nick Cave's muse. The Grinderman side project has infused this album with a scouring malevolence and deep and dirty ambience. It throbs with subterranean deep bass lines, brutal slashes of guitar and stick on bones percussion. The up-tempo songs have the acerbic impact of a rusty shiv while the slower numbers crawl with serpentine grace allowing Cave more space to exhort his usual bevy of words about exotic and fertile characters .
Dig Lazarus Dig , as well as being populated with Caves usual colourful array of characters is possibly his most comic album to date .Larry off the brilliant churning riff title track is some kind of celebrity flailing round American cities . "Mr Sandman The Inseminator" enters the dreams of "Little Janie" to pulsating blues bass and shivery mandocaster on "Today's Lesson". "Midnight Man" features ...well the Midnight Man to Mick Harvey's relentless equilibrating organ.
Pitter pattering conga , quivering cuica and Martyn P Casey's thumping bass usher the first person "MoonLand" while "Night Of The Lotus Eaters" has the most sepulchral bass on a Nick Cave album since "From Her To Eternity ". "Albert Goes West" goes all Jesus And Mary Chain and features man who "Had a psychotic episode on dude ranch that involved a bottle of ammonia " . The "sha la-lal la,s" at the end are great. "We Call Upon The Author" is an audacious rant against god interweaving in between funked bass, viola, poking guitars /keyboards and where Cave " feels like a vacuum cleaner!!! A complete sucker". "Hold Onto Yourself" is a more hushed affair with horror movie atmospherics and plangent organ.. "Lie Down Here (& Be My Girl)" is an exhortation to some femme fatale whose leery guitar matches Caves intentions in a tale where "We've been scribbled in the margins of a story that is patently absurd".
"Jesus Of The Moon" is a lithe undulating ballad with viola and Warren Ellis's distinctive flute. More news From Nowhere" is nigh on eight minutes of bleakly comic observations where "Here comes Alina with two black eyes/ she's given her self a transfusion / she's filled herself with panda blood to avoid all the confusion ". A repetitive guitar hook and more funk edged bass propel Cave along his way.
Dig Lazarus Dig will never be my favourite Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds album. I prefer the eclectic "Henrys Dream " , the awesome "Boatmans Call " confessional or the classy lugubrious strings of "The Good Son" but this is still another terrific album. Those who prefer the wracked hollow eyed blues of his first album - before he went all cabaret (as they see it) may actually find this a return to form. I can think of very few artists around today who continue to hold my interest 14 albums in (Brian Eno , The Blue Nile , Scott Walker -though the last two are so slow to produce material I fear they will never reach fourteen -)but this band do . And they never ever disappoint .
 seeds just coming to the boil. March 8, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
this is a great album, being a cave fan some of his albums have been patchy over the last decade, grinderman notwithstanding when cave is reunited with the seeds he shines, namely in the brilliiant WE CALL UPON THE AUTHOR with its laconic doop doop chorus backing vocal, the flagship for me though is the closer more news from nowhere it trundles along like a steam train which you could easily envisage cave and co playing on its imbued with a slightly ironic spirit, this album reminds me in parts of murder ballads and nocturama the latter which i would recommend to my fellow listener who asked aboutother seeds material,if you like D L D you'll love nocturama if only for the volatile preaching tome babe i'm on fire which just clocks in at over 15 mins but features some of caves most vitriolic rhyming.
Nick Cave Review March 6, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Nick Cave is a person that have always been aware off, but never had the desire to seek out any of his music.
this changed when I heard the catchy oddball rock of lead single Dig!!,Lazarus,Dig!!! and the rant-tasic We Call Upon The Author only made me want to get the album even more.
the rest of this album is just as good. it's sleazy, funky, weird and rocking. if their was one weak spot, its Night Of The Lotus Eaters, which most reviewers have fallen in love with, but its not won me over.
that aside, this is still an brilliant record, but now I am in the position of wanting to purchase more of nick cave's stuff, any suggestions of which of his albums to pick up next?
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