Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Tender Pray


Album : Tender Pray
Artist : Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Release Date : 1992
Original Release Date : 1988
Lable : Mute
Genre : Rock
Total time : 01:09:15
Total size : 158 MB

Tracks :
1. Mercy Seat, The
2. Up Jumped the Devil
3. DeAnna
4. Watching Alice
5. Mercy
6. City of Refuge
7. Slowly Goes the Night
8. Sunday's Slave
9. Sugar Sugar Sugar
10. New Morning
11. Mercy Seat, The - (video mix)

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The dark, poetic troubadour tendencies hinted at in Cave's work as early as his first album's cover of Leonard Cohen's "Avalance" blossom on TENDER PREY. In a style recalling Cohen and Tom Waits, Cave ups the lyrical ante considerably here. On gory detail-oriented, literate tunes like "Up Jumped the Devil" and "Mercy," Cave's second life as a novelist (he would soon author a book) is obvious. Here, the distance he achieves from his inner demons allows him to focus more on crafting his personal horror stories, making him seem like the Edgar Allen Poe of the rock world.

Recorded at Hansa Tonstudios and Vieklang, Berlin, Germany; Trident and The Strongroom, London, England; The Studio, Richmond, Australia between August 1987 and January 1988.

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
The Good Son


Album : Good Son
Artist : Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Release Date : 1990
Genre : Rock
Total time : 00:45:26
Total size : 82,2 MB

Tracks :
1. Foi Na Cruz
2. Good Son, The
3. Sorrow's Child
4. Weeping Song, The
5. Ship Song, The
6. Hammer Song, The
7. Lament
8. Witness Song, The
9. Lucy

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THE GOOD SON reflected a change in both Cave's art and his life. At the end of the '80s, he moved to Brazil, to distance himself from the drug-addled frenzy of his youth. His search for peace is plainly audible in these songs, which pick up where the most melodic tunes on TENDER PREY left off. Laced with piano, vibraphone and choral backing vocals, songs such as "Foi Na Cruz" and "Lucy" unveil Cave the unabashed romantic, willing to go as far over the top as necessary to prove his emotional commitment to the material. It is this quality that finally puts him on an even keel with the balladeers whose influence he bears so strongly (Scott Walker, Leonard Cohen, etc.).

Recorded at Cardan Studios, Sao Paulo, Brazil in October 1989.

Despite the lush arrangements, it's not all sweetness and light. Pretty melodies mask untold grief on "The Weeping Song" and "Sorrow's Child." A near-religious transcendence is approached on "The Witness Song." THE GOOD SON is a strange, lovely diversion in the varied career of this complex artist.

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Henry's Dream


Album : Henry’s Dream
Artist : Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Release Date : 1992
Lable : Mute
Genre : Rock
Total time : 00:41:30
Total size : 95,1 MB

Individual track details :
1. Papa Won't Leave You, Henry 5:55
2. I Had a Dream, Joe 3:43
3. Straight to You 4:35
4. Brother, My Cup Is Empty 3:02
5. Christina the Astonishing 4:51
6. When I First Came to Town 5:22
7. John Finn's Wife 5:13
8. Loom of the Land 5:08
9. Jack the Ripper 3:45

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Amazon.co.uk Review
It has been reported that Cave himself hates Henry's Dream. While it is deeply flawed, especially by Cave's formidable standards, he's being unnecessarily hard on himself. Aside from any other considerations, it contains "Papa Won't Leave You, Henry", a rumbling gospel epic that remains a highlight of Bad Seeds live shows, and "Straight To You", an exquisite devotional ballad. It is an odd album, however. Just when its predecessor, The Good Son, seemed to hint that Cave had accepted his natural facility for the heroically overwrought ballad, Henry's Dream was a partial return to the gloomy, old testament portents of "Your Funeral My Trial" and "First Born Is Dead". There was no real problem with this--"Christina The Astonishing" and "Brother My Cup Is Empty" are especially fine--but it leaves Henry's Dream as a whole feeling rather like it is two halves of two separate, half-finished albums. --Andrew Mueller

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HENRY'S DREAM is perhaps the most fully realised of all Cave's albums. On it, he achieves the perfect balance between his lush, poetic sensibilities and his feral, unfettered rock& roll id. Most of the guitar work is acoustic, but there'sno lack of momentum as the band drives harder than ever. Cave's grisly Cohenesque lyric talents are at their peak here.Each song is like a short horror story, or a rock equivalent of Rod Serling's NIGHT GALLERY.
The unrelentingly gruesome imagery of tunes like "Papa Won't Leave You Henry" is hammered home even further by the pounding arrangements. Even when things settle down, as on the folkie ballad "Loom of the Land", there's a barely veiled undercurrent of danger in the air. HENRY'S DREAM is full of some of Cave's finest songcraft, making a case for him as the gloomy bard of '90s alt-rock.

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Live Seeds


Album : Live Seeds
Artist : Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Release Date : 1993
Lable : Mute
Genre : Rock
Total time : 01:00:49
Total size : 83,6 MB

Tracks :
1. The Mercy Seat
2. DeAnna
3. Ship Song, The
4. Papa Won't Leave You Henry
5. Plain Gold Ring
6. John Finn's Wife
7. Tupelo
8. Brother My Cup Is Empty
9. Weeping Song, The
10. Jack the Ripper
11. The Good Son
12. From Her to Eternity
13. New Morning

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Nick Cave has gone through many changes in his career: from his bellowing mad-singer days in the Birthday Party to blues-inspired-lounge-singer-in-Eternity's-waiting-room. In between, he recorded live shows in 1992 and 1993 for LIVE SEEDS, and it ably sums up the power of Cave's music up to that time. In his solo career, Cave has fallen under the spell of American blues and gospel and Anglo-American mythology, and his interest/obsession shines throughout these inspired performances. "Papa Won't Leave You Henry" is structured like a sea shanty, but the lyrics are about a dark journey of brothels and murder. "Brother My Cup Is Empty" is almost a creepy, bluesy country song (written by Kurt Weil and Bertold Brecht, if you can imagine that). "Tupelo" is another dark blues-drenched tale, and the gospel-inspired closer, "New Morning" finishes on a hopeful note. The Bad Seeds' playing is punchy and driven, with individual players punctuating the singer's tales appropriately. Cave is part weary world traveler, part sodden blues singer, part the demented preacher from NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (where preacher Robert Mitchum had "love" and "hate" tattooed on the knuckles of his hands)--declaring, raving, doing battle with his demons. With Cave, you can never tell who wins.

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Let Love In


Album : Let Love In
Artist : Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Release Date : 1994
Lable : Mute
Genre : Rock
Total time : 00:48:13
Total size : 110 MB

Tracks :
01 - Do You Love Me? (05:58)
02 - Nobody's Baby Now (03:52)
03 - Loverman (06:21)
04 - Jangling Jack (02:47)
05 - Red Right Hand (06:10)
06 - I Let Love In (04:14)
07 - Thirsty Dog (03:47)
08 - Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore (03:47)
09 - Lay Me Low (05:08)
10 - Do You Love Me? (Part 2) (06:12)

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LET LOVE IN is a powerful but somewhat schizophrenic effort. It alternates between frenzied tales of decadence a la TENDER PREY, and stately, Leonard Cohenesque ballad of the sort found on HENRY'S DREAM and THE GOOD SON. The one common thread, as always, is the unrelenting horror Cave takes such delight in presenting in his lyrics. From the morbid funeral setting of the gospelly "Lay Me Low" to the sexual abuse scenarios of the driving, profoundly disturbing "Do You Love Me?" LET LOVE IN is not for the timid. The album's highlight is easily the understated, subtly syncopated "Red Right Hand," a tale of a satanic figure, with appropriate horror-film backing track. LET LOVE IN itself is the audio equivalent of a particularly engrossing, ultimately unnerving horror film.

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
More Pricks Than Kicks


Album : More Pricks Than Kicks
Artist : Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Release Date : 1995
Genre : Rock
Total time : 01:10:05
Total size : 119 MB

Tracks :
1. Helpless........ The Bridge
2. Rye Whiskey ........ Reflex flexi
3. I Put A Spell On You ........ NME cassette
4. Tower of Song ........ unedited 30 min. version!
5. 500 Miles ........ 3/3/89 KCRW Snap radio
6. Sunny ........ 3/3/89 KCRW Snap radio
7. Blitzkrieg Bop ........ 19/8/77 Swinburn College
8. Gloria ........ 19/8/77 Swinburn College
9. I Put a Spell On You ........ 19/8/77 Swinburn College
10. Commando ........ 19/8/77 Swinburn College
11. These Boots Are Made For Walking ........ 19/8/77 Swinburn College

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Murder Ballads


Album : Murder Ballads
Artist : Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Release Date : 1996
Lable : Mute
Genre : Rock
Total time : 00:58:53
Total size : 103 MB

Tracks :
1. Song of Joy
2. Stagger Lee
3. Henry Lee - (with PJ Harvey)
4. Lovely Creature
5. Where the Wild Roses Grow - (with Kylie Minogue)
6. Curse of the Millhaven, The
7. Kindness of Strangers, The
8. Crow Jane
9. O'Malley's Bar
10. Death Is Not the End - (with PJ Harvey/Kylie Minogue/Anita Lane/Shane MacGowan)

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Amazon.com
Nick Cave's been writing songs about killing and other evil things since he first surfaced in 1980 as the Birthday Party's pale, skinny, goth-punk Jim Morrison. But the murder ballads that provide this set's title are different, tantalizingly deliberate. Sure, there's plenty of trademark Cave here, but Murder Ballads is a fascinating concept album that uses the narrative ballad form of the English folk tradition to tell of murder: random deaths, passion crimes, and killing sprees, all in one package. Cave clearly thrives in this genre, and he produces some of his sharpest and most facile writing to date. "Song of Joy," a genuinely scary campfire mystery of a murdered family and an unnamed killer, chillingly weaves clues into the lyrics, while "Where the Wild Roses Grow" is a narrative duet in which killer (Cave) and victim (pop star Kylie Minogue) reveal parallel tales. Cave even shows his knack for adaptation on Bob Dylan's "Death Is Not the End": he recontextualizes a song of heavenly comfort into a sort of zombie "We Are the World" (featuring Minogue, PJ Harvey, Shane MacGowan, and others) in which "death is not the end" of pain and suffering. Above all, Murder Ballads should be heard as a work of pulp fiction--as sensationally funny as it is harrowing. The already violent traditional song "Stagger Lee" becomes gangsta folk, so ridiculously packed with obscenity and brutality it would make the Geto Boys cringe. And Cave's (unintentional?) point to would-be censors--that bad-ass songs existed long before rappers polluted the airways--should not be missed.
--Roni Sarig

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Boatman's Call


Album : The Boatman’s Call
Artist : Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Release Date : 1997
Lable : Mute
Genre : Rock
Total time : 00:52:07
Total size : 119 MB


Track listing:
1.Into My Arms
2.Lime-Tree Arbour
3.People Ain't No Good
4.Brompton Oratory
5.There Is A Kingdom
6.One That I've Been Waiting For?, (Are You) The
7.Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere?
8.West Country Girl
9.Black Hair
10.Idiot Prayer
11.Far From Me
12.Green Eyes

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The Boatman's Call is the tenth studio album released by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It was released in 1997 and remains one of the most critically acclaimed releases of Nick Cave's long career.

The album's tone is sombre and minimalist. Stylistically and lyrically it marks a major departure for Cave, away from full-band arrangements and character-based narratives towards the more intimate sound of Cave's solo voice accompanied by piano or a few other instruments. Many of the lyrics seem to reflect on Cave's personal relationships and spiritual yearnings. Some songs are thought to be directed at either the mother of Cave's son Luke, Viviane Carneiro ("Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere?") or PJ Harvey, with whom he had a brief relationship around that time ("West Country Girl", "Black Hair" and "Green Eyes").


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Nick Cave
Songs for a November Night


Album : Songs for a November Night
Artist : Nick Cave
Release Date : 2002
Genre : Rock
Total time : 01:15:25
Total size : 103 MB

Tracks :
01.(I'll Love You) Until The End Of The World
02.Faraway So Close
03.Cassiel's Song
04.Dead The Passage Of Jesus
05.The Ballad Of Robert Moore And
06.The Willow Garden
07.Blue Bird
08.The Train Song
09.What A Wonderful World
10.Rainy Night In Soho
11.Sail Away
12.The Big Hunt
13.King Kong Kitchee Kitchee
14.Knoxville Girl
15.Rye Whiskey
16. What Can I Give You
17.Thats What Jazz Is To Me
18. There Is A Light
19.Bedazzled

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
No More Shall We Part


Album : No More Shall We Part
Artist : Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Release Date : 2001
Lable : Wea
Genre : Rock
Total time : 01:07:41
Total size : 96,4 MB

Tracks :
1. As I Sat Sadly by Her Side
2. And No More Shall We Part
3. Hallelujah
4. Love Letter
5. Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow
6. God Is in the House
7. Oh My Lord
8. Sweetheart Come
9. Sorrowful Wife, The
10. We Came Along This Road
11. Gates to the Garden
12. Darker With the Day

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This album is closely related to its predecessor, THE BOATMAN'S CALL, in that it mines similarly reserved piano-ballad territory. Cave's been fiddling with this sort of thing since THE MERCY SEAT's "Watching Alice," but he seems to have adopted it here as his prevailing modus operandi. The major difference between NO MORE SHALL WE PART and its predecessor is that the lyrics are less overtly relationship-oriented. Instead, Cave offers Jacques Brel-like denunciation of overzealous Christians ("God is in the House"), morality plays ("As I Sat Sadly by Her Side"), and of course, tall tales of terror in the grand Cave manner ("Hallelujah").

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