As the 1980s drew to a close Cave was deeply addicted to heroin and writing some of his darkest songs yet. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. This is as faultless a pressing as I have on either ordinary vinyl (covering over 4 decades) or 180g vinyl, which only enhances enjoyment of this wonderful set.

Classic Album Sundays tells the stories behind the albums that have shaped our culture and in some cases, our lives. Stripped down and grown up--though still ghoulish and grave--Cave the storyteller has turned into something of a vampire Bruce Springsteen. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

I've given it four stars because some songs just don't quite gel with me - in "Lime Tree Arbour" I find the piano hook a little lazy (contrast with "Love Letter" from "No More Shall We Part"), and I find the voice-over in "Green Eyes" a bit gimmicky. A album about the despair of breaking up, this album is one that suits a certain mood, at 48 years old I found myself in similar situation. The video proved an evocative forecast of their troubled but passionate affair, which disintegrated after just a few months together. By 1997, The Bad Seeds were an eight man strong operation, and yet they saw fit to release this album full of extremely intimate, stripped down, confessional music. He has begun to find a quiet grace, and perhaps even beauty, past all the darkness that's long consumed him.

Cleary uncomfortable about the process of spinning one’s own feelings into poetic form he has often addressed the album as “a big heroic melodrama out of a bog-standard rejection. Each album has been re-mastered (overseen by Mick Harvey, former Bad Seed and founder member), and all album artwork reflects the original release from the cover to the printed inner sleeves. No band on their 10th album should have much more to say, but taking this turn for the reflective helped reignite The Bad Seeds and further secured their legacy. Para abrir boca los acordes de piano de "Into My Arms" y sus versos: "No creo en un Dios intervencionista, pero sé cariño, que tú sí, pero si creyera me arrodillaría ante él y le pediría que no interviniera en lo que a ti respecta, que no tocara un pelo de tu cabeza, que te dejara tal y como eres, y si Él sintiera que debe dirigirte entonces que lo hiciera enviándote entre mis brazos". or singer PJ Harvey, with whom he had a brief relationship around that time (as referenced in "West Country Girl", "Black Hair" and "Green Eyes").Cave performed "Into My Arms" at the 1997 funeral of INXS vocalist Michael Hutchence, an old friend from Cave's youth, and requested that the TV cameras be shut off for his performance out of respect for Hutchence. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. His lyrics were now thoroughly soaked in misanthropic themes and often documented characters in moments of bleak depravity or despair. Some songs are thought to be directed at either the mother of Cave's oldest son Luke, Viviane Carneiro (in "Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere? Recording for the album began at Sarm West Studios in London, United Kingdom in mid-1996, with "The Garden Duet", one of the album's outtakes, being the first song recorded.

His brief dalliance with Polly Harvey, whom he became infatuated with after their Henry Lee duet on Murder Ballads, is referenced on Green Eyes, Black Hair and the more direct West Country Girl. For my part, it was "No More Shall We Part" which introduced to me to the dark delightful work of Mr. As Cave stated, this was ‘the sort of record I’ve been wanting to make for years […] a record which is slow from beginning to end… Very sparse, very raw and beautiful. These are your actual songs of faith and devotion, and by Cave’s own admission his most personal album to date.Cave opens his heart from the outset, the song beginning with the stunning line of "I don't believe in an interventionist God / But I know, darling, that you do". People Ain't No Good" is an especial work of genius - without meaning to give too much away, the last verse in particular is both devastating and (almost) funny in its bleakness.

The golden era of Australia's gothic gang - Each comes as a two-disc set, the remastered album and a DVD with a 5. It says a great deal about Cave as a person, and The Bad Seeds as a band, that they are willing to stare down these deeply personal situations within full view of the public gaze; to wrestle some kind of artistic redemption from the jaws of emotional defeat. and furthermore, with the emergence of acts such as PJ Harvey and The Afghan Whigs, there was a sense that The Bad Seeds had ushered in a new wave of evocative, imagery-based rock songwriting. These ruptures in his life would not only influence the lyrical direction of this next album, but would completely remould The Bad Seed’s musical role, stripping them back to a level of restraint and sparseness which, at this point, was new and scary territory. But few could have guessed that Cave would bookend this period with what remains his most tender and honest record; a naked account of love and loss created in a period of personal and stylistic transition.Into My Arms" is of course a classic and a song I was aware of (and loved) before listening to the whole album.