Audio CD review:
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - From Her to Eternity

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - From Her to Eternity

Band: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Title: From Her to Eternity Rating: Release Date: 11 October, 1994 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Avalanche 2: Cabin Fever 3: Well Of Misery 4: From Her To Eternity 5: In The Ghetto 6: The Moon Is In The Gutter 7: Saint Huck 8: Wings Off Flies 9: A Box For Black Paul 10: From Her To Eternity (1987)

Editoral Review Thus the Bad Seeds were born, second only to Cave's former band in their ability to create a rumbling caterwaul. After the Birthday Party ended in a manner similar to a train collision, frontman Nick Cave emerged from the wreckage and hooked up ex-bandmate Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld (on loan from the industrial group Einsturzende Neubauten), Barry Adamson (fresh from Magazine), and the lovely but corpse-pale Anita Lane. What makes the Bad Seeds stand apart, though, are the elements of delta blues that Cave dredges up from the darkest recesses of his black, black heart--blues unlike any you've ever heard before--and his Faulkner-meets-Lovecraft lyrical obsessions. "Well of Misery" shambles along drunkenly and eventually crumbles under its somnambulant pace. On the title track Cave exhorts, begs, and pleads like a whiskey priest begging for forgiveness after a bender while Bargeld's guitar shrieks and wails like a congregation of devils. Including two of Cave's more inspired covers--Leonard Cohen's "Avalanche" and Presley's "In the Ghetto"--From Her to Eternity captures Cave at the noisy intersection between the punk-rock entropy of the Birthday Party and his later incarnation as the gothic Elvis. Amazing, scary stuff. --Tod Nelson .. You can see a complete list of all Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds discography, or go back to the Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds tabs