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No More Shall We Part

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part Audio CD

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Band: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Title: No More Shall We Part
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Release Date: 2001-04-10
Media: Audio CD

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 10: We Came Along This Road 11: Gates to the Garden 12: Darker With the Day

No More Shall We Part
Nick Cave once again writes lyrics that sound like poetry at its finest. No More Shall We Part is as strong of a release as Let Love In. And no more shall we part is a beautifull and intensly personal track that tugs at the heart strings. He sings on this album with a frank and personal touch. The cover painting was done by Tony Clark. To me it looks like a childs drawing so I do not understand the point in not just asking a child to paint something instead of paying this hack of an artist. The font is very nice on the inside. The photograph looks bad but I guess it was something like art for arts sake.

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No More Shall I Deny You
Sadly,the song never intrigued me enough to seek the artist out,nor did "The Curse Of Millhaven",(much more recently) having heard it played numerous times from a friend. I suppose my first exposure to Nick Cave was the inclusion of "Red Right Hand" off of the sountrack to "Dumb And Dumber",only I never realized it. It just didn't sound like "my" kind of music. Yeah,stupid me.

Another Nick Cave incident came about when my girlfriend and I saw Guns N Roses back in 2006;Myself,being one of Axl's greatest admirers,I obviously was going to enjoy it,but for her,my obsession was just something she tolerated. So her reaction to it was a surprising one:Seeing GNR is like hearing Nick Cave for the first time,as if your being let in on some great secret.

Again,my inability to let Nick Cave into my life would prevail.

It wasn't until a few weeks ago I gave Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds a proper listen. Shortly after the release of his new (and quite good)"Dig,Lazarus,Dig",my quest for Nick Cave began. Thanks to a 4-star review (courtesy of Rolling Stone),I figured . . Why not?

It is difficult to say where I started,exactly. I headed to Youtube,and immediately,songs like "Into My Arms",and "(Are You) The One I've Been Waiting For" just spoke to me. Whether I liked it or not,Nick Cave was about to shoot straight into my top 5 of all time greats.

As for this wonderful gem of an album here,"No More Shall We Part",all I can say is . . . Nick,I love you.

The album starts off with "As I Sat Sadly By Her Side",a definite classic,and it just soars from there. I admit to being partial to Nicks piano work,in all of his demented,crooning glory,and this record is a perfect example of just that.

"God Is In The House",is possibly the the funniest,and yet most heartfelt song containing the word "God" I have ever heard,with the exception of maybe The Beach Boys "God Only Knows".

"Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow","Oh My Lord",and "Love Letter" are another few that grabbed me instantly. Musically,these songs are something to be heard,with simplistic,yet touching piano work,beautifully accompanied by Warren Ellis violin playing. Throw Nick Caves lyrics into the mix . . Sometimes humerous,sometimes haunting,usually always beautiful . . And you've got something unique here.

I would reccomend this album (or Nick Cave in general) to anyone and everyone with a pulse. Anyone with a desire to hear something new. Anyone.

The secret is out. Nick Cave is a genius.

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best ballads ever
I HIGHLY RECOMEND THIS FOR OLD AN NEWCOMING FANS!!!!!!!!!. I'VE BEEN A DIE HARD FAN SINCE "THE BIRTHDAY PARTY" AND IT AMAZES ME THAT HE CONTINUES TO PUT OUT BRILLIANT WORK.

Amazing
It is one of the most beautiful albums I have ever heard. This will be short. I cannot believe I used to hate this guy. .

What A Friend I've Found
The problem that arises is of course a psychological and a linguistical one. If you've read any of my comments it's evident that I have the bad habit of tossing exclamation-marked praise rather directly. For one, when we use a word like 'beautiful' many a times we drain it from its proper meaning and all the rich associations we connect to the word 'beautiful'. These are important words, and the most important we bring so close to our heart they integrate to our being; so when we drain a life out of a word and becomes a graveyard we put in motion a change in our aesthetic self, and ultimately we bury ourselves to that very same graveyard of words.

I had to arrive and get through such contemplation in light of this album; if anything, this particular record - and much of Cave's work in general - evokes feelings in me as a listener that need those words that very often become shades of a clich�. Beautiful, bittersweet, heartfelt. This only to give the right impressions to the reader. I presume this might be evidence of a limited vocabulary of a foreigner but also of the great power of art; that is, I do believe that when we become conscious of being in the presence of great art, we do lose ourselves, and our words.

Every single song on this album cries perfection, and - I don't wish to sound bohemically and self-consciously (too late?) sentimental that turns into ridicule and the grotesque - I can't get past the title track without playing it a ten-fold times, repeatedly; and I can't help myself, when getting to the point where he sings "Lord, stay by me, don't go down/I'll never be free, if I'm not free now/Lord, stay by me, and don't go down/I never was free", without breaking in tears.

Gosh.

I stress that great art shapes our personality by becoming infinitely close to us; this album brings this notion from an abstract realm to a deeply personal level. Tarkovsky is to me like a friend, a confidant, a brother. Especially this from all of Cave's wonderful body of work feels the same: this is a place where to escape from the world, to be immersed within, to seek when in need of a place to stay by yourself for a while. This is intimacy at its most intimate, fidelity at its strongest, a blanket you can wrap around yourself and be immersed in the warmth.

My personal definition of a romantic is a collector of moods and of memories, living lucidly by letting art enchance life. A lucid music life builds around albums and songs, melodies and silence you accept in your life. "No More Shall We Part" sits by mine own heart; if you wish by all means give it a listen if it enchants you too.

With best regards,
AK.

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