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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues / Lyre of Orpheus Audio CD

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Title: Abattoir Blues / Lyre of Orpheus
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Release Date: 2004-10-26
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Get Ready For Love 2: Cannibals Hymn 3: Hiding All Away 4: Messiah Ward 5: There She Goes, My Beautiful World 6: Nature Boy 7: Abattoir Blues 8: Let The Bells Ring 9: The Fable Of The Brown Ape 10: The Lyre Of Orpheus 11: Breathless 12: Babe You Turn Me On 13: Easy Money 14: Supernaturally 15: Spell 16: Carry Me 17: O Children

true greatness.....
I (and the rest of us) should probably hesitate to try to review anything by Nick Cave, for we are mere mortals and not worthy of the task . . . .

ok. is this that good? Listen to this thing. Ironically, despite the first few seconds complete unmusicality, it's as good as music gets. Simple as that to review. Beyond that would take a dozen pages. The power and the beauty mixed and intermingled perfectly together, of what an artistic statement can be made to be and realised. Aw heck, let's mention just a couple of things that are (in their weirdly brilliant way, standard Cave/BadSeeds). Alright, there's the funniest line in sarcasm in the history of Rock Music: "I went to bed last night and my moral code got jammed; I woke up this morning with a Frappucino in my hand. Oh yeahhh. . . . " There you go, 21st century culture. Is that you?
Oh, what the hell, the world is the world, and art is merely art. It's not as important as war, cant, hypocrisy, etc . . . But darling, these things, are not good for me . . . .
Ah well . . . .
Just lie down by the river, with the war between the water and the bridge, and let it just Carry you . . . Away . . . .
If you're really lucky, maybe the choir will join in right about then. . . . .
If not, then pass me that lovely little gun, my dear, my darling one. Because the cleaners are coming one by one, and you realllly don't even wanna let them start . . .
yes, indeed, Nick . . . yes indeedey. . . .
6 stars out of 5 here . . . . . an album with everything and a band (oh what a band) capable of recording it.


Abattoir Blues / Lyre of Orpheus
This is a quite good record. Abattoir Blues / Lyre of Orpheus being Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 2004 release and the first since the departure of Blixa Bergald whom left the group to foucus all his attention on his mani project/group Einstürzende Neubauten. However, if one compares this to their magnum opus, i. e. , Let Love In, then it is not as good. One problem is that for some reason he has included a little too blues influenced sound. I like blues alright, but it is definitely not my favorite genre. Still and all, this is a quite good record that has some fine tracks, for instance Messiah Ward and The Lyre of Orpheus.


A Musical Legend
I only recently got into him. He never seems to amaze me. In Australia his albums are so cheap so I went on a binge and bought pretty much all of them in one epic purchase (when they are 8 dollars AUS each it is a wicked deal) I am just so amazed by his depth and the development of his maturity over the course of his entire career. He would have thought the man who sung in Birthday Party could write something so beautiful and moving as O Children. Everyone should own his records and most of the enjoyment is in his lyrics as well. Thank God fopr Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.


Oh Mama...
That changed on Nocturama, which I just thought was a let-down. Let me first say that I've been a fan of Nick Cave since the Boys Next Door and I've hardly found an album I disliked in those 25 years. Now, we get 2 albums of similar material.

Abattoir Blues is marked by 2 major shifts - the departure of Blixa Bargeld and the drum seat being taken over by Jim Sclavunos. Overall, this album sounds like generic Alterna-Rock circa 1995. It isn't BAD, just generic. The guitars are up-front, the songs structured in a very straight ahead rock mode. It doesn't sound like the Bad Seeds. None of this would matter if the songs were memorable, but they just aren't. I mean, when I first listened to this, I had to look at the packaging to make sure I hadn't put on a CD of B-sides.

Lyre Of Orpheus finds Thomas Wydler back in the drum seat and a return to a more familiar sound. Again, though, the songs just are not very strong. The most memorable melody is Easy Money, which quite frankly, is a stupid song. Even some of my least favorite Cave albums, Henry's Dream for instance, had top-notch songwriting.

Hopefully, these albums are just glitches in a long and storied career.


Maybe his best
I hope they use the same studio and equipment to record again !. The total package - great songs, great band, amazing sound.


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