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Music CD - Grinderman (featuring Nick Cave): Grinderman
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Music CD: Grinderman
Artist: Grinderman (featuring Nick Cave)
List Price: $16.98
Our Price: $11.77
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Manufacturer: ANTI-
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Tracks:
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1. Get It On
2. No Pussy Blues
3. Electric Alice
4. Grinderman
5. Depth Charge Ethel
6. Go Tell The Women
7. (I Don't Need You To) Set Me Free
8. Honey Bee (Lets Fly To Mars)
9. Man In The Moon
10. When My Love Comes Down
11. Love Bomb
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0045778686124
Label: ANTI-
Manufacturer: ANTI-
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: ANTI-
Release Date: 2007-04-10
Studio: ANTI-
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: The garage band from Heaven? Try a little further south...
Comment: Oh, Nick Cave. Can ye do no wrong? Apparently not. This album, for lack of a better word, rocks. It rocks soft, it rocks hard, it rocks sideways and upways and slantways and every-which-ways you can even begin to imagine. It's a short little record--well, compared to a regular Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds release--but it's certainly not a forgettable one, whether it's Cave screaming for someone to get the baboons out of the basement, or muttering "damn, damn" when he can't find a woman to...well...fornicate with.
Along with three of his Bad Seeds (Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey, and Jim Sclavunos), Cave has crafted another fine record. Well, I use "fine" losely. I can't even call it "good," can I? Compared to a typical Cave record, there's not a lot of depth here (you don't have to think too hard to figure out what "No Pussy Blues" is really about), though some tracks (especially the dry-wit of "Go Tell the Women" and the pondering "Man in the Moon") do dig beneath the surface. Still...it's mostly a record for fun. Which is nice, because I don't want to say that recent Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds records have been boring...but...they've been rather ponderous, how's that? As Cave himself has stated, when he stood up from the piano and strapped on an electric guitar, he started singing different. We're still anxiously awaiting his return to form with the rest of his Bad Seeds crew (DIG!!! LAZARUS DIG!!!), but this is a nice little twist of talents. Wait...there I go, using words like "nice" again. Dammit...I guess you can't really describe this record. Just listen to the damn thing. And rock on.
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Summary: This album rocks
Comment: After listening to this cd several times, I like it more than the first listen which created quite an impact. It is not a subtle Nick Cave album. It is not Lyre of Orpheus, Rarities and B sides or The Proposition soundtrack. It is stripped down, base instinct, garage style rock by a seasoned professional. I recommend it highly and it is one of the rare records anymore that I think should be listened to LOUD.
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Summary: Surprising
Comment: This is a great CD. It took me by surprise. Imagine Nick Cave backed by the Stooges singing songs of lust and missed sex. It works and it's epic. It's angry and visceral at times but Nick Cave knows how to pull this off without being trite. Bowie returned to the roots of rock n'roll with Tin Machine and now it's Cave. I hope they tour.
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Summary: Album of the year, 2007
Comment: No need for a long review - if you like early Bad Seeds and Birthday Party, get this album. Thats all you need to know.
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Summary: now i know the real definition of PERFECT!
Comment: adjectives and cliches are useless to describe how brilliant, b r i l l i a n t this music is. i am begging you, pleading with you to wrap your ears around this masterpiece. heard a chicago music critic get all slurrpy and slippery about this as part of a 2007 top ten. i cannot get the smile off my forehead. had to sit down and rest with some oxygen before i go back for the headphones. JSNOW2 has every syllable correct in his review. "love bomb", "set me free", "depth charge ethel", "go tell the women", " get it on" are all stellar examples of what makes music magic. i don't care for NC and the only cave i hear is "man in the moon". grinderman is perfect!
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Editorial Reviews:
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Grinderman is the sound of indie rock legends growing old disgracefully, and that is by no means a criticism. From the opening rant of "Get It On," this is an album with all the menace of an angry drunk, dripping with anger and testosterone (as the surfeit of facial hair in the band's interior photo will attest). It could even be the sound of Nick Cave's midlife crisis, but it doesn't matter, because Grinderman rocks. It's the sound of four musicians having a grand time, turning the volume up to 11 and really cutting loose. For that reason, it's the more upbeat tracks here that are probably the best: "Honey Bee (Let's Fly to Mars)" with its driving electric organ, the primal urgency of "Depth Charge Ethel," and the strutting album closer "Love Bomb." After all the po-faced seriousness he's displayed in recent years, it's good to know that Cave has rediscovered his sense of humour: "I cleaned the sheets on my bed, I combed the hairs across my head, I sucked in my gut and still she said, 'I don't want to,'" he sings on "No Pussy Blues," with his tongue firmly in cheek (amongst other places). Simply put, Grinderman is a hoot. --Ted Kord
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