TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Nick Cave
Nick Cave
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.1657
Nick Cave Album Rankings
1
None of The Bad Seeds or Nick himself have good memories of the making of this record.
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2
The songs had been demoed in Berlin. Nick fell in love, got clean of drugs and moved to Brazil. The result was something that had no precedents in terms of his previous career.
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3
It feels almost like a betrayal, and is, at very least, a shock akin to discovering the Teletubbies are on crack : Nick Cave, the thornily-crowned prince of heroin-bleak, underworld-dark musings, the
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4
Displays the Bad Seeds live and in all their glory recorded during the 'henrys dream' tour. The 'Henrys Dream' songs sound louder and more furious than their recorded counterparts.
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5
A new Nick Cave album is always welcome, but I must admit, I wasn't expecting another so soon. 'Nocturama' was recorded quickly whilst Nick and The Bad Seeds were touring Australia.
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6
A female Lazarus, a savagely beaten outcast, a lust-driven murderer, a dying drunk: The cast of characters that inhabits Nick Cave'sHenry's Dreampersonifies their creator's dark vision.
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7
In a world of saints and sinners, Nick Cave may be both. And he knows it, milking this paradox to brilliant effect onThe Boatman's Call, his haunting new album.
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8
Nick Cave has made a cottage industry out of theatrical gloom for the past 15 years, artfully plunging into the depths of a reservoir of despair that many alternative rockers couldn't even dream of fa
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9
Track listing: 1) Muddy Water; 2) I'm Gonna Kill That Woman; 3) Sleeping Annaleah; 4) Long Black Veil; 5) Hey Joe; 6)The Singer; 7) Black Betty; 8) Running Scared; 9) All Tommorow's Parties; 10) By Th
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10
In a sense, Nicks solo career proper begins here. This was originally issued on two 12" records playing at 45rpm and was issued as a double EP set.
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11
The Birthday Party had been one of the more uncompromising post punk groups to emerge. A deranged bunch of Australians who didn't believe in doing anything half heartedly.
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12
Nick Cave used to be strictly postmodern, stringing together word associations in spasmodic whelps for his band the Birthday Party.
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13
An album that was slated by English critics upon release. They had already begun getting their digs in before the album was even released.
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14
When you hear that Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have written the soundtrack for an Australian outback movie reputed to be pretty violent, the expectation has to be for at least some fire and brimstone.
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15
As with records by Henry Rollins and Richard Hell, And the Ass Saw the Angel is the kind of ambiguous spoken word thing more and more aging punks-- at least ones with any lingering artistic ambition--
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24
Cover versions can prove to be very tricky ground for any band.
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