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| 1. Into My Arms (2011 - Remaster) | |||
| 2. Lime Tree Arbour (2011 - Remaster) | |||
| 3. People Ain't No Good (2011 - Remaster) | |||
| 4. Brompton Oratory (2011 - Remaster) | |||
| 5. There Is A Kingdom (2011 - Remaster) | |||
| 6. (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For? (2011 - Remaster) | |||
| 7. Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere? (2011 - Remaster) | |||
| 8. West Counrty Girl (2011 - Remaster) | |||
| 9. Black Hair (2011 - Remaster) | |||
| 10. Idiot Prayer (2011 - Remaster) | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Into My Arms (2011 - Remaster) [DVD] | |||
| 2. Lime Tree Arbour (2011 - Remaster) [DVD] | |||
| 3. People Ain't No Good (2011 - Remaster) [DVD] | |||
| 4. Brompton Oratory (2011 - Remaster) [DVD] | |||
| 5. There Is A Kingdom (2011 - Remaster) [DVD] | |||
| 6. (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For? (2011 - Remaster) [DVD] | |||
| 7. Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere? (2011 - Remaster) [DVD] | |||
| 8. West Counrty Girl (2011 - Remaster) [DVD] | |||
| 9. Black Hair (2011 - Remaster) [DVD] | |||
| 10. Idiot Prayer (2011 - Remaster) [DVD] | |||
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Product Description
Product Description
After a career spent tearing down the world with horror and disgust, Nick Cave finally sounds ready to start rebuilding from scratch. He's begun to find a quiet grace, and perhaps even beauty, past all the darkness that's long consumed him. Amid the ashes of a world unable to exorcise its demons, Cave actually finds love; a strange, twisted, doomed love, perhaps--but love nevertheless.
On The Boatman's Call, Cave's latest collection, the singer-songwriter finds room for the personal, the spiritual, and even the hopeful in his grey psyche. With only the sparest accompaniment--often just a piano or organ, light percussion, and violin (care of Dirty Three's Warren Ellis)--Cave employs traditional folk song structure and simplicity to weave tales saddened less through tragedy as through emptiness. Songs like "Into My Arms" and "(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?" are among Cave's most self-assured and soulful to date. Stripped down and grown up--though still ghoulish and grave--Cave the storyteller has turned into something of a vampire Springsteen.
Ultimately, The Boatman's Call sounds like Cave's attempt to poison his cake and eat it too. For a record so resolute in its denial of divinity, The Boatman's Call's obsession with religious themes and imagery might seem contradictory if they hadn't come from someone like Cave, who fancies himself a fallen angel searching for a ladder back to heaven. Where Gothic meets cathedral, there resides, for better or worse, our dark saint Nick. --Roni Sarig
Album Description
Digitally remastered deluxe two disc (CD + PAL/Region 2 DVD) edition of this 1997 album from the acclaimed singer/songwriter. This double disc edition contains the remastered stereo album on CD plus the new surround mix and a specially commissioned short film by UK artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard on the DVD plus the b-sides from the singles, videos and exclusive sleeve notes. Nick Cave formed the Bad Seeds following the end of his previous band Birthday Party. The Bad Seeds brought together former Birthday Party guitarist Mick Harvey (drums), ex-Magazine bassist Barry Adamson, and Einstrzende Neubauten guitarist Blixa Bargeld. EMI.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Nick Cave rules!,
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This review is from: Boatman's Call (Audio CD)
I am so happy to be ordering "The Boatman's Call"; it was stolen, along with all my other CDs, from my car a while ago. It is just such a dark, moody, wonderful album. The music itself is understated and lush, and it does not overpower Nick Cave's voice. As for the aforementioned singer, his lyrics are so dark that they are unforgettable. He sings passionately but not over-the-top; this whole album (and I do mean the whole, because this is one record that you can listen to from start to finish and get a cohesive feeling about) is just right on the mark. I also recommend "The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds" if you like this one, or even if you don't. :)
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sheer dark beauty abounds,
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This review is from: Boatman's Call (Audio CD)
If you missed out on this one when it was released as I did, don't forever rue the day, correct your error now. The Boatman's Call is the shining pearl buried for so many years in Nick Cave's irritated soul. "Into My Arms" is one of the most beautiful, poignant songs ever written and the cd's caliber drops little from that auspicious beginning. This is not "essential Nick Cave" it's just essential. A classic piece of music for the ages.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Just Beautiful,
By Esenada "oedipus92" (Adelaide, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Boatman's Call (Audio CD)
Nick Cave is many different things to many different people. However he is generally only thought of as "The Ausralian Black Prince of Gothic Rock" in the printed media. Regardless of what you want to call him, in The Boatman's Call he has produced a beautiful and amazing masterpiece. More his own personal work, than a Bad Seeds album, Nick Cave produces some of his greatest Lyrics and Tunes that are rich in imagery, allegory and sadness. Such songs as "People Ain't No Good" "Brompton Oratory" "Where Do We Go But Nowhere" "Into My Arms" "Are you the one I Have Been Waiting For" are some of his best recordings in an career that has spanned more than twenty years. Maybe not for everybody, but the music is undeniably beautiful if incredibly sad. A good album to listen to when you are depressed, for Mr Cave will make you feel better in the knowing that there is at least one more tormented soul out there.
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