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| 4.0 excellent | lz41 | February 11th 14 |
Written when Cave's wife had left him and her vacancy had been filled with grief, isolation and heroin, 'The Boatman's Call' is wracked with despair and disillusionment bordering on insanity. It takes a scary level of bitterness, and Gothic wordsmanship, of course, to write something like 'People Ain't No Good' or the tortured and torturous 'Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere?'. On the other hand, it takes a special artist to write the poignant 'Into My Arms', regardless of how bad love is for your health.
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| 4.5 superb | impulsive | December 13th 12 |
Fantastic album. Despite it's slow tempo, the music is intense. It's the perfect soundtrack to heartache. I don't really feel any connection to the religious themes, but the songs are still beautiful. I simply love this record. May very well be one of their best.
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| 0.0 | JimmyTwoTimes | September 18th 09 |
"We fucked up the Sun, and we fucked it down." Nick Cave solidifies himself as one of the most lonesome crooners with this dreary album.
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| 4.0 excellent | Sepstrup | June 21st 06 |
1997's The Boatman's Call finds itself a far cry from Murder Ballads of the previous year. Murder Ballads took Nick Cave's fascination of death and murder to the extreme, whereas The Boatman's Call is a tender, emotional collection of songs. The songs are all quite similar sounding, feauturing little but a piano and Nick Cave's baritone vocals, but it isn't necessarily a bad thing. The opener is Into My Arms, a definite highlight and one of the best love songs of all time in my book. The lyrics mix love and religion, in a beautiful and sincere ballad. The rest of the album does not exactly reach this sky-high level, but some of the other songs are truly remarkable as well. Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For is another truly moving love song, and comes the closest to approaching Into My Arms. While the album does drop a bit in the end, it is definitely still a beautiful album, but it is arguably more of a mood-album, to play in the background, than one you listen to intensely.
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