Originally Posted by Trollheart

Again, given that I only heard it the once, just that I didn't hear any tracks on it I liked really. No deep Cave ballads, no going-off-the-deep-end murder stories, just kind of meh really which is not in any way an adjective (not a real word I know but some people say it's a perfectly cromulent one!) I ever expect to apply to Cave's work.

For me, the albums of his I've enjoyed in order would be:

No more shall we part
The boatman's call
The good son
Push the sky away
Murder ballads
Henry's dream
Let love in
Abbatoir blues/Lyre of Orpheus
Nocturama
Dig Lazarus dig

I should point out that his albums pre-"The good son" I have found hard to get into and have not in fairness given much of a chance, though I intend to sit down and really listen to them. Also, the last three have only got one or two listens each, so certainly Abbatoir and Nocturama may end up in a higher position, or at least having a better response from me, but the top 5 or 6 are definitely unchangeable. You can certainly see a pattern here though: the more recent albums (this one excluded) have impressed me far less, in general, than his earlier ones.