It gets a very good from me.

Had it been a little darker & a bit more menacing I would have given it full marks. I can understand why some people are showing hostility towards it , especially from people who love his first few albums , but as i'm more a fan of his 90s material like Henry's Dream & Let Love In so I don't mind it so much

yeah i'm more of a birthday party fan so i don't think he's gone quite far enough either

So I'm a slow moving dinosaur in a world of ****ed out dragonflies, but I somehow slept through all the obvious signs that I should listen to this band. I heard Metallica cover "lover man" and I loved it. I heard Lime-tree Aubur on Last FM and I loved it.

Tonight I finally got around to digging some of this stuff up to see what Nick Cave and the Bad seeds were all about...Holy ****.

Can you guys please leave me your top ten favorites. I need to sit with a dose of his music for a week. its like Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen asked Frank Zappa to be the Surrogate mother.

I heard a snippet of:
Dig Lazarus, Dig
Papa won't leave ya, Henry and I had a Dream, Joe
Muddy Water from Kicking the Pricks

All of it just screamed to me that I'd been missing something too good for words. I'm late, but I'm here. What should I make an effort to hear...please.

One of my best friend's is a complete Nick Cave junkie so I can send you anything you want. This is how I rank his albums in order of preference I can describe them if you want.

1. The Boatman's Call
2. Let Love In
3. Murder Ballads
4. No More Shall We Part
5. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
6. Tender Prey
7. The Good Son

Those are the only ones I'm familiar with. The first three are flawless though. The Birthday Party and Grinderman are worth checking out also. Here's some of my favorite songs by him that aren't on your list.

Stagger Lee
The Curse of Millhaven
Into My Arms
Henry Lee
Deanna
Lovely Creature
Loverman
Red Right Hand
Song Of Joy
Do You Love Me?
I Let Love In

i prefer the birthday party to the bad seeds, but both rule. grinderman is pretty cool too.

i finally heard dig lazarus dig last week, it was pretty good.

I have been a Nick Cave fan since the very early 90's. While I rate albums like "Kicking against the pricks" "The Good Son" "Tender Prey" total classics, I recently pick up a copy of "Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus" and I have to say it is totally brilliant. I would go as far to say that it is his best album ever.

Would you care to rank your top 5 for me? I'm hearing a lot of "go get Boatman's Call"

no?

Mine would rank...

1. Henry's Dream
2. Let Love In
3. Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
4, Murder Ballads
5. Dig Lazarus Dig
6. From Her To Eternity
7. Kicking Against The Pricks

I can't actually remember the last time I heard The Boatmans Call. That and No More Shall We Part & Nocturama are probably the Cave album I listen to the least.

And if anyone wants me to I can always upload the More Pricks Than Kicks bootleg , which is basically a collection of covers, a bit like a fan made sequel to Kicking Against The Pricks.

I'm the bad motherfucker called Stagger Lee.

Nick Cave is probably the manliest man ever and the greatest lyricist of the past 100 years.

He's certainly the best musical narrator I've heard.