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	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Nocturama (Mute)
		Recorded in early 2002 at SingSing studios in Melbourne by The Bad Seeds line up of Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld, Thomas Wydler, Martyn Casey, Conway Savage, Jim Sclavunos and Warren Ellis, the new album was produced by Nick Launay and Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds and mixed at Olympic Studios in London.
		His input to the "Nocturama' sessions brought out the power and energy in the band, exploiting the combustible potential of the musicians.
		There is a tender sunset song of hope; an elegant piano song of longing; a yawing, dark violin waltz; a swaggering pledge of love; a raucous abominable tale; a sorrowful evocation of loss; a nostalgic meditation; a fragrant love epiphany; and one final, lustful demonic epic.
	www.mutelibtech.com /nickcave/nocturama.html (460 words)

	Punknews.org \| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Nocturama
		"Nocturama" seems to be quite the departure from his past work [according to one of my roommates who is a huge Nick Cave fan, who declared to me "this is crap!" after I let him borrow the disc].
		Nocturama is far from Nick's best - that would be The Boatman's Call or Henry's Dream - but it's still absolutely essential listening.
		Funny how if a group of 20-somethings sing about their ex-girlfriend we mock them, but here is a grown man approaching old age bellowing out his pain and we applaud him for his artistic merit.
	www.punknews.org /reviews.php?op=albumreview&id=1677 (2059 words)

	Moving Hands Music Magazine - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nocturama
		Well, I can say right away that "Nocturama" is not as good as that one, but then you must have in mind that this is a different kind of album.
		The whole feeling of "Nocturama" is very warm and it almost feels as if the band is in my living room when I listen to it.
		"Nocturama" is a perfect example that it's not always necessary, but maybe it also has to do with how good a musician you are...
	www.movinghands.net /reviews/detail.asp?id=495 (523 words)

	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Nocturama: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		So when Nocturama was reported as an attempt to "do it like they used to do it," referencing the prodigious output of his elder folk influences as well as the sturm-und-drang of his own early work, I furrowed my brow with concern.
		Cave and his Seeds unearthed the distinctive roots of Blues tradition, holding them aloft with bloody hands and the panache of a hellacious sideshow emcee, they continue to consciously avoid the schtick that made them indie darlings.
		It fits squarely in his personal hall of fame, and in particular makes a moldy joke of the remainder of Nocturama; they didn't all need to be this good, but a few more stormy rattlings of this caliber are sorely missed.
	pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/c/cave_nick/nocturama.shtml (794 words)

	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Nocturama - PopMatters Music Review
		The fruits of that March 2002 intensive comprise Nocturama, the first in what's promised as a series of more spontaneous/less refined Bad Seeds projects to be released over the next couple of years.
		Considering the stellar talent among the Bad Seeds ranks, this isn't all bad (as is immediately apparent from the loosely ethereal instrumental sections of the leadoff track "Wonderful Life"), but it ultimately sounds as if Cave is altogether abandoning refinement for spontaneity's sake rather than simply loosening the reigns a bit.
		The biggest culprit in dragging Nocturama through the mud, however, is the first single "Bring It On", arguably Cave's biggest shot at mainstream radio airplay since "Straight To You".
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/c/cavenick-nocturama.shtml (782 words)

	NOCTURAMA - CAVE, NICK & THE BAD SEEDS - NOCTURAMA - MUTE - -
		"Nocturama" - his (strewth!) 12th studio album with dark and dapper henchmen The Bad Seeds - is testament once again to the unstinting power of the great man's muse.
		That said, the one aspect of Cave's work that was causing the odd worry line for this reviewer was his apparent desire to continually refine his songs and their presentation.
		"Nocturama" also harbours a further clutch of classics in the heady intrigue of "There Is A Town," the almost perky (steady on!) "Rock Of Gibraltar" and the sumptuous "She Passed By My Window", emboldened by Ellis' heavenly violin emblems.
	www.whisperinandhollerin.com /reviews/review.asp?id=522 (586 words)

	Mute.com: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Nocturama
		"Nocturama" combines the gracefulness and nakedness of "No More Shall We Part" and "The Boatman's Call" with the sinuous energy of earlier works.
		The band's sheer pleasure in playing together built on the intention to loosen up the process and "Nocturama" emerged with rawness in both the driven and the gentle songs.
		"Nocturama" spans emotional surrender to venomous fl humour and engages in a wide range of themes.
	www.mute.com /releases/viewRelease.jsp?id=429 (442 words)

	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Nocturama [2003] Shaking Through.net: Music: Review
		Nocturama certainly includes its share of spare ballads and somber meditations on marriage and faith, but it also sports a raw, less-refined quality, evoking the spirit of earlier albums like From Her to Eternity and The Firstborn Is Dead.
		While the slow numbers still outnumber the hard-charging, full-blooded cuts, Nocturama proves the fire still rages within Cave's belly, a fact that saves it from becoming a mere retread of ideas more fully explored in his recent work.
		Nocturama falls short of the masterful Boatman's Call, and lacks the unifying lyrical and musical themes found on No More Shall We Part.
	www.shakingthrough.net /music/reviews/2003/nick_cave_bad_seeds_nocturama_2003.html (448 words)

	Review \| Nocturama by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
		One would be rather hard-pressed to accuse Cave of softening in his middle age after experiencing Nocturama's occasional cacophonies.
		Though the album's first five tracks are vintage Cave with a surprising burst of energy in "Bring it On," and the beautifully hyper "Dead Man in My Bed," the tracks that follow ring hollow and boring by comparison.
		Nonetheless, Nocturama demonstrates that, even in his less inspired moments, Nick Cave's commitment to authenticity and poetry remains a beacon shimmering in the darkness of pop music's bleak landscape.
	www.bluecoupe.com /rock/nickcave.html (633 words)

	Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds: Nocturama (2003): Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nocturama is as slight and as pretty as a walk through the snow on a sunny Winter day.
		Nocturama isn't an awful record, just a problematic one, mostly due to the fact that the spontaneous studio atmosphere under which he's trying to operate doesn't allow for the careful crafting that bore his prior masterpieces.
		Nocturama isn't the weakest album in Nick Cave's canon, but it's far from being a particularly good one either.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/cavenick/nocturama (636 words)

	Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Nocturama - Stylus Magazine
		The illustrious three Cave seems to be running with these days is himself, Steve Earle and Bruce Springsteen, a trio of greats wasting their energy and genius on material that is completely beneath them.Earle and Springsteen can blame 9/11 for their recent duds.
		Nocturama’s ten songs are mostly ballads, a song form Cave has a proven mastery of, and yet all but one of those ballads is wholly ineffective.
		The Squid and the Whale - Noah Ba...
	www.stylusmagazine.com /review.php?ID=240 (793 words)

	Nocturama - Compare prices and read reviews on Nocturama music CD CDs album buy - price
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		Nocturama is Nick Cave's 12th album with the Bad Seeds and he has lost none of his poetic imagination, rousing romanticism and spine-tingling verve.
		Having recorded Nocturama at break-neck speed, and with the Blockheads working on three tracks, Cave has created a feisty record that mixes edgy spontaneity (the 15-minute, 43-verse "Babe I'm On Fire") with heart wrenchingly tender ballads such as "Still in Love".
	www.nitro-shopping.co.uk /Music/NO4/Nocturama.html (287 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts features \| Feelings are a Bourgeois luxury...
		Songs such as Lime Tree Arbour and Into My Arms were fabulously melancholic and pared-down, though Cave has since been dismissive of the album - he was, he says, "making a big heroic melodrama out of a bog-standard rejection by a woman".
		The most mesmerising songs on the Bad Seeds' new album, Nocturama - the graceful Wonderful Life and the nostalgic There Is A Town - are tender affairs, full of sadness.
		Nocturama has its dark moments, too, however - Dead Man In My Bed, for example, has a venomous humour, while the macabre Babe, I'm On Fire is a song about "all humanity in a combustible state", says Cave.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,885692,00.html (2906 words)

	Splendid Magazine reviews Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Nocturama
		Contrary to popular belief, listeners smart enough to know the difference between confident songwriting and lyrics fool-heartedly plucked from a personal journal realize the significant position Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds pioneered and now resolutely occupy as one of the most musically literate and talented outfits in existence today.
		There's a groove and a grace to the songwriter's latest set of compositions that will surely leave listeners stunned at his deft balance of the wretched and the redeeming.
		Ellis and his violin have never been more present as a member of the Bad Seeds than on Nocturama, and the album is better for it.
	www.splendidezine.com /review.html?reviewid=325522638558584 (471 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Nocturama - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Nocturama" doesn't contain the frenetic energy of the early Bad Seeds work, nor does it need to.
		Yes, it gets wearing there for a minute or two (just as it hits about 10min) but then it just dawns on you that it's still as good and fresh as it was at the start, no matter how long it is.
		Some people say that "Nocturama" was just a vehicle to launch "Babe, I'm On Fire".
	www.epinions.com /content_159286857348 (596 words)

	BBC - Rock & Alt Review - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nocturama
		Cave is the king of passionate, darkly beautiful pop songs and Nocturama's ten mesmerizing tracks maintain his position on the throne.
		Nocturama, Nick Cave's twelfth studio album with the Bad Seeds, is a far cry from 2001's No More Shall We Part, but is just as impressive.
		That said, Nocturama has some outstanding music and lyrics, especially Wonderful Life, There Is a Town, and Babe, I'm on Fire.
	www.bbc.co.uk /music/rockandalt/reviews/nickcave_nocturama.shtml (1453 words)

	Guardian \| Nick Cave: Nocturama
		Normal service is eventually resumed with Still in Love, a ballad crooned from the viewpoint of a recently murdered husband.
		But, largely, Nocturama presents a sunnier Cave than anyone would have once thought possible.
		While Nocturama works in its low-key way, Cave is capable of more, as is shown by I'm on Fire - a tantalising glimpse of what he and his band can do when they are operating at full throttle.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4589568-110430,00.html (823 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Nocturama: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Here, with 'Nocturama', its a Nick that howls from his cave, rocking as if he's only just finished recording the likes of 'Tupelo' and 'The mercy seat'...
		Nocturama hides this beautiful big folky rock piece featuring the wonderful voice of Chris Bailey amid its brooding long feathered wings of the best ballads, the best rock, the best lyrics and the best music to come from the Bad Seeds in around a decade.
		Nocturama is a great work and it deserves four stars.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00007GZFL (1272 words)

	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Nocturama Music Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It seems there's nothing that inspires a great artist more than putting out a new album--particularly if it happens to be coming out on a new label.
		This isn't to suggest that Cave is going to go quietly--see "Dead Man In My Bed" and the exhausting final track "Babe, I'm On Fire." Nick at night still has plenty of rancor in his soul and a heavy chain to rattle.
		And best of all is the fact that Nocturama finds Cave back with his longtime mates the Bad Seeds.
	www.zboneman.com /music/28.html (213 words)

	Amazon.com: Nocturama: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Those qualities are still present on Nocturama, most notably in the brokenhearted violin that winds through "Right Out of Your Hand" and "She Passed by My Window." But Cave's arrangements embrace a range of styles and textures.
		'Nocturama' is a suitably dark record that features a range of styles for Cave.
		Always dark and with Cave's weathered and rich voice, Nocturama is beautifully bluesy and gorgeously unhinged, as evidenced on the disturbing and understatedly menacing 'There Is A Town'.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00007MB8N?v=glance (1699 words)

	Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Nocturama - Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Not only that, but there were a couple tracks on the disc that brought back the dangerous side of Cave, and that was a welcome sign.
		The album opens with a nice track in the warm layers of "Wonderful Life." It again moves in a rather contemplative way, but like the better songs on his last release, he seems completely as ease with things, and the results show.
		If you're a fan of his work, you'll no doubt want this one too, but if you're thinking about starting somewhere, take my word and go with Let Love In, then fan out from there if he grabs you.
	www.almostcool.org /mr/c/c54mu.html (641 words)

	nickcaveandthebadseeds.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		With Nocturama we’d cleaned out [our] system a bit and got back to what it was like earlier in the Bad Seeds’; career.
		However, The Bad Seeds 2004 are a rather different set up from the band who recorded Nocturama with Blixa Bargeld leaving and former Gallon Drunk frontman James Johnston joining.
		Whereas Nocturama was deliberately written fast and furious, Cave spent “a long time” locked away writing the songs that would eventually become Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus.
	www.nickcaveandthebadseeds.com /biog.html (1110 words)

	Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Nocturama - Release Music Magazine review
		Sure there are low key ballads on "Nocturama" as well.
		Cave is older, but so am I, so most of the slower songs sit well with me, especially since they are mixed with more up tempo tunes.
		The closing song on "Nocturama", "Babe, I’m on Fire" is like a welcome back-party for the Bad Seeds that doesn’t seem to want to stop.
	www.releasemagazine.net /Onrecord/ornickcaven.htm (299 words)

	Junkmedia: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds : Nocturama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Once again, I don't mean to detract from what is a very good album by focusing on just this one song.
		There are plenty of other high points on Nocturama -- from the sinuous groove of "Wonderful Life", to the bracing garage rock stomp of "Dead Man In My Bed".
		According to the man himself, Nocturama marks the first of three albums which he hopes to record and release on an annual basis, eliminating the usually long wait in between records.
	www.junkmedia.org /?i=524 (596 words)

	Nocturama - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Music Records Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Nocturama - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds : As Patchy As Kat Slater's Tan
		There may be no commercial, chart topping friendly, short lived blooms here, but the Bad Seeds latest harvest is certainly rich with shade loving songs that should grace anyone's life long garden.
		Nocturama - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds : The Nostalgic Old Dooyooer says It..
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /music-records/nocturama-nick-cave-the-bad-seeds (303 words)

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