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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 |
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| 1. Mickey Mouse And The Goodbye Man |
| 2. Worm Tamer |
| 3. Heathen Child |
| 4. When My Baby Comes |
| 5. What I Know |
| 6. Evil |
| 7. Kitchenette |
| 8. Palaces Of Montezuma |
| 9. Bellringer Blues |
| Disc: 2 |
| 1. Mickey Mouse And The Goodbye Man |
| 2. Worm Tamer |
| 3. Heathen Child |
| 4. When My Baby Comes |
| 5. What I Know |
| 6. Evil |
| 7. Kitchenette |
| 8. Palaces Of Montezuma |
| 9. Bellringer Blues |
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Just as you thought you’d worked out Nick Cave’s twisted version of songwriterly sophistication, along came 2007 and Grinderman. A strange kind of side-project starring Bad Seeds stalwarts Martyn Casey, Warren Ellis and Jim Sclavunos, Grinderman dumped the usual modus operandi by insisting "No God, no love, no piano", based themselves around Cave’s rudimentary guitar skills and deep love of the nasty side of the blues, and made a self-titled debut that made you laugh out loud at its rumbling aggression and hilarious takes on mid-life crisis and being an unapologetic dirty old man.
Received more rapturously than any Cave/Bad Seeds album since Murder Ballads – and buoyed by sweatily vicious shows that personified the band in terms of lounge suits and wild facial hair – Grinderman the album forced Grinderman the band to become Cave’s parallel career. Hence a much-anticipated follow-up that responds to demand by sounding altogether more worked upon than the quartet’s feral debut.
Not that Grinderman 2 is aimed at the Mumford & Sons market. But veteran producer Nick Launay has helped Cave & Co toward a bigger, fuller sound, influenced as much by 60s garage punk and droning Krautrock as the blues. Ellis unleashes a slew of stunning guitar moves, sometimes erecting a wall of psychedelic sound, sometimes bucking and rearing out of the murk like some wounded animal at the end of its cattle-prod tether.
But thrash is largely eschewed for suspenseful dynamics, dumb jokes (Worm Tamer features the timeless couplet, "My baby calls me the Loch Ness monster / Two great big humps and then I’m gone") and stand-out exercises in mood and texture, especially the Suicide-esque, creep-minimalism of What I Know and the stunning rock mambo of When My Baby Comes.
Elsewhere, stalking, rape and murder is just a swamp-blues kiss away. Those wanting the lovelorn, classicist Cave of The Boatman’s Call and The Good Son need not apply. The rest of us will succumb happily to Grinderman’s sick skill and wonder why rebel teens don’t make dangerous, dastardly rock‘n’roll like this anymore.
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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
To kick this off let me just say that I approve
of the artwork WHOLEHEARTEDLY! Mrs Wolf's older
brother Reginald has scrubbed up quite well for
the photoshoot don't you think?! Now let's listen.
This is Grinderman's second outing in the listening world and
it has not been welcomed with open arms by those in the music
press who don't quite like the idea of Nick Cave and his pals
letting their hair down (and there is a very great deal of hair
in evidence in this splendid ensemble!) and making a big, bad
noise. I take the view that if there's something as good as this
in there to let out then it would be a crying shame to keep it in!
Grinderman make a wonderfully dirty hullabaloo. It's grubby and
raw and unsanitised and just a little bit menacing in a nice way.
There are nine songs in the collection and you will need
speakers of substantial power and durability to enjoy them
at their best (Which is another way of saying PLAY IT LOUD!)
Opening track 'Mickey Mouse and The Goodbye Man' takes a few bars
to make up its mind where it's going, then, just when we were
lulled into a false sense of security, a perfectly malevolent
riff blunders in and Mr Cave starts spitting out some maniacally
off-the-wall voodoo and howling like a man possessed. When the
band falls into the groove behind him the walls really do begin
to shake with the sheer force of the elemental power which these
four fine and fiery musicians release!
Listening to 'Worm Tamer' is a little bit like being hit around
the head repeatedly with a shovel and still wanting more!
'Heathen Child' is a nightmare blues from hell, full of madness
and mayhem. It sounds as if it might have crawled half-formed
out of a Lousiana swamp with the worst of possible intentions.
There is a tad more tenderness in evidence in 'When My Baby Comes'
but the trundling rhythm and Warren Ellis's keening violin keeps
us on our toes. Nothing here is exactly a comfortable ride.
The arrangement thickens and congeals around some blazing guitar
work and Mr Cave's banshee hollering at the song's dark core.
'What I Know' is a stripped-down piece of itchy-scratchy
existential uncertainty. Edgy and unsettling and strangely fragile.
'Evil' can barely contain its own devilish energy. It thrashes
and writhes like an animal caught in a trap. Nasty but very nice!
In 'Kitchenette', when Mr Cave sings : "I stick my fingers in your
biscuit jar and crush all your gingerbread men" one suspects that
his intentions may not be entirely honourable!
'Palaces Of Montezuma' is about as 'straight' as things get.
It has clear shape and form and some delightfully whacky words.
It sort-of wants to be a pop song but the band just won't let it!
Final track 'Bellringer Blues' is a blissfully barmy jam
supporting Mr Cave's waywardly uplifting nihilistic evangelism.
No one else does it quite like him. The high priest of broken souls.
Hold your breath and trust your ears.
Grinderman are dangerously good to know!
Highly Recommended.
of the artwork WHOLEHEARTEDLY! Mrs Wolf's older
brother Reginald has scrubbed up quite well for
the photoshoot don't you think?! Now let's listen.
This is Grinderman's second outing in the listening world and
it has not been welcomed with open arms by those in the music
press who don't quite like the idea of Nick Cave and his pals
letting their hair down (and there is a very great deal of hair
in evidence in this splendid ensemble!) and making a big, bad
noise. I take the view that if there's something as good as this
in there to let out then it would be a crying shame to keep it in!
Grinderman make a wonderfully dirty hullabaloo. It's grubby and
raw and unsanitised and just a little bit menacing in a nice way.
There are nine songs in the collection and you will need
speakers of substantial power and durability to enjoy them
at their best (Which is another way of saying PLAY IT LOUD!)
Opening track 'Mickey Mouse and The Goodbye Man' takes a few bars
to make up its mind where it's going, then, just when we were
lulled into a false sense of security, a perfectly malevolent
riff blunders in and Mr Cave starts spitting out some maniacally
off-the-wall voodoo and howling like a man possessed. When the
band falls into the groove behind him the walls really do begin
to shake with the sheer force of the elemental power which these
four fine and fiery musicians release!
Listening to 'Worm Tamer' is a little bit like being hit around
the head repeatedly with a shovel and still wanting more!
'Heathen Child' is a nightmare blues from hell, full of madness
and mayhem. It sounds as if it might have crawled half-formed
out of a Lousiana swamp with the worst of possible intentions.
There is a tad more tenderness in evidence in 'When My Baby Comes'
but the trundling rhythm and Warren Ellis's keening violin keeps
us on our toes. Nothing here is exactly a comfortable ride.
The arrangement thickens and congeals around some blazing guitar
work and Mr Cave's banshee hollering at the song's dark core.
'What I Know' is a stripped-down piece of itchy-scratchy
existential uncertainty. Edgy and unsettling and strangely fragile.
'Evil' can barely contain its own devilish energy. It thrashes
and writhes like an animal caught in a trap. Nasty but very nice!
In 'Kitchenette', when Mr Cave sings : "I stick my fingers in your
biscuit jar and crush all your gingerbread men" one suspects that
his intentions may not be entirely honourable!
'Palaces Of Montezuma' is about as 'straight' as things get.
It has clear shape and form and some delightfully whacky words.
It sort-of wants to be a pop song but the band just won't let it!
Final track 'Bellringer Blues' is a blissfully barmy jam
supporting Mr Cave's waywardly uplifting nihilistic evangelism.
No one else does it quite like him. The high priest of broken souls.
Hold your breath and trust your ears.
Grinderman are dangerously good to know!
Highly Recommended.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is a down-and-dirty rock album. It certainly very funny in places, but it doesn't come from an adolescent place, which perhaps explains some of the negative reviews. It doesn't court favour: sonically, at times it's outre and abrasive in way that you just don't get nowadays, while lyrically it's Cave at his most lascivious and baleful. In fact, I would say that its frankness and uncompromising attitude gives it more in common with the original blues artists or funk acts of the 70s than anything currently kicking around. It's great fun and visceral stuff, but don't expect to feel that the band are going to hold your hand and tell you everything is going to be okay or that they understand; on the strength of this record, any physical contact with Grinderman would probably end badly and probably require a course of penicillin.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Knocks around with the swagger a revved up, revived Stooges should have mustered and blasted. Instead they nosedived into a non weird world of tack with their last album. They play the oldies with their hearts on their sleeves but the Ig cannot deliver the new.
This kicks into Troggs/Stooges riffing after a quiet interlude allowing Nick to drip his colloquial non tender sexualised lullabyes of an excess all areas middle youth libido. Why "grow" anywhere if you do not want or need to?
Like Andre Williams many shaded output this lays down a marker for a continuation of not being bothered by neighbours or "settling" down into mowing lawns, developing bog standard views and getting red in the face about young people's antics. Life unfolds in fragments why waste energy?
Song lyrics primarily mustering the chemicalia for ushering the untamed feminine to transform herself from domestic slave to pagan ubermensch. The woman who leaves the dishes in the sink, consuming her existence rather than things, blasting into another cosmos other than Laura Ashley's flowers, a head buried agape in Heat photoshop or bouncing along to Horse and Hounds. The third song in particular opines for call and response of sombre psycho delica ushering in this form of feminima, conjurng the Heathen Child, a new form of being, beyond good and bile.
"Is there anyone out there wasted their lives? On booze drugs husbands wives and making money?"
Nothing ironic about this. Marketed by Mute as four men strutting their stuff, this cocks an extended leg against the tree of life offering a political yellow stream into the darkened wood. Cave delivers an existential right hook to self medication to fend off reality. A bugle call for stripping and skinky dipping in the worlds of Bacchus, savouring moments of excess, instead of obliterating the current senses.
"What I know" wheels out adolescent and adult dreams of heroics, putting life on hold for the big event, believing something noble will unfold, whilst sexual release, the combination of molten bodies in ecstasy are the only reality that pants a picture.
The themes reflect the long gaze backwards from middle to the dreams of youth, detailing inhabition of other worlds. Palace of Montezuma is a Bad Seeds song; the lyrics replete with delicious offerings the softer musical tones fail to segue.
Bellringer Blues returns to pagan jumps of untamed joy sliced with Stooges psyche guitar drift, less punk, more Coltrane abstract, they deliver salvation in this world not the next.
Don't believe the hype, this is not four men with beards letting their hair down, making musicale trite. It's four middle youth men, with artistic space to explore and communicate "Is that all there is?"
Live, two nights over the Elephant and Hammersmith this album roared into life driven by the sweat and passion of Cave and Ellis whilst the bass and drums kept it all in a semblance of order, the two maniacs delivered a blast into magma.
Instead of beating their collective heads against the wall of cynicism, they signpost one escape route from the land of tedia. It looks as if not many people are willing to follow...shame
This kicks into Troggs/Stooges riffing after a quiet interlude allowing Nick to drip his colloquial non tender sexualised lullabyes of an excess all areas middle youth libido. Why "grow" anywhere if you do not want or need to?
Like Andre Williams many shaded output this lays down a marker for a continuation of not being bothered by neighbours or "settling" down into mowing lawns, developing bog standard views and getting red in the face about young people's antics. Life unfolds in fragments why waste energy?
Song lyrics primarily mustering the chemicalia for ushering the untamed feminine to transform herself from domestic slave to pagan ubermensch. The woman who leaves the dishes in the sink, consuming her existence rather than things, blasting into another cosmos other than Laura Ashley's flowers, a head buried agape in Heat photoshop or bouncing along to Horse and Hounds. The third song in particular opines for call and response of sombre psycho delica ushering in this form of feminima, conjurng the Heathen Child, a new form of being, beyond good and bile.
"Is there anyone out there wasted their lives? On booze drugs husbands wives and making money?"
Nothing ironic about this. Marketed by Mute as four men strutting their stuff, this cocks an extended leg against the tree of life offering a political yellow stream into the darkened wood. Cave delivers an existential right hook to self medication to fend off reality. A bugle call for stripping and skinky dipping in the worlds of Bacchus, savouring moments of excess, instead of obliterating the current senses.
"What I know" wheels out adolescent and adult dreams of heroics, putting life on hold for the big event, believing something noble will unfold, whilst sexual release, the combination of molten bodies in ecstasy are the only reality that pants a picture.
The themes reflect the long gaze backwards from middle to the dreams of youth, detailing inhabition of other worlds. Palace of Montezuma is a Bad Seeds song; the lyrics replete with delicious offerings the softer musical tones fail to segue.
Bellringer Blues returns to pagan jumps of untamed joy sliced with Stooges psyche guitar drift, less punk, more Coltrane abstract, they deliver salvation in this world not the next.
Don't believe the hype, this is not four men with beards letting their hair down, making musicale trite. It's four middle youth men, with artistic space to explore and communicate "Is that all there is?"
Live, two nights over the Elephant and Hammersmith this album roared into life driven by the sweat and passion of Cave and Ellis whilst the bass and drums kept it all in a semblance of order, the two maniacs delivered a blast into magma.
Instead of beating their collective heads against the wall of cynicism, they signpost one escape route from the land of tedia. It looks as if not many people are willing to follow...shame
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Vinyl is the future!
The vinyl version of this album is a thing of beauty - two heavyweight discs a brilliantly illustrated book, a CD copy of the album and a poster of the band in their ridiculous... Read more
Published 12 months ago by J. Hellon
The best thing Nick Cave has done
I've never been a Bad Seeds fan and I thought Grinderman's first offering was limp at best so I was very surprised at just how much I enjoyed this album. Read more
Published 13 months ago by kyoodle
Enjoyable... but:
Nick Cave seems to do no wrong when it comes to Bad Seeds releases... At least since that garbage one with the squeaky noises anyway. Grinderman I'm not so sure about. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Elliot Tomlinson
Here comes the Wolfman!
Oh yes, The Cave-man is back!
What an excellent album. This is a group of experienced, top notch musicians clearly having fun creating a great album
I could wax lyrical... Read more
What an excellent album. This is a group of experienced, top notch musicians clearly having fun creating a great album
I could wax lyrical... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Leopald Stotch
Brenreader
The CD arrived in good time, perfectly packed. No complaints at all. Problem was Nick Cave is not performing well on the Grinderman cds. Have decided I prefer his earlier stuff. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Mrs. B. C. Stephens
Not quite sure where they're headed
The fisrt album was an instant classic with some of the most anarchic riffs ever conceived. Witty, rough, full on rock. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Mr. Peter E. Owen
Grinderman 2 para colecionadores!
Queridos amigos que falam português, comprar essa versão do álbum Grinderman 2 em Vinil vai realmente deixar você, que é colecionador, pulando de felicidade! Read more
Published 19 months ago by thiagokerzer
Mr Cave
Thought the darling of Brightons middle classes had gone off the boil with his Dig... effort with the ailing Bad Seeds. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Tim Harper
An excellent second outing
Most 'professional' reviews of this album have been rather critical, I beg to differ, if you enjoyed the first Grinderman album you'll surely love this one too. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Will
Everything the first album was... but grown up
After falling out with the Bad Seeds, I fell across Grinderman. I enjoyed the first album but, naturally, a successful follow up would be crucial. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Mr. Theo Neumann
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