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Track Listings
| 1. Happy Land |
| 2. The Proposition #1 |
| 3. Road To Banyon |
| 4. Down To The Valley |
| 5. Moan Thing |
| 6. The Rider #1 |
| 7. Martha's Dream |
| 8. Gun Thing |
| 9. Queenie's Suite |
| 10. The Rider #2 |
| 11. The Proposition #2 |
| 12. Sad Violin Thing |
| 13. The Rider #3 |
| 14. The Proposition #3 |
| 15. The Rider Song |
| 16. Clean Hands, Dirty Hands |
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A look at the synopsis of Nick Cave's plot for The Proposition - riddled as it is with violence, loss, revenge and brutal Victorian Outback reality - will seem all too familiar to fans of the tall Australian's musical oeuvre.
Yet this collection of taut, haunting half-songs, hymns and laments proves to be quite unlike Cave's usual Bad Seed fare. This is, in part, down to the involvement of the brilliant Warren Ellis.
Hidden among the twisting bleak strings and echoed piano the pair even manage to nail in a couple of fully made pieces - notably the redemption-filled "Rider Song" - before they go riding off in a cloud of understated dust.
The topics may be the same, but this time round, they're discussed with a sigh, not a scream, and are all the more striking for it. --Chris Long
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Valley Man
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I first heard the track 'Martha's Dream' from an advert for Audi I think. A quick google lead me to this album soundtrack from the film 'The Proposition'. I was instantly hit by the atmospheric ambience created by the music, and at this stage hadn't even seen the film. Neither had I ever been a fan of Nick Cave or even heard of Warren Ellis!
Having spent time in the Australian outback myself, I felt the music is well suited to its film location creating the image of dusty winds in the heat of the day, it also does it without any tilting towards the American desert's and their distinctive music sounds, which has happened in the past with Australian Outback Soundtracks. The eerie violin sound is fantastic.
I did eventually get a copy of the film to watch, and the images I had in my mind listening to the music were indeed there in the movie. It is also a good film, but for me the highlght is this soundtrack.
Played loud on a hi end stereo, it sounds amazing. Though the rain of an English Summer outside my window does not quite create the heat of the Australian desert!
If you like atmopsheric music that ia a bit different then give this a try.
Having spent time in the Australian outback myself, I felt the music is well suited to its film location creating the image of dusty winds in the heat of the day, it also does it without any tilting towards the American desert's and their distinctive music sounds, which has happened in the past with Australian Outback Soundtracks. The eerie violin sound is fantastic.
I did eventually get a copy of the film to watch, and the images I had in my mind listening to the music were indeed there in the movie. It is also a good film, but for me the highlght is this soundtrack.
Played loud on a hi end stereo, it sounds amazing. Though the rain of an English Summer outside my window does not quite create the heat of the Australian desert!
If you like atmopsheric music that ia a bit different then give this a try.
12 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Whilst the phrase "pure energy" is terribly cheesy and grossly overused, there are few more accurate phrases that come to mind to describe the music on this soundtrack.
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, already amongst the most respected, credible and influencial musicians on the planethave created a masterpiece here. The soft, clean, even gentle instrumentation and vocals somehow manage to cunjure up raw, sinister, and at times, almost disturbing effects. The string parts of the music go straight to the spine, while the bass trembles in your stomach. Listening to the soundtrack is like walking a tightrope, it is like the worrying feeling that what you have just done may not have been the right thing, it is the feeling when a conversation turns nasty.
But all this is only half the story to me. After taking you down, asking you to question yourself, giving you this revelation, there is a sense of forgiveness. It is difficult for me to describe, the may be a word for it that I am not aware of. Almost a hope for something that you don't know exists. One can imagine it being a similar feeling to that of being released from prison, yet with nothing to do once out. As with the end of the film, in which the poetic, articulate older brother dies with the simple words "what are you going to do now?" the soundtrack concludes with an emotional anticlimax, the feeling of a empty threat in reverse perhaps. This is not to say that the end of the album is an anticlimax. It is as beautiful and dynamic as the rest, it simply finishes with a final question which you are left to answer.
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, already amongst the most respected, credible and influencial musicians on the planethave created a masterpiece here. The soft, clean, even gentle instrumentation and vocals somehow manage to cunjure up raw, sinister, and at times, almost disturbing effects. The string parts of the music go straight to the spine, while the bass trembles in your stomach. Listening to the soundtrack is like walking a tightrope, it is like the worrying feeling that what you have just done may not have been the right thing, it is the feeling when a conversation turns nasty.
But all this is only half the story to me. After taking you down, asking you to question yourself, giving you this revelation, there is a sense of forgiveness. It is difficult for me to describe, the may be a word for it that I am not aware of. Almost a hope for something that you don't know exists. One can imagine it being a similar feeling to that of being released from prison, yet with nothing to do once out. As with the end of the film, in which the poetic, articulate older brother dies with the simple words "what are you going to do now?" the soundtrack concludes with an emotional anticlimax, the feeling of a empty threat in reverse perhaps. This is not to say that the end of the album is an anticlimax. It is as beautiful and dynamic as the rest, it simply finishes with a final question which you are left to answer.
2 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By Sigrid
Format:Audio CD
A good enough listen, and probably very effective as film music (I haven't seen the film yet), but as a stand alone CD it is just not very good.
Too many tracks just drift past without really registering - good mood music but I expect much, much more from Nick Cave (and usually get it!).
Too many tracks just drift past without really registering - good mood music but I expect much, much more from Nick Cave (and usually get it!).
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