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Track Listings
| 1. Papa Won't Leave You Henry |
| 2. I Had A Dream Joe |
| 3. Straight To You |
| 4. Brother My Cup Is Empty |
| 5. Christina The Astonishing |
| 6. When I First Came To Town |
| 7. John Finns' Wife |
| 8. Loom Of The Land |
| 9. Jack The Ripper |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
It has been reported that Cave himself hates Henry's Dream. While it is deeply flawed, especially by Cave's formidable standards, he's being unnecessarily hard on himself. Aside from any other considerations, it contains "Papa Won't Leave You, Henry", a rumbling gospel epic that remains a highlight of Bad Seeds live shows, and "Straight To You", an exquisite devotional ballad. It is an odd album, however. Just when its predecessor, The Good Son, seemed to hint that Cave had accepted his natural facility for the heroically overwrought ballad, Henry's Dream was a partial return to the gloomy, old testament portents of "Your Funeral My Trial" and "First Born Is Dead". There was no real problem with this--"Christina The Astonishing" and "Brother My Cup Is Empty" are especially fine--but it leaves Henry's Dream as a whole feeling rather like it is two halves of two separate, half-finished albums. --Andrew Mueller
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HENRY'S DREAM is perhaps the most fully realised of all Cave's albums. On it, he achieves the perfect balance between his lush, poetic sensibilities and his feral, unfettered rock& roll id. Most of the guitar work is acoustic, but there'sno lack of momentum as the band drives harder than ever. Cave's grisly Cohenesque lyric talents are at their peak here.Each song is like a short horror story, or a rock equivalent of Rod Serling's NIGHT GALLERY.
The unrelentingly gruesome imagery of tunes like "Papa Won't Leave You Henry" is hammered home even further by the pounding arrangements. Even when things settle down, as on the folkie ballad "Loom of the Land", there's a barely veiled undercurrent of danger in the air. HENRY'S DREAM is full of some of Cave's finest songcraft, making a case for him as the gloomy bard of '90s alt-rock.
It has been reported that Cave himself hates Henry's Dream. While it is deeply flawed, especially by Cave's formidable standards, he's being unnecessarily hard on himself. Aside from any other considerations, it contains "Papa Won't Leave You, Henry", a rumbling gospel epic that remains a highlight of Bad Seeds live shows, and "Straight To You", an exquisite devotional ballad. It is an odd album, however. Just when its predecessor, The Good Son, seemed to hint that Cave had accepted his natural facility for the heroically overwrought ballad, Henry's Dream was a partial return to the gloomy, old testament portents of "Your Funeral My Trial" and "First Born Is Dead". There was no real problem with this--"Christina The Astonishing" and "Brother My Cup Is Empty" are especially fine--but it leaves Henry's Dream as a whole feeling rather like it is two halves of two separate, half-finished albums. --Andrew Mueller
Description
HENRY'S DREAM is perhaps the most fully realised of all Cave's albums. On it, he achieves the perfect balance between his lush, poetic sensibilities and his feral, unfettered rock& roll id. Most of the guitar work is acoustic, but there'sno lack of momentum as the band drives harder than ever. Cave's grisly Cohenesque lyric talents are at their peak here.Each song is like a short horror story, or a rock equivalent of Rod Serling's NIGHT GALLERY.
The unrelentingly gruesome imagery of tunes like "Papa Won't Leave You Henry" is hammered home even further by the pounding arrangements. Even when things settle down, as on the folkie ballad "Loom of the Land", there's a barely veiled undercurrent of danger in the air. HENRY'S DREAM is full of some of Cave's finest songcraft, making a case for him as the gloomy bard of '90s alt-rock.