Nocturama

"Where No More Shall We Part reasserted the Bad Seeds' rock-noir majesty in gradual, controlled gestures, Nocturama is more like a loosely screwed light bulb that flickers on and off in spurts. Eight of its 10 songs capture Cave in piano-man crooner mode, at times to overly sentimental effect-- see: "Rock of Gibraltar", a song destined to go down as Cave's "Mull of Kintyre". But Nocturama marked the start of a fruitful reunion between Cave and his Birthday Party producer Nick Launay, and is ultimately remembered for its two outliers: the Grinderman dry-run "Dead Man in My Bed" and the incomparable "Babe, I'm on Fire", a breathless 15-minute, 38-verse tour de farce that provides a peak-power showcase of both the Bad Seeds' sleazeball swagger and Cave's peerless wordsmithery".

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"Sange som åbneren Wonderful Life, Rock of Gibraltar og ikke mindst højdepunktet He Wants You er således ekkoer af de to forgængeres store kærlighedssange, mens udladninger som Bring it On og Babe, I'm on Fire indvarsler den halstarrige helvedesblues, som siden fandt sit formaliserede outlet i Grinderman-projektet. Når man lytter til sange som de nævnte - eller de næsten endnu bedre outtakes, som også er inkluderet - klinger "svageste album" dog underligt hult, for selvom albummet ikke er noget hovedværk er det altså stadig høj, høj klasse".

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