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Grinderman is the sound of indie rock legends growing old disgracefully, and that is by no means a criticism. From the opening rant of "Get It On," this is an album with all the menace of an angry drunk, dripping with anger and testosterone (as the surfeit of facial hair in the band's interior photo will attest). It could even be the sound of Nick Cave's midlife crisis, but it doesn't matter, because Grinderman rocks. It's the sound of four musicians having a grand time, turning the volume up to 11 and really cutting loose. For that reason, it's the more upbeat tracks here that are probably the best: "Honey Bee (Let's Fly to Mars)" with its driving electric organ, the primal urgency of "Depth Charge Ethel," and the strutting album closer "Love Bomb." After all the po-faced seriousness he's displayed in recent years, it's good to know that Cave has rediscovered his sense of humour: "I cleaned the sheets on my bed, I combed the hairs across my head, I sucked in my gut and still she said, 'I don't want to,'" he sings on "No Pussy Blues," with his tongue firmly in cheek (amongst other places). Simply put, Grinderman is a hoot. --Ted Kord
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In April '10 Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos (collaborators in the legendary NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS) entered RAK studios, London, for a week with producer Nick Launay and recorded thirteen songs. Calling themselves GRINDERMAN, the resulting album has gone onto receive acclaim the world over as one of Cave's best albums.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
By D. Buckley
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
This import contains no extras for the additional cost, but DO BUY THE ALBUM!
Do you remember when Jesus and Mary Chain released their first album? When NIN released Downward Spiral? When you first heard From Her to Eternity?
This album is better than that.
Being a Nick Cave fan for years, I'm totally in shock and awe over how GREAT this album is. Sometimes musically reminiscent of Velvet Underground and original Stooges, with post industrial noise, and Nick Cave's dramatic poetic vocals, Grinderman creates a sound here that is intensely original and just mercilessly rocks.
Grinderman is the best album I'm going to hear this year.
It's just incredible that after all these years; Nick Cave had this album in him. It just rocks. If you can listen to Love Bomb without getting goose bumps, you're just not human.
If I have one criticism it's that I miss Blixa.
I never thought I'd hear music as cool as this created in 2007.
Play it loud.
Do you remember when Jesus and Mary Chain released their first album? When NIN released Downward Spiral? When you first heard From Her to Eternity?
This album is better than that.
Being a Nick Cave fan for years, I'm totally in shock and awe over how GREAT this album is. Sometimes musically reminiscent of Velvet Underground and original Stooges, with post industrial noise, and Nick Cave's dramatic poetic vocals, Grinderman creates a sound here that is intensely original and just mercilessly rocks.
Grinderman is the best album I'm going to hear this year.
It's just incredible that after all these years; Nick Cave had this album in him. It just rocks. If you can listen to Love Bomb without getting goose bumps, you're just not human.
If I have one criticism it's that I miss Blixa.
I never thought I'd hear music as cool as this created in 2007.
Play it loud.
37 of 41 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
It's fascinating to hear a band address themes of aging and sexual longing in a youth-obsessed culture, in terms of the withering knowledge that sexual desire does not decrease as one reaches mid-life and beyond. The ability to fulfill that desire, at will, is another thing entirely.
The resulting, bewildered frustration is brilliantly captured in the Grinderman sound: it's the noise of longing, of sorrow, of powerlessness, of an animal shrieking for release from a cage with no gate. It's also about finding humor, passion, and self-effacing acceptance of all that life has to offer - of refusing to be crushed under the gravity of encroaching age and jaded experience. That would be too predictable.
To put this all in context --
In a recent interview with Salon.com (April 12, 2007), Nick Cave said that, as one gets older, one becomes more invisible, and therefore, more powerless, to impact the world. On some level, he was observing that the inevitability of social and physical death are demons we must confront as we turn the corner on our 40s and smack into the hard brick wall of 50. On the other side of that wall is liberation, i.e., the freedom to re-invent onself and to remake the rules of the game. To please oneself.
That's the lesson to be learned from Nick Cave and the Grinderman songs.
Give this record a serious listen. Please don't try and compare it to The Birthday Party sound. This music is immediate and unique. It is Nick Cave, as he is, now. It is meant for all of us, still-rocking, still-lusting, still wildly alive, `invisibles' -- as we are, now.
The resulting, bewildered frustration is brilliantly captured in the Grinderman sound: it's the noise of longing, of sorrow, of powerlessness, of an animal shrieking for release from a cage with no gate. It's also about finding humor, passion, and self-effacing acceptance of all that life has to offer - of refusing to be crushed under the gravity of encroaching age and jaded experience. That would be too predictable.
To put this all in context --
In a recent interview with Salon.com (April 12, 2007), Nick Cave said that, as one gets older, one becomes more invisible, and therefore, more powerless, to impact the world. On some level, he was observing that the inevitability of social and physical death are demons we must confront as we turn the corner on our 40s and smack into the hard brick wall of 50. On the other side of that wall is liberation, i.e., the freedom to re-invent onself and to remake the rules of the game. To please oneself.
That's the lesson to be learned from Nick Cave and the Grinderman songs.
Give this record a serious listen. Please don't try and compare it to The Birthday Party sound. This music is immediate and unique. It is Nick Cave, as he is, now. It is meant for all of us, still-rocking, still-lusting, still wildly alive, `invisibles' -- as we are, now.
28 of 35 people found the following review helpful
By B. Pardue
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
This product is listed as "Limited Edition Special Packaging" at a cost of $30.99. It's nothing but an ordinary CD in a plastic jewel case with a "Made In Hong Kong" sticker on the back. It's the import version. There's nothing "special" about the packaging. Save your money and get the domestic version for $14.
The album itself is awesome by the way. Nick Cave continues to make fantastic albums. Even though I feel ripped-off by Amazon's inaccurate advertising I must say this album is totally worth having. This is raw and noisy. It's removed from the introspective albums that Nick Cave has produced with the Bad Seeds recently but is better conceived than any Birthday Party record ever was. It's not The Bad Seeds. It's not The Birthday Party. It's GRINDERMAN!
To be fair, I asked Amazon to refund the price difference between this misleading product and the domestic version, the difference being about $17.. They agreed and I got my refund in no time. Thanks Amazon, great customer service.
The album itself is awesome by the way. Nick Cave continues to make fantastic albums. Even though I feel ripped-off by Amazon's inaccurate advertising I must say this album is totally worth having. This is raw and noisy. It's removed from the introspective albums that Nick Cave has produced with the Bad Seeds recently but is better conceived than any Birthday Party record ever was. It's not The Bad Seeds. It's not The Birthday Party. It's GRINDERMAN!
To be fair, I asked Amazon to refund the price difference between this misleading product and the domestic version, the difference being about $17.. They agreed and I got my refund in no time. Thanks Amazon, great customer service.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
Worth the purchase for three classic songs
I have been torn over whether to rate this album with 3 or 4 stars. I have ultimately given it 4 stars because although there are a good number of forgettable tracks, there are... Read more
Published on November 6, 2010 by Nigel Waspfinger
5.0 out of 5 stars
A song for practically everyone
What a fun cd! I am not a hardcore fan; in fact, I only checked out this cd after reading an article about Nick Cave doing a remake of "The Crow". Read more
Published on August 29, 2010 by J. Randol
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wild, funny and dark Cave got back on the track with this one!
I think it was a kind of a let down from Caves' late work like Nocturama and Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus for many of his fans. Read more
Published on August 3, 2010 by Stefan Habulinec
5.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!
Excellent transaction!!! The album is worth the price!!!! And the music is superb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The album came in great conditions and very well on time...
Published on March 10, 2010 by Luz G. Banda
4.0 out of 5 stars
Grinderman
Grinderman is the self-titled debut album of the band Grinderman which is a project of some of the members of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Read more
Published on September 17, 2009 by Bjorn Viberg
4.0 out of 5 stars
Grinderman
Only for the devoted fans of Nick Cave and co. Very
angry and hardcore, intentionally so.
angry and hardcore, intentionally so.
Published on May 4, 2009 by Michael C. Reiss
4.0 out of 5 stars
Savage.
Grinderman's self-titled debut album has the rare ability to make spirited gutter punks - both real and fake - feel okay about their socially shunned lifestyles of perceived... Read more
Published on March 10, 2009 by Gregory William Locke
4.0 out of 5 stars
Badder Seeds
Grinderman is a garage scum band headed by Nick Cave and includes some of the Bad Seeds. It doesn't sound too different from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds except that it is not as... Read more
Published on December 25, 2008 by Surferofromantica
5.0 out of 5 stars
The garage band from Heaven? Try a little further south...
Oh, Nick Cave. Can ye do no wrong? Apparently not. This album, for lack of a better word, rocks. It rocks soft, it rocks hard, it rocks sideways and upways and slantways and... Read more
Published on April 5, 2008 by DanD
5.0 out of 5 stars
This album rocks
After listening to this cd several times, I like it more than the first listen which created quite an impact. It is not a subtle Nick Cave album. Read more
Published on February 9, 2008 by Troy M. Ros
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