The Boatman’s Call

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Into My Arms" is of course a classic and a song I was aware of (and loved) before listening to the whole album. Cave performed "Into My Arms" at the 1997 funeral of INXS vocalist Michael Hutchence, an old friend from Cave's youth, and requested that the TV cameras be shut off for his performance out of respect for Hutchence. A more cinematic focus would dictate the majority of their 90s output, moving through 92’s Henry’s Dream(which featured some of Cave’s most assured and sprawling lyrical compositions) and 94’s Let Love In, both of which bought The Bad Seeds a wealth of new focus from the critical mainstream.

As Cave stated, this was ‘the sort of record I’ve been wanting to make for years […] a record which is slow from beginning to end… Very sparse, very raw and beautiful. People Ain't No Good" is an especial work of genius - without meaning to give too much away, the last verse in particular is both devastating and (almost) funny in its bleakness. surround sound version, b-sides, promo videos and an installment of 'Do You Love Me Like I Love You', a specially commissioned film by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard.

Amid the ashes of a world unable to exorcise its demons, Nick actually finds love; a strange, twisted, doomed love, perhaps--but love nevertheless. Having collaborated previously on the Murder Balladsfolk-cover ‘Henry Lee’, the pair had hit it off on the video shoot for that very song – an erotic, bare-bones scene which found the two-singers wrapped around one-another, locked deep in lustful stares and lyrical whispers.

El álbum sigue con un nivel insuperable, "Lime Tree Arbour", "People Ain`t No Good", "(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For? Para abrir boca los acordes de piano de "Into My Arms" y sus versos: "No creo en un Dios intervencionista, pero sé cariño, que tú sí, pero si creyera me arrodillaría ante él y le pediría que no interviniera en lo que a ti respecta, que no tocara un pelo de tu cabeza, que te dejara tal y como eres, y si Él sintiera que debe dirigirte entonces que lo hiciera enviándote entre mis brazos". These ruptures in his life would not only influence the lyrical direction of this next album, but would completely remould The Bad Seed’s musical role, stripping them back to a level of restraint and sparseness which, at this point, was new and scary territory.Celebrated as the band’s most starkly moving work, key tracks include the single “Into My Arms” and “People Ain’t No Good”, featured in the soundtrack to Shrek 2. Moving away from full-band arrangements and character-based narratives, the album's music and lyrics move towards the more intimate sound of Cave's solo voice accompanied by piano or a few other instruments.