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    Gibran Abreu liked and reviewed The Boatman's Call
    
    Outstanding album. Heartbreak suits Mr. Cave quite well.
    
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    Gibran Abreu A propósito de la bellísima luna llena, para que veas a lo que me refiero: goear.com/listen/a3d1e79/drunk-on-the-moon-tom-waits
    
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    abvn Lol, yo amo a Waits, no os preocupéis que estoy clara, es una de mis debilidades, no + que Leonard Cohen, ni Dylan, pero ahí van de la manito :)
    
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    Gibran Abreu Ni na' voy a decir mejor.
    
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    shay liked and reviewed The Boatman's Call
    
    Fav Cave Album.
    
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    shay Damn right I am!
    
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    shay Can listen to this album everyday.
    
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    Piratina favorited and reviewed The Boatman's Call
    
    Probably my most favourite of Cave's albums. The song that really gets me in Into My Arms. If you haven't seen this video, Google it. What I love most about Cave's music is his religious undertones... more
    
    Probably my most favourite of Cave's albums. The song that really gets me in Into My Arms. If you haven't seen this video, Google it. What I love most about Cave's music is his religious undertones to the most saddest (and yet, at the same time, uplifting) music. He is more than a singer. He is a artist. His lyrics are amazing. Sigh.
    
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After a career spent tearing down the world with horror and disgust, Nick Cave finally sounds ready to start rebuilding from scratch. He's begun to find a quiet grace, and perhaps even beauty, past all the darkness that's long consumed him. Amid the ashes of a world unable to exorcise its demons, Cave actually finds love; a strange, twisted, doomed love, perhaps--but love nevertheless. On The Boatman's Call, Cave's latest collection, the singer-songwriter finds room for the personal, the spiritual, and even the hopeful in his grey psyche. With only the sparest accompaniment--often just a piano or organ, light percussion, and violin (care of Dirty Three's Warren Ellis)--Cave employs traditional folk song structure and simplicity to weave tales saddened less through tragedy as through emptiness. Songs like "Into My Arms" and "(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?" are among Cave's most self-assured and soulful to date. Stripped down and grown up--though still ghoulish and grave--Cave the storyteller has turned into something of a vampire Springsteen. Ultimately, The Boatman's Call sounds like Cave's attempt to poison his cake and eat it too. For a record so resolute in its denial of divinity, The Boatman's Call's obsession with religious themes and imagery might seem contradictory if they hadn't come from someone like Cave, who fancies himself a fallen angel searching for a ladder back to heaven. Where Gothic meets cathedral, there resides, for better or worse, our dark saint Nick. --Roni Sarig

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By Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, 1997

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