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Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! | 
 enlarge | Artist: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Label: Anti
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
Buy New: $9.24
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Avg. Customer Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 796
Format: Special Edition, Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 5.2 x 0.5
MPN: 86943
UPC: 045778694327
EAN: 0045778694327
ASIN: B0014DBZT2
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! | | • | Today's Lesson | | • | Moonland | | • | Night Of The Lotus Eaters | | • | Albert Goes West | | • | We Call Upon The Author | | • | Hold On To Yourself | | • | Lie Down Here (& Be My Girl) | | • | Jesus Of The Moon | | • | Midnight Man | | • | More News Fron Nowhere |
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Amazon.co.uk
Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! finds Nick Cave back at the helm of his long-term band The Bad Seeds after some impressive soundtrack work--2005's The Assassination of Jesse James--and a busman's holiday in the raw, rocking Grinderman. As the title suggests, Lazarus finds Cave returning to familiar themes of God and redemption, although some of the raw poise and wild-eyed humour that resurfaced in Grinderman remains: take the opening title track, which retells the Biblical story of the resurrection of Lazarus as transposed onto the sleazy, poverty-stricken backdrop of modern-day New York City. Musically, the likes of "Moonland" and "Night of the Lotus Eaters" have a swampy feel, all skittering drums, simmering bass and smoky organ riffs; elsewhere, there are rockers that tie on dissonant guitars without losing their dissonant touch ("Lie Down Here"). Probably the album highlight comes with "We Call Upon the Author", a sprawling, "Sister Ray"-like chugger that shows off Cave's skill for magnificent, sung-shouted narratives: "Now mixamatoid kids roam the streets, we've shunned them from the greasy grind/The poor little things, they look so sad and old as they mount us from behind". --Louis Pattison
Product Description
Last seen under the gleeful guise of 2007's Grinderman, a no-nonsense rock 'n' roll excuse to head down to the basement and shout, now Nick Cave returns to his full time Bad Seeds co-conspirators for this release. "Grinderman was deliberately spare and the concepts were pretty simple," explains Cave. "With 'Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!' we allowed ourselves to get expansive." It picks up where Grinderman left off, filled with Stoogified electric guitar, driving beats, and Cave's literate, seductive, and firmly tongue-in-cheek lyrics.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 30 more reviews...
 wow just wow...a master artist at the peak of his powers October 6, 2008
just got home from his show at the 930 club....when an artist's new songs are as good as his classics live you know you are onto something...best album of 2008 so far...
I Dig Nick Cave! September 22, 2008
I am embarrassed to say that I have just barely discovered Nick Cave! I had heard of him before but never really listened to him. My husband bought this album and had been playing it in the background and like most of my husbands music I tried to ignore it. But luckily I could not! My favorite song is Moonland. Nick Cave has this sort of sultry sexy voice (which so totally does not go with image) and I love title track. Midnight man is also great. This album is funny, witty, and smart. I can't believe my husband and both like it! marital bliss when it comes to music finally!
to top if off we got to see Nick Cave in SF this past weekend and he was awesome! he played lots of songs off this album and they were just as good live. the band performed amazing live with funky instruments and Nick played the audience so well. Truly a great album and a great band. I can't wait to listen to more of their stuff.
Surprise! September 4, 2008
This is CD is much better than I expected and an absolute surprise to me. I am big Nick Cave fan and loved his ballad CD's (Boatman's Call / No more shall we part / Nocturama) and the Pop inbetween (Abottoir Blues). I was a little afraid that after Grinderman he would try to get back to his roots of The Birthday Party trying to get the punk back. But no. Instead the CD is very much like "The Good son" and contains great ballads, fun songs and pretty much of everything. Very catchy and I can't stop listening. Only four stars because of 1-2 fillers.
Great CD!
Cryptic and catchy!! August 20, 2008
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is the first CD by Nick Cave that I own. Before this, I'd heard (and liked) the odd song of his, usually on some soundtrack or compilation; "There is a light" from the "Batman forever" soundtrack, The songs he did on the "Leonard Cohen: I'm your man" album, "People ain't no good" from "Shrek 2" (which coincidentally I saw last night again on DVD) and the dark but brilliant ballad "Where the wild roses grow" with fellow Antipodean Kylie Minogue.
"Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!" is a rock album steeped in biblical imagery, and reminding me in parts of Bruce Springsteen (vocally) or Robbie Robertson (his dramatic narrative style). The title track is a chugging rocking narrative about Lazarus set in modern day New York.
The midtempo groovy "Moonland" is a killer song. Other standouts are the eerie effect laden "Hold on to yourself" (with nice twanging guitars), the bouncy and extremely catchy "Lie down here (and be my girl)", the brooding ballad "Jesus of the moon" (brilliant!), the lilting and shimmery "Midnight man", and closing , the midtempo verbose "More news from nowhere" (which wouldn't sound out of place on a CD by the Boss).
It did take me a few listens to really get into it, but it's turned out to be one of my favourite albums so far this year...
 Resurrection Joe August 11, 2008
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
To say Nick Cave isn't the force he once was, is like saying Vlad the Impaler had minor anger management issues. Glories LONG gone, he's resorting to loose balladeering and conventional rock in a vain and desperate attempt to disguise the fact he's got nothing new to say and should've given up on this music thing a long time ago.
A new Nick Cave album is cause for despair, where once it was cause for celebration. Ok, you can't go on re-living past triumphs (ask Morrissey) but the guy must have SOME of that early threat and purpose kicking around somewhere. Where's the gusto and urgency that drove classics like 'Nick the Stripper' or 'Mr Clarinet' ?
He's become a rock dullard, a pale imitation, a caricature of all he once meant.
He's got a hopeless band together. The keyboard player looks like Bob the Murderer off 'Twin Peaks' and the rest of them try ham-fistedly to be eccentric, playing at being rock misfits in a Beefheartian sense, but the sad drone of long departed inspiration means the sound is a resounding mis-fire.
Like a once-proud wild animal that's become old, and needing to be put out of it's misery, Cave is a sorry sight. He tries vainly; 'Jesus of the Moon' is appalling, melody-less and uninspired. 'Midnight Man' is unco-ordinated pseudo HM dreck, in dire need of some serious oomph and pazzaz. Each song is asleep on it's feet, and finally, laboriously, drag 'Dig!! Lazarus Dig!!' sorrowfully along to it's spiritless, uninteresting conclusion.
The spark's gone. It went a long time ago, and what we're left with is lazy MOR for the less discerning 'alternative' masses. Cave always seemed close to breaking point, never far from the loony-bin, and his music reeked of that creative morbid intensity. But he doesn't need his straight-jacket any more. He's a summer season, woolly jumper and fabric softener man now.
I bet he even does requests....
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