Bad Seeds, Nick Cave - Henry's Dream (CD/DVD)
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Artist: Bad Seeds, Nick CaveEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2010-03-30
Music Label: Mute U.S.
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Papa Won't You Leave Henry (2010 Digital Remaster)
- I Had A Dream, Joe (2010 Digital Remaster)
- Straight To You (2010 Digital Remaster)
- Brother, My Cup Is Empty (2010 Digital Remaster)
- Christina The Astonishing (2010 Digital Remaster)
- When I First Came To Town (2010 Digital Remaster)
- John Finn's Wife (2010 Digital Remaster)
- Loom Of The Land (2010 Digital Remaster)
- Jack The Ripper (2010 Digital Remaster)
- Papa Won't You Leave Henry (2010 Digital Remaster)
- I Had A Dream, Joe (2010 Digital Remaster)
- Straight To You (2010 Digital Remaster)
- Brother, My Cup Is Empty (2010 Digital Remaster)
- Christina The Astonishing (2010 Digital Remaster)
- When I First Came To Town (2010 Digital Remaster)
- John Finn's Wife (2010 Digital Remaster)
- Loom Of The Land (2010 Digital Remaster)
- Jack The Ripper (2010 Digital Remaster)
- Blue Bird (2010 Digital Remaster)
- Jack The Ripper (Acoustic Version) (2010 Digital Remaster)
- I Had A Dream, Joe (Live) (2010 Digital Remaster)
- The Good Son (Live) (2010 Digital Remaster)
- The Mercy Seat (Live) (2010 Digital Remaster)
- The Carny (Live) (2010 Digital Remaster)
- The Ship Song (Live) (2010 Digital Remaster)
- Papa Won't You Leave Henry
- I Had A Dream, Joe
- Straight To You
- Brother, My Cup Is Empty
- Christina The Astonishing
- When I First Came To Town
- John Finn's Wife
- Loom Of The Land
- Jack The Ripper
- Blue Bird
- Jack The Ripper (Acoustic Version)
- I Had A Dream, Joe (Live)
- The Good Son (Live)
- The Mercy Seat (Live)
- The Carny (Live)
- The Ship Song (Live)
- Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 7 Henry's Dream)
- I Had A Dream, Joe (2010 Digital Remaster)
- Straight To You (2010 Digital Remaster)
- Jack The Ripper (Acoustic Version) (2010 Digital Remaster)
- Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 7 Henry's Dream)
- I Had A Dream, Joe
- Straight To You
- Jack The Ripper (Acoustic Version)
Music reviews of Henry's Dream (CD/DVD)
Music Review: IN THE HEAT AND IN THE DIN
Rating: 5 Stars
HENRY'S DREAM
Out of all the Bad Seeds albums, Henry's Dream seems to be a bit underrated by fans & critics. Yet among a catalogue as diverse as theirs, Dream has a sound all its own.
While the preceding Good Son was more laid back & somber, Henry kicks off with the furious tumult of Papa Won't Leave You Henry. Delivered with snarling abandon, what ensues is a demented travelogue of mad heat, relentless rain & walls running red with "warm, arterial spray". And yet, it's all strangely off set by a chorus more fitting for a lullaby.
Between the driving likes of I Had a Dream Joe and Brother and My Cup Is Empty is the strikingly commercial sounding Straight to You. But lyrically speaking, this is anything but a typical love ballad. "Gone are the days of rainbows" for "the sparrows have sharpened their beaks"...The way Cave wields the chorus sometimes could be taken as a threat.
That's not to say Henry doesn't have its share of brooding moments. The haunting Loom of the Land is without question an album standout. As for the sparse, atmospheric Christina the Astonishing, the Bad Seeds have never recorded anything like it.
Perhaps most uncharacteristic is When I First Came to Town, featuring some truly world weary backing vocals from piano man Conway Savage. The liner notes state the song is based off of Karen Dalton's "Katie Cruel" but musically there's little resemblance. Starting with melodic acoustic guitar and ending in a yearning sweep of strings, the song's more fitting for the closing credits of some elegiac Western.
Speaking of Westerns, if Sam Peckinpah made one set in South America, John Finn's Wife would fit the bill. By far the album's most epic track, The Bad Seeds set the scene with mounting tension before Cave's narrative explodes, ending with a slow motion montage of the flies buzzing round "poor John Finn". Tongue in cheek and suitably perverse, it's a striking climax to the albums' most cinematic song.
Another thing that sets Henry apart is the fact it's the only Bad Seeds record to have an outside "producer". Under label pressure, they reluctantly went through the motions of a search; eventually alighting on whom they thought was the most "un-producer like": David Briggs. No doubt the man who helmed the control room for many a Neil Young classic seemed like a great idea at the time. Alas, it was not a match made in heaven. In the end, the masters were "borrowed" by Cave & then slipped to longtime Bad Seeds engineer, Tony Cohen to "salvage".
To hear it from the Bad Seeds themselves, Henry's Dream is an exercise in thwarted ambition. According to the liner notes, Cave was going for a "brutal, atonal" sound "bashed out on broken acoustic guitars". The kind of sound he heard from the street singers in his then adopted home in Brazil. If they failed at that, they stumbled on to something else instead: Something dark, furious and cinematic.
Lastly, there's some misrepresentation on Amazon's part in terms of the package. It's only 2 discs, not 3. As with all the previous in this collector's re-master series, Disc I is the re-mastered album & Disc II is an interview documentary w/ bonus tracks (Bluebird being a gem) & videos.
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Description of Henry's Dream (CD/DVD)
This deluxe double-disc collectors edition contains the remastered stereo album, the new surround mix, a specially commissioned short film made by acclaimed UK artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard plus the b-sides from the singles and exclusive sleeve notes.It may surprise fans of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to learn that some works in the band's canon - at least from the point-of-view of their creators - are tainted with misgivings.
Henry's Dream, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' seventh studio album, contains songs critics and fans alike have come to regard as indisputable classics from the band's oeuvre: "Papa Won't Leave You, Henry", "Christina the Astonishing", and "Jack the Ripper", to name just a few.
Yet, for the band, Henry's Dream undeniably epitomises - much more so than any of their other albums - the loss of control that ensues when one has exerted but a slippery grip on some very vertiginous circumstances. Ironically, Henry's Dream became one of the Bad Seeds most loved records.
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