Nick Cave's Grinderman

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It's not out yet. You are safe until April 10!

What a long leak!

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 3 March 2007 06:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, that makes me feel better. But you know what? They're all long leaks nowadays. It's despicable. I go into a shop looking for something I've already heard and know I want to buy and it's...not even there. Ridiculous.

― Bimble, Saturday, 3 March 2007 06:45 (seventeen years ago) link

This album is weak. "Grinderman"'s the best thing on it. Otherwise, it just seems same ol' same ol'.

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Saturday, 3 March 2007 09:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm thinking Tin Machine, I'm thinking garage band with a budget.

― moley, Saturday, 3 March 2007 10:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Tin Machine? That's harsh.

― Soukesian, Saturday, 3 March 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

And, I hope, uncalled for.

― Soukesian, Saturday, 3 March 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Err, this is out, at least in continental Europe. I saw it in a big retail chain.

― baaderonixx, Monday, 5 March 2007 09:06 (seventeen years ago) link

It's out in Australia too.

― SeekAltRoute, Monday, 5 March 2007 09:23 (seventeen years ago) link

The song holds, like, totally unexpected promise until the first minute and 1/2. The guitar/noise thingy in the chorus is nice. The lyric's rubbish. Such gathering of facial hair per such short square metres is truly, utterly hideous. Promises to be even worse than Tin Machine. Looked afterwards for some Birthday Party stuff on YouTube. Much, much better hairstyles all around. Much, much better music too. Thanks for reminding me why I virtually stopped caring after Tender Prey.

― JML, Monday, 5 March 2007 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, thank you (on the way back from the obligatory lunchtime headphone check in ye local Megastore); Tin Machine was exactly the comparison point I was looking for. At least the Stooges make no pretence about what they're doing in 2007 and why they're doing it.

Another £11.99 saved, then *ticks off spreadsheet*...

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 5 March 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

buncha killjoys, you lot. i'm buying this RIGHT NOW. i love it. reductive nick cave is what i want to hear.

(i should maybe point out that i also liked tin machine, but that is neither here nor there.)

on a good day - no, really, stop laughing - i have a vague, passing, slight facial resemblance to nick cave. seeing him now, i really am considering growing that moustache back and to hell with the consquences (ie instant dumping by mrs f).

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, I loved the single and I can't really see how the rest of the album would slide into ageing dad-rock, so maybe some people could say a few more words on how it sounds? Alternatively, of course, I could simply rush to my favorite p2p and shut up.

― baaderonixx, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

okay, bought, listened ... nothing else on there is remotely as good as "no pussy blues". it's good, and it's fun, and it rocks, but it is ultimately kinda dispensable. next time i listen i'm going to do so at two or three times the volume.

but TBH what the fuck should one expect from a side project? entertaining grindy bluesy rock does it just fine for me.

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 5 March 2007 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Grinderman would have been much better if it had been the new Chico side project.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 10:22 (seventeen years ago) link

i can't argue with that.

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

There are a few songs on this that I find really, oddly compelling. Sure the album starts with the promise of vitriol and doesn't deliver, but it depends on what style you're looking for or what you'll tolerate. A real mixed bag, even in lyrical quality. But it still seems to me I'm happier with some things on this album than I have been with his work since Boatman's Call which has proven to be the masterpiece he's likely never to match.

― Bimble, Saturday, 7 April 2007 06:07 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a pretty good album.

― admrl, Saturday, 7 April 2007 06:37 (seventeen years ago) link

three years pass...

Grinderman 2 and live dates on the way. You won't see a better poster than this all year:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs573.snc3/31247_394838113510_308277788510_4225809_927805_n.jpg

― Position Position, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link

Ellis told The Quietus:

"It’s kind of like stoner rock meets Sly Stone via Amon Duul. It’s very diverse, and there’s a lot of stuff on there that doesn’t sound like anything we’ve done before. Nick’s got a different thing going on with the lyrics than he would have from the Bad Seeds, and he’s found a new thing from the first album. Less sex? I wouldn’t say that. It’s psychedelic, and I think it’s great. We’re really excited about it."

― BLOODY BOLLOCKS HELL! (aldo), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link

Really, really excited.

The first album was awesome.

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link

I totally gave up on Nick Cave at this point and didn't find the previous G-Man partic interesting but ... "Sly Stone via Amon Duul"? Hmmmm....

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 08:14 (thirteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

holy shit at this little wolf video album trailer thing

http://www.grinderman.com/

― del griffith, Monday, 21 June 2010 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link

that just will not load.

― Simon H., Monday, 21 June 2010 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link

yah didn't work for me either

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 21 June 2010 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link

Same.

― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Monday, 21 June 2010 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link

yall need to upgrade your computer softwares and log on to the digital age already

― del griffith, Monday, 21 June 2010 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link

not to be all street teamy or anything but

this is the first single (and its art)

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs067.ash2/36707_404974883510_308277788510_4495033_4113965_n.jpg

― del griffith, Monday, 28 June 2010 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

New teaser trailer, directed by John Hillcoat of The Road fame.

http://www.factoryfilms.net/galleries/Grinderman_Trailer.mov

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 17 July 2010 00:50 (thirteen years ago) link

Bringing back "wolf" like its 2005 again.

― Evan, Saturday, 17 July 2010 01:38 (thirteen years ago) link

Extended version of the 12" features Robert Fripp on guitar. An unlikely collaboration but can't wait to hear it.

― margana (anagram), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link

videoclip (warning: mammaries)

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid84902428001?bclid=9783754001&bctid=479890348001

― StanM, Monday, 9 August 2010 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link

If Nick wasn't in that I would've sworn it was some fan-made vid.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 9 August 2010 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link

i hope the new record will be better than this lame song, but it will probably won't/

― Zeno, Monday, 9 August 2010 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link

i agree the song is very disappointing

― del griffith, Monday, 9 August 2010 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link

Lousy song and lame video.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 9 August 2010 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link

John Hillcoat should stick with movies.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 9 August 2010 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link

Wow that video haha

― Tolaca Luke (admrl), Monday, 9 August 2010 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link

I can't tell if its meant to be a joke or not...

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 9 August 2010 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link

are you serious?

― strongohulkingtonsghost, Monday, 9 August 2010 18:29 (thirteen years ago) link

f.f.s. he's grooving in space wearing a goddamn centurion's outfit.

― strongohulkingtonsghost, Monday, 9 August 2010 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link

Haha okay I can tell it's meant to be a joke, but I'm not sure why anyone would think it's funny.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 9 August 2010 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link

Alpha male hilarity & B movies w/ a healthy dash of racial profiling thrown in... I fucking love it. The gurning madman standing behind me at the last Bad Seeds show I attended probably doesn't. Get old and laugh at yourself, full stop.

― Mr. Shirts, Monday, 9 August 2010 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link

lol @ the guy from the Hot Chip video also being this video and doing shit with his eyes AGAIN.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 9 August 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link

I dig it. Does a good job of extending the goofy evil of the "Nick the Stripper" video thirty years on, without trying to live up to it. Same for the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5I2vEcVC_I

― bendy, Friday, 13 August 2010 01:56 (thirteen years ago) link

Lousy song and lame video.

― kshighway61 revisited (electricsound), Friday, 13 August 2010 02:01 (thirteen years ago) link

I thought it was a fun, taking the piss kinda video. And I don't mind the song either. (Possibly too fangirl abt Nick to give any real balanced opinion though, lol)

― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 13 August 2010 02:46 (thirteen years ago) link

first time I heard the song, I stopped listening about halfway through because it seemed kind of boring and repetitive. but when I listened again and listened to the whole thing, I liked it a lot more, the repetition pays off by the end of the song. Like the video too, pumped for this album.

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 13 August 2010 13:10 (thirteen years ago) link