Nick Cave [Album Covers]

$[ 1 / 20 ] 1983 Burnin’ the Ice Besides being the groups first full album, Burnin the Ice gets even more due -- increasingly so in retrospect -- thanks to the guest lead singer appearing on four of its seven tracks, Nick Cave. Recorded six months before the Birthday Party collapsed, Caves tracks show him seething with his trademark intensity and power, most frenetically on the stop-start rampage of "Truck Love." Though the vocals are mixed somewhat murkily at many points, the combination is a sharp and understandable one, with Die Hauts music, though less completely fractured and chaotic, working through similar stylistic obsessions and approaches to Caves band. Christoph Drehers low bass isnt Tracy Pews kind of explosion, say, but its a similar core underpinning the songs, while Thomas Wydlers drumming already shows the skill that would lead Cave to recruit him for the Bad Seeds, bringing a crisp, focused swing to songs like "Pleasure Is the Boss." For all the connections, though, Die Haut was still its own particular band and approach, shown perhaps more thoroughly on the three instrumentals. "Tokyo Express" readily calls up the feeling of a chugging train rumbling down the tracks, with the intense, focused riffs of Remo Park and Martin Peter twisting Ennio Morricone into new forms. "The Victory" is focused post-punk that suggests Joy Division (especially Drehers bass work at points), while the brief instrumental "This Flame Will Never Die" which closes the album takes a route towards calmer tension than anything else. The 2004 reissue includes not only a full essay on the bands early days and a slew of great photos (including one of Cave on-stage with hair that outdoes Robert Smiths) but a bonus DVD that covers the quartet, performing without singers, from its first German tour.$ 1983 Burnin’ the Ice R	1989 Ghosts... of the Civil Dead	1995 Mah Sanctun	1996 To Have and to Hold
1999 And the Ass Saw the Angel R	2003 Nick Cave i przyjaciele: W moich ramionach S	2005 The Proposition: Original Soundtrack SR	2007 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: Music From the Motion Picture SR
2009 White Lunar SR	2010 The Road: Original Film Score SR	2012 Lawless S	2014 West of Memphis S
2015 Live at the Royal Albert Hall	2015 Live at Hammersmith Apollo	2015 Loin des Hommes	2016 Hell or High Water S
2016 Mars S	2017 War Machine: A Netflix Original Film	2017 Wind River S	2018 Kings S