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Perfection at a Bargain Price
Like an aural nightmare. Guitars imbed themselves into your brain. The vocals imbed themselves into your soul. There is nothing like this Australian band of the personification of anxiety and terror. That it was released in the early 1980s is just amazing, isn't it? Nick Cave and his cohort Mick Harvey of the Bad Seed's training ground. Not to be confused with their current output, though. Absolutely not.

The lyrics to 'Just You and Me' says plenty:

First: I tried to kill it with a hammer
thought that I could lose
the head
sure! We've eaten off the silver
when even the food was against us
and then I tried to kill it in the bed

Second: I gagged it with a pillow
but awoke the nuns inside my head
they pound their goody-goody fists
from the inside-so from the outside
I got good: I stuck it. Dead
Thirdly: I put my lips upon it
And blew a frost across
its flat
I wrote upon its outside-surface
"Tonight we're on the outside surface"
Just you and me girl: You and me and the fat

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Fantastic album
Any Nick Cave album is hard to review. You honest opinion will seem slight and insignificant towards somebody like him. Because in these days he has become something of a legend. All I can say is that this album is brilliant from start to finish and is worth every last cent. That's all I can say really other than this album far outweighs it's successor, Junkyard, which was, in all honesty a complete drug addled mess. Still had some good songs though

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Good lord!
The first time I listened to this album, my college roommate was in the room with me. We have different music tastes, and we both had a general idea of what music was not to be played when the other person was in the room. When "Capers" came on, and what sounds like Jabba the Hut started singing, I immediately knew that this was far beyond the "roommate would hate" threshold, and put on something else.

If you're like my roommate, and see nothing wrong with liking Korn, Limp Bizkit, Eminem, Linkin Park. (Stops self) I could go on for hours. (Pauses to collect thoughts) If you're like my roommate, and like objectively bad music, this will not make sense to you.

The music sounds intentionally wrong, ugly, confusing, etc. Nick Cave's voice is mighty and versatile. The guitars have a great texture, and are used effectively to craft awkward songs. The use of horns is very rad.