Product Description

Debut album from blues-rock supergroup featuring Nick Cave and Warren Ellis of The Bad Seeds. Nasty, dirty, bold, abrasive and brilliant, with more than a few echoes of Cave's early band The Birthday Party, Grinderman's music is not for the faint of heart - the blues deconstructed and played with wild abandon by men who describe themselves as "old enough toknow better". Includes the single 'No Pussy Blues'.

Track Listing

1. Get it On
2. No Pussy Blues
3. Electric Alice
4. Grinderman
5. Depth Charge Ethel
6. Go Tell The Women
7. (I Don't Need You To) Set Me Free
8. Honey Bee (Let's Fly To Mars)
9. Man In The Moon
10. When My Love Comes Down
11. Love Bomb

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1190 in Music
• Released on: 2007-03-05
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Grinderman is the sound of indie rock legends growing old disgracefully, and that is by no means a criticism. From the opening rant of "Get It On", this is an album with all the menace of an angry drunk, dripping with anger and testosterone (as the surfeit of facial hair in the band's interior photo will attest). It could even be the sound of Nick Cave's midlife crisis, but it doesn't matter, because Grinderman rocks. It's the sound of four musicians having a grand time, turning the volume up to eleven and really cutting loose. For that reason, it's the more upbeat tracks here that are probably the best: "Honey Bee (Let's Fly to Mars)" with its driving electric organ, the primal urgency of "Depth Charge Ethel" and the strutting album closer "Love Bomb". After all the po-faced seriousness he's displayed in recent years, it's good to know that Cave has rediscovered his sense of humour: "I cleaned the sheets on my bed, I combed the hairs across my head, I sucked in my gut and still she said, 'I don't want to'", he sings on "No Pussy Blues", with his tongue firmly in cheek (amongst other places). Simply put, Grinderman is a hoot. --Ted Kord

Customer Reviews

Great
Have to confess to being a Birthday Party fan more than Nicks later work but this album is a bit like welcoming the Birthday Party back.

Great album played by old men with a real bad attitude problem. If you like your music angry & dirty this is the album for you. I have had this album for several months & it still gets lots of plays.

v v v v good!
This album is fantastic - really earthy, brilliant opening track, wonderful lyrics great melodies. 'Get it on' and 'I don't need you to set me free' are as good as any tracks on any Nick Cave album. Puts the rest of the rock world to shame.

Cave Astonishes Me - Again!
When will this man not stop amazing me, what an album! The base line in 'No Pussy Blues' just makes my hairs stand on end (and that Fran blokes as well, him from Travis, judging by Grinderman's performance of the song on Later.....(check it out on You Tube).

Absolutely stonking album from Cave, what next??!!