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83

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8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 47 Ratings

  • Summary: This self-titled disc is the first release for the new project from Nick Cave, who adds "guitar player" to his CV. Seeing as how most of the Bad Seeds join in as well, we're still not sure why the new name was necessary. (Actually, it sounds even more like their earlier band, The Birthday Party.)

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No Pussy Blues
My face is finished, my body's gone. And I can't help but think standin' up here in all this applause and gazin' down at all the young and the... See the rest of the song lyrics
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 33
  3. Negative: 0 out of 33
  1. BBC collective
    90
    This is not a bunch of old blokes looking to recapture their youth; rather, Grinderman sounds like a freshly hewn and rudely vigorous chunk of leftfield rock.
  2. Alternative Press
    90
    11 tracks that scorch the earth lesser bands traipse on. [May 2007, p.150]
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  3. Lost At Sea
    80
    The album is loud, visceral, and messily human, and should be regarded as an essential chapter in Cave's considerable discography.
  4. NOW Magazine
    80
    Once our boy Nick begins his bellicose bellowing, there's no mistaking Grinderman's amped-up scorch for anything but another of Cave's darkly humorous creations of magnificent malevolence. Long may he howl and snort.
  5. Observer Music Monthly
    80
    This is mostly a brutal-sounding, and often brutally funny, record full of odd surprises.
  6. PopMatters
    75
    Review #1 (score=80): Grinderman makes a freer, looser racket than the Bad Seeds, and at times sound like their hairier, rougher alter-ego.; Review #2 (score=70): Grinderman is fresh and invigorating, possibly Nick Cave’s funniest, and unusually for a side project, one of his least self-indulgent.
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  7. cokemachineglow
    59
    Grinderman isn’t angry and it isn’t raw, just a careful concoction of licentiousness and braying disdain ultimately monotonous and unexciting after the first four cuts.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 22
  3. Negative: 1 out of 22
  1. AlexCh
    May 16, 2007
    10
    Best album of this year!
  2. TomM
    Apr 22, 2007
    10
    Bought it on Firday. Listened to it 15 times in a row and haven't listened to anything else all weekend.
  4. jupiterthief
    Mar 20, 2007
    9
    howling wolf, screaming jay hawkins, the velvet underground, pre-williamson stooges, the cramps (& even a bit of the birthday party) all put howling wolf, screaming jay hawkins, the velvet underground, pre-williamson stooges, the cramps (& even a bit of the birthday party) all put through the blender until this bruised and bloody blues is spat out......brilliant!… Expand
  5. JacksonG
    Apr 16, 2007
    9
    As close to perfection that 2007 has given us so far (barring Blonde Redhead). Amazing album... I love you Nick Cave
  6. drownsoda
    Aug 27, 2010
    9
    As raw as blood-red steak and as quirky and witty as Cave's poetic pieces, Grinderman delivers a perfect mix of contemporary and vintage soundAs raw as blood-red steak and as quirky and witty as Cave's poetic pieces, Grinderman delivers a perfect mix of contemporary and vintage sound that just might blow you away, if you let it.… Collapse
  7. monkeysloveme
    Nov 13, 2020
    8
    I'm a huge fan of Nick Cave and for me this is probably his best album he's ever been involved in, love it, love it, love it
  8. mikeyf
    Apr 12, 2007
    2
    cool monkey, band sounds like shit .

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