10 More Perfect 2000s Rock Albums With No Bad Songs
2. Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds (2004)
Nick Cave hasn't released a bad album in a long time. His recent works might have become ever more strange ventures into the realm of ambient soundscape, rather than traditional rock records, but thats just fine. The more atmospheric the better.
His 2004 double album had a more traditional song structuring, however. Traditional for Cave that is... This record is as weird as one might expect with a name like Abattoir Blues. Like everything Cave creates, he injects a real sense of gothic surrealism into the tracks. Hiding All The Way is a jaunty romp into a realm garage/blues rock mixed with gospel. The lyrics evoke poetically sinister images, as Cave regales you with the tale of a nameless women trying to navigate life. It's a song that could serve as an episode for True Detectives.
Other numbers are less intensely mood dictating, but equally enjoyable. It's remarkable he can make songs sound so serious when he includes lines like "I woke up this morning with a frappuccino in my hand" but that's all part of Cave's allure.