Nocturama

by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Nocturama cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 3 February 2003
  • Label: Mute, BMG, Anti‐
  • Country: Australia
  • Length: 56:25
  • Community rating: 3.41/5 from 7 ratings

Artists on this release: Thomas Wydler, Conway Savage, John Turnbull, Blixa Bargeld, Norman Watt-Roy, George Vjestica, Martyn P. Casey, Hugo Race, Mick Harvey, James Johnston, Kid Congo Powers, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey, Nick Cave, The Blockheads, Chas Jankel, Jim Sclavunos, Micky Gallagher, Barry Adamson, Roland Wolf

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Nocturama' balances lush, romantic balladry with sudden bursts of chaotic rock energy to highlight the band's dynamic versatility. Poetic lyricism, prominent piano arrangements, and raw, relatively unpolished studio production convey the record's melancholic themes.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, piano, crooning, narrative, storytelling, male-vocals, theatrical, ballad, bleak

Tracklist

  1. Wonderful Life (06:49)
  2. He Wants You (03:31)
  3. Right Out of Your Hand (05:14)
  4. Bring It On (05:23)
  5. Dead Man in My Bed (04:40)
  6. Still In Love (04:44)
  7. There Is a Town (04:58)
  8. Rock of Gibraltar (03:00)
  9. She Passed By My Window (03:20)
  10. Babe, I'm on Fire (14:46)

Credits

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