Nick Cave makes Pain seem so Beautiful.

Review Score: (10/10)
I first heard "Loverman" on Metallica's "Garage Inc." cover album. I was playing video games and jamming to all of the cover tunes when the opening strains of Loverman came on ("There's a devil waitin' outside your door..."). As I listened my skin started to crawl and I scrambled for the booklet to see what sick, depraved human soul wrote such a WRENCHING tale of lust and longing. When I saw "Nick Cave" and the album name "Let Love In" I H-A-D to buy it. To my utter astonishment, Loverman was only one of many WORKS OF MUSICAL and LYRICAL ART on that album. Please, whomever reads this review--give it a chance. Buy it, borrow it, whatever. Just HEAR it. My favorites are: Do you love me? -- It's groovy, the words say a ton about doomed, futile love; it's like Hoyt Axton meets Darth Vader! Jangling Jack--It is an obvious statement on America, and Cave gets the point across by going INSANE right there on the album. He sounds like a rabid killer himself. But the music is shreddin' as well, see? And, the COOLEST SONG ever recorded, Red Right Hand--I can't describe how sultry, ominous, and creepily suave this song is. Listen and you'll understand what I mean.

By the way--EVERY other song on the album is AWESOME as well! I love them all. Oh, and Loverman is ten times better than the Metallica version.

I love this album because with every song you can smell, feel, and see vivid pictures, textures, colors. I know this review is sort of long-winded, but the album means that much to me. It IS art.

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