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'Red Right Hand'- the future theme song of the Scream film franchise- sets its serial-killer narrative to a seductive swampy groove, and the beautiful piano ballad 'Nobody's Baby Now' is a work of such wry, understated elegance, Cave originally thought of giving it to Johnny Cash. But amid Let Love In's ballast, you can hear Cave's increased adeptness at exploring his fascinations using sly, pitch-black humor instead of transgressive shock tactics. The Bad Seeds had always traded in high drama and dissonance, but never before had they sounded this imposingly heavy- the lecherous intimations of 'Do You Love Me?' Explode into a torrent of chain-gang vocals and drummer Thomas Wydler's machine-gunned snare rolls, while 'Loverman' triggers its quiet-to-loud eruptions so masterfully, Metallica would later cover the song to the surprise of no one.
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The Bad Seeds' mid-90s pinnacle forms the basis of the latest round of Mute's excellent reissue series, which include vividly remastered versions of the original albums, along with a 5.1 surround sound mix, B-sides, official videos, and the latest installments of Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard's illuminating fan-testimonial documentaries, Do You Love Me Like I Love You? The title of the film series is taken from the two-part song that opens and closes Let Love In, an authoritative show of force that was perfectly timed for the Bad Seeds' insurrectionary appearance on the 1994 Lollapalooza tour. He successfully party-crashed Hollywood and 'Top of the Pops', all while the college-radio charts filled up with emergent artists- PJ Harvey, Tindersticks, Afghan Whigs- cut from the Bad Seeds' black-velvet cloth. Where the previous decade saw Cave successfully transition out of the Birthday Party's combustible punk toward a more urbane, theatrical brand of rock, the 90s elevated him to the realm of archetype and institution. The 1990s were very good to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.