Let Love In (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album)

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Let Love In
Letlovein.jpg
Studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Released 18 April 1994
Recorded September–December 1993
Genre Alternative rock
Length 45:24
Label Mute
Producer Tony Cohen
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds chronology
Live Seeds
(1993)Live Seeds1993		 Let Love In
(1994)		 Murder Ballads
(1996)Murder Ballads1996

Let Love In is the eighth studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released on 18 April 1994 on Mute Records.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4.5/5 stars[1]
Drowned in Sound 10/10[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music 4/5 stars[3]
Los Angeles Times 3.5/4 stars[4]
NME 9/10[5]
Pitchfork Media 8.5/10[6]
Record Collector 4/5 stars[7]
Rolling Stone 4/5 stars[8]
Select 4/5 stars[9]

Track listing

All songs written by Cave unless otherwise stated.

  1. "Do You Love Me?" – 5:56
  2. "Nobody's Baby Now" – 3:52
  3. "Loverman" – 6:21
  4. "Jangling Jack" – 2:47
  5. "Red Right Hand" – 6:10
  6. "I Let Love In" – 4:14
  7. "Thirsty Dog" – 3:48
  8. "Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore" – 3:46
  9. "Lay Me Low" – 5:08
  10. "Do You Love Me? (Part 2)" – 6:12 (Words: Cave. Music: Cave/Casey)

Singles

  • "Do You Love Me?" (MUTE 160) (28 March 1994)
    • b/w: "Cassiel's Song"/"Sail Away"
  • "Loverman" (MUTE 169) (4 July 1994)
    • b/w: "B-Side"/"(I'll Love You) Till the End of the World"
  • "Red Right Hand" (MUTE 172) (24 October 1994)
    • b/w: "That's What Jazz Is to Me"/"Where the Action Is"

Credits

The Bad Seeds

Guests

Cover versions

"Do You Love Me" was covered by the band New Waver as "Do You Hate Me" in 1996. The song "Loverman" was covered by Metallica on Garage Inc. (1998) and Depeche Mode's Martin Gore on his solo album Counterfeit² (2003). The song "Red Right Hand" was covered by Arctic Monkeys as a B-side to their single "Crying Lightning" and as a bonus track on the Japanese version of their third album Humbug (2009); it was also covered by Giant Sand on their album "Cover Magazine". Red Right Hand was covered by PJ Harvey as the theme song for the English television show, Peaky Blinders.[10]

Chart positions

Chart (1994) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Albums Chart[11] 8
Austrian Top 40[12] 14
Dutch Top 100[13] 57
German Albums Chart[14] 34
New Zealand RIANZ Albums Chart[15] 35
Norwegian Albums Chart[16] 18
Swedish Albums Chart[17] 10
Swiss Hitparade Albums Chart[18] 43
UK Albums Chart[19] 12

Singles

Year Single Peak positions
UK
[19]
1994 "Do You Love Me?" 68

References

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