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

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Let Love In
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Studio album by
Released18 April 1994 [1]
RecordedSeptember–December 1993
Genre
Length48:18
Label Mute
Producer Tony Cohen, The Bad Seeds
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds chronology
Live Seeds
(1993)
Let Love In
(1994)
Murder Ballads
(1996)

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

Contents

As of May 2015 it was certified silver by British Phonographic Industry for 60,000 sold units in UK. [3] As of January 1996 the album has sold 50,000 copies in United States. [4]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [5]
Drowned in Sound 10/10 [6]
Entertainment Weekly B [7]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [8]
NME 9/10 [9]
Pitchfork 8.5/10 [10]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [11]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [12]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [13]
Select 4/5 [14]

Track listing

All songs written by Cave unless otherwise stated.

  1. "Do You Love Me?" – 5:56 (Words: Cave. Music Cave, Casey)
  2. "Nobody's Baby Now" – 3:52
  3. "Loverman" – 6:21
  4. "Jangling Jack" – 2:47
  5. "Red Right Hand" – 6:10 (Words: Cave. Music: Cave, Harvey, Wydler)
  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

Singles

Personnel

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Guest musicians

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 . [15]

Charts

Chart (1994)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [16] 8
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [17] 14
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [18] 57
German Albums Chart [19] 34
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [20] 35
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [21] 18
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [22] 10
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [23] 43
UK Albums Chart [24] 12

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [25] Gold35,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [26] Silver60,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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