NICK CAVE & BAD SEEDS Kicking Against The Pricks - Original UK LP Birthday Party

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NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS

Kicking Against The Pricks

Original UK LP released on Mute Records in 1986.
Includes printed innersleeve.

MPO   STUMM 28 A2   timtom   /   MPO   TY   STUMM 28 B2

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Besides being noteworthy as an astonishingly good all-covers album, Kicking Against the Pricks is notable for the arrival of a new key member for the Seeds, drummer Thomas Wydler. Besides being a fine percussionist, able to perform at both the explosive and restrained levels Cave requires, Wydler also allowed Harvey to concentrate on adding guitar and keyboards live as well as in the studio, a notable bonus. Race reappears briefly to add some guitar while former Birthday Party cohorts Rowland Howard and Tracy Pew guest as well, the latter on some of his last tracks before his untimely death.

The selection of songs is quite impressive, ranging from old standards like "Long Black Veil" to everything from John Lee Hooker's "I'm Gonna Kill That Woman" and Gene Pitney's pop aria "Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart." Matching the range of material, the Seeds are well on their way to becoming the rock/cabaret/blues showband of Cave's dreams, able to conjure up haunting, winsome atmospheres ("Sleeping Annaleah") as much as higher-volume takes (Roy Orbison's "Running Scared," the Velvet Underground's "All Tomorrow's Parties"). The version of Leadbelly's "Black Betty" is particularly grand, Harvey's drumming driving the track with ominous power. This said, often holding everything back is the key, as the creepout build of "Hey Joe" demonstrates.

Even more striking is how Cave's own vocals rebut the charges that all he ever does is overdramatize everything he sings -- consider the husky, purring delivery on Johnny Cash's "The Singer." Other winners include a masterful version of Jimmy Webb's "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and the stately, album-closing "The Carnival Is Over," originally a mid-'60s hit for the Seekers.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Muddy Water
I'm Gonna Kill That Woman
Sleeping Annaleah
Long Black Veil
Hey Joe
The Singer

Side Two

All Tomorrow's Parties
By The Time I Get To Phoenix
The Hammer Song
Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart
Jesus Met The Woman At The Well
The Carnival Is Over

Released on 'Mute Records' in 1986

Catalogue No. STUMM 28

Disc is in VG+ condition (some light surface wear)

Sleeve is in EX condition (light shelfwear)

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