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NICK CAVE'S GREATEST ALBUMS...#6
3:53 PM GMT 21/01/2009
Kicking Against The Pricks
(MUTE CD STUMM 28, 1986)
You said: “An album of covers, so well done and so cool.” Bad MrHorseradish, mojo4music
A cover version - a wired take on Leonard Cohen’s Avalanche - opened the first Bad Seeds album, From Her To Eternity. But it was with this whole album of covers that Cave and The Bad Seeds signaled their full scope. There is blues (a Leadbelly medley) and canonical art-rock (The Velvet Underground’s All Tomorrow’s Parties). But the authoritative way they took on such mainstream popular song as Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart suddenly made The Bad Seeds seem much more than some twitching, marginal punk-blues freak show.
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Posted by Ross_Bennett at 3:53 PM GMT 21/01/2009
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