Artist: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Title: The Firstborn Is Dead
Label: Mute
Genre: Rock
Bitrate: 178kbit av.
Time: 00:40:33
Size: 54.51 mb
Rip Date: 2009-05-01
Str Date: 2009-04-27
01. Tupelo 7:18
02. Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree 5:10
03. Train Long-Suffering 3:48
04. Black Crow King 5:05
05. Knockin' On Joe 7:38
06. Wanted Man 5:26
07. Blind Lemon Jefferson 6:08
Release Notes:
The blues had long been a potent undercurrent in the Birthday Party's
music, so it wasn't all that surprising that Nick Cave embraced the
sound and feeling of rural blues on his second album with the Bad
Seeds, The Firstborn Is Dead. What was startling was how well Cave and
his bandmates - Barry Adamson, Mick Harvey, and Blixa Bargeld - were
able to absorb and honor the influences of artists like Skip James and
Charley Patton while creating a sound that was unmistakably their own.
The moody obsessions of rural blues - trains, floods, imprisonment,
sin, fear, and death - seemed made to order for Cave, and he was able
to tap into the doomy iconography of this music with potent emotional
force; on "Tupelo," he makes a sweeping and disturbing epic of the
rain-swept night when Elvis Presley was born, and "Knocking on Joe" is
a tale of life on the work gang that communicates the pain of the
spirit as clearly as the ache of the body. Also, the blues helped
transform Cave's music as well as his lyrics; the brutal sonic pummel
of the Birthday Party here gave way to a more subtle and dynamic
approach that still made effective use of dissonance and bare-wired
electric guitar noise while proving the balance of loud and soft only
made each side deeper and more resonant. (The stark, barely there
guitar and drums of "Blind Lemon Jefferson" are as startling and
malignantly fascinating as anything in the Birthday Party's catalog.)
The Firstborn Is Dead proved Nick Cave's musical palate was
significantly broader than his debut album suggested and pointed to a
path (channeling the sounds and emotions of American roots music) he
would return to on many of his albums that followed.