The Firstborn Is Dead by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Pros: Cave, Harvey, Adamson, and Blixa Bargeld- best Bad Seeds line-up EVER.
Cons: The drugs were really slowing the proceedings down.

I don't think I'm being premature in saying this, but the golden years of Nick Cave's career are dead and gone. The old boy may still have a bit of the poet in him and a few good songs left to thrill us with, but gone are the days when his smack-addled ...

Pros: Rootsy, pitch-black, minimalist blues peppered with moments of brilliance
Cons: Bob Dylan cover, limited sound and expertise from band

For the follow-up to their explosive and rough debut, ‘From Her To Eternity’ Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds retired back into the deepest, most depressive swamps to record an album of gin-drenched, atonal blues and some general icky nonsense on guitars wound ...

Pros: Great bluesy songs
Cons: not as varied as some other Cave albums

This was Nick Cave's second solo album released as a follow up to his debut From Her To Eternity in 1985. It polished away most of the wild noise that spilled over from Cave's earlier band The Birthday Party that still remained on eternity....

Pros: difficult
Cons: five

The second album "The Firstborn is Dead" is no easy listening
album. But that is the great thing on it. Nick Cave shows an intensive
exorcism lyrically as musically.
The John Lee Hooker/Elvis Presley tribute "Tupelo" is...