Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ last proper album, Ghosteen, dropped in 2019 to rave reviews. Album Label AllMusic Rating User Ratings 1983 : Burnin' the Ice: Hit Thing 1984 : … "Jesus Met the Woman at the Well" is credited as "Traditional, Arranged The Alabama Singers".
Some of the songs were re-titled (possibly through error), and one was miscredited, as follows:1.
Nick Cave, the latest candidate for rock'n'roll junkie saint, has emerged from detox with his despair intact. Nick Cave’s latest album cover (Picture: Ghosteen Ltd) Similar to the other critics, The AV Club’s Marty Garner believed the record was Nick’s ‘most accessible album since 1997’. Sure, there was a song about the electric chair – the chilling ‘The Mercy … I think that helped subsequent records tremendously. Australia’s Nick Cave has covered Marc Bolan’s T.Rex track ‘Cosmic Dancer’ for the tribute album ‘AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T.Rex’. "The Hammer Song" is not to be confused with the song of the same name from the 1990 Bad Seeds album The Good Son. To celebrate the release of his latest album, we look back over 11 covers which actually did the Prince of Darkness justice. 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. "Later on, we saw this one and thought, 'Wow! Nick Cave's cover album was a slow grower on me. Davies' definitive masterpiece, Bernie Sanders + his mittens photobomb classic albums, Dylan Cartlidge does it again on new one 'Molasses (Walk The Walk)', Billie Eilish sings with ROSALIA on 'Lo Vas A Olvidar'. Q&A: Treasure gives an insight into Nostalgia: The Prelude, Babeheaven on lasting friendship + their debut album, Drug Store Romeos on founding + building their fantastical world, Why Sabrina Carpenter's response to Olivia Rodrigo's 'drivers license' misses the mark, It's A Sin review: Russell T. The sexy picture of Nick Cave's model wife that adorns the cover of the rocker's latest album was in fact taken by accident.