The Bad Seed

by The Birthday Party

The Bad Seed cover art
  • Type: EP
  • Released: February 1983
  • Label: 4AD
  • Country: Australia
  • Length: 39:52
  • Community rating: 3.88/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Nick Cave

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Preceding the group's final dissolution and their final 'Mutiny!' release, this violently dark recording captures Nick Cave pushing his terrifying, Old Testament-inspired lyricism to terrifying new heights. The abrasive arrangements discard nearly all traditional post-punk structures in favor of horrific, swampy blues dissonance. The release heavily informed the sinister, narrative-driven aesthetic Cave would perfect in the coming decades.

Genres

Descriptors: noisy, scary, avant-garde, occult, sinister

Tracklist

  1. Sonny's Burning (3:20)
  2. Wildworld (3:27)
  3. Fears of Gun (3:54)
  4. Deep in the Woods (4:49)
  5. Jennifer's Veil (4:57)
  6. Six Strings That Drew Blood (3:32)
  7. Say a Spell (3:41)
  8. Swampland (3:30)
  9. Pleasure Avalanche (4:22)
  10. Mutiny in Heaven (4:16)

Credits

  • Laurence Stevens - artwork [graphics]
  • Tracy Pew - bass [uncredited], songwriter
  • Mick Harvey - drums [uncredited], guitar [uncredited], songwriter
  • Rowland S. Howard - guitar [uncredited], songwriter
  • Nick Cave - lyrics by, songwriter, vocals [uncredited]

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