Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds   The Firstborn Is Dead
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Ranking: #51 for 1985

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4.5 superblz41 | February 4th 15

Cave once described 'Firstborn' as "steeped in the blues, but didn't really have anything to do with the blues on a musical level." 'Firstborn' does invert and pervert traditional blues for a greater sense of silence and emotion - the ominous midnight shimmer of 'Blind Lemon Jefferson' and 'Knockin' on Joe' and the unrelenting heat of 'Wanted Man' against the oppressive, percussion heavy 'Black Crow King'... with the epic 'Tupelo' bringing all this together. Who would've thought that an Australian band could have so accurately captured the mythology of the Southern US from a Berlin recording studio?

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