Bad Seeds, Nick Cave - Good Son
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Artist: Bad Seeds, Nick CaveEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 1996-02-13
Music Label: Mute U.S.
Soundtracks:
- Foi Na Cruz
- The Good Son
- Sorrow's Child
- The Weeping Song
- The Ship Song
- The Hammer Song
- Lament
- The Witness Song
- Lucy
Music reviews of Good Son
Music Review: O Lord the songs come down...
Rating: 4 Stars
"The Good son" opens with a song ("Foi na cruz") that's so easily forgettable that you can't quite believe that it's Nick Cave here. But then the title track rolls in and the on-stage-dark-rock-preacher Cave is back. Stormy, thundering, preaching, "The Good son" is what "The Mercy seat" was on the "Tender prey" album, and what "Tupelo" was on "The firstborn is dead": a classic, a mind bender, a face-busting, crowd-mangling hailstorm.
After that three neat, almost too neat sounding slow songs creep in: "Sorrow's child" (...sits by the river / Sorrow's child / hears not the water..."), "The ship song" (praised by many and sometimes called one of Cave's most outstanding ballads, which I definitly must deny here) and "The Hammer song", on which the mesmerising, dark voice of singer Cave is used almost to the point that it feels exploited - and you expect him on this track to explode somewhere in vein, to burst out and hammer a chorus of faul language and eye-gouging madness on us all, but in fact he never does, and in this case, it causes a possitive effect: Nick still isn't predictable or obvious. "The Hammer song" does anything but end with a crushing hammer slash.
I between these three songs there is the instant-classic sing-along piece "The weeping song", a melodramatic duet, almost a play, between Nick Cave and backing vocalist / guitar player Blixa Bargeld.
But then the extasy is over, and the album offers three more quite, introvert songs to get trough, and non of them really tend to stick.
This is often a problem with Nick Cave ballads, some of them really get to you ("Mercy" on "Tender prey", "Stranger than kindness" on "Your funeral... my trial", "Do you love me (Part 2)" on "Let love in" and about all tracks on the near perfect "No more shall we part") but a lot of them just don't stick, they do not twist and turn inside your head, they just ponder and wander on, you hear them and after they're finished, you nod and say "thank you" and then you go on with your life without having the feeling anything really happened.
This album really has too much of these "on going things" without really hurting you, which a good Nick Cave ballad does, and thank God for that, because that's really what we want from the man; to get hurt, to get hit in the right spot, straight in the heart, straight through our deceptively sane minds.
But that doesn't mean it's all blund and "just on going" - there's still the instant-classic sing-along piece, the dark mesmerising voice exploiting surprise, and the Cavian mind bender. And when these come from the dark echoing throat of The One Lord Nick Cave, you know you really get something.
Description of Good Son
UK pressing features a total of 9 tracks including 'The Good Son', 'The Weeping Song', 'Lament' & 'Lucy' and more. Mute.Alternative Rock CDs
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