The Firstborn Is Dead - Nick Cave

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Firstborn is Dead (1985) Producer: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Flood - Mark Ellis Tupelo Say Goodbye to the Little Girl Tree Train Long-Suffering Black Crow King Knockin' On Joe Wanted Man Blind Lemon Jefferson The Six Strings That Drew Blood The Bad Seeds' debut, From Her to Eternity, was one hell of an unattractive recording. It had its fair share of highlights, but it definitely came across that Nick was finding his feet again after the disintegration of The Birthday Party. It was as if he was chucking a select bunch of ideas into the fray and seeing which of ...  Read the complete review

The Firstborn is Dead is the second album from the enigmatic Australian songwriter Nick Cave and his backing band The Bad Seeds. Originally released in 1985 as a 7 track album on Mute Records, it was later reissued in 1999 with 2 additional tracks from the Tupelo 7". The song writing is a noticeable move away from the bawling and rock implosion style of his earlier works with the Birthday Party and a small but noticeable step away from his previous album 'From Her to Eternity' . A lot of the songs on this album have in fact been stripped down to sparse and roomy sounding mixes, given more room for attention to Nick's lyrics and vocal ...  Read the complete review