Cave, Nick & The Bad Seeds - Good Son English Tapas (Color Vinyl

Cave, Nick & The Bad Seeds - Good Son English Tapas (Color VinylThe Seeds followed up Tender Prey with the equally brilliant but generally calmer Good Son. At the time of it's release there were more than a few comments that Cave had somehow softened or sold out, given how he was more intent on exploring his dark, cabaret pop stylings than his thrashy, explosive side. This not only ignored the constant examples of such quieter material all the way back to from Her to Eternity, but Cave's own constant threads of

1971 album from the stand-up comedian and actor

label in the early '70s

muted bass lines prop up acoustic guitars blown out on a cassette four-track

Crumb's second LP

lyrics sheet

Nick Shoulders is here to stay

"The Ship Song

and to hold a magnifying glass over the notion of what intimacy can mean

an intimate collection of songs

Brian Chase's drumming is dynamic

"Boom Boom

Nearly 30 years into an already impressive career – which includes 8 studio albums