Good Son [Original recording reissued]

Nick Cave, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 13, 1996)
• Original Release Date: 1990
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Mute U.S.
• ASIN: B000003Z48
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #177,862 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Foi Na Cruz

2. The Good Son

3. Sorrow's Child

4. The Weeping Song

5. The Ship Song

6. The Hammer Song

7. Lament

8. The Witness Song

9. Lucy

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nick Cave's overlooked masterpiece., July 29, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Good Son (Audio CD)

"The Good Son" is a haunting collection of vintage Nick Cave songs that tell of loss, sorrow, death and despair. Those subjects may be standard Cave fare, but the amazing string arrangements featured on almost every tune add an epic sweep to the album, imbuing it with a grandeur found in the work of Jacques Brel and his protoge, Scott Walker. While Cave sings of pain and tears, the music moves you there with him--and you're better off for having gone along for the ride.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Order of chaos, October 10, 2001

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Bill R. Moore (New York, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Good Son (Audio CD)

Coming hot on the heels of Nick Cave's raging, tortured masterpiece Tender Prey, The Good Son is a lot more tender and less musically chaotic by comparison, but is nearly as brilliant in its own way. The soft, rolling Foi Na Cruz sets the pace for the album well, perhaps coming as a surprise for some, but who could deny its serene beauty? The title track is much more of a "classic" Bad Seeds song by contrast, a lyrical re-telling of the Bible's prodigal son story, with fierce music and vocals to match the lyrics. None of these songs are weak, and the album's beautiful yet daring balladry approach perhaps reaches its climax with the closing song, the soaring Lucy (complete with an incredible reprise courtesy of Ronald Wolf.) However, the album's two best songs are undoubtedly The Weeping Song (memorable musical backing, coupled with a classic vocal trade-off), and what surely is one of Cave's greatest songs ever, The Ship Song, which is surely one of the most achingly beautiful and compelling love songs that I have ever heard. While not as menacing and overly forebearing as his earlier works, The Good Son is yet another high point in Nick Cave's catalog.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of Cave's best, March 19, 2006

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Rob OCONNELL "rob" (Madison, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Good Son (Audio CD)

If you like "No More Shall We Part" then this is for you - its in that approximate mode of Cave+Bad Seeds music.

I like this album a lot - and it has grown and grown on me over the years. Lyrics like "love came a-knockin', came a-knockin' at our door. But you, you and me dear, we don't live there anymore". Ouch. Much better as he sings it too.

I was a little worried when I first played it - there's a terrible buzz from the first strum of the guitar on the first song!!

Great album though.