Audio CD review:
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Tender Prey

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Tender Prey

Band: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Title: Tender Prey Rating: Release Date: 28 July, 1992 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: The Mercy Seat 2: Up Jumped The Devil 3: Deanna 4: Watching Alice 5: Mercy 6: City Of Refuge 7: Slowly Goes The Night 8: Sunday's Slave 9: Sugar Sugar Sugar 10: New Morning 11: The Mercy Seat (Video Mix)

Editoral Review What was even better was that the song that damn near did it--"The Mercy Seat"--was an epic litany relating the thoughts of a condemned prisoner awaiting his walk to the electric chair. It was Tender Prey that raised the delightfully unlikely specter of Nick Cave the pop star. "The Mercy Seat" is Cave and his Bad Seeds at their best: the former leavening his mordant tale with grim wit ("A ragged cup, a twisted mop . . . the face of Jesus in my soup"), the latter conjuring an appropriately demented squall of electric guitars and violins. Tender Prey was a massively important album for Cave: for the first time, he is unabashed about projecting his bleak and often misunderstood sense of humor and his ability to write as good a pop tune as anyone. Tender Prey is the beginning of Cave's voyage toward acceptance by the general public and perhaps himself. Everything good he's done since--and there's been an impressive amount--starts here. --Andrew Mueller .. You can see a complete list of all Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds discography, or go back to the Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds tabs