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Kicking Against The Pricks [CD+DVD]

Nick Cave, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (27 April 2009)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: CD+DVD
  • Label: Mute
  • ASIN: B001QW79DW
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 88,503 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Disc: 1
1. Muddy Water (2009 Digital Remaster)
2. I'm Gonna Kill That Woman (2009 Digital Remaster)
3. Sleeping Annaleah (2009 Digital Remaster)
4. Long Black Veil (2009 Digital Remaster)
5. Hey Joe (2009 Digital Remaster)
6. The Singer (2009 Digital Remaster)
7. All Tomorrow's Parties (2009 Digital Remaster)
8. By The Time I Get To Pheonix (2009 Digital Remaster)
9. The Hammer Song (2009 Digital Remaster)
10. Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart (2009 Digital Remaster)
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Disc: 2
1. Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 3: Kicking Against The Pricks)
2. The Singer (2009 Digital Remaster)
3. Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 3: Kicking Against The Pricks)
4. The Singer
5. Hey Joe (2009 Digital Remaster)
6. The Singer (2009 Digital Remaster)
7. All Tomorrow's Parties (2009 Digital Remaster)
8. By The Time I Get To Pheonix (2009 Digital Remaster)
9. The Hammer Song (2009 Digital Remaster)
10. Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart (2009 Digital Remaster)
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Nick Cave's third album with The Bad Seeds, and it's a collection of cover versions: the band lends its inimitable stylings to songs previously recorded or covered by The Velvet Underground ("All Tomorrow's Parties"), Jimi Hendrix ("Hey Joe"), Gene Pitney ("Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart") and Roy Orbison ("Running Scared").

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Rock artists have frequently turned to the 'covers album' as a way out of an artistic corner, such as the time-honoured 'writer's block'. In Nick Cave's case, with 'Kicking...', it's more what he can bring to the song, how radically he can rework it, wringing out of (sometimes) familiar material a new interpretation, a new meaning. Although it's an uneven affair, Cave manages to turn such hoary pop fodder as his fellow Australians The Seekers' 'Carnival Is Over' into the bleakest, most desolate of songs of separation. It was he who first turned to Gene Pitney's 'Something's Gotten Hold Of my Heart', several years before Marc Almond (who was, and presumably still is, a friend of Cave's), and cut through to the heart of a song of quite achingly heartfelt yearning. It's a theme that is a constant in his work, as his latest recording, 'The Secret Life of The Love Song' explores both in spoken word and some judiciously-chosen items from his back catalogue. Elsewhere, Jim Webb's 'By The Time I Get To Phoenix' is turned inside out in inimitable Cave style, with the Bad Seeds showing commendable restraint throughout. 'Kicking Against The Pricks' proved to be both artistically and commercially successful, and helped Cave break out once and for all from the Goth shadows that his previous band, the Birthday Party, had been painted into by the Music Press. A fine work, but one which he would go on to better with future Bad Seeds albums.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Nick introduces us to his music collection 22 Dec 2001
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This is an often ignored gem is the Bad Seeds back cataologue. It's definitley one of the best covers albums I own. but, apart from the fact that Cave's versions of these songs are brilliant rereadings, this album will introduce you to so many other people's work. For me, this album led to Johnny Cash, the Velvet Underground (and Lou Reed) , Elvis Presley and Muddy Waters. Thank you Nick.
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5.0 out of 5 stars new forms of beauty 15 April 2010
By Dr. Delvis Memphistopheles TOP 100 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
A great incisive thrust into middle America to rip open the silent tears of lost families wandering around in circles looking for a home. So we round up Johnny Cash, Gene Pitney, Glenn Campbell, Velvet Underground, New Seekers and host of other mournful bleak prairie songs to create a red velvet showpiece, the pizaz ripped from the cabaret of the dead and dying.

You can belt along to the lyrics as Nick pours his blackened soul into the malevolent soundless emptiness he brings to these vales of silent trickles down the chin. As he enters the song he breaks its spine and rips open its gullet to climb within and wreak another version of events.

Wonderful and bleak vignettes made even more lost than the original sparkling Radio 2 seemingly kitsch masterpieces. Nick showed the way, from the froth to the bitter bile contained within and drank a deep draft, then blows it into your face.
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