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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. The Mercy Seat (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 2. Up Jumped The Devil (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 3. Deanna (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 4. Watching Alice (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 5. Mercy (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 6. City Of Refuge (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 7. Slowly Goes The Night (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 8. Sunday's Slave (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 9. Sugar Sugar Sugar (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 10. New Morning (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 5: Tender Prey) | |||
| 2. Up Jumped The Devil (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 3. Deanna (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 4. Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 5: Tender Prey) | |||
| 5. The Mercy Seat | |||
| 6. Deanna | |||
| 7. Slowly Goes The Night (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 8. Sunday's Slave (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 9. Sugar Sugar Sugar (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 10. New Morning (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
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3 of 16 people found the following review helpful
By J. Podger
Format:Audio CD
A must buy for all Nick Cave fans a fantastic album made even better by the additional tracks.
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4.5 out of 5 stars
31 reviews
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
PREY BABY PREY
5 April 2010
By K. H. Orton
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is quintessential Bad Seeds. If you're looking for an introduction, I'd say this is the place to start. If you must have only 1 in the Bad Seeds' welcome 7 album collector's edition re-issue campaign, this is it! It's not only a lot closer to the vinyl I remember, this long overdue re-master let's you hear every drop of blood falling from the end of a pin amdist the strum und drang.
As for the album itself, here's proof darkness & chaos can yield a New Day.
Without a doubt, "The Mercy Seat" is a tremendous feat & deservedly has become Cave's signature song. Despite the honor of being covered by Johnny Cash, The Bad Seeds' original remains definitive.
Close on the heels follows one of my personal favorites, the underrated, "Up Jumped the Devil", featuring priceless, one of a kind, tongue-n- cheek lines like: "my blood was blacker than the chambers of a dead nun's hearrrrrrt".
In addition, Tender Prey boasts another classic in the reckless Romantic abandon of "Deanna".
Elsewhere, you have the spooky voyeuristic longing for "Alice", tales of John the Baptist & killers lurking by the side of the road to the City of Refuge.
None of which accounts for the one-too-many, late night Sinatra reverie of "Slowly Goes the Night", a tune Cave admits having "this mad scheme that involved singing the song in tune...Never did get there" (despite the week it took to lay down the vocals).
All of which may give you some indication what they were up against coming up with this 1988 classic. Musically, an absolute mixed bag of misfits that band together in Wild Bunch camaraderie---leaving a beautiful corpse behind every time.
In terms of my personal tastes, this is one of the best albums of the mid to late 80's, along with Tom Waits' Rain Dogs & The Pogues' Fall from Grace with God. After this, Cave & co. would make a dramatic about face with the melodic, melancholy of The Good Son. In terms of the Bad Seeds, Tender Prey marks the end of an era.
As for the album itself, here's proof darkness & chaos can yield a New Day.
Without a doubt, "The Mercy Seat" is a tremendous feat & deservedly has become Cave's signature song. Despite the honor of being covered by Johnny Cash, The Bad Seeds' original remains definitive.
Close on the heels follows one of my personal favorites, the underrated, "Up Jumped the Devil", featuring priceless, one of a kind, tongue-n- cheek lines like: "my blood was blacker than the chambers of a dead nun's hearrrrrrt".
In addition, Tender Prey boasts another classic in the reckless Romantic abandon of "Deanna".
Elsewhere, you have the spooky voyeuristic longing for "Alice", tales of John the Baptist & killers lurking by the side of the road to the City of Refuge.
None of which accounts for the one-too-many, late night Sinatra reverie of "Slowly Goes the Night", a tune Cave admits having "this mad scheme that involved singing the song in tune...Never did get there" (despite the week it took to lay down the vocals).
All of which may give you some indication what they were up against coming up with this 1988 classic. Musically, an absolute mixed bag of misfits that band together in Wild Bunch camaraderie---leaving a beautiful corpse behind every time.
In terms of my personal tastes, this is one of the best albums of the mid to late 80's, along with Tom Waits' Rain Dogs & The Pogues' Fall from Grace with God. After this, Cave & co. would make a dramatic about face with the melodic, melancholy of The Good Son. In terms of the Bad Seeds, Tender Prey marks the end of an era.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
His best?
4 Aug 2001
By Bill R. Moore
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
This is, without a doubt, Cave & The Seeds' best album up to this point, and many insist that it is their best to this day. It is the culmination of everything that they had been working toward up to this point, as good as ever, but more refined, better-sounding, smoother, in a word: better. This is their masterpiece. The Mercy Seat kicks things off and is one of the most astonishing songs I've ever heard in my life. The lyrics, matched with the crashing, momentum-gaining backdrop combine with the end result of one of the most intense song in Nick's or anyone else's catalog. This is simply one of the most powerful narraritives in contemporary music. This is one of the few songs that truly cannot be described-it has to be heard to be believed. To be sure, this is the highpoint of the album, but there are other highlights. Up Jumped The Devil is a pleasant rollicking, tongue-in-cheek tune of the type that Cave often indulges in. Deanna sounds like a 50's beach-ballad gone Satanic. Most of the rest of the album consists of Cave's trademark slow, brooding piano-led ballads, and the ones included here are some of his best ever. The seemingly upbeat, by contrast, and eminently beautiful song New Morning closes the album on a very nice note. Skip the shorter, tacked-on version of the Mercy Seat, it cannot top the original, and only serves to uproot the album's climax. However, the meat of the album (everything but it) is excellent, and serve to make this CD, surely, one of the most underrated out there. Essential.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Light Sparked By Darkness
5 May 2003
By A Customer
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
This record was a massive influence on me back in the day. True, it's a bit dated now, but at times it is a vivid example of what Nick Cave does best. Namely, making great pop songs out mankind's darker impulses. If the kids on American Bandstand ever heard "Deanna", they might say, "it has a great beat & you can dance to it!" Even if it might serve as the soundtrack to serial killer, Charles Starkweather's 1950's spree. "Mercy Seat" is a classic in Cave cannon. The fact that Johnny Cash recently deigned to cover it to stunning perfection on SOLITARY MAN is all the proof one needs.
My personal favorites are, "Up Jumped The Devil" & "So Slowly Goes The Night". "Devil" not only features an infectious groove, but the lyrics are flat out hilarious. A perfect example of Cave's unique brand of black humor. I mean, who can resist a line like, "blacker than the chambers of a dead nun's heart"?
On "Night" he sounds drunker than Shane Macgowan at 3 a.m. He seems to be channeling his inner Dino on this one. Cave's singing is so atrociously off-key, not to mention gleefully lugubrious, that it would do any Holiday Inn lounge lizard proud. But with closer inspection, you can actually hear the sound of a man eating his heart right off his sleeve. In truth, it's the lyrics that save the day. They are as devastingly honest as they are poetic. The whole thing's pure magic in my book.
The closer, "New Morning" is the other classic on this record. I love how he compares the moon & the stars (of one night too many) to "the troops that laid conquored". So, who says poetry is dead? Some listeners out there might as well be.
As for the rest, "City Of Refuge", "Alice" & "Mercy" each have their charms to commend them. "Sunday's Slave" & "Sugar, Sugar, Sugar" may not rank as Cave's most compelling work, but they don't bog the proceedings down. I just wouldn't count them among my reasons for coming back to this record.
So TENDER PREY is a mixed, well dated affair. But at day's end, it makes for a memorable cocktail. For my money, it makes light out of career sparked by darkness.
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