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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Foi Na Cruz (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 2. The Good Son (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 3. Sorrow's Child (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 4. The Weeping Song (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 5. The Ship Song (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 6. The Hammer Song (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 7. Lament (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 8. The Witness Song (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 9. Lucy (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 6: The Good Son) | |||
| 2. The Weeping Song (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 3. Sorrow's Child (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 4. Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 6: The Good Son) | |||
| 5. The Weeping Song | |||
| 6. The Ship Song | |||
| 7. Lament (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 8. The Witness Song (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 9. Lucy (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 10. The Train Song (2010 Digital Remaster) | |||
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By dynamitekid156
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Format:Audio CD
After spending the 80s both moving and disturbing people with his murder-ballads and murder-rackets, Nick Cave moved to South America to escape the druggy lifestyle to record The Good Son. It appears that the local music - or SOME kind of music at least - rubbed off on him, as The Good Son features several flourishes and instruments you'd not otherwise expect from Nick Cave.
Proving that he can confound you at every turn, The Good Son features choral backing vocals, vibraphones at various points, and the song 'Foi Na Cruz,' written in a language that I'm unfamiliar with (possibly Spanish or Portugese). Not only an experimental work for Cave, The Good Son also sets the 1990s off to a flying start for Mr. Cave.
Weighing in at only nine songs, The Good Son is mostly Cave's fabulous balladry. 'The Ship Song,' a successful single release, is a fan favourite and possibly the best ballad he ever wrote. However, the majestic title track, which starts off like tribesmen around a campire and builds to glorious strings, runs it very close.
The few louder moments are almost as good. 'The Weeping Song' (a 'song in which to weep,' of course) is Nick Cave in a more rawkus, but still fairly restrained mood, and with all of the Bad Seeds backing him up superbly, it's a song that gets the heart racing and sends more than a few shivers down the spine.
Nick Cave starts the 1990s in a quieter mood; but the songs are still excellent, and I'd recommend The Good Son to any Nick Cave fan, but especially those who enjoy his later, quieter material. It'd even be worth the money for 'The Ship Song' alone.
Proving that he can confound you at every turn, The Good Son features choral backing vocals, vibraphones at various points, and the song 'Foi Na Cruz,' written in a language that I'm unfamiliar with (possibly Spanish or Portugese). Not only an experimental work for Cave, The Good Son also sets the 1990s off to a flying start for Mr. Cave.
Weighing in at only nine songs, The Good Son is mostly Cave's fabulous balladry. 'The Ship Song,' a successful single release, is a fan favourite and possibly the best ballad he ever wrote. However, the majestic title track, which starts off like tribesmen around a campire and builds to glorious strings, runs it very close.
The few louder moments are almost as good. 'The Weeping Song' (a 'song in which to weep,' of course) is Nick Cave in a more rawkus, but still fairly restrained mood, and with all of the Bad Seeds backing him up superbly, it's a song that gets the heart racing and sends more than a few shivers down the spine.
Nick Cave starts the 1990s in a quieter mood; but the songs are still excellent, and I'd recommend The Good Son to any Nick Cave fan, but especially those who enjoy his later, quieter material. It'd even be worth the money for 'The Ship Song' alone.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
This is the album that silenced the critics who still doubted Cave's abilities as well as his own. Marking the next chapter in his life the album may not have the complete power of Tender Prey but will capture and mesmerize you from the first track and is one that you will find yourself going back to in years to come. Some of Cave best songs can be found here, especially 'The Ship Song', which is arguably the best in his entire career to date. The range of emotions that this single album can, and will, generate stands as a testament to the versatility and true talent of Nick Cave.
This may not be the best Bad Seeds album but it is definitely something anybody who knows good music should own, whether they are a fan of not.
14 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I largely agree with the last review except to say that there is no doubt that this album is definitely Nick Caves best album ... unsurpassed by anything since.
If you like your music dark, epic, but yet melodic then Nick Cave is for you.
There really isn't one duff song here. Many of the songs could be argued to be the best of his career so far. Particular highlights are Lucy, The Good son and Ship Song. Enjoy ... there are not many albums by any crooner alive as good as this one.
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Published on 1 Sep 2003 by Mr. B. J. Roberts
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Gorgeous Ballads and some scary nonsense!
If you bought this album purely for 'The Ship Song' then that's no bad thing! But overall, this is one of Nick's more average albums. Read more
Published on 3 Aug 2003 by "raywhoisking"
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