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[CRAZY-HORSE]

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS "tender prey" cd,1988.

this is The Bad Seeds sixth studio album

nothing to say except what i say for every Caveman album...you either love or loathe him and what he does, me, i love the guy and almost everything he has released, but this to me, is one of his not so great albums...only three great tracks on here, and also a track i do not like(which is unusual for me!)...
the lead off track "the mercy seat" still gets a "***" rating from me, but after Johnny Cash covered it on his Rick Rubin "american" albums, the song is now his, for he took it to deeper,darker depths than Cave could have envisioned IMO(much the same as what he did with NiN's "hurt").
allmusic rate this one a converted 2.7, but honestly, i cannot see where they can get that rating from, as even after i wrote down my scores i listened to bits of each song again to see where the pro's and i differ, and i just couldnt justify a score higher than the 2.2 i originally gave it! so the rating remains!

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: mercy
best track: up jumped the devil

tracks:

1. the mercy seat ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpFgkiAPwgE audio
2. up jumped the devil ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IPmZQLJBag audio
3. deanna ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxORulyOXs8&ob=av3e audio
4. watching alice **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0EJvMSqK48 audio
5. mercy *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQM8G2ZjP...re=related audio
6. city of refuge **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q52tV4l1XAQ audio
7. slowly goes the night **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8-DeEQEO...re=related audio
8. sunday's slave **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwPxsHK-U7w audio
9. sugar sugar sugar **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGs0Bd-co...re=related audio
10.new morning **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUBLfV5flnY audio

3s=3
2s=6
1s=1

rating: 2.2