NICK CAVE & BAD SEEDS The Firstborn Is Dead LP MUTE 1985 HOL orig+inner STUMM21

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THIS IS THE DUTCH ORIGINAL PRESSING on MUTE Records [Comes with a printed inner sleeve with credits and notes]. SINGLE COVER + INNER SLEEVE. The cover is in VG(+) condition: normal wear and without any major deterioration BUT light discolouration/wear on spines/corners, ringwear on front, surface lines/marks on dark black front, left spine is fully readable; INNER in great condition but mild creases; please for details see photos. Vinyl is in VG+/EX condition.

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NICK CAVE And THE BAD SEEDS

MICK HARVEY, BLIXA BARGELD, BARRY ADAMSON

One of the finest songwriters of the post-punk era, whose hybrid of blues, gospel, and rock complemented his dark, literary style and baritone vocals.

"THE FIRSTBORN IS DEAD"

tracklist: please, for tracklist see pictures

 1985     LP       MUTE RECORDS     STUMM 21

 MADE IN HOLLAND   ORIGINAL PRESSING

 SINGLE COVER + INNER SLEEVE

 [Includes printed inner sleeve, with credits and continuation of the info from the rear of the main sleeve]

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Barcode: none

Label Code: none

LABEL: MUTE - WHITE LABEL - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: (spine & rear) STUMM 21

Other (back cover, inner sleeve): 08-023332-20

Catalog on labels: STUMM 21 08-023332-20 (01-023332-1) / STUMM 21 08-023332-20 (01-023332-2)

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): 08-23332-1A-1

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): 08-23332-1B-1

On labels: rim text reads "All Rights.........Made in Holland"

℗ 1985 Mute Records

© 1984 Mute Records

BIEM/STEMRA

On Inner Sleeve: Notes + Credits

℗ & © 1985 Mute Records...........08-023332-20

On Back Cover: Notes

℗ + © 1985 Mute Records

Printed in Holland    08-023332-20

 grading

RECORD VG+/EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG(+) but (please, see pictures and read above description)

The blues had long been a potent undercurrent in the Birthday Party's music, so it wasn't all that surprising that Nick Cave embraced the sound and feeling of rural blues on his second album with the Bad Seeds, The Firstborn Is Dead. What was startling was how well Cave and his bandmates -- Barry Adamson, Mick Harvey, and Blixa Bargeld -- were able to absorb and honor the influences of artists like Skip James and Charley Patton while creating a sound that was unmistakably their own. The moody obsessions of rural blues -- trains, floods, imprisonment, sin, fear, and death -- seemed made to order for Cave, and he was able to tap into the doomy iconography of this music with potent emotional force; on "Tupelo," he makes a sweeping and disturbing epic of the rain-swept night when Elvis Presley was born, and "Knocking on Joe" is a tale of life on the work gang that communicates the pain of the spirit as clearly as the ache of the body. Also, the blues helped transform Cave's music as well as his lyrics; the brutal sonic pummel of the Birthday Party here gave way to a more subtle and dynamic approach that still made effective use of dissonance and bare-wired electric guitar noise while proving the balance of loud and soft only made each side deeper and more resonant. (The stark, barely there guitar and drums of "Blind Lemon Jefferson" are as startling and malignantly fascinating as anything in the Birthday Party's catalog.) The Firstborn Is Dead proved Nick Cave's musical palate was significantly broader than his debut album suggested and pointed to a path (channeling the sounds and emotions of American roots music) he would return to on many of his albums that followed...(AllMusic)