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Some things resonate stronger over time, a few excursions through murky waters, then a while later you can look back and add some kind of clarity. The first four albums by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds were less like records and more like a personal discovery of your self, a kind of art / music tsunami that would inform and shape any one who was there at the time and was ripe for the information and the heady influence. The Bad Seeds crawled from the wreckage of The Birthday Party, who also made a life long impression on any one who stood before them.The first Bad Seeds album was called From Her To Eternity, track one of which was a cover of the Leonard Cohen song Avalanche, in normal circumstances this would amount to career suicide, but this was far from normal, this was a statement of intent, this record was the start of a journey that has now lasted over fourteen albums and countless life affirming live shows. In this time Nick has become, our very own Johnny Cash, our Bob Dylan, our poet, but more than anything else he has been our Nick Cave. But hey, don't just take a very elderly gentlemen's word for it, check out what these interesting people all have to say on the subject.

Ted, a bit of a fan.