Tender Prey

TENDER PREY
 
 
Tender Prey  is the fifth studio album by Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released on 19 September 1988 on Mute Records.  Produced by Flood, the album was recorded during several sessions over the course of four months in West Berlin — where the band were based at the time of its release — and London and dedicated to Fernando Ramos da Silva.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 

The Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album that I have, Tender Prey (1988) is their sixth album.  I was introduced to Nick Cave through the video for the opening track on this album, “The Mercy Seat” that I saw several times on the MTV late show 120 Minutes.  After a mostly mumbled introduction, the song is primarily the chorus repeated powerfully with savvy lyric changes; but I would have enjoyed the song if it extended to twice its 7-minute length.  The other songs on the album build on this novel take on religion.  

 

(November 2014)