Kicking Against the Pricks (2009 Remaster)

Kicking Against the Pricks is the third studio album released by the Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. First released in 1986, the album is a collection of Cave's interpretations of songs by other artists. The title is a reference to a biblical quote from the King James Version of the Christian Bible, Acts 26, verse 14. The album marked the Bad Seeds debut of drummer Thomas Wydler, expanding the Bad Seeds line-up to Cave, Wydler, bassist Barry Adamson, and guitarists Mick Harvey and Blixa Bargeld. Cave would later downplay the importance of the record, but said it helped the band develop musically: It allowed us to discover different elements, to actually make and perform a variety of different sorts of music successfully. I think that helped subsequent records tremendously. Remarking on the song selection, Cave said: They were all done for different reasons. Basically a list of songs were made and we tried to play them. We tried songs by the Loved Ones and the Saints and all sorts of people that never got on the record. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kicking...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)