The Good Son (album) by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Top 20 albums of 1990 (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds bestography
The Good Son is ranked 8th best out of 25 albums by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds is The Boatman's Call which is ranked number 370 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,204.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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100/100  | 01/10/2020 19:33 | NickyTBlizzad | | 100/100 |
70/100 | 01/06/2020 21:53 | zwiebel | | 56/100 |
75/100 | 01/04/2020 05:27 | Stover75 | | 84/100 |
80/100 | 12/08/2019 19:30 |  TescoHomeCooking | | 73/100 |
80/100 | 11/09/2019 20:11 |  phantom1305 | | 74/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a mean average rating of 79.0/100. The trimmed mean (excluding outliers) is 80.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.5.
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1st album by NC & TBS where I went, wow, that's something special. Still holds up today.
JulianR 09/04/2017 03:27
pretty good music, though it can be a little inconsistent
LedZep 02/27/2017 18:03
Not a skippable song! Beautiful
The Good Son is a very underrated album that has great songwriting as well as having a strong powerful atmosphere created through deep personal lyrics and great instrumentation
This was the most accessible Nick Cave album to date when it was released in 1990. It's still a dark record, but the music is now approaching a beauty you certainly wouldn't have expected a few years before. Opener, foi na cruz, is lovely, as is, the weeping song. The most beautiful track though is the brilliant, the ship song, one of Cave's greatest ballads. There's no weak songs here, and, Lucy, is a great closing track. It's amazing how Nick Cave can effortlessly move from one extreme to another, from, the tender prey, to this. A true genius, one of the greatest songwriters ever.
badseed 04/13/2015 03:35
Perhaps the most calculated album, track by track, that they ever did.
Favorite tracks: "The Ship Song", "The Weeping Song"
NickVolos 11/24/2014 14:37
As much a spiritual as a listening experience: its theme derived from the parable of the prodigal son, only this is about the good son, the one that stayed behind - as opposed to the prodigal one...
meccalecca 04/24/2014 22:01
At the funeral, no one mourned him besides the unrecognizable stranger standing in the shadows.
His voice is wonderful and his songwriting is not just good, it makes you able to become a part of the music, it' s like a 45' adventure. He' s definitely the best songwriter I' ve ever listened to.
There are certainly songs on other albums I like better than most of the songs on this album, but this is my favorite Nick Cave record by far. And Lucy. Oh, Lucy. So beautiful.
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