The Good Son (studio album) by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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The Good Son is ranked 7th best out of 28 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 388 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,618.
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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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3 days ago | MW19704U | 6,932 | 59/100 | |
3 days ago | cicadelic | 5,009 | 73/100 | |
03/13/2024 20:13 | sszwalbenest | 1,624 | 76/100 | |
02/28/2024 23:25 | Proto | 624 | 42/100 | |
02/18/2024 03:01 | stevengnz | 1,805 | 74/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.0/100, a mean average of 78.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.5.
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One of the less engaging Nick Cave albums in my opinion and I always found my attention never really being able to stay on the record. Despite this, there is still a high amount of quality on this album as there always is with Nick Cave. The song writing is fantastic and he is so good at making us think a little deeper and connect to his words. The vocal performance is very good as well with it really shining on the better songs such as The Ship Song, The Weeping Song and Lament. Where the album struggle is in the instrumentation which feels a bit repetitive and quite bland. It lacks experimentation and is mediocre for the majority of the run time. The sound really suffers due to this and it makes for a dull and lifeless experience. Overall, some great moments on here that are let down by the musical side of the record and its inability to remain consistent.
Belo e arrepiante ao mesmo tempo!
1st album by NC & TBS where I went, wow, that's something special. Still holds up today.
pretty good music, though it can be a little inconsistent
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.
Perhaps the most calculated album, track by track, that they ever did.
Favorite tracks: "The Ship Song", "The Weeping Song"
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...
At the funeral, no one mourned him besides the unrecognizable stranger standing in the shadows.
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