Significant longplayers from yesteryear
18 August 2026
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS released their 3rd full-length, baptized
Kicking Against The Pricks on 18 August 1986, today 40 years ago.
The title is a reference to a biblical quote from the King James Version
of the Christian Bible, Acts 26, verse 14.
It’s a covers LP with their take on songs by John Lee Hooker, Johnny Cash,
Bill Roberts, Lou Reed, Jimmy Webb, Alex Harvey and more.
It topped the UK’s alternative album chart.
Cave: “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.
The songs 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.
Some songs were tributes, like the Tom Jones song “Sleeping Annaleah” other songs we didn’t think the song was ever done particularly well in the first place. Some songs had just kind of haunted my childhood, like “The Carnival Is Over”, which I always loved.
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