KICKING AGAINST THE PRICKS

180 GRAM HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL REISSUE.
Vinyl transfer approval overseen by Mick Harvey Summer 2014 and cut at Abbey Road studios.
This edition, approved personally by Nick Cave, is finally available again on it's original format.

Kicking Against the Pricks is Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' third album, released in 1986, and consists of cover versions.

For this record the Bad Seeds line-up is Cave, new drummer Thomas Wydler, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld and Barry Adamson.
Cave would later downplay the importance of the record, but said it helped the band develop musically.

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 all sorts of people that never got on the record, Some songs were tributes, like the Tom Jones song; other, we didn't think were ever done particularly well in the first place, Some had haunted my childhood, like "The Carnival Is Over".
The strings were arranged by Mick Harvey and played by the Berliner Kaffeehausmusik Ensemble.
"The Hammer Song" is an entirely different song than the track with the same title on the 1990 Bad Seeds album The Good Son.