Episode 22: The Mercy Seat

O wow o wow! It's been quite a long dark night without word from your favorite podcast, but never fear! You can jump for joy once more because the boys are back and ready to talk Cave. It's been an exciting time between this episode and last, not least due to the release of the brand new Bad Seeds album Wild God! In a desperate attempt to stay relevant your gracious hosts have frog-hopped an album or two and cut straight to the end, so whether you're a long time fan or a brand new conversion to Cave or the pod, we've got something for ya. Ending theme music includes Clap Along by Jason Shaw.

The boys are back and ready to call upon author Adam Steiner to discuss his new book, "Darker with the Dawn: Nick Cave's Songs of Love and Death!" Delving into Adam's inspirations and creative process, you'll get a behind the scenes look at the making of this essential exploration of Cave's work. "Darker with the Dawn" is available for purchase 12/1/23, and can be ordered on bookshop.org to support local booksellers. Ending theme music includes Clap Along by Jason Shaw.

You better run, you better run... right into the ever-loving arms of your two hosts as they bounce along to this traditional number turned rompin' stomper, City of Refuge. ALSO: Rumblings persist! There may be another installment of everyone's favorite game afoot...

Mercy me! The boys are back at it, rolling through Tender Prey to arrive at the half-way point and fifth track: Mercy.

Thought we were never comin' back? Well don't ya worry buddy, cause here we come! The boys are back in town and picking up right where they left off: announcing the winner of the first Today's Lesson contest, and breaking down Watching Alice, the fourth track of Tender Prey.  

Things are really starting to heat up as the boys grab their proverbial toolboxes and stockings, hop in their proverbial Cadillac, and continue proverbially careening through Tender Prey. Next stop? Oh-oh, it's track number three: Deanna!

Up jump the boys back from their long winter's nap to keep on 'a rollin' through Tender Prey, making their next stop at the second track Up Jumped the Devil!

With Your Funeral... My Trial done and dusted the boys risk it all and pop a squat in the Mercy Seat to kick off the Bad Seed's fifth studio album, Tender Prey!

And just like that, it's all over. Another album down! Join the boys as they offer their thoughts on the album-wrapping Tim Rose cover Long Time Man and the marvellously petty B-side oddity Scum, then eulogize, and deliver their final verdicts, on Your Funeral... My Trial.

What's that boy? She's fallen away? Not to worry! The boys are on the case, falling themselves down the yawning crevice of Your Funeral... My Trial's penultimate track, She Fell Away.   Ending Theme Music - 'Clap Along' by Jason Shaw