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| Title | Time | Price | |||
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| Buy All | 54:25 |
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| 01. | The Mercy Seat | 7:18 |
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| 02. | Up Jumped The Devil | 5:16 |
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| 03. | Deanna | 3:45 |
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| 04. | Watching Alice | 4:01 |
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| 05. | Mercy | 6:22 |
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| 06. | City Of Refuge | 4:48 |
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| 07. | Slowly Goes The Night | 5:23 |
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| 08. | Sunday's Slave | 3:40 |
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| 09. | Sugar, Sugar, Sugar |
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5:01 |
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| 10. | New Morning |
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3:46 |
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| 11. | The Mercy Seat (Video Mix) |
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5:05 |
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The dark, poetic troubadour tendencies hinted at in Cave's work as early as his first album's cover of Leonard Cohen's "Avalance" blossom on TENDER PREY. In a style recalling Cohen and Tom Waits, Cave ups the lyrical ante considerably here. On gory detail-oriented, literate tunes like "Up Jumped the Devil" and "Mercy", Cave's second life as a novelist (he would soon author a book) is obvious. Here, the distance he achieves from his inner demons allows him to focus more on crafting his personal horror stories, making him seem like the Edgar Allen Poe of the rock world. more...
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Q (12/99, p.171)
- Included in Q Magazine's Best Gothic Albums Of All Time - "...A voodoo Elvis preoccupied with death and the devil, Cave scaled new heights of dark, nihilistic poetry on the fifth Seeds album....Sounds like the last record you will ever hear."
Mojo (5/01, p.46)
- "The whole band was pickled, and the album took 12 months to make. But TENDER PREY still contains at least 3 stone classics - 'The Mercy Seat', 'Deanna', and 'New Morning'..."
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