Probably missing some things and I’m not certain on the order but this is how I feel about them:
Bad Seeds stuff before the Good Son - I like what I’ve heard but don’t go to it much
The Good Son - love this
Let Love In - great
Boatman’s Call, NMSWP era - pretty good, don’t listen to much but love a few bits
00’s rock albums - mostly good but a bit boring at times, remind me of Bowie albums like Heathen and Reality, fine but feel like they’re past their peak creatively
PtSA, ST & Ghosteen - 3 of my favourite albums ever, Ghosteen my favourite of that decade.
Don’t always love the records (and clicked on the wrong ruddy one here) but live, he’s always been the real deal. The Bad Seeds are such a great band, and he conducts them with the grace and force of James Brown or Iggy or someone. Unbelievable performer. Total five for that.
Easy five for @anon19035908 for doing all this polling too. Cheers!
Easiest five next to Neil Young. Impossible to pick a top album. I remember when I was 17 and I went to see him with my mum and it was full of goth mums and their children, had a cracking time.
The production on The Good Son is a bit weak for me. It joins Nocturama and Murder Ballads in the bottom tier of Bad Seeds albums. Still 8/10 though, it’s brilliant by anyone else’s standards,
This version of the title track from Live Seeds Is incredible.
Just went to check on the album ratings at the top of the thread. Top three albums all from different decades… How many bands /artists could you say that of? So many of these threads we’ve done where the same trajectory is repeated “were vital and exciting, ran out of steam /ideas”. Not this lot.
Just been listening to Push The Sky Away (a previous fave) and Ghosteen (for the first time)
Guess he’s not a 2, is he?
Still a lot of duff to hit ratio, but both of these records are both quite consistently lovely (very bad synth sounds throughout Ghosteen put to one side)
