Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Good Son LP

In the aftermath of the prolonged enterprise cum transnational three-ring circus that comprised the creation and completion of 1988's Tender Prey, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, both collectively and individually, desperately required a sabbatical – Cave in particular. By his own admission, Cave emerged from a spell in a clinic a damaged recluse. "You think I was bad going in, you should of seen when I came out. I locked myself in a room in Clapham for a year and did nothing," he stated. "I couldn't get out of the house. I was a basket case." But not a complete basket case: for during that time, Nick had access to a piano upstairs from his flat at which he would occasionally sit and write. Two numbers Nick drew out of himself during his Clapham lacuna were "The Train Song" and "Sorrow's Child"; and both tunes ended up being recorded in the course of sessions for what ultimately became Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds sixth album release, 1990's The Good Son. It was during this period that