Kicking Against The Pricks  by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Kicking Against The Pricks is an album full of covers of songs that obviously played a crucial role in Nick Cave's musical journey up to that point. Kicking Against The Pricks is the third album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and it sums up all the madness that prevailed in the mind of Nick Cave and the rest of his musical company during that period.

Nick Cave manages to have Jimi Hendrix and Gene Pitney coexist on the same album, along with the Velvet Underground and The Seekers (!) Beyond the content of the songs encapsulated within this record, it is the album during which the band The Bad Seeds is shaped, a band that would accompany Nick Cave for many more years to come.

In a paradoxical way, Kicking Against The Pricks reached number 89 in the United Kingdom. The album is now a legendary album of the alternative rock and post-punk era.