Great album. Eerie, nightmare.
- "The Carry", with its parlando voice, reminds of "the Cat Piano"
"The Boatman's Call"
- "Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere?" - slow, sad
- "Green Eyes" - this is pretty horrible, absolutely Cave-ish in lyrics, but the parlando-over-singing... it's a 50's pastiche!
"Henry's Dream"
- "Papa Won't Leave You, Henry" - power, a carriage running wild, with the Bad Seeds as dangerously answering choir
- "John Finn's Wife" - orchestral
- "I Had A Dream, Joe"
"Tender Prey"
- "Watching Alice" - strange, plonk-wieew guitars, slow
- "Up Jumped The Devil" - Cave at his best evil self (at moments his intonation (incantation) reminded me of Jules Deelder's "Oh kut": "O My O My / What a wretched life / I was born on the day / That my poor mother died / I was cut from her belly / With a stanley knife / My daddy did a jig / With the drunk midwife"
"The Firstborn Is Dead"
more experimental. less my liking.
