Kicking Against The Pricks (Reissue)

This deluxe double-disc collector's edition contains the remastered stereo album, the new surround mix, a specially commissioned short film made by acclaimed UK artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard plus the B-sides from the singles and exclusive sleeve notes.

In 1986, the year Kicking Against The Pricks - a cover album - was released, then 28-year-old Nick Cave was the object of both reverence and antagonism in the contemporary press. In interviews he's baited, held up as genius, soothsayer and arrogant, autistic nutcase. Kicking against the pricks is a biblical lift, referring to an ox kicking in irritation at the sharpened rod  the goad or prick  used by the driver when tilling soil. It would seem there were plenty of goads and an abundance of pain to deal with in Cave's life.

Due to a lack of new songs, as Cave was in the middle of writing his novel "And The Ass Saw the Angel", a covers album paying tribute to everyone from Johnny Cash to Velvet Underground looked like the thing to do. In the end it would break him into a much wider audience.