Your Funeral...My Trial (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.

While on previous works it wasn't entirely clear whether he was in charge of his demons/obsessions, Your Funeral... now sounds like the watershed moment when a proper measure of artistic control was gained, to be subsequently built upon.

In Your Funeral...My Trial you see the erratic progress of Cave and his Seeds: a literate Australian obsessed with the illiterate American Deep South, backed by a motley Peckinpah-ragged band of Euro/Aussie players, peripatetically resident in London, Brazil, and Berlin. Sometimes you may have loved the idea of it all - torch songs on fire; abjection, narcotics, breakdown - as much as, if not more than, the actual recordings: Cave as cultured rock 'n' role decadent, half Georges Bataille, half Jerry Lee Lewis; or, equal parts Edgar Allan Poe and Elvis Aaron Presley.

While the Bad Seeds' lineup changed throughout their career, the original members appearing on these albums included Mick Harvey (The Birthday Party), Blixa Bargeld (Elnsturzende Neubauten), Barry Adamson (Magazine) and Thomas Wydler.