The Good Son | ||||
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Released | 17 April 1990 | |||
Recorded | by Victor Van Vugt at São Paulo, October 1989, mixed by Flood, Gareth Jones at Berlin, November–December 1989 | |||
Studio | Cardan Studios, São Paulo, Brazil | |||
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Length | 45:12 | |||
Label | Mute | |||
Producer | The Bad Seeds | |||
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Singles from The Good Son | ||||
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AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Drowned in Sound | 9/10[4] |
Entertainment Weekly | B[5] |
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NME | 8/10[7] |
Paste | 7.8/10[2] |
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Record Mirror | 4/5[9] |
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The Good Son is the sixth studio album by Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released in 1990.
After two dark and harrowing albums with Your Funeral... My Trial (1986) and Tender Prey (1988), The Good Son was a substantial departure with a lighter and generally more uplifting sound. The change of mood was greatly inspired by singer Nick Cave falling in love with Brazilian journalist Viviane Carneiro, and an apparently salutary spell in rehab which purged much of the despair and squalor reflected in the previous two albums. Cave later said, "I guess The Good Son is some kind of reflection of the way I felt early on in Brazil. I was quite happy there. I was in love and the first year or two was good. The problem I found was ... in order to survive you have to adopt their attitudes towards everything, which are kind of blinkered."[12]