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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds The Firstborn Is Dead
1985 Vinyl
Blues Rock
New Wave

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Mute
bass, guitar, organ, drums, backing vocals Barry Adamson
drums, piano, guitar, organ, bass, backing vocals Mick Harvey
engineer Flood
engineer [assistant] George
guitar, slide guitar, backing vocals Blixa Bargeld
lacquer cut by Tim Young
lyrics by [all] Nick Cave
management [personal representation] Loud And Clear Management
photography by [front/back photographs] Jutta Henglein
producer Flood
producer Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
vocals, harmonica Nick Cave
Phonographic Copyright (p) Mute Records
Copyright (c) Mute Records
Published By Dying Art Ltd.
Published By Sonet Ltd.
Published By Warner Bros. Music Ltd.
Recorded At Hansa Tonstudios
Lacquer Cut At CBS Studios, London
Pressed By MPO
Issued with black & white inner-sleeve that includes credits and a continuation of the back-cover text.

Recorded: November-December, 1984, Hansa, Ton-Studios, West Berlin.

℗ & © 1985 Mute Records
All songs published by Dying Art Ltd/Sonet Ltd. except Wanted Man by Warner Bros. Music Ltd.

Wanted Man evolved from a song written by Bob Dylan and recorded by Johnny Cash.
Matrix / Runout: MPO STUMM 21 A1 TimTom • cbs A MURDER OF CROWS (Side A, hand-etched runout)
Matrix / Runout: MPO STUMM 21 B1 THE BLUE TESTAMENT (Side B, hand-etched runout)



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