I remember reading an interview with Mike Patton in about 1991 or so where he mentioned that fans would harass FNM all show long, crying out for their cover of "War Pigs;" at some point, Patton would exclaim "We're going to do that cover now!" and everybody would go nuts, hoping for "War Pigs," but the band would…

It's probably been mentioned here already but Coltrane's A Love Supreme. Every second is pure heaven.

For complete beginners, I'd start with the live album Summer in the Southeast. Rockin', fairly accessible and just a great overall listen from beginning to end.

And he makes a mean risotto…..

The problem that some Birthday Party fans have with the Bad Seeds albums is that you really, really gotta dig the Nick Cave personas to like them as he's at the center of all them. What made Birthday Party great was that it was better than the sum of its parts, Cave was just one element of that and his ego and various…

Are they performing Hairway to Steven on this reunion tour, in its entirety?