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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have a whole ton of albums to their credit (fourteen to be exact), and Mute Records plans to reissue each and every one of them. Not only that, but they're releasing all these albums in 5.1 surround sound-enhanced remastered versions, with B-sides and videos included. And each of the reissues will include one of a series of short films from Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard called Do You Love Me Like I Love You?. That's a big enough undertaking that Mick Harvey, the longtime guitarist who left the band in January, will stick around to help with each of the reissues.

On March 30 in Europe and April 7 in North America, Mute will reissue the first four Bad Seeds albums; the next ten will eventually follow. The first batch: 1984's From Her to Eternity, 1985's The Firstborn Is Dead, 1986's Kicking Against the Pricks, and 1986's Your Funeral... My Trial. Every one of these albums is terrifyingly badass in its own way, and we are amped about these reissues.

In other Bad Seeds news, the band has announced that guitarist Ed Kuepper will fill Harvey's titanic shoes at a few Bad Seeds shows this summer. If you went looking for an Australian punk legend to replace Harvey, you could do a lot worse: Back in 1973, Kuepper formed the legendary punk band the Saints, whose "(I'm) Stranded" single was, is, and always will be an absolute banger. After the Saints broke up, Kuepper led the skronky post-punk band the Laughing Clowns, who reunited for the first time since 1984 at the Cave-curated Australian ATP festival in January. (The group has three more reunion shows this May in Melbourne and Sydney.) Kuepper has been flying solo since the Clowns' 1984 breakup. And now he's a Bad Seed, at least for the time being. That right there is a hell of a resume.

After the jump, we've got the reissue tracklists and the Bad Seeds' forthcoming dates:

Reissue tracklists:

From Her to Eternity

01 Avalanche
02 Cabin Fever
03 Well of Misery
04 From Her to Eternity
05 Saint Huck
06 Wings Off Flies
07 A Box for Black Paul
08 In the Ghetto
09 The Moon Is in the Gutter
10 From Her to Eternity (Der Himmel Uber Berlin version)

The First Born Is Dead

01 Tupelo
02 Say Goodbye to the Little Girl Tree
03 Train Long-Suffering
04 Black Crow King
05 Knockin' on Joe
06 Wanted Man
07 Blind Lemon Jefferson
08 The Six Strings That Drew Blood

Kicking Against the Pricks

01 Muddy Water
02 I'm Gonna Kill That Woman
03 Sleeping Annaleah
04 Long Black Veil
05 Hey Joe
06 The Singer
07 All Tomorrows Parties
08 By the Time I Get to Phoenix
09 The Hammer Song
10 Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart
11 Jesus Met the Woman at the Well
12 The Carnival Is Over
13 Black Betty (12" B-side)
14 Running Scared (7" B-side)

Your Funeral... My Trial

01 Sad Waters
02 The Carny
03 Your Funeral My Trial
04 Stranger Than Kindness
05 Jack's Shadow
06 Hard on for Love
07 She Fell Away
08 Long Time Man
09 Scum

Dates:

06-12 Oslo, Norway - Norwegian Wood Festival
06-19-21 Neuhausen Ob Eck, Germany - Southside Festival
06-19-21 Scheesel, Germany - Hurricane Festival
07-04 Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter Festival
07-10 Balado, Scotland - T in the Park Festival
07-11 Naas, Ireland - Oxegen Festival