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CD
CD1	Tupelo Lyrics By – Cave*Music By – Adamson*, Harvey*	7:18
CD2	Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree Lyrics By – Cave*Music By – Harvey*	5:10
CD3	Train Long-Suffering Written-By – Cave*	3:49
CD4	Black Crow King Lyrics By – Cave*Music By – Bargeld*, Cave*	5:05
CD5	Knockin' On Joe Written-By – Cave*	7:39
CD6	Wanted Man Written-By – Bob Dylan	5:27
CD7	Blind Lemon Jefferson Lyrics By – Cave*Music By – Adamson*, Bargeld*, Harvey*, Cave*	6:08
DVD
Audio
DVD1	The Firstborn Is Dead In 5.1 Surround Sound
DVD2	The Six Strings That Drew Blood Written-By – Cave*
Video
DVD3	Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 2: The Firstborn Is Dead) Film Director [By] – Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard
DVD4	Tupelo Film Director – Christoph Dreher
DVD5	Wanted Man Film Director – Mick Harvey

Companies, etc.

• Recorded At – Hansa Tonstudios
• Mixed At – DMZ Studio
• Mixed At – The Instrument
• Mixed At – Strongroom
• Mixed At – Sing Sing Studios
• Mastered At – FX Copyroom

Credits

• Bass, Guitar, Organ, Drums, Backing Vocals – Barry Adamson
• Drums, Piano, Guitar, Organ, Bass, Backing Vocals – Mick Harvey
• Engineer – Flood
• Engineer [Assistant] – George
• Executive-Producer – Mick Harvey
• Executive-Producer [Collectors Edition] – David Rowntree, Rachel Willis, Shaun Connon
• Guitar, Guitar [Slide], Piano, Backing Vocals – Blixa Bargeld
• Liner Notes – Amy Hanson
• Mastered By [5.1], Remastered By [Cd] – Simon Heyworth
• Mixed By [5.1] – Kevin Paul, Mick Harvey
• Other [Co-ordination] – MJ & Anne Carruthers
• Performer [The Bad Seeds] – Barry Adamson, Blixa Bargeld, Mick Harvey
• Photography By [Front Cover & The Bad Seeds] – Jutta Henglein
• Photography By [Nick Cave] – Bleddyn Butcher
• Research [Archive] – Anne Carruthers, Peach Kazen
• Technician [Master Tape Resurrection And Transfer] – Kevin Van Bergen*
• Vocals, Harmonica – Nick Cave

Notes

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

Mixed at DMZ Studio, The Instrument & The Strongroom, London & SingSing, Melbourne.

Master tape resurrection and transfer done at FX Copyroom.

Kevin Paul appears courtesy of Audio Authority.

5.1 mastering and CD remastering at Super Audio Mastering, Devon.

DVD contains 128 kbps MP3 versions of DVD 2 and MPEG-4 versions of DVD tracks 3, 4 and 5 in three different qualities.

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
STUMM 21	Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds*	The Firstborn Is Dead ‎(LP, Album)	Mute	STUMM 21	UK	1985
ALCB-624	Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds*	The Firstborn Is Dead ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Mute	ALCB-624	Japan	1988
ALR 151	Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds*	The Firstborn Is Dead ‎(Cass, Album, Unofficial)	Always Records	ALR 151	Russia	1995
STUMM 21	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	The Firstborn Is Dead ‎(LP, Album)	Mute, Possum Records	STUMM 21	Australia	1985
STRESS0106275	Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds*	The Firstborn Is Dead ‎(CD, Album, Unofficial)	Stress Records	STRESS0106275	Russia	Unknown