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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads (1996) CD-Rip

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads (1996) CD-Rip
  • Title: Murder Ballads
  • Year Of Release: 1996
  • Label: Reprise Records #9 46195-2
  • Genre: Alternative Rock
  • Quality: EAC Rip -> FLAC (Img+Cue, Log) / MP3 CBR320
  • Total Time: 00:58:57
  • Total Size: 423 / 142 Mb (Full Scans ~ 195 Mb)
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Murder Ballads is the ninth studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released in 1996 on Mute Records. As its title suggests, the album consists of new and traditional murder ballads, a genre of songs that relays the details (and often consequences) of crimes of passion. "Where the Wild Roses Grow," a duet featuring Cave singing with Kylie Minogue, was a hit single and received two ARIA Awards in 1996. Other prominent guest musicians on the album include PJ Harvey and Shane MacGowan.

In some ways, Murder Ballads is the record Nick Cave was waiting to make his entire career. Death and violence have always haunted his music, even when he wasn't explicitly singing about the subject. On Murder Ballads, he sings about nothing but death in the most gruesome, shocking fashion. Divided between originals and covers, the record is awash in both morbid humor and sobering horror, as the Bad Seeds provide an appropriate backdrop for the carnage, alternating between blues, country, and lounge-jazz. Opening the affair is "Song for Joy," a tale from a father who has witnessed his family's death at the hands of serial killer. It is the most disturbing number on the record, lacking any of the gallows humor that balances out the other songs. Cave's duets with Kylie Minogue ("Where the Wild Roses Grow") and PJ Harvey ("Henry Lee") are intriguing, but the true tours de force of the album are "Stagger Lee" and "O'Malley's Bar." Working from an obscure, vulgar variation on "Stagger Lee," Cave increases the sordidness of the song, making Stagger an utterly irredeemable character. The original "O'Malley's Bar" is even stronger, as he spins a bizarrely funny epic of one man's slaughter of an entire bar. During "O'Malley's Bar," Cave and the Bad Seeds are at the height of their powers and the performances rank among the best they have ever recorded.

~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music

Track List:

01. Song Of Joy [6:47]
02. Stagger Lee [5:15]
03. Henry Lee [3:58]
04. Lovely Creature [4:14]
05. Where The Wild Roses Grow [3:57]
06. The Curse Of Millhaven [6:56]
07. The Kindness Of Strangers [4:39]
08. Crow Jane [4:15]
09. O'Malley's Bar [14:28]
10. Death Is Not The End [4:27]

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