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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
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Murder Ballads
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Murder Ballads is a fascinating concept album that uses the narrative ballad form of the English folk tradition to tell of murder: random deaths, passion crimes, and killing sprees, all in one package. Cave clearly thrives in this genre, and he produces some of his sharpest and most facile writing to date. "Song of Joy," a genuinely scary campfire mystery of a murdered family and an unnamed killer, chillingly weaves clues into the lyrics, while "Where the Wild Roses Grow" is a narrative duet in which killer (Cave) and victim (pop star Kylie Minogue) reveal parallel tales. Cave even shows his knack for adaptation on Bob Dylan's "Death Is Not the End": he recontextualizes a song of heavenly comfort into a sort of zombie "We Are the World" (featuring Minogue, PJ Harvey, Shane MacGowan, and others) in which "death is not the end" of pain and suffering. Above all, Murder Ballads should be heard as a work of pulp fiction--as sensationally funny as it is harrowing. Mute. 2005.
| Media | Music VINYL LP (Vinyl) |
| Number of records | 1 |
| Released | January 19, 1996 |
| EAN/UPC | 5016025311385 |
| Label | MUTE STUMM138 |
| Genre | Rock |
| Dimensions | 300 g (Weight (estimated)) |
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