NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS "MURDER BALLADS" LP UK ORIGINAL NEAR MINT RARE
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Up for auction is the hard to find NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS’ LP “MURDER BALLADS”. This UK 1st pressing is on the STUMM label, catalog #STUMM 138. This 1995 release is in NEAR MINT condition. Cover has a little corner wear with a small bump to top corner and opening middle. Vinyl is in NEAR MINT condition, clean and glossy, with a small “Made in UK” on label and cover. A NEAR MINT copy! Be sure to email me with any questions and look at my pic’s. I DO NOT ship to ITALY. Bidders from outside the USA please wait for invoice with exact shipping costs. Good luck!
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NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS “MURDER BALLADS” UK 1st PRESS!!
Music Review from AllMusic.com by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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.
