NICK CAVE "Murder Ballads" 1996 UK MUTE 1st PRESS NM

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  NICK CAVE "Murder Ballads" 1996 UK MUTE 1st PRESS NM MATT SLEEVE w/GATEFOLD INSERT, ONE PLAY, TOP COPY
NICK CAVE and the BAD SEEDS
Murder Ballads


ORIGINAL UK MUTE RECORDS (STUMM 138) FIRST PRESSING (February 1996) OF NICK CAVE and the BAD SEEDS' STUNNING "Murder Ballads" LP - IN MY OPINION THE FINEST PIECE OF WORK FROM THE FINEST ARTIST AROUND

THIS IS MY OWN PERSONAL SECOND COPY, BOUGHT BY MAIL ORDER AND ARRIVING BEFORE THE OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE AND THE LP IS IN ONCE PLAYED CONDITION (the only play it has received is today, for my play-grading)
IT PLAYS BEAUTIFULLY THROUGHOUT WITH JUST THE OCCASIONAL (VERY) LIGHT PATCH OF SURFACE NOISE (nothing major or intrusive at all and only mentioned for complete accuracy)
AND IT'S HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL MATT SLEEVE WHICH HAS A SMALL SPLIT TO THE TOP EDGE (this is how it arrived new and I repaired it at the time with a little tape - which is barely noticeable)
COMPLETE WITH THE GATEFOLD "MURDER BALLADS BULLETIN" INSERT - WHICH IS MINT
MATRICES: STUMM 138 - A1 / STUMM 138 - B1

A SUPERB UK FIRST PRESSING OF AN ABSOLUTELY TREMENDOUS LP - HIS FINEST AND VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
I WILL NOT GIVE MY USUAL DETAILED PLAY-GRADING AS THE PROVENANCE OF THIS COPY IS CLEAR, JUST TO SAY THAT IT SOUNDS SENSATIONAL AND APART FROM THE SPLIT TO THE TOP OF THE COVER, IT'S MINT

In some ways, Murder Ballads is the record Nick Cave was waiting to make for 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.

Track Listing:
Side 1: Song Of Joy / Stagger Lee / Henry Lee / Crow Jane / The Curse Of Millhaven
Side 2: Where The Wild Roses Grow / Lovely Creature / The Kindness Of Strangers / O'Malleys Bar / Death Is Not The End

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