NICK CAVE-Murder Ballads LP NEAR MINT
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Description
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds classic album Murder Ballads on vinyl! Cover and record in Near Mint!! This is a great album in beautiful condition. Good luck.
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Album info:
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.
Tracks Title Composer Time 1 Song of Joy Cave, Milton 6:46 2 Stagger Lee Bargeld, Casey, Cave, Harvey ... 5:14 3 Henry Lee Cave, Traditional 3:56 4 Lovely Creature Bargeld, Casey, Cave, Harvey ... 4:12 5 Where the Wild Roses Grow Cave 3:56 6 The Curse of Millhaven Cave 6:54 7 The Kindness of Strangers Cave 4:37 8 Crow Jane Casey, Cave 4:13 9 O'Malley's Bar Cave 14:28 10 Death Is Not the End Dylan 4:27 indicates Track Pickprice rating
