Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
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Artist: Nick Cave & the Bad SeedsEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 1996-02-20
Music Label: Reprise / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Song of Joy - Nick Cave, Milton, Johnny
- Stagger Lee - Nick Cave, Traditional
- Henry Lee - Nick Cave, Traditional
- Lovely Creature
- Where the Wild Roses Grow
- The Curse of Millhaven
- The Kindness of Strangers
- Crow Jane
- O'Malley's Bar
- Death Is Not the End - Nick Cave, Dylan, Bob
Music reviews of Murder Ballads
Music Review: Nick never lets us down
Rating: 5 Stars
Nick Cave never lets his fans down and puts out exactly what they want to hear.
Murder Ballads is appropriately named, and an absolute delight to listen to.... should you be of such a mind.
Nicks lyrics are harsh, but his deep tones and clear imagery paints picture after picture with music. Blood gore and mud, but put together in such a way as to delight the listener in his world.
I suppose if fine art could be made of blood, gore and mud, the paint to use would be Murder Ballads.
Nick typically sings in his usual deep serious tones, with perfectly fitting music. Its rather like Grim Fairy tales, and I mean GRIM fairy tales.
I live in a town called Milhaven,
and it's small and it's mean and it's cold.
But if you come around just as the sun goes down,
you can watch the whole thing turn to gold.
Oh, it's around then that I used to go a-roaming, singing
Lalalala, lalalalie, all God's children, they all gotta die!
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Description of Murder Ballads
Nick Cave's been writing songs about killing and other evil things since he first surfaced in 1980 as the Birthday Party's pale, skinny, goth-punk Jim Morrison. But the murder ballads that provide this set's title are different, tantalizingly deliberate. Sure, there's plenty of trademark Cave here, but 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. The already violent traditional song "Stagger Lee" becomes gangsta folk, so ridiculously packed with obscenity and brutality it would make the Geto Boys cringe. And Cave's (unintentional?) point to would-be censors--that bad-ass songs existed long before rappers polluted the airways--should not be missed. --Roni SarigGeneral CDs
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