Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
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CD Details
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
- Stagger Lee
- Henry Lee
- Lovely Creature
- Where the Wild Roses Grow
- Curse of Millhaven
- Kindness of Strangers
- Crow Jane
- O'Malley's Bar
- Death Is Not the End
Music reviews of Murder Ballads
Music Review: Listen with the lights on
Rating: 5 Stars
I love this CD, but I wouldn't use it for a lullabye. For those who don't know, the CD is a collection of ten songs about murder and mayhem written in the old English ballad style.
The songs are better than CSI to take you right to the bed where a victim lay shot through the head or the barroom where a bad guy is about to wreak havoc. Cave accomplishes this with plangent chords, screaming effects, and vocalizations that range from shouts to whispers.
"Murder Ballads" is not for people who object to strong language or violent situations. If either push your buttons, you're not going to derive full enjoyment from these songs. On the other hand, if you enjoy powerful music that sticks with you long after you've played the disk, this is a CD you are going to want.
Rebecca Kyle, October 2009
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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