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 Love, even thought the lyrics are kinda "sick".
 
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 Renata T Czechowicz favorited and reviewed Murder Ballads
 
 If I start listening Nick Cave it means I'm in black hole of sadness.
 I'm listening him quite often;>
 
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 Renata T Czechowicz What do you mean "start"? It is in progress. My dog love this sad, depressed music.
 
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 Urszula Kur That means that Shamal is listening but do you start to listen them
 
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 Renata T Czechowicz I think Sigur knows Nick Cave.
 
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 Lena Schaller favorited and reviewed Murder Ballads
 
 I'm the bad motherfucker called Stagger Lee <3
 
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 Piratina favorited and reviewed Murder Ballads
 
 This is my second favourite album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Originally his label didn't want to produce and market this album, they had no idea how it would go over. Ironically enough, it... more
 
 This is my second favourite album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Originally his label didn't want to produce and market this album, they had no idea how it would go over. Ironically enough, it turned out to be the bands biggest success out of all their albums. You get exactly what you think you would. Songs about murder. Another most enjoyable note to this album is the many guest appearance on the tracks. PJ Harvey sings Henry Lee with Cave. And Kylie Minogue sings Where The Wild Roses Grow. But my personal favourite is the last song, Death Is Not The End where Shane McGowen, (lead singer of The Pogues - another amazing band) makes an appearance. Don't pass this up. It's beyond amazing.
 
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 All God's children, they all gotta die!
 
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 The Wild Rose...darkest love song ever.
 
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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 Sarig

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By Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, 1996

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