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Murder Ballads is the ninth studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released in 1996 on Mute Records. As its title suggests, the album consists of new and traditional murder ballads, a genre of songs that relays the details (and often consequences) of crimes of passion .
- 58:43
- 5 February 1996
- 1993–1995
Nov 11, 2021 · Cave’s variant—a devastatingly horny duet with English singer PJ Harvey, whom he was dating at the time—is more vague as to the details leading up to Henry Lee’s demise. The song even makes it...
Jul 21, 2021 · (“ Henry Lee ,” one of the saddest and most beloved songs from Cave’s album, sung in duet with PJ Harvey, is an interpretation of a song that actually originated in early 19th century Scotland.)
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Feb 5, 1996 · The album also featured collaborations by PJ Harvey and Shane MacGowan. Murder Ballads became the group’s biggest commercial success to date, due in part to the unexpected reception of...
Oct 27, 2020 · October 27, 2020. 360°Sound spoke with journalist and essayist Santi Elijah Holley about his new 33 1/3 book on the 1996 album Murder Ballads by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Holley’s work has appeared in The Guardian, The Atlantic and VICE, among many other publications.
Jul 20, 2018 · Throughout Murder Ballads, Cave gleefully populated the songs with a rogues gallery of some of the most despicable, murderous characters imaginable: from psychotic serial killers and damned souls to a teenage banshee-wailing schoolgirl, basking in the vicious slaughter of her fellow villagers.
