Death never sounded so good (Murder Ballads - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds)

Member Name: DannoStanno

Product:	Murder Ballads - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Date:	18/05/09 (4 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Lyrically great, no fillers

Disadvantages: Not the cheeriest of albums!

Everone knows Nick Cave can be drark in his epic song writing. However, how dark is answered in this ten track album centred on the art of murder and all things gruesome. Yet Cave doesn't go for a barrage of grotesque lyrics like some sort of Heavy Metal word-spewer but forms his dark, devious thoughts into ten uniquely melancholic songs drenched in as much humour as blood.

The album's opener has an eerie backbeat which sets the tone for the album where as 'Stagger Lee' tells the traditional story of a drunken cowboy with Cave's own darkened humour thrown in.

Track three, another Lee (Henry), sees him team up with PJ Harvey and yet this isn't even the best duet on the album! That award goes to 'Where the Wild Roses Grow,' the most tender of songs with his fellow countryman Kylie Minogue about love,sex and murder. 'The Curse of Milhaven' is a wurlitzer of a song encompassing all the fun and creepy noises of the fair with the psycopathic actions of a teenage girl (joyous!).

If those weren't enough reasons to tempt you then surely an 11 minute epic village shoot out and a collaboration on an old Dylan number ('Death is not the end') would be.

In my opinion, this is Nick Cave's best album in a discography that includes many others classics.

Summary: Brilliant album from the darkest man in pop - not a bad track amongstthem