- alternative rock, folk rock, rock, blues rock
- 60 min
- 10 tracks
- Reprise Records
Murder Ballads is the ninth studio album by the Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released on 5 February 1996 by Mute Records. As its title suggests, the album consists of new and traditional murder ballads, a genre of songs that relays the details of crimes of passion.
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Bleak, grave, overwhelming and open-ended.
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- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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Tracks
- 1Song of Joy6:51
- 2Stagger Lee5:19
- 3Henry Lee4:02
- 4Lovely Creature4:18
- 5Where the Wild Roses Grow4:01
- 6The Curse of Millhaven6:60
- 7The Kindness of Strangers4:43
- 8Crow Jane4:19
- 9O’Malley’s Bar14:32
- 10Death Is Not the End4:27
10 tracks, 60 minutes.
About the album
- Label
- Reprise Records
- Released
- 1996
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- GB
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