NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS Murder Ballads SEALED LP Opaque Blue and Yellow Split

Description: NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS Murder Ballads hails from 2017 and is a SEALED Exclusive LP from Newbury Comics featuring a pressing on Opaque Blue and Yellow Split Vinyl. Murder Ballads represents the very darkest depths of the band’s 90s output. Two tracks from this set appear on the group’s 1998 best-of, and both are duets. The first, Henry Lee, features Cave’s ex-partner PJ Harvey – their break-up would inspire a number of songs on The Boatman’s Call. The second is Cave’s biggest UK hit single to date: Where the Wild Roses Grow, featuring Kylie Minogue. The pint-sized star’s presence does go some way towards explaining the song’s commercial success; but its video, included here, also played a significant part. A striking work inspired by John Everett Millais’ 1852 painting Ophelia, it sees Cave’s character lay Minogue’s to rest in a shallow pond after killing her with a rock (unsurprisingly, that part of the story isn’t shown). It’s a piece of pop history which retains its haunting quality to this day. And there’s plenty more brilliance where those two came from. Stagger Lee is one of the finest foul-mouthed songs ever committed to tape, a swaggering tale of prostitutes and pistols, muddy roads and bloody murder – don’t listen to it in the car when taking your mum shopping. O’Malley’s Bar is novel-like in its detail of a furious killing spree. It’s an endurance test at over 14 minutes long, but not a second is wasted, Cave rambling with glee as the song’s antagonist sets about his wicked work. Opener Song of Joy is an unsettling curtain-up – it’s never completely clear whether the John Milton-quoting narrator has killed his own children or, in fact, he’s fleeing a similar fate. The title says it all, really: Murder Ballads. You get just that and, given the musicians at work, everything’s expectedly brilliant. The extras, including talking-head contributions from St Vincent’s Annie Clark, photographer Steve Gullick and BBC Music reviewer Luke Turner(among various Bad Seeds, musicians and critics), are simply the sweetest icing on a deliciously crimson cake. Song of JoyStagger LeeHenry LeeLovely CreatureWhere the Wild Roses GrowThe Curse of MillhavenThe Kindness of StrangersCrow JaneO’Malley’s Bar Death is Not the End

Price: 89.99 USD

Location: Yorba Linda, California

End Time: 2025-01-17T17:58:25.000Z

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