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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 (and often consequences) of crimes of passion.
"Where the Wild Roses Grow" is a murder ballad [2] by Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and pop singer Kylie Minogue. Released in October 1995, it is the fifth song and lead single from the band's ninth studio album, Murder Ballads (1996), released on Mute Records.
Nick Cave "Henry Lee/Knoxville Girl" [13] 2002: Pine Valley Cosmonauts w/Brett Sparks: The Executioner's Last Songs [14] 2003: The Handsome Family: Smothered and Covered: 2005: Okkervil River: Black Sheep Boy [15] 2005: Sweetwater: The Ballads [16] 2005: Roger Alan Wade: All Likkered Up [17] 2006: The Singing Hall Sisters: Searching for the ...
The town described in the song is loosely based on Cave's hometown of Wangaratta. (Pictured: Wangaratta railway station, 1954). The liner notes for Murder Ballads state that the phrase "red right hand" is from a line in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost that refers to divine vengeance.
Nicholas Edward Cave AO FRSL (born 22 September 1957 [2]) is an Australian musician, writer and actor. Known for his deep baritone voice and for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Cave's music is characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love, and violence.
Within ballads, the "event song" is dedicated to narrating a particular event, and the murder ballad is a type of event song in which the event is a murder. This definition can be applied also to songs composed self-consciously within, or with reference to, the traditional generic conventions. [ 1 ]
Murder Ballads, by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Mute Records, 1996; Murder Metal, Macabre, 2003 (This band appears to have become known for a death metal variation of ...
Nick Cave has denied he is “a misogynist” as he responded to accusations that his studio album Murder Ballads included lyrics that were violent towards women.. The Australian singer-songwriter ...