Editado em 1996 Murder Ballads foi o maior sucesso comercial da banda aquando do seu lançamento, atraindo muito atenção com o dueto letal de Nick Cave e Kylie Minogue em Where The Wild Roses Grow. Além dos originais o album apresenta surpreendentes recriações de temas tradicionais como Stagger Lee e Henry Lee. Convidados adicionais neste disco incluem PJ Harvey e Shane MacGowan.

Catorze albums clássicos de Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds são disponibilizados em vinil audiófilo 180gr pela primeira vez, cada album foi remasterizado (supervisionado por Mick Harvey, antigo "Bad Seed" e membro fundador), as capas reflectem o grafismo e arte das edições originais. Estas reedições têm excelente qualidade, na masterização e na prensagem, a não perder.

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. "Where the Wild Roses Grow," a duet featuring Cave singing with Kylie Minogue, was a hit single and received two ARIA Awards in 1996. Other prominent guest musicians on the album include PJ Harvey and Shane MacGowan.

Murder Ballads was the band's biggest commercial success to date, most likely helped by the unexpected repeated airplay of the "Where the Wild Roses Grow" video on MTV. MTV even nominated Cave for their "best male artist" award of that year, though this nomination was later withdrawn at Cave's request.

The first song written for the album was "O'Malley's Bar", when the band was recording Henry's Dream. Recordings (in London and Melbourne) were done towards the end of the Let Love In sessions, and there was some thought that the early material could be made into a film with John Hillcoat. Cave said, "I was going around everywhere with letters of intent, pushing them at everyone I knew, saying 'Do you want to be in this film?"


Lista de Faixas:

Lado A
01. Song of Joy
02. Henry Lee
03. Lovely Creature
04. Stagger Lee

Lado B
05. Where the Wild Roses Grow
06. The Curse of Millhaven
07. The Kindness of Strangers
08. Crow Jane

Lado C
09. O'Malley's Bar
10. Death is not the End

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