Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds-Murder Ballads (1996)


 

Artist: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Title: Murder Ballads

Label: Reprise/Mute

Format: CD

Catalog Number: 9 46195-2

Year of Release: 1996

Country and Year of Edition: US 1996 SRC

Sell Price: $7.25

Sell Date: 1/17/26

Condition: VG+/VG+ 

Discogs Last Sold: 1//1/26 VG+/VG+ $1.99

Low: $1.99

Median: $4.00

Average: $4.30

High: $8.13

Current low price: $3.99

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 16

Have/Want: 942/177

Where Sold: Columbus, OH

Time It Took To Sell:  2 years

Where and When Bought: $2 Facebook marketplace lot

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+

Sad To See It Go: No

By 1996 Nick Cave was entrenched enough in American popular culture via a 1994 Lolapalooza tour that when he finally returned here in 1998 he as theatre level and has only seemed to get bigger as the years ago by.  This 9th record stradles that world with Bad Seeds names like Mick Harvey and Jim Sculvanos as well as later featured collaboratior Warren Ellis, guest star PJ Harvey and even Kylie Minogue and Shane Macgowan turn up in the chorus of the Dylan cover from his 1988 album Down In The Groove entitled "Death Is Not The End."  

The big live hit on here is the ribald "Stagger Lee."  That Nick Cave has a filthy mouth and that tune has carried on a couple decades.  The other trad Lee, "Henry Lee" is the other song that has the most live traction over the years. "Where The Wild Roses Grow" and "The Curse of Milhaven" have also got some attention at different points in time but for the most part this album is somewhere in the middle of the pack of an extensive catalog.  Certainly listenable in it's thematic splendor but also a touch dull in it's violent excellence. Especially the near 15 minute "O'Malley's Bar."

That goes double for Billy Dilly and his fate.

FOR FURTHER REVIEW:

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds @ Barclays Center, Brooklyn, NY 4/17/25

Mick Harvey @ TV Eye, Ridgewood, Queens, NY 11/17/25

The Saints '73-'78 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11/14/25

Various Artists-The Score (2002)

PJ Harvey-Rid Of Me (1993)

PJ Harvey-Is This Desire? (1998)

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