Murder Ballads
If Murder Ballads was anthropomorphic I would never stop hugging them.
Granted, Murder Ballads personified would probably be like a strange cross between ATG, Bennet the Sage, and ... I don't even know. Someone creepy and very musically talented and soothing and funny and Crosses the Line Twice.
So yeah, I downloaded the full CD from amazon.com this morning, and it is AWESOME!!!
Henry Lee remains my favorite (still listening to it on repeat, btw. My mission is to get it stuck in the head of everybody I know) but Where the Wild Roses Grow is fantastic as well and I've been listening to versions of that for ... two months? A month? Whenever I found out about Blixa singing it with Nick Cave (good lord ... I ... I may have to write things about that once my life calms down.) Lovely Creature surprised me in a good way. The Kindness of Strangers almost made me cry, the atmosphere it created was so engulfingly tragic.
Death Is Not the End seemed rather random and out of place to me. I mean, you've got this whole CD reveling in death death devil devil devil devil evil evil evil evil songs and murder and being either tragic and haunting about it or crass and manic about it (both of which work REALLY well) but then you've got this vaguely uplifting cover of a Bob Dylan song. Why? I ... I don't understand. Was it meant to be funny? Deep? Religious? I'd rather have had The Ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane on there, thank you very much. (Now there's a song that makes you want to get up and dance crazy. I was listening to it on headphones and couldn't stop tapping my hands and feet, and I'm the kind of person who usually doesn't do that kind of thing.)
Have I mentioned that Nick Cave's voice is the greatest thing ever? Because it is. My god.
Best eight bucks spent EVER!
Granted, Murder Ballads personified would probably be like a strange cross between ATG, Bennet the Sage, and ... I don't even know. Someone creepy and very musically talented and soothing and funny and Crosses the Line Twice.
So yeah, I downloaded the full CD from amazon.com this morning, and it is AWESOME!!!
Henry Lee remains my favorite (still listening to it on repeat, btw. My mission is to get it stuck in the head of everybody I know) but Where the Wild Roses Grow is fantastic as well and I've been listening to versions of that for ... two months? A month? Whenever I found out about Blixa singing it with Nick Cave (good lord ... I ... I may have to write things about that once my life calms down.) Lovely Creature surprised me in a good way. The Kindness of Strangers almost made me cry, the atmosphere it created was so engulfingly tragic.
Death Is Not the End seemed rather random and out of place to me. I mean, you've got this whole CD reveling in death death devil devil devil devil evil evil evil evil songs and murder and being either tragic and haunting about it or crass and manic about it (both of which work REALLY well) but then you've got this vaguely uplifting cover of a Bob Dylan song. Why? I ... I don't understand. Was it meant to be funny? Deep? Religious? I'd rather have had The Ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane on there, thank you very much. (Now there's a song that makes you want to get up and dance crazy. I was listening to it on headphones and couldn't stop tapping my hands and feet, and I'm the kind of person who usually doesn't do that kind of thing.)
Have I mentioned that Nick Cave's voice is the greatest thing ever? Because it is. My god.
Best eight bucks spent EVER!