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Studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Released 5 February 1996
Recorded 1993–1995
Length 58:43
Label Mute
Producer
Victor Van VugtTony CohenThe Bad Seeds
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds chronology
Let Love In
(1994) Murder Ballads
(1996) The Boatman`s Call
(1997)

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.

Details
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 MTV even nominated Cave for their `best male artist` award of that year, though this nomination was later withdrawn at Cave`s request.[1] Cave later said, `I was kind of aware that people would go and buy the Murder Ballads album and listen to it and wonder `What the fuck have I bought this for?` because the Kylie song wasn`t any true indication of what the record was actually like.`[2]

The first song written for the album was `O`Malley`s Bar`, when the band was recording Henry`s Dream. According to Cave, the idea for the Murder Ballads album came from this song: `We couldn`t use `O`Malley`s Bar` on any of our other records. So we had to make a record, an environment where the songs could exist.`[3] Recordings 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?"[3] For the TV documentary Great Australian Albums members described their work on Murder Ballads.[4]

Songs
`Stagger Lee` is based on a traditional song about the African-American murderer of the same name. Cave`s version draws most of the lyrics from a 1967 transcription published in the 1976 book The Life: The Lore and Folk Poetry of the Black Hustler, while the music itself is updated into a reggae song.[5]
`Death Is Not the End` includes vocalists Anita Lane, Kylie Minogue, PJ Harvey, and Shane MacGowan, along with Cave himself and Bad Seeds drummer Thomas Wydler and guitarist Blixa Bargeld. They each sing a verse in this cover of a Bob Dylan song, the only song in which an actual death does not occur. Cave later described it as, `just kind of a jokey little punctuation mark to the whole thing. There`s tongue-in-cheek to that song, even though I think it`s quite a beautiful rendition.`[3]

Track listing
All tracks are written by Nick Cave, except where noted

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. `Song of Joy` 6:47
2. `Stagger Lee` Traditional, Cave 5:15
3. `Henry Lee` (featuring PJ Harvey) Traditional, Cave 3:58
4. `Lovely Creature` Blixa Bargeld, Martyn P. Casey, Cave, Mick Harvey, Thomas Wydler 4:13
5. `Where the Wild Roses Grow` (featuring Kylie Minogue) 3:57
6. `The Curse of Millhaven` 6:55
7. `The Kindness of Strangers` 4:39
8. `Crow Jane` Martyn P. Casey, Cave 4:14
9. `O`Malley`s Bar` 14:28
10. `Death Is Not the End` (featuring Anita Lane, Shane MacGowan, PJ Harvey and Kylie Minogue) Bob Dylan 4:26
Total length: 58:43
Personnel
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Nick Cave – vocals (1–10), piano (1, 5, 8, 9), organ (1, 2, 4, 6, 10), Hammond (1), gun shots (2), string arrangement (5)
Blixa Bargeld – guitar (1–8, 10), screams (2), vocals (10)
Martyn P. Casey – bass (1–5, 7, 8)
Mick Harvey – drums (1), guitar (2, 4, 5, 7, 10), acoustic guitar (3, 5), organ (3), wind organ (4), backing vocals (5), string arrangement (5), bass (6, 9), Hammond (8), space belt (8), percussion (9)
Conway Savage – piano (2–4, 7, 10), backing vocals (5), organ (9)
Jim Sclavunos – drums (2, 8), percussion (4, 10), bells (5), tambourine (6)
Thomas Wydler – maracas (2), drums (3–7, 9, 10), tambourine (8), vocals (10)
Guest musicians

PJ Harvey – vocals (3, 10)
Terry Edwards – horns (4)
Katharine Blake – additional vocals (4)
Kylie Minogue – vocals (5, 10)
Jen Anderson – violin (5)
Sue Simpson – violin (5)
Kerran Coulter – viola (5)
Helen Mountfort – cello (5)
Hugo Race – guitar (6)
Warren Ellis – violin (6), accordion (6)
Marielle Del Conte – additional vocals (7)
Anita Lane – crying (7), vocals (10)
Geraldine Johnston – additional vocals (8)
Liz Corcoran – additional vocals (8)
Shane MacGowan – vocals (10)
Brian Hooper – bass (10)
The Moron Tabernacle Choir on `The Curse of Millhaven`

Nick Cave
Martyn P. Casey
Conway Savage
Thomas Wydler
Warren Ellis
Brian Hooper
Spencer P. Jones
Dave Graney
Katharine Blake
Clare Moore
Rowland S. Howard
James Johnston
Ian Johnston
Geraldine Johnston
Astrid Munday