Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Murder Ballads (1996)
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A friend played me this – and it’s when I first really started taking notice of Nick Cave . A clever move, obviously, because everything that is on display here – from the subject matter to the way the arrangements sound, to the literary references – was a hallmark of every Cave/Bad Seeds album before this…
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