This is absolutely a grisly, delicious, creepy, genius, masterpiece. Nick Cave is just amazing. O'Malley's Bar is my personal favorite, Where The Wild Roses Grow is my son's pick. Just don't play this one around people who are easily offended. I'm so glad to see it has been remastered (I will buy the CD of this one!).
Beyond death and taxes, a further list of life's constants would have to include music, storytelling and, unfortunately, violence; perhaps we find murder ballads so thrilling because they cleverly mash them all together. Or maybe it's just a relief to get away from the tired tropes of the love song — or at least to refashion them so that dashing suitors become angry, jilted lovers, abusive husbands and destructive obsessives. Either way, there's perhaps no… more »
