Reviews (page 9 of 9)
I still think would best, for most of these albums, to go into listening to new music with an open mind and not reading details and reviews in advance. (Not that I'm following that guidance very well.) "Murder Ballads" is not one of those occasions. It's good to know what you're getting into with this one. Are you in the mood to hear ten dark and haunting (both in lyrics and instrumentation) stories of murder? Halfway through the first song I realized - "oh, murder ballads!" I've heard the term before but didn't connect it at first. The dark and twisted cousin of sea shanties? I've never listened to a whole album of murder ballads. And I won't again. Felt a bit like wandering lost in cobblestoned back-alleys of a late 1800s city with poor sanitation, not knowing what horror will await you around the next corner. It's interesting and different, but it's a no from me, dawg. (And that was before "O'Malley's Bar" kept going, and going, and going, with weird grunts and moans...)
This might be my least favorite of the way too many Nick Cave albums on this list. Telling that the song I liked best was a Dylan cover sung by vocalists I like more than Nick Cave.
Utter shite…
This album is astonishingly bad. Surely it’s satire.
What the hell is this album, I did not like this album at all, way to weird for me 1/5
not this...
People always slag of Nick Cave and now I understand why. This is a pile of shite from start to finish, even the Kylie track is terrible. Whilst the macabre themes would usually appeal to me, unfortunately I desperately listened to all 59mins of this album hoping that surely one song would be alright but no! this was a waste of time to be honest and as far as I’m concerned Nick Cave now owes me 59 mins of my life back.
Well this was one of the weirder sets of music I’ve ever heard... lot of names of people and the same tone for everything, seemed pretty low-quality to my ears
Couldn't get through it - it's everything I dislike about weird storytime songs
Terrible.
Don't like his voice
The Curse of Millhaven was a nice break but honestly the album was really not my thing. A interesting voice but IMHO a goth Bob Dylan aka awful.
Hated it
Nick Cave war noch nie so mein Fall, nach dem 1. Song dieses Machwerks war mir auch wieder klar, warum: er enthält schlicht keinen Grund, das Album weiterzuhören. Was ich daher auch nicht getan habe. Und mir bei Nick Cave zukünftig sparen werde.
Just fucking weird. A girl crying in the background of one of the songs.
Nooooooooooope. Made it through 1.5 tracks before punting. I can tell that the orchestration is interesting, but there's absolutely nothing appealing with respect to the singing and the content itself. 1 tiny star.
It was not my kind of music, lots of storytelling, not very much melody, rhythm, good instrumentation, or vocals.