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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Murder Ballads Turns 30

by Paul Cashmere

Thirty years on, Murder Ballads by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds stands as a landmark release that fused traditional murder ballads with modern rock theatre and delivered Cave’s biggest commercial breakthrough of the 1990s.

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