Other Mixes By walker1812
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Murder Ballads
| Artist | Song | |
| Leadbelly | Duncan & Brady | |
| Bruce Springsteen | Johnny 99 | |
| The Byrds | Pretty Polly | |
| Jerry Garcia & David Grisman | The Dreadful Wind And Rain | |
| Johnny Cash | Delia's Gone | |
| Kingston Trio | Tom Dooley | |
| Mississippi John Hurt | Louis Collins | |
| The Chieftans | Lily Of The West | |
| Violent Femmes | Country Death Song | |
| Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue | Where The Wild Roses Grow | |
| Tom Waits | Murder In The Red Barn | |
| Tony Rice | John Hardy | |
| John Lee Hooker | I'm Bad Like Jesse James | |
| The Pogues | Turkish Song Of The Damned | |
| Richard Thompson & Linda Peters | Dragging The River | |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Knoxville Girl | |
| The Beatles | Rocky Racoon | |
Comment:
I was downloading two songs and then realized they were similar, started looking for the theme and if it was a branch of music. Then Lo I stumbled into the subgenre of American Murder Ballads. No morals, No Heros, Just the morbid romance of a man and a woman, one murdering the other.
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Great mix! Outstanding cover....love "Delia's Gone"...! And that Pogues as well....
Nice stuff.
cOOl mix/theme & cover reminds me of a Michael Connely novel.
cool mix and awesome cover, intrested in a trade?
Killer!
great idea! would love to have this one. BTW, you realize a large number of the musicians are decidedly non-American...
The mix is cool. The cover is awesome. Tom Waits and the pogues, yes! Wanna trade?
Terrific! I'm also interested in a trade.
yeah this kicks, but there sure are a lot of british/irish/australian artists on here for an 'american murder ballads' comp...
I changed the name. I meant to do it before hand, I was going to origianlly name it just Murder Ballads, but there is a Nick Cave album of the same name. So I put american in front. When not all are american bands and some aren't even american songs. The only one I will debate is that Rocky Racoon is an American Murder Ballad, even if done by the Beatles. Thanks for all the comments guys.
Nick Cave/PJ Harvey do a really excellent murder ballad (henry lee) that would go really well on here. And yeah, the beatles one is kind of pushing it, but it's such a great song! (and holy shit that's my favorite tom waits song ever. really.) Kick ass.
I dig the cover art big time, and I won't bitch about the title, and I will agree that the Beatles tune is definitely in the murder ballad tradition, even if no one is actually murdered (and, to be fair, Rocky was only gonna kneecap Dan), but I will *insist* that this mix is incomplete without some version of Stagger Lee. It is *the* consumate American Murder Ballad. Spectacular choices all the rest, though!
i agree that the mix is rather good, although i cannot understand why "The Country Death Song" would be palced upon it, instead of "The Ballad of Hollis Brown". The Voilent Femmes totally ripped it off of Dylan, and the song itself is totally inferior to its Dylan counterpart.
"Country Death Song" is great, so Mr. Dibbick can just get off yr jock.
damn
How about "The Road Goes On Forever" by Robert Earl Keen or Joe Ely. I reccomend it.
While I do find this hilarious and unique and inspired, I also find it slightly disturbing... :)
awesome mix. real high concept... and love the cover art... i agree with the guy that says that "rocky racoon" isn't a murder ballad, since no one gets killed in it... "maxwell silver hammer" will do the trick, though
Love the idea, I would probably throw Eminem's Kim and G n' R's Used To Love Her, but cool anyway.
hmmmmmm needs more glassjaw
thought of one last one that might be relevant. Mack the Knife, while not wuite a classic murder ballad, it is about a murderer.
Walker1812.....have you ever heard T-Bone Burnett's "the Murder Weapon"..?
love this
Do you know that there is an article on audiogalaxy about murder ballads check http://www.audiogalaxy.com/articles?&a=205
way cool man.
holy cow batman this rocks some funky "butt"
Good Job and the cover rocks E-mail me and tell me what i need to do to get a copy
Good Job and the cover rocks E-mail me and tell me what i need to do to get a copy
for everyone that reads this, I am unfortunately unable to make copies of this music as I do not have CD burner anymore. All the MP3's are available at once place or another if you know where to look. Is more a matter of needing to know the names of the songs, which i graciously provide for you
Nick Cave's album "Murder Ballads" is an essential listen for anyone that enjoys the concept of this mix.
Beauty. And the perfect finish, too.
This is a truly fantastic mix. Incredible. I love that you included Where the Wild Roses Grow, it never fails to make me cry.
oooooooh! i like! and the cover...*drool!* its to die for dahling!
Good stuff. Check out The Pine Box Boys. They are an alt. bluegrass band specializing in murder ballads.
Maybe you didn't know this: the words on the bumpersticker are Dutch and they say: "bring me back alive!"
Really funny to discover for me, since i'm from the Netherlands.
Really funny to discover for me, since i'm from the Netherlands.
Awesome. I suppose the most famous American murder ballad is "Tom Dooley". Too overplayed to include in this great mix!