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Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld - Ghosts of the Civil Dead

Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld - Ghosts of the Civil Dead

Band: Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld Title: Ghosts of the Civil Dead Rating: Release Date: 27 November, 2006 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: News 2: Introduction - A Prison In The Desert 3: I've Been A Prison Guard Since I Was 18 Years Old 4: I Was 16 When They Put Me In Prison 5: You're Danglin' Us Like A Bunch Of Meat On A Hook 6: Pop Mix 7: We Were United Once 8: Day Of The Murders 9: Lilly's Theme 10: Maynard Mix 11: What I'm Tellin' Is The Truth 12: Free World 13: One Man Released So They Can Imprison The Rest Of The World

Customer Review Caught behind musical bars and fences It's an atmospherical and moody mix of dimmed music, seemingly lost voice-overs and eerie soundscapes. Concidering the musical explosions and outbursts Nick Cave and his crew of Bad Seeds can cause during a live performance, this soundtrack to the John Hillcoat movie is surprisingly understated and nihilistic. The story is set in a futuristic maximum security prison and listening to the soundtrack you can almost hear the electrical wires buzz. There is a tension through out the whole album that never lets go and that can't be said of most thriller- and horror scores, not even from the so called `great names' in the genre. High pitched flutes, flares really, are scarcely dropped throughout the movie, giving us the creepy feeling of total alienation. The soundscapes on the cd are as desolate as the landscape in which the movie's prison is standing. One could even speak of a `sense of nether worldy', for both movie and score gives us the strange feeling that the rest of the world, the Common Sense World that is, is gone, and we have become as much a prisonner as the movie characters have and that there is really. . . really. . . no way out. . . . . . You can see a complete list of all Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld discography, or go back to the Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld tabs