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* GutturalGrowler: Cave's singing in "Lovely Creature".
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* Dissimile: One of the murder weapons used in "O'Malley's Bar" is "an ashtray as big as a fucking really big brick

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* Dissimile: One of the murder weapons used in "O'Malley's Bar" is "an ashtray as big as a fucking really big brickbrick".
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* Dissimile: One of the murder weapons used in "O'Malley's Bar" is "an ashtray as big as a fucking really big brick
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''Murder Ballads'' is a 1996 album by Music/NickCave and the Bad Seeds, which is the biggest commercial success in the band's career. Cave's duet with Music/KylieMinogue, "Where The Wild Roses Grow", became an international hit, though a BlackSheepHit at the same time as Cave felt its soothing performance, despite the LyricalDissonance of the topic, was not representative of the rest of the album. When the song won an MTV Music Award the singer politely declined accepting the prize as he felt: "I don't believe art should be rated."

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''Murder Ballads'' is a 1996 the ninth studio album by Music/NickCave and the Bad Seeds, which Seeds. Released in 1996 through Creator/MuteRecords (in conjunction with Creator/RepriseRecords in North America), it is the biggest commercial success in the band's career. Cave's duet with Music/KylieMinogue, "Where The Wild Roses Grow", became an international hit, though a BlackSheepHit at the same time as Cave felt its soothing performance, despite the LyricalDissonance of the topic, was not representative of the rest of the album. When the song won an MTV Music Award the singer politely declined accepting the prize as he felt: "I don't believe art should be rated."
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* ClusterFBomb: "Stagger Lee", with the man himself and the bartender calling each other and themselves this multiple times.

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* ClusterFBomb: "Stagger Lee", with the man himself and the bartender calling each other and themselves this "motherfucker" multiple times.
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Per TRS, this is YMMV. However, these are all misuse because they're about getting a song's title wrong, not its meaning.


* RefrainFromAssuming:
** "Song Of Joy" is not a song about expressing enjoyment. It's about a man whose wife, Joy, was murdered along with his children.
** "Stagger Lee" is not a straight cover of the traditional blues song, though it does deal with similar themes of bar brawls and murders. Cave supposedly based it on a 1960s prison recording.
** "Where The Wild Roses Grow" ends with the protagonist murdering his partner with a rock in his fist and "lent down and planted a rose between her teeth". Many listeners take this line literally, but in fact it doesn't refer to the flower, but the expression "rose between the teeth", which means her mangled, blood splattered head resembles a rose.
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-->''Then Professor O'Rye from Millhaven High\
Found nailed to his door his prize-winning terrier\
Then next day the old fool brought little Biko to school\

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-->''Then Professor O'Rye from Millhaven High\
High\\
Found nailed to his door his prize-winning terrier\
terrier\\
Then next day the old fool brought little Biko to school\school\\
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* DeadAnimalWarning: Happens to Professor O'Rye in "The Curse of Millhaven". This is the one crime that SerialKiller VillainProtagonist who describes herself as 'a monster' [[EvenEvilHasStandards denies responsibility for]].
-->''Then Professor O'Rye from Millhaven High\
Found nailed to his door his prize-winning terrier\
Then next day the old fool brought little Biko to school\
And we all had to watch as he buried her''
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** In "Crow Jane", Jane kills 20 miners in a single night on a RoaringRampaggeOfRevenge:

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** In "Crow Jane", Jane kills 20 miners in a single night on a RoaringRampaggeOfRevenge:RoaringRampageOfRevenge:
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* SpreeKiller:
** In "Crow Jane", Jane kills 20 miners in a single night on a RoaringRampaggeOfRevenge:
--> ''Measured .32, .44, .38''
--> ''I asked that girl which road she was taking''
--> ''Said she was walking the road of hate''
--> ''But she stopped on a coal-trolley up to New Haven''
--> ''Population: 48"''
--> ''Crow Jane Crow Jane''
--> ''Crow Jane Ah hah huh''
--> ''Your guns are drunk and smoking''
--> ''They've followed you right back to your gate''
--> ''Laughing all the way back from the new town''
--> ''Population, now, 28''
** "O'Malley's Bar" is a 14 minute song in which the VillainProtagonist describes in loving detail how he slaughters all of the occupants of the eponymous tavern.
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* CouldntFindAPen: The SerialKiller in "Song of Joy" writes quotes from Creator/JohnMilton on the walls in the blood of his victims.
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* NotMeThisTime: Loretta, [[EnfantTerrible the fourteen-year-old pscyhopathic serial killer]] in "The Curse of Millhaven", gleefully slaughters her fellow villagers no questions asked but plainly states that she ''didn't'' kill [[ChekhovsGunman her teacher's dog mentioned earlier in the song]], and even tells the police when they come to arrest her who actually did it.

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* NotMeThisTime: Loretta, [[EnfantTerrible the fourteen-year-old pscyhopathic psychopathic serial killer]] in "The Curse of Millhaven", gleefully slaughters her fellow villagers no questions asked but plainly states that she ''didn't'' kill [[ChekhovsGunman her teacher's dog mentioned earlier in the song]], and even tells the police when they come to arrest her who actually did it.

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