Murder Ballads vs Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea - Part 1

<p>***NEW CLASH KLAXXON!!!***</p> <p>It's new clash week, and we start things off in a very dark place by guiding you through Nick Cave &amp; the Bad Seeds' 'Murder Ballads' from 1996, the album which was written to be untourable but ended up breaking the band into the mainstream. Along the way there's loads for us to get into, including the bizarre booking of the 1994 Lollapalooza tour, what Kylie Minogue fans thought when they bought the album, and what inspired the saturation of dark and gritty Scandinavian crime dramas onto our TV screens. And, of course, an awful lot of chat about murder.</p> <p>In our regular 'can't get you out of my head' feature Kev explains why one of the greatest footballers of all time reminds him of a bad disco pop song from the early 2000s, and Tim gets annoyed with the YouTube 'shuffle play' algorithm...</p> <p>Also on this week's pod we have the usual nonsense and whimsy, including:</p> <p>- Which Minogue sister is better?</p> <p>- CRISP CLASH!</p> <p>- and Nobby McGhee lets us down...</p> <p>This. Is. ALBUM CLASH!</p>