Ghosts... of the Civil Dead
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Track listing
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- 1 The News (Voice: Michelle Babbit) 0:32
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Michelle Babbitvocals
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- 2 Introduction - A Prison in the Desert 2:53
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vocals
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- 3 David Hale - I've Been a Prison Guard Since I Was 18 Years Old 2:42
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David Halespoken word
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- 4 Glover - I Was 16 When They Put Me in Prison 4:03
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spoken word
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- 5 David Hale - You're Danglin' Us Like a Bunch of Meat on a Hook 3:02
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David Halespoken word
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- 6 [untitled] 0:23
- 7 Pop Mix 3:00
- 8 Glover - We Were United Once 3:02
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spoken word
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- 9 David Hale - The Day of the Murders 2:35
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David Halespoken word
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- 10 Lilly's Theme ("A Touch of Warmth") 2:10
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vocals
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- 11 Maynard Mix 2:14
- 12 David Hale - What I'm Tellin' Is the Truth 0:48
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David Halespoken word
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- 13 Outro - The Free World 4:46
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vocals
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- 14 Glover - One Man Released So They Can Imprison the Rest of the World 2:15
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spoken word
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- Total length: 34:25
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3 Issues
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Ghosts... of the Civil Dead [p] Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Ghosts... of the Civil Dead 33 rpm
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Ghosts ... Of the Civil Dead 33 rpm, Motion Picture Soundtrack
3 Reviews
Study this record hard before transgressing the law in Australia. It will make you think twice!
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Like the movie, this is pretty hard to sit through. And not all that rewarding. Ah well - I was never into prison-films anyway ... but worth it for Nick Cave's contributions, I guess.
Published
7 71433-1 Vinyl LP (1989)
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The movie script was partially contributed by Cave himself; I doubt his influence in the music has been relative, but I would suggest he chose the dialogue parts (which are 70% of the record to say the least). The rest is instrumental themes (a simple main theme plus few others) set to an ambient-industrial background which was your typical second-stage Bargeld experimenting with creepy atmospheres. The result of this apparently disengaged effort is astonishingly passable and presents some nice points (Pop Mix and Maynard Mix above all), and could as a whole have relative importance as avant-garde material if it were not for the overall laziness one can perceive during most of the listening experience.
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Catalog
23 Feb 2024
12 Jun 2023
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A1
The News (Voice: Michelle Babbit)
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A2
Introduction - A Prison in the Desert
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A3
David Hale - I've Been a Prison Guard Since I Was 18 Years Old
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A4
Glover - I Was 16 When They Put Me in Prison
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A5
David Hale - You're Danglin' Us Like a Bunch of Meat on a Hook
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A6
[untitled]
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A7
Pop Mix
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B1
Glover - We Were United Once
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B2
David Hale - The Day of the Murders
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B3
Lilly's Theme ("A Touch of Warmth")
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B4
Maynard Mix
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B5
David Hale - What I'm Tellin' Is the Truth
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B6
Outro - The Free World
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B7
Glover - One Man Released So They Can Imprison the Rest of the World
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