Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus is the 13th studio album released by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It is a double CD, with 17 songs (9 on 'Abattoir Blues' and 8 on 'The Lyre of Orpheus'), and was released on the 20th of September 2004. Reviews were generally positive.
The double album was recorded by Nick Launay at Studio Ferber in Paris in Spring 2004 by The Bad Seeds line up of Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Thomas Wydler , Martyn Casey , Conway Savage , Jim Sclavunos, Warren Ellis and James Johnston .
Its release was shortly followed by the Abattoir Blues Tour, which took place around Europe between the 3rd of November and the 5th of December 2004.
Track Listing
Abattoir Blues
- Get Ready For Love
- Cannibal's Hymn
- Hiding All Away
- Messiah Ward
- There She Goes, My Beautiful World
- Nature Boy
- Abattoir Blues
- Let The Bells Ring
- Fable Of The Brown Ape
The Lyre Of Orpheus
- The Lyre Of Orpheus
- Breathless
- Babe, You Turn Me On
- Easy Money
- Supernaturally
- Spell
- Carry Me
- O Children
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