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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

LOVELY CREATURES, (THE BEST OF....)

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deluxe 3cd + dvd + book

Released: 5th May 2017

£22.99

Finding an entry point into the one of the most exhilarating, idiosyncratic & inventive bodies of work created in contemporary music, is a seriously daunting prospect but this collection does just that.

'Lovely Creatures' provides a comprehensive overview of the recorded work of one of the most masterful songwriters of our times with his revolving but ever-trusty band of incredible musicians. Navigating 30 years of music from their debut album 'From Her To Eternity' through to 'Push The Sky Away', their 15th studio album, The album was compiled by Nick Cave & founding member Mick Harvey, with help from the current Bad Seeds. It's the best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. What more do you need?

***'Lovely Creatures' is available in four formats, all featuring personal and rare photographs of the band: Standard CD, Triple LP, Deluxe 3CD with DVD and the Super Deluxe Limited Edition package.***

***The book is available as part of the limited edition ‘Super Deluxe’ album collection which also comes with a two hour DVD containing rare and unseen archive footage. Band members past & present raided their personal archives to provide previously unseen photos & memorabilia which have been collected into a beautiful hardcover book, along with a series of original essays.***

 

LOVELY CREATURES, (THE BEST OF....)

Tracklist

2cd / 3lp

  1. Loverman
  2. Tupelo
  3. Deanna
  4. From Her To Eternity
  5. The Weeping Song
  6. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
  7. People Ain't No Good
  8. Higgs Boson Blues
  9. Straight To You
  10. Where The Wild Roses Grow
  11. Into My Arms
  12. Love Letter
  13. Red Right Hand
  14. The Mercy Seat
  15. O Children
  16. The Ship Song
  17. Stranger Than Kindness
  18. Jubilee Street
  19. Nature Boy
  20. We No Who U R
  21. Stagger Lee

deluxe editions

CD1: 1984 -1993

  1. From Her To Eternity
  2. In The Ghetto
  3. Tupelo
  4. I'm Gonna Kill That Woman
  5. The Carny
  6. Sad Waters
  7. Stranger Than Kindness
  8. Scum
  9. The Mercy Seat
  10. Deanna
  11. Up Jumped The Devil
  12. The Weeping Song
  13. The Ship Song
  14. Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry
  15. Straight To You


CD2: 1994 – 2003             

  1. Do You Love Me?
  2. Nobody's Baby Now
  3. Loverman
  4. Red Right Hand
  5. Stagger Lee
  6. Where The Wild Roses Grow
  7. Into My Arms
  8. People Ain't No Good
  9. Brompton Oratory
  10. (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?
  11. Come Into My Sleep
  12. Love Letter
  13. God Is In The House
  14. He Wants You
  15. Shoot Me Down

CD3: 2004 – 2013             

  1. Hiding All Away
  2. There She Goes, My Beautiful World
  3. Nature Boy
  4. Breathless
  5. Babe, You Turn Me On
  6. O Children
  7. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
  8. Night Of The Lotus Eaters
  9. We Call Upon The Author
  10. Jesus Of The Moon
  11. More News From Nowhere
  12. We No Who U R
  13. Jubilee Street
  14. Higgs Boson Blues
  15. Push The Sky Away

DVD

  1. Interview, ‘Kippevel’, Netherlands, 1988
  2. Night of the Lotus Eaters, Docks de Suds, Marseilles, France 2008
  3. Red Right Hand, Glastonbury Festival, UK, 1988
  4. The Weeping Song, ‘Boxed Set’, Glasgow STV Studios, UK, 2001
  5. Interview, New York, USA, 2013
  6. Higgs Boson Blues, La Fabrique Studios, France 2012
  7. Interview, ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’ Documentary, Berlin, Germany, 1987
  8. From Her To Eternity, Perkins Palace, Pasadena, USA, 1984
  9. Love Letter, ABC Studios, Australia, 2001
  10. Interview, ‘Bish’s Biz’, Australia, 2013
  11. Do You Love Me? ‘Boxed Set’, Glasgow STV Studios, UK, 2001
  12. Interview, ‘Boxed Set’, Glasgow STV Studios, UK, 2001
  13. Into My Arms, INmusic Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, 2008
  14. We Call Upon The Author, B1 Maximum Club, Moscow, Russia, 2009
  15. Interview, Ein Abend in Wien, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1991
  16. The Mercy Seat, Bizarre Festival, Germany, 1996
  17. Interview, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 1984
  18. God Is In The House, ‘Later With Jools Holland’, London, 2001
  19. Interview, ’Bish’s Biz’, Australia, 2013
  20. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, Globe Annexet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2008
  21. Brompton Oratory, ‘MTV Live n Loud’, 1997
  22. I’m Gonna Kill That Woman, Posthof, Linz, Austria, 1986
  23. Jubilee Street, The Fonda Theatre, LA, USA, 2013
  24. The Ship Song, Live at Paradiso DVD, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1992
  25. Interview, Lollapalooza, USA, 1994
  26. Loverman, Bizarre Festival, Germany, 1996
  27. Interview, Australia, 1988
  28. In The Ghetto, Exit, Chicago, USA, 1984
  29. Hiding All Away, ‘The Abattoir Blues Tour DVD’, Brixton Academy, London, UK, 2004
  30. Interview, Australia, 1992
  31. Where the Wild Roses Grow, ‘MTV Most Wanted’, London, UK, 1995
  32. Deanna, St Luke’s, London, UK, 2008
  33. O Children, Le Trianon, Paris, France, 2013
  34. Interview, Festival Crazy Rock, Chile, 1996
  35. Stagger Lee, The White Room, London, UK, 1996
  36. Interview, Austin City Limits, Austin, Texas, USA, 2014
  37. Interview, Australia, 1995
  38. Push The Sky Away, The Fonda Theatre, LA, USA, 2013
  39. There She Goes, My Beautiful World, ‘The Abattoir Blues Tour DVD’, Brixton Academy, London, UK, 2004

deluxe3cd > Case bound book containing 3 CDs (45 tracks) and two hour DVD featuring live performances, rare footage and interviews with a 36 page book.

Limited edition super deluxe box set containing 3 CDs (45 tracks), two-hour DVD featuring live performances,
rare footage and interviews. With a 256 page hardcover book containing original essays, candid and personal photos taken
by the band, family and friends, and reproductions of band memorabilia.

A) 10 Essays

  • From Doubt to Certainly: The Making of From Her to Eternity by Bleddyn Butcher
  • Wood & Wire : Who Wrote 'The Mercy Seat' by Mark Mordue
  • A Beautiful, Evil Thing: The Music of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds by David Pattie
  • Fleshed Sacred: The Carnal Theologies of Nick Cave by Lyn McCredden
  • Like an Atom Bomb :Nick Cave and the Australian Language of Laughter by Karen Lawrie
  • Fall and Rise: The Sound of Cinema in Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
  • Raising Lazarus – An Enquiry into the Making of Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!  by Larry 'Ratso' Sloman
  • Afraid of Things Staying the Same: Reinvention in the Bad Seeds by GERARD ELSON
  • More News From Somewhere: The Power of Place in the Work of Nick Cave  by Yoram Allon
  • 'Some People Say It's Just Rock 'n' Roll…’: The Filming of The Making of Push the Sky Away by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard
  • Afterword by Nick Cave
     

B) Photos

  • Comprising of candid and personal photos from family and friends, and some images from professional photographers.
     

C) 8 Inserts

  • Prayer Card (A6)  - Here I am Little Lamb
  • After show sticky pass
  • Into My Arms - alternate cover
  • Deanna photo
  • Deanna lyrics
  • Piece of film in glassine bag
  • Early Bad Seeds show gig flyer (A5)
  • “Don’t Forget. Fax Me” (Nick Cave illustration)