Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
LOVELY CREATURES, (THE BEST OF....)
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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.***

Tracklist
2cd / 3lp
- Loverman
- Tupelo
- Deanna
- From Her To Eternity
- The Weeping Song
- Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
- People Ain't No Good
- Higgs Boson Blues
- Straight To You
- Where The Wild Roses Grow
- Into My Arms
- Love Letter
- Red Right Hand
- The Mercy Seat
- O Children
- The Ship Song
- Stranger Than Kindness
- Jubilee Street
- Nature Boy
- We No Who U R
- Stagger Lee
deluxe editions
CD1: 1984 -1993
- From Her To Eternity
- In The Ghetto
- Tupelo
- I'm Gonna Kill That Woman
- The Carny
- Sad Waters
- Stranger Than Kindness
- Scum
- The Mercy Seat
- Deanna
- Up Jumped The Devil
- The Weeping Song
- The Ship Song
- Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry
- Straight To You
CD2: 1994 – 2003
- Do You Love Me?
- Nobody's Baby Now
- Loverman
- Red Right Hand
- Stagger Lee
- Where The Wild Roses Grow
- Into My Arms
- People Ain't No Good
- Brompton Oratory
- (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?
- Come Into My Sleep
- Love Letter
- God Is In The House
- He Wants You
- Shoot Me Down
CD3: 2004 – 2013
- Hiding All Away
- There She Goes, My Beautiful World
- Nature Boy
- Breathless
- Babe, You Turn Me On
- O Children
- Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
- Night Of The Lotus Eaters
- We Call Upon The Author
- Jesus Of The Moon
- More News From Nowhere
- We No Who U R
- Jubilee Street
- Higgs Boson Blues
- Push The Sky Away
DVD
- Interview, ‘Kippevel’, Netherlands, 1988
- Night of the Lotus Eaters, Docks de Suds, Marseilles, France 2008
- Red Right Hand, Glastonbury Festival, UK, 1988
- The Weeping Song, ‘Boxed Set’, Glasgow STV Studios, UK, 2001
- Interview, New York, USA, 2013
- Higgs Boson Blues, La Fabrique Studios, France 2012
- Interview, ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’ Documentary, Berlin, Germany, 1987
- From Her To Eternity, Perkins Palace, Pasadena, USA, 1984
- Love Letter, ABC Studios, Australia, 2001
- Interview, ‘Bish’s Biz’, Australia, 2013
- Do You Love Me? ‘Boxed Set’, Glasgow STV Studios, UK, 2001
- Interview, ‘Boxed Set’, Glasgow STV Studios, UK, 2001
- Into My Arms, INmusic Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, 2008
- We Call Upon The Author, B1 Maximum Club, Moscow, Russia, 2009
- Interview, Ein Abend in Wien, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1991
- The Mercy Seat, Bizarre Festival, Germany, 1996
- Interview, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 1984
- God Is In The House, ‘Later With Jools Holland’, London, 2001
- Interview, ’Bish’s Biz’, Australia, 2013
- Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, Globe Annexet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2008
- Brompton Oratory, ‘MTV Live n Loud’, 1997
- I’m Gonna Kill That Woman, Posthof, Linz, Austria, 1986
- Jubilee Street, The Fonda Theatre, LA, USA, 2013
- The Ship Song, Live at Paradiso DVD, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1992
- Interview, Lollapalooza, USA, 1994
- Loverman, Bizarre Festival, Germany, 1996
- Interview, Australia, 1988
- In The Ghetto, Exit, Chicago, USA, 1984
- Hiding All Away, ‘The Abattoir Blues Tour DVD’, Brixton Academy, London, UK, 2004
- Interview, Australia, 1992
- Where the Wild Roses Grow, ‘MTV Most Wanted’, London, UK, 1995
- Deanna, St Luke’s, London, UK, 2008
- O Children, Le Trianon, Paris, France, 2013
- Interview, Festival Crazy Rock, Chile, 1996
- Stagger Lee, The White Room, London, UK, 1996
- Interview, Austin City Limits, Austin, Texas, USA, 2014
- Interview, Australia, 1995
- Push The Sky Away, The Fonda Theatre, LA, USA, 2013
- 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
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Afterword by Nick Cave
B) Photos
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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)