Nick Cave to release Lovely Creatures compilation

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have announced that they’ll release a compilation album later this year.

Titled Lovely Creatures – The Best Of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 1984-2014, it’ll arrive on May 5 via Mute Records Ltd.

Cave reports: “There are some people out there who just don’t know where to start with The Bad Seeds. Others know the catalogue better than I do!

“This release is designed to be a way into three decades of music making. That’s a lot of songs.

“The songs we have chosen are the ones that have stuck around, for whatever reason. Some songs are those that demand to be played live. Others are lesser songs that are personal favourites of ours. Others are just too big and have too much history to leave out.

“And there are those that didn’t make it, poor things. They are the ones you must discover by yourselves.”

Lovely Creatures will be released on 2CD, 3LP, 3CD & DVD. There will also be a limited edition super deluxe version which features a two-hour DVD with rare footage and interviews, along 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.”

All versions are available for pre-order directly through Cave’s website.

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Lovely Creatures – The Best Of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 1984-2014 tracklist

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, 1988
2. Night Of The Lotus Eaters, 2008
3. Red Right Hand, 1998
4. The Weeping Song, 2001
5. Interview, 2013
6. Higgs Boson Blues, 2012
7. Interview, 1987
8. From Her To Eternity, 1984
9. Love Letter, 2001
10. Interview, 2013
11. Do You Love Me?, 2001
12. Interview, 2001
13. Into My Arms, 2008
14. We Call Upon The Author, 2009
15. Interview, 1991
16. The Mercy Seat, 1996
17. Interview, 1984
18. God Is In The House, 2001
19. Interview, 2013
20. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, 2008
21. Brompton Oratory, 1997
22. I’m Gonna Kill That Woman, 1986
23. Jubilee Street, 2013
24. The Ship Song, 1992
25. Interview, 1994
26. Loverman, 1996
27. Interview, 1988
28. In The Ghetto, 1984
29. Hiding All Away, 2004
30. Interview, 1992
31. Where The Wild Roses Grow, 1995
32. Deanna, 2008
33. O Children, 2013
34. Interview, 1996
35. Stagger Lee, 1996
36. Interview, 2014
37. Interview, 1985
38. Push The Sky Away, 2013
39. There She Goes, My Beautiful World, 2004

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