- Feb 22 2023“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!
Lovely Creatures
Lovely Creatures
“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.” - Nick Cave
Lovely Creatures is without a doubt the most comprehensive overview of the recorded work of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to date. Spanning thirty years of music from their debut album From Her To Eternity through to Push The Sky Away their 15th studio album, the collection navigates one of the most exhilarating, idiosyncratic and inventive bodies of work created in contemporary music.
Included are long-standing live favourites “Stagger Lee” and “The Mercy Seat”, their hit single from 1995 “Where The Wild Roses Grow” through to recent fan favourites “Jubilee Street” and “We No Who U R”. There are songs that have made appearances on popular film and television soundtracks, notably “O Children” (Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Pt. I) and the ubiquitous “Red Right Hand”, most recently familiar to fans of the series Peaky Blinders.
The collection was compiled by Nick Cave and founding member Mick Harvey, with help from the current Bad Seeds. Band members past and present raided their personal archives to provide previously unseen photos and memorabilia which have been collected into a beautifully presented hardcover book, along with a series of original essays. The book comes as part of the limited edition ‘Super Deluxe’ album collection that also features a two hour DVD containing rare and unseen archive footage. 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. Plenty to keep hardcore fans happy and a comprehensive overview for newcomers.
Lovely Creatures was originally intended for release in 2015, but was postponed because of a new album, Cave stating that "Lovely Creatures lost, for a time, its place in the narrative". Since its postponement the band have recorded and released their highly acclaimed 16th studio album Skeleton Tree. Read a statement from Nick Cave here.
Watch the trailer for Lovely Creatures:
Time for some listening? Check out our I Like: Nick Cave playlist on Spotify which features our favourite Bad Seeds tracks together with a few Birthday Party tracks (including "Release the Bats" and "Nick the Stripper") and of course the Boys Next Door’s amazing first single "Shivers". Let us know if you reckon we’ve missed something essential and we might add it.
Lovely Creatures The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 1984 - 2014 is available now on Mute Records/BMG in the following formats (with tracklistings below):
Double CD:
2 CDs (21 tracks) with booklet
Tracklisting:
CD1
- 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
CD2
- 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
Triple Vinyl:
3 Heavyweight 12” vinyl (21 tracks) with a triple gatefold sleeve
Tracklisting:
Side A
- Loverman
- Tupelo
- Deanna
- From Her To Eternity
Side B
- The Weeping Song
- Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
- People Ain't No Good
Side C
- Higgs Boson Blues
- Straight To You
- Where The Wild Rose Grow
Side D
- Into My Arms
- Love Letter
- Red Right Hand
- The Mercy Seat
Side E
- O Children
- The Ship Song
- Stranger Than Kindness
Side F
- Jubilee Street
- Nature Boy
- We No Who U R
- Stagger Lee
Deluxe 3CD & DVD:
3 CDs (45 tracks) and two hour DVD featuring live performances, rare footage and interviews with a 48 page book
Super Deluxe 3CD & DVD with Hardcover Book (aka the "Mac Daddy"):
Box set comprised of 3 CDs and two hour DVD with a hardcover book containing original essays, candid and personal photos taken by the band family and friends, and reproductions of band memorabilia
Tracklisting:
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
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