New Nick Cave Compilation On Mute

Lovely Creatures: The Best Of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 1984-2014 will be released on CD and triple vinyl later this year with a DVD and book.

Mute Records have announced a comprehensive new compilation of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, to be released on a variety of formats on May 5th.

The album spans the band’s acclaimed career from their 1984 debut record From Her To Eternity through to 2014’s Push The Sky Away.

It will be released on double CD and triple vinyl, containing 21 tracks, and on a deluxe 3CD set, which contains 45 tracks and a bonus DVD containing archive interviews and live footage.

A super deluxe set will also be available which includes a hardcover book containing original essays, candid and personal photos taken by the band family and friends, and reproductions of band memorabilia, compiled by Cave and founding member Mick Harvey, with help from Bad Seeds past and present.

The tracklisting for the 3CD set is as follows:

CD1: 1984 -1993

  1. From Her To Eternity
  1. In The Ghetto
  1. Tupelo
  1. I’m Gonna Kill That Woman
  1. The Carny
  1. Sad Waters
  1. Stranger Than Kindness
  1. Scum
  1. The Mercy Seat
  1. Deanna
  1. Up Jumped The Devil
  1. The Weeping Song
  1. The Ship Song
  1. Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry
  1. Straight To You

CD2: 1994 – 2003

  1. Do You Love Me?
  1. Nobody’s Baby Now
  1. Loverman
  1. Red Right Hand
  1. Stagger Lee
  1. Where The Wild Roses Grow
  1. Into My Arms
  1. People Ain’t No Good
  1. Brompton Oratory
  1. (Are You) The One That I’ve Been Waiting For?
  1. Come Into My Sleep
  1. Love Letter
  1. God Is In The House
  1. He Wants You
  1. Shoot Me Down

CD3: 2004 – 2013

  1. Hiding All Away
  1. There She Goes, My Beautiful World
  1. Nature Boy
  1. Breathless
  1. Babe, You Turn Me On
  1. O Children
  1. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
  1. Night Of The Lotus Eaters
  1. We Call Upon The Author
  1. Jesus Of The Moon
  1. More News From Nowhere
  1. We No Who U R
  1. Jubilee Street
  1. Higgs Boson Blues
  1. Push The Sky Away

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