The complete collection of Nick Cave lyrics spanning his entire
career, from 1978 until 2013, revised and updated by the cult rock
star 'He is an Australian artist like Sidney Nolan is an Australian
artist - beyond comparison, beyond genre, beyond dispute' - from
Nick Cave's induction into the Australian Hall of Fame This
complete collection of Nick Cave's lyrics spans his entire career,
from his writing for The Birthday Party through the highly
acclaimed Murder Ballads and The Boatman's Call to recent work with
Grinderman and his 2013 album, Push the Sky Away. Brought together
in one volume, these lyrics make up one of the most outstanding
achievements of contemporary music. Switching between the cynical
and the sanguine, the defeated and the defiant, Nick Cave deals in
love, war, beauty, children, romance, rejection, Pethedine, poetry,
pants, money, flowers and so much more ... From the bestselling
author of And the Ass Saw the Angel and The Death of Bunny Munroe
this definitive collection will be adored by Nick Cave fans
everywhere. 'His lyrics deal with passion on the edge, and are
peopled with mad bayou preachers, black-hearted lovers and killers.
His language is rich, poetic, apocalyptic' Guardian 'Richly poetic
creations which live a second life on the page ... Essential
reading' Vox Nick Cave was born in Australia in 1957. He moved to
London with his band The Birthday Party in 1990 and four years
later he formed The Bad Seeds, with whom he has made 15 studio
albums. In recent years he has made two albums with his other band,
Grinderman. In 1999 he curated and directed the Meltdown Festival
at London's South Bank Centre. He has also written the soundtrack
for a number of successful films including The Assassination of
Jesse James, Lawless and The Proposition. His novel And the Ass Saw
the Angel was an international bestseller, Time Out's Book of the
Year, and was reissued in the Penguin Essential series. His second
novel The Death of Bunny Monroe was published in 2009. He lives in
Brighton with his wife and two children.
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