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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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