The Complete Lyrics
The Complete Lyrics
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Switching between the cynical and the sanguine, the defeated and the defiant, this title deals in love, war, beauty, children, romance, rejection, Pethedine, poetry, pants, money, flowers and more...
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The Complete Lyrics by Nick Cave
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.
Nick Cave is surely Australia's finest living songwriter * Mail *
He is an Australian artist like Sidney Nolan is an Australian artist - beyond comparison, beyond genre, beyond dispute * Evening Standard *
Cave's lyrics deal with passion on the edge, are peopled with mad bayou preachers, black-hearted lovers and killersHis language is rich, poetic, apocalyptic * Guardian *
Richly poetic creations which live a second life on the page. Essential reading * Vox *
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 *
Richly poetic creations which live a second life on the page ... Essential reading * Vox *
He is an Australian artist like Sidney Nolan is an Australian artist - beyond comparison, beyond genre, beyond dispute * Evening Standard *
Cave's lyrics deal with passion on the edge, are peopled with mad bayou preachers, black-hearted lovers and killersHis language is rich, poetic, apocalyptic * Guardian *
Richly poetic creations which live a second life on the page. Essential reading * Vox *
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 *
Richly poetic creations which live a second life on the page ... Essential reading * Vox *
Nick Cave has been writing and performing music for more than forty years and is best known as the songwriter and lead singer of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, with whom he has recorded seventeen studio albums. The band have been documented in two feature films: the BAFTA- and Sundance-winning 20,000 Days on Earth (2014) and the Grammy nominated One More Time With Feeling (2016). Nick Cave's novels And the Ass Saw the Angel (1990), The Death of Bunny Munro (2009) and The Sick Bag Song (2015) are international bestsellers, and he is an acclaimed film score composer and screenplay writer. Born in Australia in 1957, Cave now lives in England.
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ISBN 13 | 9780241966587 |
ISBN 10 | 0241966582 |
Title | The Complete Lyrics |
Author | Nick Cave |
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Binding type | Paperback |
Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
Year published | 2013-09-12 |
Number of pages | 544 |
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