Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Greatest hits album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Released	5 May 2017
Recorded	1984–2014
Genre	Blues [1] Southern Gothic [1] art rock [2]
Length	3:47:53(deluxe edition)
Label	Mute
Producer	Nick Cave, Flood, David Briggs, Tony Cohen, Victor Van Vugt, The Bad Seeds
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds chronology
Skeleton Tree (2016) Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (2017) Distant Sky: Live in Copenhagen (2018)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	95/100 [3]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[4]
The Austin Chronicle	[2]
Clash	9/10 [5]
Classic Rock	[1]
Exclaim!	8/10 [6]
The Independent	[7]
The Line of Best Fit	9/10 [8]
Louder Than War	10/10 [9]
The New Zealand Herald	[10]
Uncut	[11]

Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds is a compilation album by Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released on 5 May 2017. ^[12]

Track listing

Two-disc edition

Disc 1

No.	Title	Originally appears on:	Length
1.	"Loverman"	Let Love In (1994)	4:57
2.	"Tupelo"	The Firstborn Is Dead (1985)	5:12
3.	"Deanna"	Tender Prey (1988)	3:45
4.	"From Her to Eternity"	From Her to Eternity (1984)	5:35
5.	"The Weeping Song"	The Good Son (1990)	4:21
6.	"Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!"	Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (2008)	3:35
7.	"People Ain't No Good"	The Boatman's Call (1997)	5:40
8.	"Higgs Boson Blues"	Push the Sky Away (2013)	7:50
9.	"Straight to You"	Henry's Dream (1992)	4:35
10.	"Where the Wild Roses Grow"	Murder Ballads (1996)	3:57
Total length:			49:27

Disc 2

No.	Title	Originally appears on:	Length
1.	"Into My Arms"	The Boatman's Call (1997)	4:13
2.	"Love Letter"	No More Shall We Part (2001)	4:04
3.	"Red Right Hand"	Let Love In (1994)	4:49
4.	"The Mercy Seat"	Tender Prey (1988)	5:10
5.	"O Children"	Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus (2004)	6:42
6.	"The Ship Song"	The Good Son (1990)	4:44
7.	"Stranger Than Kindness"	Your Funeral... My Trial (1986)	4:43
8.	"Jubilee Street"	Push the Sky Away (2013)	5:03
9.	"Nature Boy"	Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus (2004)	3:31
10.	"We No Who U R"	Push the Sky Away (2013)	4:05
11.	"Stagger Lee"	Murder Ballads (1996)	5:14
Total length:			52:18

Deluxe edition

Disc 1: 1984–1993 ^[13]

No.	Title	Originally appears on:	Length
1.	"From Her to Eternity"	From Her to Eternity (1984)	5:35
2.	"In the Ghetto"	From Her to Eternity (1984)	4:36
3.	"Tupelo"	The Firstborn Is Dead (1985)	7:16
4.	"I'm Gonna Kill That Woman"	Kicking Against the Pricks (1986)	3:44
5.	"The Carny"	Your Funeral... My Trial (1986)	8:01
6.	"Sad Waters"	Your Funeral... My Trial (1986)	4:59
7.	"Stranger Than Kindness"	Your Funeral... My Trial (1986)	4:47
8.	"Scum"	Your Funeral... My Trial (1986)	2:55
9.	"The Mercy Seat"	Tender Prey (1988)	7:18
10.	"Deanna"	Tender Prey (1988)	3:46
11.	"Up Jumped the Devil"	Tender Prey (1988)	5:18
12.	"The Weeping Song"	The Good Son (1990)	4:25
13.	"The Ship Song"	The Good Son (1990)	5:14
14.	"Papa Won't Leave You, Henry"	Henry's Dream (1992)	5:56
15.	"Straight to You"	Henry's Dream (1992)	4:35

Disc 2: 1994–2003

No.	Title	Originally appears on:	Length
1.	"Do You Love Me?"	Let Love In (1994)	5:57
2.	"Nobody's Baby Now"	Let Love In (1994)	3:52
3.	"Loverman"	Let Love In (1994)	6:21
4.	"Red Right Hand"	Let Love In (1994)	6:10
5.	"Stagger Lee"	Murder Ballads (1996)	5:15
6.	"Where the Wild Roses Grow"	Murder Ballads (1996)	3:57
7.	"Into My Arms"	The Boatman's Call (1997)	4:15
8.	"People Ain't No Good"	The Boatman's Call (1997)	5:42
9.	"Brompton Oratory"	The Boatman's Call (1997)	4:06
10.	"(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?"	The Boatman's Call (1997)	4:05
11.	"Come Into My Sleep"	"(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?" single (1997)	3:49
12.	"Love Letter"	No More Shall We Part (2001)	4:05
13.	"God Is in the House"	No More Shall We Part (2001)	5:43
14.	"He Wants You"	Nocturama (2003)	3:31
15.	"Shoot Me Down"	"Bring It On" single (2003)	4:03

Disc 3: 2004–2013

No.	Title	Originally appears on:	Length
1.	"Hiding All Away"	Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus (2004)	6:30
2.	"There She Goes, My Beautiful World"	Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus (2004)	5:17
3.	"Nature Boy"	Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus (2004)	4:54
4.	"Breathless"	Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus (2004)	3:14
5.	"Babe, You Turn Me On"	Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus (2004)	4:21
6.	"O Children"	Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus (2004)	6:46
7.	"Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!"	Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (2008)	4:13
8.	"Night of the Lotus Eaters"	Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (2008)	4:54
9.	"We Call Upon the Author"	Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (2008)	5:12
10.	"Jesus of the Moon"	Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (2008)	3:23
11.	"More News from Nowhere"	Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (2008)	7:58
12.	"We No Who U R"	Push the Sky Away (2013)	4:05
13.	"Jubilee Street"	Push the Sky Away (2013)	6:36
14.	"Higgs Boson Blues"	Push the Sky Away (2013)	7:50
15.	"Push the Sky Away"	Push the Sky Away (2013)	4:06

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2017) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA) [14] 8 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [15] 8 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [16] 3 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [17] 55 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [18] 12 French Albums (SNEP) [19] 80 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [20] 10 Italian Albums (FIMI) [21] 14 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [22] 15 Portuguese Albums (AFP) [23] 5 Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [24] 36 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [25] 17 UK Albums (OCC) [26] 8

Year-end charts Chart (2017) Position Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [27] 74 Chart (2018) Position Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [28] 183

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
New Zealand (RMNZ) [29]	Gold	7,500‡
United Kingdom (BPI) [30]	Silver	60,000‡
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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