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The Complete Lyrics 1978-2001
Nick Cave: The Complete Lyrics 1978-2001
This complete edition 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 the new album, NO MORE SHALL WE PART, released in spring 2001. Brought together in one volume for the first time, these lyrics make up one of the outstanding achievements of contemporary music.
This complete edition 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 the new album, NO MORE SHALL WE PART, released in spring 2001. Brought together in one volume for the first time, these lyrics make up one of the outstanding achievements of contemporary music.
- GenresMusic
338 pages, Unknown Binding
Published January 1, 2001
About the author
Nick Cave
95 books2,002 followersNicholas Edward Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional actor. He is best known for his work in the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and his fascination with American music and its roots. He has a reputation, which he disowns, for singing dark, brooding songs which some listeners regard as depressing. His music is characterised by intensity, high energy and a wide variety of influences. He currently lives in Brighton & Hove in England.
Cave released his first book King Ink, in 1988. It is a collection of lyrics and plays, including collaborations with American enfant terrible Lydia Lunch.
While he was based in West Berlin, Cave started working on what was to become his debut novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel (1989). Significant crossover is evident between the themes in the book and the lyrics Cave wrote in the late stages of the Birthday Party and the early stage of his solo career. "Swampland", from Mutiny, in particular, uses the same linguistic stylings ('mah' for 'my', for instance) and some of the same themes (the narrator being haunted by the memory of a girl called Lucy, being hunted like an animal, approaching death and execution). A collectors' limited edition of the book appeared in 2007.
Cave wrote the foreword to a Canongate publication of the Gospel according to Mark, published in the UK in 1998. The American publication of the same book contains a foreword by a different author.
Cave released his first book King Ink, in 1988. It is a collection of lyrics and plays, including collaborations with American enfant terrible Lydia Lunch.
While he was based in West Berlin, Cave started working on what was to become his debut novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel (1989). Significant crossover is evident between the themes in the book and the lyrics Cave wrote in the late stages of the Birthday Party and the early stage of his solo career. "Swampland", from Mutiny, in particular, uses the same linguistic stylings ('mah' for 'my', for instance) and some of the same themes (the narrator being haunted by the memory of a girl called Lucy, being hunted like an animal, approaching death and execution). A collectors' limited edition of the book appeared in 2007.
Cave wrote the foreword to a Canongate publication of the Gospel according to Mark, published in the UK in 1998. The American publication of the same book contains a foreword by a different author.
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October 18, 2012
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