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 11 May 1998.
Cave asked each of the Bad Seeds members, past and present, to choose their favourite tracks from the ten albums—their lists would then be discussed until a final list was produced. Only guitarist and founding Bad Seed Mick Harvey responded, and it is his listing, unchanged, that makes up The Best of.
As of 2001, the album has sold 500,000 copies worldwide.
Track listing
Note: Tracks 2, 4, 10, 11, 13 and 14 are the edited single versions, but are not listed as edits in the liner notes.
Special edition The album was also released as a special edition with a live bonus disc, titled Live at the Royal Albert Hall, recorded on 19 and 20 May 1997. This bonus CD was later released in 2008 as a regular album, with four additional tracks and without "The Weeping Song".
Musicians Nick Cave – Vocals, Hammond, Organ, Oscillator, Piano, Harmonica, Backing Vocals, String Arrangement Blixa Bargeld – Guitar, "Boss Bellini", Backing Vocals, Slide Guitar, "Father" Vocal (on "The Weeping Song") Mick Harvey – Drums, Bass, Acoustic Guitar, Guitar, Shaker, Bell, Rhythm Guitar, Extra Piano, Hammond, Bass Guitar, Bass Organ, Backing Vocals, Piano, Xylophone, Glockenspiel, Loops, Vibraphone, Percussion, String Arrangement Kid Congo Powers – Guitar Martyn P. Casey – Bass, Backing Vocals Thomas Wydler – Drums, Timpani, Fish, Backing Vocals, Percussion Conway Savage – Piano, Backing Vocals Barry Adamson – Drums, Hammond, Backing Vocals, Bass Jim Sclavunos – Drums, Bells Tex Perkins – Backing Vocals Rowland S. Howard – Backing Vocals Roland Wolf – Guitar Gini Ball – Strings Audrey Riley – Strings Chris Tombling – Strings PJ Harvey – Vocals Kylie Minogue – Vocals Jen Anderson – Strings Sue Simpson – Strings Kerran Coulter – Strings Helen Mountfort – Strings Hugo Race – Guitar
Charts Weekly charts Chart (1998) Peakposition European Albums (Eurotipsheet)16
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