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Bad Seed: The Biography of Nick Cave

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This book is wonderful. I just couldn't put it down. It's thoroughly detailed, and full of great anecdotes about Nick and his bandmates, which made me laugh more than anything I've read for a long time.
It's certainly a worthy biography of this remarkable artist.

An excellent biography, befittingly dark and seedy,
very well researched and written.
I wanted to read it again from the beginning the second I finished it.
Excellent book.

I was enthralled at the amount of information and research put into this biography. As with all books, my expectations are moderate in an attempt to not be disappointed with the text, but Bad Seed proved to be an excellent read! I love finding out new and interesting facts or details that in my many years of dedicating my time to the life and music of Nick Cave I have not come across. It keeps me hooked! The information chronicling the early years is fantastic as well. This was by all means a wonderful find for any Nick Cave fan!

I didn't realize that this was written in 1995, before I knew of his existence. In fact, it took Johnny Cash's Mercy Seat to find out who could have written such a thing... Well, he is one of about five contemporary musicians out there I consider a genious (others: Petty, Hiatt, Cohen, the late Zevon). Anyway, too many anecdotes about getting ripped and fighting and not enough about his creative process. Not nearly as good as "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: the Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon"). I look forward to a sequel: 1995 to present. He is a strange shaman I'd like to know more about.

Chas.

i love nick cave. but this book is written in a higher reading level than most so its a challenge.