Lovely Creatures: The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds (1984-2014)
by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
(Compilation album)
Year: 2017
Release date: 2017-05-05
Overall rank: 33,801st
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds bestography
Lovely Creatures: The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds (1984-2014) is ranked 24th best out of 30 albums by Nick Cave on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Nick Cave is Skeleton Tree which is ranked number 370 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,459.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Lovely Creatures: The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds (1984-2014) rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2017 | 48/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | DJStuart79 | Top 78 Music Albums of 2017 | 72/78 | 0 |
| 2026 | jonny5244 | Top 31 Music Albums of 2017 | 31/31 | 0 |
| 2025 | ThuramThugood | Ranked - Nick Cave - Ranked | 18/41 | - |
| 2022 | ASOARE | Top 100 Music Albums of 2017 | 20/100 | 4 |
| 2020 | Red0510 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 16/100 | 17 |
| 2017 | davidhuret | top 30 artists' compilations | 14/30 | - |
| 2017 | bookends70 | Top 46 Greatest Music Albums | 45/46 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 8 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 24 | |||
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| ! | 04/08/2026 16:03 | DrTchock97 | 748 | 76/100 |
| ! | 11/09/2022 12:52 |  Arthurknight | 9,584 | 72/100 |
| ! | 02/22/2022 17:56 | LosWochos | 47,547 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 80.6/100, a mean average of 84.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.4.
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LedZep TOP 100 COMMENTER 11/05/2018 18:51 | #223927
When you have 21 incredible songs on a Best Of, and it's not even 1/3 of all great songs you've written. And to comment below, it's a 1984-2014 era, so Skeleton Tree doesn't qualify.
A nice overview of Cave's magnificent career but why didn't they feature anything from, The Skeleton tree? Oh well, great album, great songs, great artist.
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