Birthday Party - Junkyard
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Free Music Review: Truly Extreme Music
Hit: 5 Stars
The Birthday party, to put it vulgarly, could rip off anyone's face and chew on their brains then, now and tomorrow as well. The Party emerged from the post punk movement that also spawned Joy Division, Bauhaus, The Cure and Christian Death, and which would later be called Goth. (Deathrock in the states) The Birthday Party, however would prove to be one of the most extreme and "hardcore" of lot. While Joy Division and The Cure prefered melancholy and gloom, and Bauhaus and Christian Death - boho artsiness, Nick Cave and his fellow loons gave us a bastard hybrid of garage rock, punk, rockabilly, blues and a bit of lounge as well. The thing that really set them apart was the all out fury and abandon found in their music. Even the fastest and loudest Thrash Metal and Hardcore Punk bands could never dream of creating the atmosphere of raw, unadulterated anger, rage, and tension found on this album. It's almost murderous. Very fitting for songs like Six Inch Gold Blade and Dead Joe. (Probably the greatest Death Rock song ever recorded) One has to wonder what Nick Cave was doing while recording the vocals. Torturing himself with a branding iron maybe? The production values on this recording are almost non-exsistant. The sound is hollow. Low bass end, and ear piercing high end. No middle tone. The vocals sound like they were recorded in a bathroom, the guitar sounds out of tune, and the drums sound... well... broken! But all of these shortcomings add to the experimental nature of this album. And the lyrics... anyone familiar with Nick Cave can expect only some of his best here. Strange characters in ridiculous situations, tons of poetic metaphors and of course Death and Murder. A bit of b-movie horror with the Goth Anthem Release The Bats as well. Essential listening to anyone who thinks today's popular poseur artists are "extreme."Free Music Review: The party will never die!
Hit: 5 Stars
When you hear the awesome electrifying noise of pure imagination come to life in thrash-metal form that could only spawn from The Birthday Party, you know you've struck gold! The intense and highly imaginative sounds of this monsterous band make them uncomparable to any other music's style or artists. The Birthday Party knew how to bring up the musical creativity in this album that cannot compare to anyone else because they were not and still aren't like anybody else. The band of musical know-all's proved true in Junkyard. The album's ability to both make you feel like you're packed with unmeasureable energy but at the same time make you relax is a rare breed of music, fantasticly pulled off in thier genera of music. The Birthday Party knew how to sound different from the others, and they do it with style. Junkyard, like their other albums, was uncharted territory for the 80's in the pop cultural styles. The Birthday Party showed the world a new design of creative and spontanious work that fit in the right place at the right time. Every track on theis album is worth every dime you put into this masterpeice (and I don't say masterpeice lightly). Words do not give Junkyard or any other Birthday Party album justice. Their end was one of perfect time for when they were set. The Birthday Party were true examples of what musical integrity was and still is today. Junkyard and The Birhtday Party will not be buried under the dusts of time because they have always held the musical power to rise above. They entered in style, and they left the same way.Free Music Review: birthday party+me=unholy union
Hit: 5 Stars
love is a light word to use in expressing how i like this cd ever song a masterpeice though some songs can get irriating you will go back to them and love them regard less some highlights would be SHE'S HIT, HAMLET POW POW, SEVERAL SINS, BIG JESUS TRASH CAN, KEWPIE DOLL, JUNKYARD AND RELEASE THE BATS. SHE'HIT the musics slow with a thumping bass line and cybmals that crash out of no where and nick cave sounding like a demonic reporter.HAMLET POW POW could send you into a frenzy with a looping bass lineand tons of guitar rackets and cave shrieking about a murder. SEVERAL SINS is good relaxing (for them) song that sounds really bluesy.BIG JESUS TRASH CAN has thee funniest lyrics ever about the oil crisis (gee aren't we in the same kind of situation).KEWPIE DOLL sounds like no wave mixed with thrashabilly with some rather misogynist lyrics.JUNKYARD is the best song to me with that distorted whammy bar intro to that bass and drum beat that sonuds so evil and untamed then when the chorus comes around you can imagine cave bouncing his head back and forth to the beat before screaming at the top of lungs IT WILL SEND SHIVERS UP YOUR SPINE. RELEASE THE BATS sounds very jazzy and again some more misogynist lyrics from nick cave. [....]Free Music Review: I like it as much as the Stooges
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm new to the world of Nick Cave. I got into his "Bad Seeds" stuff recently, because I remember seeing him at Lollapalooza in 1994, under a tent reciting some crazy poetry. For years I've been meaning to pick up some of his music, and I'm finally doing it. I noticed that Henry Rollins' record label re-issued this CD and thought I'd give it a shot. The closest comparison that I can think of for this CD is some sort of middle ground between The Stooges and The Cramps. It sounds very crazy, fun, and uninhibited. If you like aggressive, wild noise experimentation, then this is a CD for you. As a warning, the sound is very raw, like some of the older 80's punk like old Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, or Husker Du. I really like that "garage" sound, but if you're not into that kind of thing then you should avoid this........
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....No you souldn't. This is really great music!! Treat your ears to something nice and get this CD!
Free Music Review: What more to say?
Hit: 5 Stars
With Junkyard we find ourselves right in the middle of the Birthday Party story (well, give or take a few years....) Yes, this is a work of genius, no doubt about it. From the first track, "Blast Off," it's clear that we're dealing with a very different sort of band, one whose work was one-of-a-kind and which therefore can't be described. Think of it as the sound of darkness, or maybe as a sort of 'stepping stone' to the slightly more pop (but by no means more upbeat) Nick Cave that created "From Her To Eternity." Or think of it as a testament to that lost and sadly underrated rhythm section at the back of every band, always there, punching out beats for the rest of the band to work around. Whatever gets you to buy this classic bit of plastic, and listen to it over and over, just find a reason, shell some money together, and BUY IT!!!!! I cannot say it any more simply than that.