The Birthday Party - Junkyard
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Artist: The Birthday PartyEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-05-16
Music Label: Buddha
Soundtracks:
- Blast Off!
- She's Hit
- Dead Joe
- Dim Locator
- Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)
- Several Sins
- Big-Jesus-Trash-Can
- Kiss Me Black
- 6" Gold Blade
- Kewpie Doll
- Junkyard
- Dead Joe
- Release the Bats
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Hit: 4 Stars
The Birthday Party-Junk Yard ****
To be blunt, The Birthday Party really doesn't fit into any genre, you can't pigeon hole the guys. Born out of the post punk era, but also the new wave, and also the Gothic wow is me via the Cure and Bauhaus, with just a splash of hardcore before it was actually called that The Birthday Party was Lucifer's favorite rock n' roll boyfriend Nick Cave's introduction to the world. What a great one.
To simply choose between the Birthday Party and The Bad Seeds would be impossible. This was the much younger, much more angry, far less poetic Nick Cave.
Junk Yard is possibly the groups greatest achievement. Aside from their brilliant live albums this takes the cake. In a nut shell, if you were to place this in your record collection it would destroy just about every other album in the lot, an along side any other album from 1982, they all sound dull.
Tracks like 'Dead Joe' 'Blast Off' and the closer 'Release The Bats' are both haunting and overpowering at the same time. Cave's growl mixed with the music of one of the greatest backing bands in history make for one of best albums of the 1980's and of all time.
Eventually Birthday Party would break and Cave would move to Germany and form The Bad Seeds, but it is Junk Yard that still to this day remains Caves most honest and unmerciful work.
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