The Boys Next Door – Door, Door


Album : Door, Door
Artist : The Boys Next Door
Release Date : 1978
Genre : Punk-Rock
Total time : 00:31:57
Total size : 44 MB

Tracks :
1. The Nightwatchman (2:07)
2. Brave Exhibitions (2:27)
3. Friends Of My World (2:46)
4. The Voice (3:55)
5. Roman Roman (1:35)
6. Somebody's Watching (2:39)
7. After A Fashion (4:36)
8. Dive Position (2:47)
9. I Mistake Myself (4:31)
10. Shivers (4:34)

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If one compares "Door, Door" to later albums made by these soon-to-be-infamous Aussies — albums released under the Birthday Party moniker — it sounds fairly tame and relatively straightforward. But that's not to say there's anything wrong with it. In fact, it's a frantic, edgy, and surprisingly catchy piece of post-punk mayhem; just don't expect anything as original or downright disturbing as "Big-Jesus-Trash-Can" or "Zoo-Music Girl." The album starts out in high gear with "The Nightwatchman," replete with ringing guitar figures, a boppy punk-pop chorus (yes, those are "ooh-ooh-ooh-oohs" you're hearing), and dirty sax lines. Sax pops up on "Brave Exhibitions" as well, providing a meaty partner to the lead guitar on circular, descending scales that bring some weirdness to a straight-up rocker. Things begin to get slightly more strange and troubled as the record plays on: "The Voice" and "Somebody's Watching" are filled with a paranoid mania and creepy, memorable musical phrases that make them two of "Door, Door"'s highlights. (The lead guitar parts in the latter song make it seem as if Rowland Howard spent time listening to Television at the wrong speed). And "Roman Roman" is a frenzied schoolyard chant that hints at some of the anarchic pandemonium the group could create on-stage. It's impressive how, even at this early stage, Nick Cave was a confident and unique singer, perfectly aware of the strengths and limitations of his voice; although he's not much for range, he knows how to come across in a scary and theatrical manner that perfectly complements the music. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the band's closing, mournful ballad, "Shivers," an unashamedly melodramatic example of post-adolescent anguish. [Source: AMG]

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The Birthday Party
Prayers On Fire


Album : Prayers On Fire
Artist : The Birthday Party
Release Date : 1981
Genre : Punk-Rock
Total time : 00:41:39
Total size : 57,3 MB

Tracks :
1. Zoo-Music Girl
2. Cry
3. Capers
4. Nick the Stripper
5. Ho-Ho
6. Figure of Fun
7. King Ink
8. Dead Song, A
9. Yard
10. Dull Day
11. Just You and Me
12. Blundertown
13. Kathy's Kisses

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Nick Cave is widely acknowledged as one of our most mature songwriting talents these days, but there was a time when he seemed to be the most unhinged soul in Christendom. The Birthday Party's performances, whether in the studio or on stage, were always compelling, and they left behind no more powerful document than this shattering record. PRAYERS ON FIRE, an intense, disquieting effort, was their first international release after relocating to London from Australia. While the violence of the group's urban rockabilly rumbles underneath, often to no obvious linear ...


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The Birthday Party
Hee Haw


Album : Hee Haw
Artist : The Birthday Party
Release Date : 1988
Original Release Date : 1979
Genre : Punk-Rock
Total time : 00:40:24
Total size : 55,6 MB

Tracks :
1. Mr. Clarinet
2. Happy Birthday
3. Hats on Wrong
4. Guilt Parade
5. Friend Catcher
6. Waving My Arms
7. Catman
8. Riddle House
9. Catholic Skin
10. Red Clock
11. Faint Heart
12. Death by Drowning
13. Hair Shirt

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Hee Haw is the second release and first EP by Post Punk band The Birthday Party, released under the name "The Boys Next Door" in 1979. The album was later re-released with the same title in 1988 as part of a full-length compilation of The Birthday Party's earlier work.

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The Birthday Party
Live in Amsterdam


Album : Live in Amsterdam
Artist : The Birthday Party
Recording Date : 1981
Genre : Punk-Rock
Total time : 00:29:53
Total size : 54,8 MB


Tracks :
1.Nick The Stripper.
2.A Dead Song.
3.She's Hit.
4.Bully Bones.
5.Big Jesus Trash Can.
6.Junkyard.
7.(Sometimes) Pleasure Heads Must Burn.
8.Release The Bats.

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Posthoornkerk, Amsterdam 8th November 1981
VPRO Radio Broadcast

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The Birthday Party
Junkyard


Album : Junkyard
Artist : The Birthday Party
Release Date : 1982
Genre : Punk-Rock
Total time : 00:47:00
Total size : 64,7 MB


Tracks :
1. Blast Off
2. She's Hit
3. Dead Joe
4. Dim Locator, The
5. Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)
6. Several Sins
7. Big-Jesus-Trash-Can
8. Kiss Me Black
9. 6" Gold Blade
10. Kewpie Doll
11. Junkyard
12. Dead Joe - (2nd version)
13. Release the Bats

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This is the Birthday Party's second official album (their first, Australian-only, release was put out under both the Birthday Party moniker and their old name Boys Next Door). The unbridled fury of JUNKYARD's predecessor PRAYERS ON FIRE is subdued here, but the guitars' sinister scrape and whine and Nick Cave's demon-possessed, beat-poet vocals create a deliciously unnerving din nevertheless.

"Big Jesus Trash-Can" comes off like an amphetamine-crazed, post-punk version of the Doors' "W.A.S.P. (Texas Radio & the Big Beat)," while Cave's ranting on the almost jazzy "Release the Bats" suggests an unholy confluence of Count Dracula, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Rotten. Throughout the album, the Birthday Party grinds no-wave guitar, free-jazz craziness, and punk-processed Captain Beefheart angularity in their own twisted blender. Evolution is hinted at by the presence of several less chaotic tracks that exploit the kind of horror-movie swamp-blues that would typify the group's final recordings, and Cave's early solo effort.

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The Birthday Party & Lydia Lunch
Drunk On The Pope’s Blood


Album : Drunk On The Pope’ Blood
Artist : The Birthday Party & Lydia Lunch
Release Date : 1982
Genre : Punk-Rock
Total time : 00:24:03
Total size : 33,1 MB

Tracks :
The Birthday Party - Drunk On The Pope's Blood
1. Birthday Party Pleasure Heads (3:40)
2. Birthday Party King Ink (6:02)
3. Birthday Party Zoo-Music Girl (3:00)
4. Birthday Party Loose (5:33)

Lydia Lunch - The Agony Is The Ecstacy
5. Lydia Lunch The Agony Is The Ecstacy (16:31)

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So much mumbo-jumbo's been made of adolescent art, of pop or rock voicing the vainglorious views of each new generation, washing the sins of the fathers (and mothers) from the hands of the kids, that it's long been forgotten that the real truth lies in tantrum.
Most lucrative noise is - and always has been - made by (non) musicians old enough to know better, but never prepared to admit or accept it. It's not a well-aimed kick against growing up and its values, but a blind sulk and shout about already being there. Pop is a toddler's plea for selfish attention, a "me, me, me, me" not an "I told you so". It's mean and it's meaningless. And that's its great beauty.
The Birthday Party, more than most, appreciate the perverse practicality of making a row. They're obnoxious, so much so that they piss people off. Not only the cliched old fuddy-duddies and traditional church wardens, but also the hipsters and boffins who fawn and dote over pop flash and fact.
The Birthday Party are awful. Subversively awful. Awfully great. Awesomely brilliant. "Drunk On The Pope's Blood" is their second really BAD long-playing record. Recorded live at the Venue, it struggles - in vain - to capture and/or castrate the ranting confrontation of their stage act. "Get involved ... say something!" Nick Cave screams while Beefheart is brutally butchered behind.
Back beyond basics, this is what punk ought to be like - angry and futile with nothing to say and barely the words to express it. The critics turn pop into protest because that gives it a comforting logic, an aim and direction that renders it open to sane comprehension. Sheer bloody-minded pointlessness is too mad and too menacing.
The Birthday Party are violently pointless. That's why they're important. Their "16 minutes of sheer hell" is all ugly feedback. Unlistenably listenable. Love it to death.
Lydia Lunch's unpleasant squawking on the other side is even more potent. I hate it. It neither exasperates nor elevates. It irritates. And that, or course, is exactly the point.
Ah art! Don't you just love it?
- Steve Sutherland - Melody Maker, February 27, 1982
(Source: Burning Heart - Rowland S. Howard Page)


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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
From Her to Eternity


Album : From Her to Eternity
Artist : Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Release Date : 1994
Original Release Date : 1984
Lable : Mute
Genre : Rock
Total time : 00:55:08
Total size : 75,7 MB

Tracks :
1 - Avalanche
2 - Cabin fever
3 - Well of misery
4 - From her to eternity
5 - Saint Huck
6 - Wings off flies
7 - A box for Black Paul
8 - In the ghetto BT
9 - The moon is in the gutter BT
10 - From her to eternity (1987)

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After the Birthday Party ended in a manner similar to a train collision, frontman Nick Cave emerged from the wreckage and hooked up ex-bandmate Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld (on loan from the industrial group Einsturzende Neubauten), Barry Adamson (fresh from Magazine), and the lovely but corpse-pale Anita Lane. Thus the Bad Seeds were born, second only to Cave's former band in their ability to create a rumbling caterwaul. What makes the Bad Seeds stand apart, though, are the elements of delta blues that Cave dredges up from the darkest recesses of his black, black heart--blues unlike any you've ever heard before--and his Faulkner-meets-Lovecraft lyrical obsessions. "Well of Misery" shambles along drunkenly and eventually crumbles under its somnambulant pace. On the title track Cave exhorts, begs, and pleads like a whiskey priest begging for forgiveness after a bender while Bargeld's guitar shrieks and wails like a congregation of devils. Including two of Cave's more inspired covers--Leonard Cohen's "Avalanche" and Presley's "In the Ghetto"--From Her to Eternity captures Cave at the noisy intersection between the punk-rock entropy of the Birthday Party and his later incarnation as the gothic Elvis. Amazing, scary stuff.
--Tod Nelson

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
The Firstborn is Dead


Album : The Firsborn is Dead
Artist : Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Release Date : 1985
Lable : Mute
Genre : Rock
Total time : 00:50:27
Total size : 61 MB

Individual track details :
1 Tupelo.mp3
2 Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree.mp3
3 Train Long-Suffering.mp3
4 Black Crow King.mp3
5 Knockin' On Joe.mp3
6 Wanted Man.mp3
7 Blind Lemon Jefferson.mp3
8 The Six Strings That Drew Blood.mp3
9 Tupelo (Single Version).mp3

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The Firstborn Is Dead is the second album released by Nick Cave & The

Bad Seeds. It was first released in 1985. Nick Cave took his obsession

with the American South a bit further on this record, with its

references to Elvis Presley and bluesmen like Blind Lemon Jefferson.

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Your Funeral... My Trial


Album : Your Funeral… My Trial
Artist : Nick Cave
Release Date : 1995
Original Release Date : 1986
Lable : Mute
Genre : Rock
Total time : 00:46:08
Total size : 85,1 MB

Tracks :
1. You're Funeral My Trial
2. Stranger Than Kindness
3. Jack's Shadow
4. Carny, The
5. She Fell Away
6. Hard on For Love
7. Sad Waters
8. Long Time Man
9. Scum - (bonus track)

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Cave digs even deeper into his personal obsessions here than on the previous THE FIRSTBORN IS DEAD. While FIRSTBORN's ominous bluesiness is still represented on the title track and "Long Time Man," the balance of this album sounds decidedly more European. It was here that Cave's Gothic troubadour persona really began to take shape. He takes the role of the grim storyteller on the album's strongest track "The Carny" (featured to fine effect in Wim Wenders' film WINGS OF DESIRE, in which Cave also appears as himself) and "Stranger Than Kindness." There's a gauzy, almost supernatural ...

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Kicking Against the Pricks


Album : Kicking Against the Pricks
Artist : Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Release Date : 1995
Original Release Date : 1986
Lable : Mute
Genre : Rock
Total time : 00:50:09
Total size : 85,7 MB


Tracks :
1. Muddy Water
2. I'm Gonna Kill That Woman
3. Sleeping Annaleah
4. Long Black Veil
5. Hey Joe
6. Singer, The
7. Black Betty
8. Running Scared
9. All Tomorrow's Parties
10. By the Time I Get to Phoenix
11. Hammer Song, The
12. Something's Got a Hold of My Heart
13. Jesus Met the Woman at the Well
14. The Carnival Is Over

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While Cave wore his blues influence on his sleeve on his earlier solo recordings, this covers albums goes several steps further, revealing the full range of the artist's inspiration. While Cave does his unparalleled goth-blues thing on John Lee Hooker's "I'm Gonna Kill That Woman," that's only the beginning of the story. Cave convincingly tackles predictable proto-punk fare like the Velvet Underground's "All Tomorrow's Parties", but more importantly, Cave the balladeer makes his debut here.

From Jimmy Webb's "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" to Mickey Newbury's "Sleeping Annaleah," Cave practices the brand of gloriously melodramatic crooning that would define his '90s work. Accordingly, Cave's singing began to develop here, from the crazed ranting of his early days to a more luxurious baritone. Blixa Bargeld's guitar also plays a role of increased importance--he would prove Cave's perfect foil for years to come.

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