Junkyard [Explicit Lyrics, Original recording remastered]

The Birthday Party, Birthday Party | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 16, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics, Original recording remastered
• Label: Buddha
• ASIN: B00004T0NA
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #74,003 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Blast Off!

2. She's Hit

3. Dead Joe

4. Dim Locator

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

13. Release the Bats

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly Extreme Music, December 2, 2003

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Crypt "thecrypt777" (Arkham) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Junkyard (Audio CD)

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."

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If the Marquis De Sade were in a post-punk band, April 28, 2003

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Matthew Brewer (somehwere in time) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Junkyard (Audio CD)

The early years of Nick Cave when he had some edge and music muscle to back it up. So much tension on the album that you think the band is going to disintegrate at any moment. This was when the band was still in it's post Stooges- Sex Pistols primtive style, down an dirty punk rock before graduating to the sleek and more refined style of lounge rock with Nick Cave crooning gothic style songs in the mould of Tom Waits.

Highly recommended!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars birthday party+me=unholy union, July 25, 2001

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jesse durenleau (nashua NH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Junkyard (Audio CD)

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. [....]