Nope. Well, he was busy being a hepcat.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 3 June 2005 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm here to confess my love for 'Nick the Stripper' and 'Deep In The Woods', and the Birthday Party in general. Can I also say how much I love the 'Nick the Stripper' video? Fucked-up Nick truly is his best incarnation. It's the hair, I think. Oh and the dead stare...
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 June 2005 00:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Saturday, 4 June 2005 01:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 4 June 2005 01:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 4 June 2005 02:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Sorry, impossible to fit this *and* BP stuff in one CD80. There's just too much goodness!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 4 June 2005 02:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Saturday, 4 June 2005 05:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 4 June 2005 05:13 (eighteen years ago) link
Oh, and It's Still Living >>> Live 81-82, if only because of that Funhouse cover I just don't get. (I have the Stooges' Funhouse Sessions box, so it's not that I don't like the song, I'm just not into that particular cover version) And the Dead Joe arrangement on It's Still Living = one of my fav things ever.
― StanM, Saturday, 4 June 2005 09:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Saturday, 4 June 2005 09:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Saturday, 4 June 2005 09:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― The plastic yoghurt guns of Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 4 June 2005 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link
One of his two best song intros (the other being the unintentional one at the start of Therapy?'s Troublegum album -- "HERE I AM, MOTHERFUCKAH!")
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 4 June 2005 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Saturday, 4 June 2005 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Sunday, 5 June 2005 07:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Does this mean... I dunno, reunion plans, new compilation, remasters, Nick playing Birthday Party songs live again, (any other ideas?) ?
― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 7 August 2005 19:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 August 2005 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pangolino 2, Sunday, 7 August 2005 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 August 2005 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 7 August 2005 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Sunday, 7 August 2005 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 January 2006 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link
yes, "deep in the woods" = THE GREATEST.
― controversial buffalo stance (haitch), Monday, 23 January 2006 03:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Monday, 23 January 2006 04:58 (eighteen years ago) link
oh ho ho indeed
Birthday Party = Classic, obv
― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Friday, 27 January 2006 09:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 27 January 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 27 January 2006 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Birthday Party=utter classic in my house...they were arty, weird, but also physical and raw, grotesque, bizarre and wonderful. Also rarely has a band been so well-served by a great hits collection, I love all the albums, but "Hits" is still great, I still listen to it
― chris besinger (chris besinger), Friday, 27 January 2006 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 27 January 2006 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 27 January 2006 20:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dittoismus (Dada), Friday, 27 January 2006 20:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 27 January 2006 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― xero (xero), Friday, 27 January 2006 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't think I had really been living until I heard the Birthday Party's cover of The Stooges' "Loose". Where has that been hiding all my life?
― Bimble, Saturday, 14 June 2008 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
good morning
― Zeno, Saturday, 14 June 2008 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha! Top o' the morning to ya!
― Bimble, Saturday, 14 June 2008 17:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Anybody seen "Mutiny - the Last Birthday Party," an apparent document of the overdubbing sessions for the final EP? (!) Info's here: http://www.fromthearchives.com/bp/videography.html
couldn't find a working torrent, I kinda gotta see this.
― J0hn D., Wednesday, 6 August 2008 02:53 (fifteen years ago) link
that rowland s. howard's album - "teenage snuff film" - one of the best of the post - Birthday Party members projects (including the Cave ones).
― Zeno, Monday, 6 October 2008 12:06 (fifteen years ago) link
it is a good record. apparently he has a new album ready to go, but not the resources to make it just yet
― jonty alouette (electricsound), Monday, 6 October 2008 12:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I have been wanting to hear that for so long, which reminds me to look for a torrent, which I will do right now.
― RabiesAngentleman, Monday, 6 October 2008 12:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Because I believe firmly in awesomeness, here:
The drum and bass in this, man.
― RabiesAngentleman, Monday, 6 October 2008 12:34 (fifteen years ago) link
That hottie girl might be a grandmother now!
Completely freakin' classic. I was so psyched when they reissued the first Birthday Party album on CD back in '90. I played it to death on my college radio show (Fester's Bucket O' Nasties!) alongside Beefheart and Pere Ubu. I love the other albums too, but I felt its relative restraint and tension made it even more sinister and creepy, while Junkyard is almost cartoonish.
I bought all the remasters a few years ago. It helped that Virgin sold 'em for only $7.99 each.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 6 October 2008 13:36 (fifteen years ago) link
No love for the song "Happy Birthday"? I lurve it to bits. So awkward. Also, barking like a dog is always welcome in my playlists.
― staggerlee, Monday, 6 October 2008 22:16 (fifteen years ago) link
― Edward III, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 01:06 (fifteen years ago) link
― Edward III, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 01:10 (fifteen years ago) link
― Edward III, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 01:11 (fifteen years ago) link
― Edward III, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 01:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, this thread just got wicked.
"Happy Birthday" is awesome, I giggle every time I hear WHAT A SURPRISE, IT'S A SAMURAI SWORD, what a metal surprise...!
― RabiesAngentleman, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 01:28 (fifteen years ago) link
just think in five years and he'll be shaving