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including Nick Cave solo

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 (twenty-one years ago)

As someone who likes the BP but never really got into Nick Cave, I could be asked to do the task.. but i think there already is a decent enough collection released out there, Spencer, that makes a great intro disc. I forget the name though. :/

― donut debonair (donut), Saturday, 4 June 2005 05:07 (twenty-one years ago)

It's called Hits, simply enough. And yep, it's quite good.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 4 June 2005 05:13 (twenty-one years ago)

everything by The Birthday Party + the first four Nick Cave albums (From Her To Eternity, The Firstborn Is Dead, Kicking Against The Pricks & Your Funeral, My Trial!) = classic.

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 (twenty-one years ago)

HANDS UP WHO WANTS TO DIE??!!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Saturday, 4 June 2005 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

also release the bats is the best record ever made

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Saturday, 4 June 2005 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

OH LUCY, YOU'VE MADE A SINNAH OUTTA ME, WAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! AND NOW I'M BURNIN' LIKE AH SAINT, DOWN IN -- SWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMP laaand!

― The plastic yoghurt guns of Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 4 June 2005 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

HANDS UP WHO WANTS TO DIE??!!

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 (twenty-one years ago)

when Cave screamed "Hands up who wants to die?" at Perkins Palace on the first Bad Seeds tour, maybe second or third song of the set, the whole place just went electric - everybody'd been wondering if he was going to do any BP stuff and he tore that thing to pieces

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Saturday, 4 June 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

rowland has released a new 7" backed by the deveastations recently. unfortunately neither of the songs (i gather) are new - just new versions of songs on his seven-odd year old last album..

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Sunday, 5 June 2005 07:01 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

according to http://www.nickcaveandthebadseeds.com, this is the brand new website for The Birthday Party: http://www.thebirthdayparty.com.au/ .

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 (twenty years ago)

The Birthday Party Sings Sesame Street

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 August 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

I can imagine them playing "Doing the Pigeon" pretty clearly.

― Pangolino 2, Sunday, 7 August 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

"RUBBER DUCKIE MY GAWD YOU ARE THE ONE SHOOTING UUUUUP!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 August 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

E.L.M.O. (Pow, Pow, Pow)

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 7 August 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

I hope no reunion. Without Tracy Pew, it isn't the Birthday Party. I missed the chance to see 'em, too (wasn't old enough to get into the show at the Palace - clueless Richard Cromelin the next day in the LA Times clearly hadn't known what to make of young-Nick-on-fire), but that doesn't mean I want to see people who've grown beyond that trying to reignite it.

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Sunday, 7 August 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

every time i listen to BP i remember why i dont like solo nick cave

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 January 2006 03:06 (twenty years ago)

ARGH SO GOOD

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 January 2006 03:06 (twenty years ago)

I'm surprised "Deep In the Woods" is not rated more on this thread, though.

yes, "deep in the woods" = THE GREATEST.

― controversial buffalo stance (haitch), Monday, 23 January 2006 03:36 (twenty years ago)

sometimes, pleasure heads must burn.

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Monday, 23 January 2006 04:58 (twenty years ago)

and if you can hunt down the version of Dead Joe that Nick did on his solo Australian tour a few years back, GET IT. It's great. He just pummels the piano and screams that shit.

oh ho ho indeed

Birthday Party = Classic, obv

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Friday, 27 January 2006 09:53 (twenty years ago)

WHERE NO FISH CAN SWIM

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 27 January 2006 14:35 (twenty years ago)

that live "Dead Joe" is so awesome, you can almost hear the moment when he sorta remembers "God, I was so young and pissed off and it was kinda awesome"

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 27 January 2006 14:54 (twenty years ago)

thanks for posting that "Dead Joe"....very cool. I saw NC & The Bd/Sds. in 2002 and they absolutely incredible, Cave can certainly still belt it/scream it out when he wants

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 (twenty years ago)

"Hits" needs to be remastered, if it hasn't been already.

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 27 January 2006 20:16 (twenty years ago)

nah you just need to get all the albums!

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 27 January 2006 20:18 (twenty years ago)

It's great that people who love the Birthday Party seem to hate Nick Cave solo - that's how it should be!

― Dittoismus (Dada), Friday, 27 January 2006 20:19 (twenty years ago)

i love the birthday party to bits but also love nick cave solo.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 27 January 2006 20:24 (twenty years ago)

As ferocious and psychotic a spectacle in 1982 as I will ever live to see on a stage. Classic. Nick Cave live in 2002: also classic.

― xero (xero), Friday, 27 January 2006 20:32 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

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 (seventeen years ago)

good morning

― Zeno, Saturday, 14 June 2008 17:11 (seventeen years ago)

Haha! Top o' the morning to ya!

― Bimble, Saturday, 14 June 2008 17:30 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

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 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

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 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

Because I believe firmly in awesomeness, here:

The drum and bass in this, man.

― RabiesAngentleman, Monday, 6 October 2008 12:34 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

― Edward III, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 01:06 (seventeen years ago)

― Edward III, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 01:10 (seventeen years ago)

― Edward III, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 01:11 (seventeen years ago)

― Edward III, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 01:23 (seventeen years ago)

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 (seventeen years ago)

just think in five years and he'll be shaving

― RabiesAngentleman, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 01:28 (seventeen years ago)

wow!
i've never seen that "swampland" vocal thing before (the first of Edward's youtuve links here).
awesome stuff, and of BP's best songs.

― Zeno, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 01:36 (seventeen years ago)

time for a legendary reunion.
(though it will prob never happen)

― Zeno, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 01:38 (seventeen years ago)

I think any hope of a bp reunion died with tracy pew

― Edward III, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 02:39 (seventeen years ago)

I'll retain my fond memories of seeing the Birthday Party at the old 930 Club (followed by the Fall the next night)

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 04:21 (seventeen years ago)

4AD needs to reissue Junk Yard on vinyl, that shit is gettin bootlegged.

― sleeve, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 04:46 (seventeen years ago)

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