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― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Thursday, 6 May 2004 10:26 (twenty years ago) link
Junkyard changed my life, easily one of my favorite albums ever! Just don't want to over-represent it 'cause all phases of the Birthday Party are GREAT GREAT GREAT
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 6 May 2004 11:30 (twenty years ago) link
― the 'surface' 'noise' (electricsound), Thursday, 6 May 2004 11:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Thursday, 6 May 2004 11:41 (twenty years ago) link
― the 'surface' 'noise' (electricsound), Thursday, 6 May 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 6 May 2004 11:45 (twenty years ago) link
― the 'surface' 'noise' (electricsound), Thursday, 6 May 2004 11:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 6 May 2004 11:49 (twenty years ago) link
― the 'surface' 'noise' (electricsound), Thursday, 6 May 2004 11:53 (twenty years ago) link
1. "Mutiny in Heaven" 2. "She's Hit"3. "Nick the Stripper"4. "Six Inch Gold Blade"5. "Release the Bats"
6. "Blast Off"7. "Deep in the Woods"8. Their cover of the Stooges' "Loose" on The John Peel Sessions
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:07 (twenty years ago) link
He did that on his solo American tour, too. I was really fucking amazed and happy to hear a Birthday Party song when I saw him in Chicago.
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 6 May 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 6 May 2004 16:19 (twenty years ago) link
Rrrrats in paradissssse, rrrrrats in paradisssse!
― kaliflwr (kaliflwr), Thursday, 6 May 2004 16:27 (twenty years ago) link
my 2 pennorth'
― v1nnymiller, Thursday, 6 May 2004 20:44 (twenty years ago) link
― jazz odysseus (jazz odysseus), Thursday, 6 May 2004 21:24 (twenty years ago) link
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 6 May 2004 21:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 May 2004 22:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Friday, 7 May 2004 06:06 (twenty years ago) link
When I was really obsessed with the Birthday Party I looked all over the place for Crime and the City Solution records (except the disappointing Paradise Discotheque) and couldn't find any - did anyone ever reissue them? maybe I should check on slsk.
― daria g (daria g), Friday, 7 May 2004 19:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 May 2004 19:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago) link
― daria g (daria g), Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:19 (twenty years ago) link
― mullygrubber (gaz), Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:27 (twenty years ago) link
― mullygrubber (gaz), Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:36 (twenty years ago) link
― the 'surface' 'noise' (electricsound), Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:55 (twenty years ago) link
I like the two I've heard.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 8 May 2004 13:19 (twenty years ago) link
― jazz odysseus (jazz odysseus), Saturday, 8 May 2004 15:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 9 May 2004 02:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Atnevon (Atnevon), Sunday, 9 May 2004 13:19 (twenty years ago) link
I pulled out Prayers On Fire for the first time in a while cuz of this thread.
Insanely great.
― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 10 May 2004 03:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine's all but an ark-lark! (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 3 June 2005 18:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Soukesian, Friday, 3 June 2005 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 3 June 2005 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine's all but an ark-lark! (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 3 June 2005 21:33 (eighteen years ago) link
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
thirded
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 1 December 2023 12:23 (five months ago) link
if you don't want to give your money to Jeff fucking Bezos for making space penises, you could even rent it from the filmmakers:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/autoluminescent
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 1 December 2023 12:26 (five months ago) link
Oh sweet gonna buy that, last time I looked at their site they didn't have VOD options.
The RSH doc is also available on Vimeohttps://vimeo.com/ondemand/autoluminescent
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 1 December 2023 13:12 (five months ago) link
(same link!) I don't know of any non Bezos source for the Birthday Party piece.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 1 December 2023 21:14 (five months ago) link
i saw this doc a few days ago also - agree there is some great footage - esp. the studio stuff - although by the 13th live sequence featuring nick cave writhing around on the floor i had checked out a bit
semi-agree re the excess of gfx treatment but would say overall the film-makers did a great job taking material from disparate sources and shaping it into a unified whole
to me it felt about 20 mins too long? which is ofc mainly a requirement of getting it to feature length - but also perhaps reflects that TBP story isn’t thaaat interesting? they have a great sound - were clearly an incredible live force - but they don’t develop much over their lifespan and kind of grind to an exhausted, drugfucked halt
they were clearly remarkable in that historical moment and the film does a good job of capturing that - you could show it to a teenager and they would get what made the band compelling (eg I don’t think the recentish Triffids doc achieved this) - but I am not sure it manages any wider resonance beyond this specific story (which ie I think the recent Crimson doco managed to do)
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Friday, 1 December 2023 21:28 (five months ago) link
Haven’t seen the movie yet, but what always fascinated me about the BP’s development is that they’re the rare band got rawer and more unhinged and less subtle as they moved towards that final implosion.
― bendy, Saturday, 2 December 2023 04:12 (five months ago) link