Started getting into The Birthday pary lately (Nick Caves old band)
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Supernaut123 — 9 years ago(January 04, 2017 04:28 PM)
Amazing stuff. Junkyard is the kind of album that sounds like it would make even the most brutal metal and grindcore bands piss their pants. Has that opressive emotional vibe of early Swans mixed with the noisey chaotic nature of Big Black though this predates both. This might end up being one of my top favorite bands.
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TheeMortyToad — 9 years ago(January 04, 2017 06:37 PM)
Really not that much of a stretch from The Stooges to The Birthday Party (whom I believe wouldn't have existed without 'em). I envy your first time discoveries of some of the best music recorded.
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Supernaut123 — 9 years ago(January 04, 2017 07:36 PM)
Well I was already into similar brutal noise rock artists like early Swans, Big Black, and Slab!. Somehow I overlooked this group though Ive heard of Nick Cave before because Belixa played with The Bad Seeds.
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TheeMortyToad — 9 years ago(January 04, 2017 05:02 PM)
Great band. I think Rowland S. Howard was the real genius behind them. Pre-BP band, The Boys Next Door, are also worth checking out, as is Howard's solo work and stuff with Lydia Lunch, These Immortal Souls and Crime and the City Solution. Defintely a big influence on mos 80s bands worth their salt like Big Black, Scratch Acid, Butthole Surfers, Dinosaur Jr., and Australian greats such as Lubricated Goat, Bloodloss, feedtime and The Scientists, to name but a few.
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this_seat_taken — 9 years ago(January 05, 2017 08:55 PM)
Saw them live in Denver 1983 but after a couple of songs Cave said "So far it sounds a bit totally disastrous" - the mix was distorted, very loud and echo-y inside the brick walled venue, still I enjoyed it.
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Nogbad_the_Bad — 9 years ago(January 06, 2017 12:42 PM)
I can take or leave most of their records these days, and I never did like
Junkyard
, but they had their moments, and were indeed fantastic live.
Capers
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Even thinking of Cave's solo work (
Kicking Against The Pricks
excepted) sends me into a coma, though.
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Darkness_Fish — 9 years ago(January 06, 2017 01:04 PM)
I never cared for Junkyard, it's oppressive, sure, but seems completely one-paced and lacking in any kind of dynamic. I prefer their EPs to their albums, their best tracks are clearly "The Friend Catcher" and "Mutiny in Heaven".
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