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".
Rusty chains and armoured pillows stuffed with silver pins

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
is probably my individual favourite song -
Even thinking of Cave's solo work (
Kicking Against The Pricks
excepted) sends me into a coma, though.
No valley too deep, no mountain too high.

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.

Will look into it!

You might like Grinderman too. That's Cave in a more stripped down and heavy format.
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HANDS UP WHO WANTS TO DIE!!!

Crime And The City Solution are one of the best bands I've seen live. Simon Bonney has always been under rated.

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.
Normal Is A Myth.

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.

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.
Normal Is A Myth.