The Birthday Party
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Biography
[Edit]The Birthday Party were one of the darkest and most challenging post-punk groups to emerge in the early '80s, creating bleak and noisy soundscapes that provided the perfect setting for vocalist Nick Cave's difficult, disturbing stories of religion, violence, and perversity. Under the direction of Cave and guitarist Rowland S. Howard, the band tore through reams of blues and rockabilly licks, spitting out hellacious feedback and noise at an unrelenting pace. As the Birthday Party's career progressed, Cave's vision got darker and the band's songs alternated between dirges to blistering sonic assaults.
Originally, the Australian band was called the Boys Next Door, comprising Cave, Howard, Mick Harvey (guitar, drums, organ, piano), bassist Tracy Pew, and drummer Phill Calvert. After the Door Door album and Hee Haw EP under that name, the band moved to London and switched its name to the deceptively benign Birthday Party. Once they arrived in Britain, their demented, knotty post-punk began to gel. They released their first international album, Prayers on Fire, in 1981, earning critical praise in the U.K. and U.S. While the band was preparing to record the follow-up, Pew was jailed for drunk driving; former Magazine member Barry Adamson, Harry Howard, and Chris Walsh filled in for the absent Pew on 1982's Junkyard.
After the release of Junkyard, the Birthday Party fired Calvert and moved to Germany, where they began collaborating with such experimental post-punk acts like Lydia Lunch and Einstürzende Neubauten. Harvey left in the summer of 1983. The group briefly continued with drummer Des Heffner, but it soon disbanded after a final concert in Melbourne, Australia. Cave had the most successful solo career, recording a series of albums in the '80s and '90s that maintained his status as a popular cult figure; Harvey joined Cave's backing band, the Bad Seeds. Howard joined Crime & the City Solution, which also featured his brother Harry and Harvey.
Title: Mutiny / The Bad Seed E.p.
Artist: The Birthday Party
Genre: Rock, Alternative Rock, New Wave, Punk, Hardcore Punk, Post Punk, World Music, Pop, Contemporary Folk, Folk
Title: Junk Yard (Remastered)
Artist: The Birthday Party
Genre: Alternative Rock, Gothic Rock, Post Punk
Title: Prayers On Fire
Artist: The Birthday Party
Genre: Rock, Alternative Rock, New Wave, Punk, Hardcore Punk, Post Punk, Pop, Alternative, Indie
Title: Live 81-82
Artist: The Birthday Party
Genre: Rock, Alternative Rock, New Wave, Punk, Hardcore Punk, Post Punk, World Music, Alternative, Indie
Title: Drunk On The Pope'S Blood / The Agony Is The Ecstacy
Artist: The Birthday Party, Lydia Lunch
Genre: Post Punk, Experimental
Title: Junkyard
Artist: The Birthday Party
Genre: Rock, Alternative Rock, New Wave, Punk, Hardcore Punk, Post Punk, World Music, Pop, Alternative, Indie
Collections
Title: Lilliput
Genre: Indie Rock, Alternative
Title: The Gothic Collection
Genre: Rock
Title: Natures Mortes - Still Lives
Genre: Alternative
Title: Mute Audio Documents 3
Genre: Industrial, Alternative Rock, New Wave, Punk, Synth Pop, Experimental
Title: Drunk On The Pope'S Blood / The Agony Is The Ecstacy
Genre: Rock
Title: Rough Trade Shops 25 Years (CD1)
Genre: Industrial, Indie Rock, New Wave, Punk, IDM
Title: A Life Less Lived: The Gothic Box (CD1)
Genre: Rock, Club/Dance
Title: Facing The Other Way (Volume One: 1980-1989)
Genre: Rock, Post Punk, Alternative, Indie
Title: Creepy Creatures Series Presents: Count Drakula
Genre: Garage, Rock, Rockabilly
Title: Facing The Other Way - The Story Of 4AD (CD1)
Genre: Rock, Post Punk, Alternative, Indie
Title: 100 Greatest Alt-Rock Anthems (CD1)
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Punk Rock, Alternative
Title: 100 Greatest 80s Indie Anthems 2021 (CD2)
Genre: Ethereal Wave, Rock, Alternative Rock, Grunge, Folk Punk, Reggae Fusion, Pop
Title: 100 Greatest 80s Indie Anthems (CD2)
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, Alternative, Indie
Title: ’80s Indie Essentials 2021 (CD1)
Genre: Indie Rock, Alternative
Featuring albums
Title: Piano Background Music For Lunch Time, Family Dinner
Artist: Brunch Music Zone
Genre: Jazz, Lounge, Classical, Smooth Jazz