“Junkyard” by The Birthday Party - album review
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In a Captain-Beefheart-meets-Teenage-Jesus-and-other-jerks-uptown style, “Junkyard” is more brutal, more dynamic, more dangerous and even more terrifying than the debut, and that’s saying something. A highly sensory affair, this is a nasty, relentless and uncompromising record which seems to “do the grapple” with you as you listen. Ye olde blues are well and truly out of the delta, and the new king of the punk blues is duly crowned. All hail Nick Cave and his dastardly cohorts…
The Jukebox Rebel
13–May–2007
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [06:06]  The Birthday Party - She’s Hit (Nick Cave, Tracy Pew) Moodcore |
| A2 | [03:08]  The Birthday Party - Dead Joe (Nick Cave, Anita Lane) Post-Punk |
| A3 | [02:49]  The Birthday Party - The Dim Locator (Rowland S. Howard) Post-Punk |
| A4 | [05:33]  The Birthday Party - Hamlet (Pow Pow Pow) (Nick Cave, Rowland S. Howard) Post-Punk |
| A5 | [02:56] The Birthday Party - Several Sins (Harry Howard, Rowland S. Howard) Post-Punk |
| B1 | [03:00]  The Birthday Party - Big Jesus Trash Can (Nick Cave, Mick Harvey) Post-Punk |
| B2 | [02:48]  The Birthday Party - Kiss Me Black (Nick Cave, Anita Lane) Post-Punk |
| B3 | [03:34] The Birthday Party - 6" Gold Blade (Mick Harvey) Post-Punk |
| B4 | [03:32]  The Birthday Party - Kewpie Doll (Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Jay McShann) Post-Punk |
| B5 | [05:49]  The Birthday Party - Junkyard (Nick Cave, Rowland S. Howard) Post-Punk |
