features in: Album Chart of 1981 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1980s |
Hark! Some intelligent company for The Fall and Public Image Ltd., as the new “post-punk adventurers” movement gathers pace (whether they knew it or not) via these Melbourners relocated to London. Arriving in April, 1981, was their first LP to be free of their Boys Next Door moniker, on which they lined-up: Nick Cave (23, vocals, piano, saxophone, drums), Rowland S. Howard (21, guitar, vocals, saxophone), Mick Harvey (22, organ, piano, guitar, snare drum), Tracy Pew (23, bass guitar, clarinet, double bass) and Phill Calvert (23, drums). The album's sole single, “**Nick The Stripper” was bolstered by the brass section of Melbourne jazz rock band, Equal Local. The set was best described by Sound Stage Direct as “a creepy carnival of tribal rhythms, wonky dischordance and garbled surrealism”. The wayward filth and the fury of the record wasn’t always pretty, but it was a necessary sonic challenge to musical life after Punk, and one which kicked open new doors. Let the adventures begin…
The Jukebox Rebel
13–Apr–2008
Tracklist |
A1 | [02:37] The Birthday Party - Zoo Music Girl (Nick Cave, Rowland S. Howard) Post-Punk |
A2 | [02:42] The Birthday Party - Cry (Nick Cave) Post-Punk |
A3 | [02:39] The Birthday Party - Capers (Rowland S. Howard, Genevieve McGuckin) Post-Punk |
A4 | [03:52] The Birthday Party - Nick The Stripper (Nick Cave) New Wave |
A5 | [03:07] The Birthday Party - Ho Ho (Rowland S. Howard, Genevieve McGuckin) Post-Punk |
A6 | [02:48] The Birthday Party - Figure Of Fun (Nick Cave, Rowland S. Howard) Post-Punk |
B1 | [04:41] The Birthday Party - King Ink (Nick Cave, Rowland S. Howard) Post-Punk |
B2 | [02:13] The Birthday Party - A Dead Song (Nick Cave, Anita Lane) Post-Punk |
B3 | [05:04] The Birthday Party - Yard (Nick Cave) Post-Punk |
B4 | [03:04] The Birthday Party - Dull Day (Rowland S. Howard) New Wave |
B5 | [02:03] The Birthday Party - Just You And Me (Nick Cave, Mick Harvey) Post-Punk |