“The Birthday Party” by The Boys Next Door - album review
| features in: Album Chart of 1980 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1980s |
The second and final Boys Next Door album serves as some sort of half-way house between the new wave pop of last years “Door Door” and the evil and scary Post-Punk vision of “Prayers On Fire” which would be The Birthday Party debut in 1981. This band are twisting and turning their art-form with an unstoppable urge to create something new, something challenging, very evident in their restless treatment of Gene Vincents “Cat Man”. In a word? Intriguing…
The Jukebox Rebel
13–Apr–2008
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [03:43]  The Boys Next Door - Mr Clarinet (Nick Cave) Post-Punk |
| A2 | [02:48]  The Boys Next Door - Hats On Wrong (Nick Cave) Post-Punk |
| A3 | [04:04]  The Boys Next Door - The Hair Shirt (Nick Cave) Post-Punk |
| A4 | [02:48]  The Boys Next Door - Guilt Parade (Rowland S. Howard) New Wave |
| A5 | [02:47]  The Boys Next Door - Riddle House (Rowland S. Howard) New Wave |
| B1 | [04:21]  The Boys Next Door - The Friend Catcher (Nick Cave) Post-Punk |
| B2 | [02:16]  The Boys Next Door - Waving My Arms (Nick Cave) New Wave |
| B3 | [02:49]  The Boys Next Door - The Red Clock (Rowland S. Howard) Post-Punk |
| B4 | [02:28]  The Boys Next Door - Cat Man (Vincent Craddock, William Douchette) Post-Punk |
| B5 | [04:00]  The Boys Next Door - Happy Birthday (Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Rowland S. Howard) Post-Punk |
