“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] ![]() |
A2 | [02:48] ![]() |
A3 | [04:04] ![]() |
A4 | [02:48] ![]() |
A5 | [02:47] ![]() |
B1 | [04:21] ![]() |
B2 | [02:16] ![]() |
B3 | [02:49] ![]() |
B4 | [02:28] ![]() |
B5 | [04:00] ![]() |