The Birthday Party - The Bad Seed (EP 12", vinyl rip). 1983.

   This EP, together with "Mutiny", was recorded in 1982 but released in 1983 and they are the last releases from The Birthday Party. All the blood and the pain and the fun is still here but this time there's something new...the blues!

   

Two of the songs here ("Deep in the woods" and "Wild world") are coming straight from the swamps of Mississippi - filtered of course by the maniac spirit of the band.

"Mostly featuring songs written by Cave and Harvey together, "Bad Seed" forecasts the imminent future of Nick Cave as a solo artist and Mick Harvey as his right-hand man in more than just title. Now down to a four-piece following the departure of Calvert, the Party weren't any less confrontational than before; the opening sounds one hears is Cave yelling, "Hands up, who wants to die?"!" (from Allmusic)

Tracklist

01. Sonny's burning

02. Wild world

03. Fears of gun

04. Deep in the woods

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The Birthday Party - Drunk on the Pope's blood / Lydia Lunch - The agony is the ecstasy (split 12" EP, vinyl rip). 1982.

   This is a 4AD split record released back in 1982. 

   The Birthday Party are on A side with four songs played live at Venue club, London, November 1981. All the raw energy of this incredible band is here. Nick Cave almost chokes on screaming and the band is at their best. Specially the cover of The Stooges song "Loose" is a slowly exploding dynamite!

   Tracklist

Pleasure Heads

King Ink

Zoo music girl

Loose

   New York's evil genious Lydia Lunch is on the B side with one song - the 16 minutes long sonic nightmare "The agony is the ecstasy". Steven Severin from Siouxsie and the Banshees plays guitar creating sounds of paranoia and its a real pleasure listening to these two great musicians playing together.

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The Birthday Party - Mutiny! (1983)

Birthday Party was the most impressive thing that happen to rock after the punk explosion and Joy Division! Their music was a cry from deep within - punk in its own unique way!

  They found little commercial success during their career. Though often indirect, their influence has been far-reaching, and have been called one of "the darkest and most challenging post-punk groups to emerge in the early '80s." 

 In his lyrics, Nick Cave combined "sacred and profane" things, using Old Testament imagery^, with stories about sin, curses and damnation.

Their 1981 single "Release the bats" was particularly influential in the gothic scene. Some of their material was also qualified as no wave.

                            Mutiny! is the band's final studio recording, released in 1983.

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