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| 4.5 superb | NeroCorleone80 | January 16th 16 |
An intense mix of post-punk and noise rock. Possibly Nick Cave's finest vocal performance too. If you
can imagine The Jesus Lizard crossed with Joy Division then you get a good idea of what this album
sounds like.
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| 2.0 poor | lz41 | November 7th 18 |
This is shit. And it's particularly galling because you can hear that with minor adjustments it could have been good. Until a late effort to make the album accessible, the jazz licks, raw tantrums and groundbreaking soundscapes are ruined by music that is off-key, off-time and out of tune. You may persist with "Junkyard" - indeed, the Birthday Party as a whole - as a show of faith in Cave, but at some point you come to the uneasy realisation that he is the worst part of the ensemble with his lazy and indulgent performances and unintelligible lyrics that when studied on paper read like they were written by someone who had learnt English for all of an hour. Had The Bad Seeds not carved out such a superb career, The Birthday Party would be forgotten today. As it is, they are a novelty act at best.
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| 4.5 superb | MadBaron | February 14th 15 |
An exercise in dissonance. This is by far the most menacing, psychotic sounding album I've ever heard. Noisey, almost to the point of being painful, clashing drums, hellishly distorted rockabilly licks and Nick Cave screaming and ranting over all of it like a lunatic. For something so dissonant and truly twisted, it's remarkably infectious, especially on it's more energetic tracks.
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| 0.0 | RYMsfullofscenesters | November 5th 13 |
Maybe that cover isn't as ill-fitting as it seems. It sounds like what your dad's/uncle's crappy hard rock collection might have sounded like to you when you were 3 or 4. Rock n' roll made into an honest man, in that the sound reflects the ugliness of the band's intentions. Some of these songs make death metal sound cuddly.
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| 5.0 classic | bach | February 25th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | perival | June 27th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | MvdW | March 22nd 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | yinei007 | February 21st 23 |
| 3.5 great | Timmy | January 12th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | December 25th 22 |
| 5.0 classic | Metaxu | December 13th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | kkarron | October 4th 21 |
| 5.0 classic | El Olam | August 19th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Harlz | February 28th 21 |
| 5.0 classic | Yep321 | February 17th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Flomink | December 2nd 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Casavir | February 10th 20 |
| 3.5 great | vil1 | September 16th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | kb3984 | July 31st 19 |
| 5.0 classic | heck | January 13th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | skronk | March 28th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | Henry | October 4th 17 |
| 3.5 great | orakst | October 4th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | ratfecal | September 2nd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | adr | June 17th 17 |
| 1.5 very poor | Xav | March 31st 17 |
| 5.0 classic | bobby72 | February 12th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tom Read CONTRIBUTOR | October 26th 15 |
| 4.5 superb | Veldin | June 10th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | FLRTE | February 20th 15 |
| 5.0 classic | Sithese | December 31st 14 |
| 5.0 classic | Jips | April 14th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | cb123 | March 9th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Gtzk | January 5th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Bsloth | September 2nd 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | kitsch | March 19th 13 |
| 1.5 very poor | plato66 | October 6th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | quelus | May 29th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Yakman | April 16th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Gapwick | February 4th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | porch | November 11th 11 |
| 5.0 classic | Ellx | October 5th 10 |
| 3.0 good | Titan50 | September 13th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | Smevin | February 7th 10 |
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