Junkyard Party [CD-single] [Import]

Junkyard Party [CD-single] [Import]

Track Listings

1. Radio Edit

2. Pulsar Radio Edit

3. Beatcounter/Dj Todde Rmx

4. Pulsar Remix

Tracks:

Blast Off!
She's Hit
Dead Joe
Dim Locator
Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)
Several Sins
Big-Jesus-Trash-Can
Kiss Me Black
6" Gold Blade
Kewpie Doll
Junkyard
Dead Joe
Release the Bats

Customer Reviews:

A musical junkyard crammed with ups and downs.......2006-07-03

This Birthday Party's third and most notoir album literaly "Blasts off" with total noise, psychotic drums and screaming guitar terror; but then again, it's an LP that is made by a no-holds-barred punk act that's more of a crazed, insane lost-in-the-jungle war ensemble on the loose.

The songs TBP produces can be described best as "well structured chaos". It's fullblown punky mess, but with a mind behind it. Songs like "Six inch gold blade" and "Kwepie doll" are thunder without much point and probably will do nice on stage during cheap, messy, smokey, claustrophobic late night gigs.

"Dead Joe" and "Dead Joe (2nd version)" tell about a car crash and the songs sound just like one. "Hamlet (Pow pow pow)" takes on the graveyard scene from Shakespeare's legendary theatre play and "Several sins" stands out as a kind of eerie but beautiful "punk ballad".

The title track "Junkyard" is maybe the best song TBP ever cried out, with sneering guitars, up and down tempo, and singer Cave's dark voice, sometimes lowkey, sometimes highpitched screaming, perfectly in place. "Release the bats" is more of the same well-formulated chaos but with a catchy base drum by Mick Harvey that's really on a role.

I confess that TBP's first to albums "Hee-haw" and "Prayers on fire" didn't really got to me. Fifty percent of "Junkyard" did in a main way, just as the following (and last) TBP album "Mutiny / The Bad Seed" did.

In some ways, even more. TBP was really growing and maturing (which is really some kind of paradox: I always felt that punk music was mainly created to rage against maturity and the world of oppressing adults) and one would be curious what should have become of this nasty little Party had they not fall apart soon after release of "Mutiny / The Bad Seed".

abrasive, not that there's anything wrong with that.......2005-04-20

Anti 80's pop, nasty sounding, find out who your friends are
rock n roll. My favourite songs are Dead Joe (a classic), Pow
Pow Pow and The Dim Locator. Comparing The Birthday Party to
Midnight Oil is like comparing The Eagles to The Fugs. Not all
American Bands sound the same, ditto in Oz. (I think Midnight Oil are great by the way) This record is a bit
of a time capsule for me, having bought it on vinyl when it was
new. Different to Nick Cave's later stuff, but you don't need me
to tell you that. Junk sculpture turning back to junk junk junk
junk junk unk unk ughh ughh ohh ohh ohh Deaaadddd Joe...etc...
As some Aussies might say "It's a pearler".

UPSY DAISY. .......2004-07-26

this is what rock n roll should sound like. hip-shakin, gasoline sweatin, blood lettin grooviness. channeling the voodoo engergy of the carter family, the delta blues, rockabilly, the stooges, and james brown; bringing the love in the middle of the firefight and then kicking everyone in the county's teeth in.

fans should also check the hair police, xiu-xiu, the pop group, albert ayler, mississippi fred mcdowell, t. rex, and arthur doyle.

Truly Extreme Music.......2003-12-03

The Birthday party, to put it vulgarly, could rip off anyone's face and chew on their brains then, now and tomorrow as well. The Party emerged from the post punk movement that also spawned Joy Division, Bauhaus, The Cure and Christian Death, and which would later be called Goth. (Deathrock in the states) The Birthday Party, however would prove to be one of the most extreme and "hardcore" of lot. While Joy Division and The Cure prefered melancholy and gloom, and Bauhaus and Christian Death - boho artsiness, Nick Cave and his fellow loons gave us a bastard hybrid of garage rock, punk, rockabilly, blues and a bit of lounge as well. The thing that really set them apart was the all out fury and abandon found in their music. Even the fastest and loudest Thrash Metal and Hardcore Punk bands could never dream of creating the atmosphere of raw, unadulterated anger, rage, and tension found on this album. It's almost murderous. Very fitting for songs like Six Inch Gold Blade and Dead Joe. (Probably the greatest Death Rock song ever recorded) One has to wonder what Nick Cave was doing while recording the vocals. Torturing himself with a branding iron maybe? The production values on this recording are almost non-exsistant. The sound is hollow. Low bass end, and ear piercing high end. No middle tone. The vocals sound like they were recorded in a bathroom, the guitar sounds out of tune, and the drums sound... well... broken! But all of these shortcomings add to the experimental nature of this album. And the lyrics... anyone familiar with Nick Cave can expect only some of his best here. Strange characters in ridiculous situations, tons of poetic metaphors and of course Death and Murder. A bit of b-movie horror with the Goth Anthem Release The Bats as well. Essential listening to anyone who thinks today's popular poseur artists are "extreme."

Very urgent, frantic.......2003-05-09

I saw Nick Cave and the Birthday Party twice - once at the Hammersmith Odeon and about six months later at St Albans. The first time I was amazed by the contrast between the performer and the man himself. I spoke to him briefly after the performance and he was cool, rational, and quite generous in his speech. Whatever you might object to, no-one who is a complete 'duh' can either write the songs, perform half so well, or even commission the cover art-

Nick was possibly doing quite a few things during those complicated days, I remember that we were simply being students, we thought "release the bats" was an ideal replacement for the national anthem... When we saw Nick at St Albans later, in spite of the fact that we had talked before, he gave me one of his wild man "better dial for a coffin" look... But that was Nick the performer, I guess, and it was worth the price of the ticket alone...!

Tracks:

Don't Stop - K2S
He Is Great - Barry G
Excedingly Abundantly - Tindai
Excellent - Blood Brotherz
Sing Hallelujah - Hu White
He's Always There - Hu White
Never Alone - Bi Faith
Test It - Cross Movement
No Weapon - Rohin
Rhetorical Concepts - Mark J
Gloria Dios - Lord'z Ambassador
Take Glory - Tindai

Average customer rating:

an absolute mess
A classic of apocalyptic thrash.

Junkyard

Manufacturer: Bdp
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001J23
Release Date: 1996-11-12

Album Description

Reissue of their third album (1982) with threebonus tracks, 'Blast Off', 'Release The Bats' and the secondversion of 'Dead Joe' recorded in London with a car crash.Other 10 tracks: 'She's Hit', 'Dead Joe', 'The Dim Locator','Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)', 'Several Sins', 'Big-Jesus-Trash-Can', 'Kiss Me Black', '6' Gold Blade', 'Kewpie Doll' and'Junkyard'.

Album Details

Legendary Record Available for the First Time Domestically, their 1982 Release featuring Rlease the Bats, Blast Off, and a Second Version of Dead Joe, plus Others.

Customer Reviews:

an absolute mess.......2002-12-05

I mostly put this on when feeling drunk and/or destructive. This "music" is gloriously frazzled. Sounds like punks on acid thrashing around in a torture chamber. Very cool.

A classic of apocalyptic thrash........1998-09-05

This is one of the greatest records ever, if your taste runs toward the dark side of (in)human experience. "Dead Joe" is a classic romp of decayed junkie nihilism, and "Hamlet (Pow Pow Pow)" is a gothic tour de force, a precursor of the types of songs Cave went on to do with the Bad Seeds. Throw in the bonus track "Release the Bats", and you've got a near perfect album.

Average customer rating:

an absolute mess
A classic of apocalyptic thrash.

Junkyard
The Birthday Party
Manufacturer: Thirsty Ear
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ASIN: B000001HEP
Release Date: 1997-02-11

Tracks:

Blast Off
She's Hit
Dead Joe
The Dim Locator
Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)
Several Sins
Big-Jesus-Trash-Can
Kiss Me Black
6 Inch Gold Blade
Kewpie Doll
Junk Yard
Dead Joe (2nd Version)
Release The Bats

Album Description

Album Details

Legendary Record Available for the First Time Domestically, their 1982 Release featuring Rlease the Bats, Blast Off, and a Second Version of Dead Joe, plus Others.

Customer Reviews:

an absolute mess.......2002-12-05

I mostly put this on when feeling drunk and/or destructive. This "music" is gloriously frazzled. Sounds like punks on acid thrashing around in a torture chamber. Very cool.

A classic of apocalyptic thrash........1998-09-05

Average customer rating:

an absolute mess
A classic of apocalyptic thrash.

Junkyard
The Birthday Party
Manufacturer: Shock
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000006ZCC
Release Date: 1982-01-01

Tracks:

Blast Off
She's Hit
Dead Joe
The Dim Locator
Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)
Several Sins
Big-Jesus-Trash-Can
Kiss Me Black
6 Inch Gold Blade
Kewpie Doll
Junk Yard
Dead Joe (2nd Version)
Release The Bats

Album Description

Album Details

Legendary Record Available for the First Time Domestically, their 1982 Release featuring Rlease the Bats, Blast Off, and a Second Version of Dead Joe, plus Others.

Customer Reviews:

an absolute mess.......2002-12-05

I mostly put this on when feeling drunk and/or destructive. This "music" is gloriously frazzled. Sounds like punks on acid thrashing around in a torture chamber. Very cool.

A classic of apocalyptic thrash........1998-09-05