The Birthday Party

Australia
1978 – 1983

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The Birthday Party (originally known as The Boys Next Door) were an Australian post-punk band, active from 1978 to 1983. Despite limited commercial success, The Birthday Party's influence has been far-reaching, and they have been called "one of the darkest and most challenging post-punk groups to emerge in the early '80s." The group's "bleak and noisy soundscapes," which drew irreverently on blues, free jazz, and rockabilly, provided the setting for vocalist Nick Cave's disturbing tales of violence and perversion. Their music has been described by critic Simon Reynolds as gothic, and their single "Release the Bats" was particularly influential on the emerging gothic scene.

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Au cours des 14 derniers jours:

17 musiques
35 stations
16 pays

Top chansons des The Birthday Party

1	Happy Birthday
2	Release the Bats
3	Nick the Stripper
4	Mr Clarinet
5	Wild World
6	Jennifers Veil
7	Zoo Music Girl
8	Sonny's Burning - Mutiny The Bad Seed - 1982
9	Kathy's Kisses
10	Deep In the Woods
11	Kewpie Doll
12	Release the Bats
13	The Hair Shirt
14	Sonny's Burning
15	Zoo Music Girl
16	A Catholic Skin
17	Nick the Stripper

Citations de The Birthday Party

The reason I've gotten into script-writing, which was accidental to begin with, was that I found it was a far more effective medium for violence. Which is something that I'd always written in songs, but the violence always sat strangely within a song. And I was always interested in the way in which you listen to murder ballads and things like that - these weird lines would kind of come out, like, I drug her by the hair or something - that sat weirdly in the song. Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.