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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16 pistas
33 estações
15 países

Principais músicas de The Birthday Party

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

Citações 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.