The Birthday Party - Best band? Or bestest band?

[theavondon]

Discuss.

[D.o.S.]

Junkyard is awesome. I just got turned onto them a year or so ago because I'm a big Oxbow fan.

If you like Birthday Party, you'll love Oxbow.

Listen to Oxbow.

[theavondon]

I will. I love Junkyard.

Average playlist for a day: Junkyard, then Head by TJL, and then 400 Blows.

[D.o.S.]

Like the movie?

Also, TJL kicks ass. You do good research, padawan.

2nd Also, since they just came up in another thread, listen to Harvey Milk.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VdwV0BxeH8[/youtube]

[theavondon]

Yup. Already do listen to Harvey Milk. And, 400 Blows, the band.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIPsq0doxY4[/youtube]

[lizardville]

I think Nick cave resucitated the spirit of the birthday party when he formed Grinderman...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuDP7c3Zd8I

[Birthday Boy]

'Tis cool.

Oxbow fans - what is the one song (or album or whatever) that made you get into them? I like it, but I haven't found THAT THING that makes me obsess about it/need to hear it again and again and again..

I never got as much into anything Nick Cave did later either (including Grinderman). I love Prayers on Fire the most, possibly.

Where no fish can swim
where no fish can...

[D.o.S.]

That thing was probably seeing Eugene do his thing live. The man is a seriously impressive fellow.

As for recorded output, here's a couple I really enjoy:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjOmBzaQOu0[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-txRUnHoXc[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjQya3-E620[/youtube]

You really gotta listen to the snake & the stick as one track, though.

[andtheLiquidmen]

HUGE Nick Cave fan. Birthday Party, Bad Seeds, Grinderman. All are mindblowing on different levels.

Junkyard is awesome, but Mutiny and The Bad Seed are also fantaaaaaaaastic.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Prayers On Fire is pretty good, but I'm a much bigger fan of all Nick Cave's later stuff (like da biggest fan). I really like what The Birthday Party were doing in spirit, but I find it a bit hard to listen to a lot of the time, it seems like early Bad Seeds/Grinderman go for a similar aesthetic sometimes but with better tunes. I bet it would have been really cool to see them live though, the Bad Seeds and Grinderman were both amazing when I saw them, but The Birthday Party live must have been crazy.

[sylnau]

I'm a big Nick Cave, Bad Seeds, Birthday Party, Grinderman fan...
Every album Nick Cave has done are very good except Dig Lazarus Dig.
I think Nick Cave + Mick Harvey was an awesome team.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvlS4BwTUQw[/youtube]

[D.o.S.]

I think it's worth noting a friend of mine nicknamed his equipment "nick cave and the bad seeds."

[coldbrightsunlight]

I'm a big Nick Cave, Bad Seeds, Birthday Party, Grinderman fan...
Every album Nick Cave has done are very good except Dig Lazarus Dig.
I think Nick Cave + Mick Harvey was an awesome team.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvlS4BwTUQw[/youtube]

You crazy.

Great video though.

[Zounds Perspex]

Live '81-'82 is the rulingest.

Scratch Acid is more Birthday Party-ish than TJL, but yeah...David Yow was definitely jammin' some Prayers On Fire down in Texas.

[hatshirt]

best band. Rowland S Howard is my favorite guitar player ever.