Friday, 25 April 2008

The Birthday Party - Junkyard

4AD CAD207CD. 1982


I don't have a love/hate relationship with Nick Cave's music, so much as a tolerance/indifference.

Actually that's not strictly true. I do like quite a lot of his stuff, but at the same time a lot of it makes my balls shrivel. It isn't so much NC, as he has a great voice, more Mick Harvey and Roland S Howard. Their guitar thrashings sometimes get a bit much.

What a waste of two paragraphs that was. Start again...

Polished production, better musicianship, but ultimately not as engaging as their earlier stuff.

Highlights: Big-Jesus-Trash-Can, Release the Bats

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