Junkyard | 
| Artist: The Birthday Party
Label: Buddha
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 63226
Format: Explicit Lyrics, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 99694
UPC: 744659969423
EAN: 0744659969423
ASIN: B00004T0NA
Release Date: May 16, 2000
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| 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 |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 Truly Extreme Music December 2, 2003
Crypt (Arkham)
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
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."
birthday party+me=unholy union July 26, 2001
jesse durenleau (nashua NH)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
love is a light word to use in expressing how i like this cd ever song a masterpeice though some songs can get irriating you will go back to them and love them regard less some highlights would be SHE'S HIT, HAMLET POW POW, SEVERAL SINS, BIG JESUS TRASH CAN, KEWPIE DOLL, JUNKYARD AND RELEASE THE BATS. SHE'HIT the musics slow with a thumping bass line and cybmals that crash out of no where and nick cave sounding like a demonic reporter.HAMLET POW POW could send you into a frenzy with a looping bass lineand tons of guitar rackets and cave shrieking about a murder. SEVERAL SINS is good relaxing (for them) song that sounds really bluesy.BIG JESUS TRASH CAN has thee funniest lyrics ever about the oil crisis (gee aren't we in the same kind of situation).KEWPIE DOLL sounds like no wave mixed with thrashabilly with some rather misogynist lyrics.JUNKYARD is the best song to me with that distorted whammy bar intro to that bass and drum beat that sonuds so evil and untamed then when the chorus comes around you can imagine cave bouncing his head back and forth to the beat before screaming at the top of lungs IT WILL SEND SHIVERS UP YOUR SPINE. RELEASE THE BATS sounds very jazzy and again some more misogynist lyrics from nick cave. [....]
What more to say? October 9, 2000
Ward (Berkeley CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
With Junkyard we find ourselves right in the middle of the Birthday Party story (well, give or take a few years....) Yes, this is a work of genius, no doubt about it. From the first track, "Blast Off," it's clear that we're dealing with a very different sort of band, one whose work was one-of-a-kind and which therefore can't be described. Think of it as the sound of darkness, or maybe as a sort of 'stepping stone' to the slightly more pop (but by no means more upbeat) Nick Cave that created "From Her To Eternity." Or think of it as a testament to that lost and sadly underrated rhythm section at the back of every band, always there, punching out beats for the rest of the band to work around. Whatever gets you to buy this classic bit of plastic, and listen to it over and over, just find a reason, shell some money together, and BUY IT!!!!! I cannot say it any more simply than that.
An easy-listening classic... August 26, 2007
Gerth Mirthful
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Long day at work? Pop this one in, lean back, and let the unwinding begin...
Nick Cave and the lot were some of the mellowest figures in the punk scene those days. This one's way up there with the likes of Kenny G as far as I'm concerned.
 A musical junkyard crammed with ups and downs July 2, 2006
yorgos dalman (Holland, Europe)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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".
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