Junkyard

Solid

this is nothing

Well. That was terrible.

I guess theres some importance being Nick Caves beginnings but it really is an example of an album sounding just like it’s title. 1/5

I don’t like my music to be angry, weird, demonic. This is an album I won’t listen to in order to protect my soul and mental state. That said, it’s always interesting when an album from the lowest rated list pops up, so you’ve got to give it some spin. Unfortunately, after giving it a chance, it only solidified that my rating will not help their average score here.

Wish I could give this -50 stars

Noise

Junkyard. Agree

Yikes that was not very pleasant to listen to.

This sounds like a bunch of monsters playing music with things they found in a junkyard. Must be why they are named this and why they chose this particular album art. I couldn't finish it.

"Junkyard" released as the second and final album by The Birthday Party before Nick Cave and Mick Harvey pivoted to form Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. For a long-time admirer of Cave's extensive body of work; from his solo material to the enduring legacy of The Bad Seeds, Grinderman and his collaborations with Warren Ellis, this is the first time I have listened to "Junkyard" in full, finding it an experience of extremes and a far cry from an "easy listen" . The record begins with the menacing track "She's Hit". This opener immediately establishes the album's atmosphere, weaving a narrative of sleazy, sexual danger and destruction. Here, the instruments, guitars and drums, are deployed less for conventional melody and more for atmosphere and effect, creating a backdrop for Cave's unique performance. The track is not entirely unfamiliar territory for Bad Seeds fans; its passionate and raucous energy foreshadows some of the more primal cuts in their later discography. "Junkyard" is, in a word, ferocious. It is a distinctive and often abrasive album, defined by a sound that is noisy and loud, making it sonically challenging at times. The album thrives on dark themes, delivered with a surprising dash of humour that underscores the chaos rather than lightening it. The conventional rules of 'popular' music are challenged and for some of the tracks here, it is hard to discern a conventional song structure. This requires effort from the listener; "Junkyard" is genuinely exhausting in its intensity, demanding the listeners full attention. Ultimately, this is an imaginative and brave album. It is a necessary listen for understanding the foundations of Nick Cave's career, showcasing the nascent creative forces that would later evolve into The Bad Seeds. It is not for the faint of heart. It's an album I can respect, and admire to some degree, but not an album I will be listening to again anytime soon. Three stars. 1 "She's Hit" (4/5) 2 "Dead Joe" (3/5) 3 "The Dim Locator" (2/5) 4 "Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)" (4/5) 5 "Several Sins" (4/5) 6 "Big-Jesus-Trash-Can" (3/5) 7 "Kiss Me Black" (3/5) 8 "6" Gold Blade" (3/5) 9 "Kewpie Doll" (2/5) 10 "Junkyard" (5/5) Total - 33 Average - 3.3 182/1001 100/182 albums reviewed were new to me.

Kinda shit

Lauter Schrott

I did feel a kind of perverse pleasure listening to one or two of the tracks on this album. That aside, though, it's not one I'd wish to revisit. Sometimes I wonder if the joke is on the listener when it comes to artists like Nick Cave. He's capable of some really good, creative music, but too often he throws together albums like this, with "songs" that probably take mere minutes to write, and is laughing all the way to the bank.

#790. May not have been the worse shit I've ever heard, but it damn sure wasn't the best. 2/5: nah

not verrryyy

Chaos of the most beautiful kind!

Very Dark, Very weird, and Very disturbing…I am getting a headache…

Not surprised this is The Birthday Party’s last album, only second in total. Not sure you can even call this experimental. More like Accidental. Like a cat getting trapped in a dish machine in a dirty dark abandoned meat processing plant. Poor recording, the drums sound very random, there’s no driving beat. 1 out of 10.

You know what belongs in the Junkyard? Garbage.

I understand why this album was so hard to find. Junkyard is such an appropriate title for it. Terrible.

I love Nick Cave man and this is about as unadulterated as it gets for him. That said, the production on this album is kinda terrible and overall the album is so loose and pretty unfocused. It's not horrible just not great. I feel like I should give this more time but frankly I'd rather listen to Tender Prey.

This is just terrible.

Not a Nick Cave fan, not a fan.

What an incredibly bizarre album. This record sounds filthy, aggressive and super macabre. If I have to compare the sound of this record to another bands, I would say that 'Big Black' and 'Swans' are very similar groups, and it makes sense because some of the labels given to this project are 'Pig Fuck' and 'No Wave'. The guitars of this album are as bright and distorted as in 'Songs about Fucking' by Big Black, and some songs do also feature the same raw energy so characteristic of that project. The best example would be the song 'Dead Joe', which features a very furious and fast drums. But the songs can also be very slow and heavy. The introduction to the album, "She's Hit", and the ending 'Junkyard' feel as dense as some of the material in 'Filth' by Swans, an incredibly hard and disturbing 'No Wave' record, which came a year after this project. However, the most remarkable aspect of the album is that the singer is none other than Nick Cave. Discovering this fact was very surprising, as I would never associate this man to this type of music. But he did a great job. His voice is still as distinguishable as ever, doing the same operatic singing he does in his future works. Nevertheless, this might be the instance in which he sounds the most like a mad man. The performances he does in this album are truly insane, and by that I mean crazy and demented. He screams, growls, do weird things with his voice... anything than can make him sing as absurd as possible. Overall, I was very surprised by this album. I don't love it, but I am very invested in the insanity and the bizarre sound of all the tracks.

Chaotic, sinister sounding and intentionally abrasive. It was difficult to get through and I'd rather not listen to it again.

This might be in the running for worst album on this list. If not the worst, it’s easily in the Top 10. This album sounds like its album cover. 🔥💩🗑️

1 because there is no 0. This is just noise for noise sake. Just awful.

Blast off The dim locator Several sins - parte bene, riascoltabile per il basso Big Jesus trash can - riascoltabile per nome canzone, basso, urla Kiss me black - basso strano, probabilmente non mi piace 6’’ gold blade - mi fa ridere il nome Release the bats - basso blues (Canzoni non rate-ate perché fanno cacare) OVERALL SCORE 1/10

Not off to a great start with "Blast Off" which sounds like it was recording in a bathroom, but they totally shifted gears and caught me off guard with the hauntingly compelling "She's Hit". Let's see where this goes. Nevermind it went right back to being ass. Favorites: She's Hit, Release the Bats Terrible: Hamlet (Pow Pow)

𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘬𝘺𝘢𝘳𝘥 relies on chaos, noise and confrontation as its main tools, but instead of feeling thrilling or purposeful, the album often comes across as messy and grating. The songs lean so heavily on abrasion — frantic guitars, shouted vocals and jagged rhythms — that they leave little room for atmosphere or structure to take hold. The rawness may be intentional, yet it rarely translates into something emotionally or musically rewarding. For a listener not drawn to this kind of aggressive deconstruction, the most notable aspect of the record ends up being that Nick Cave is the frontman, rather than anything the album itself achieves.

How is this album even on this list? What did I just listen to? Favorite Song(s): none

Wow has Nick Cave changed from this album.

Absolutely not

Recuerden soy abuela. No se apreciar este ruido

Depressing album of bleak dreadful noise! Supposedly Australian Post-Punk Blues but the only Blues was those that the album induced in me. The best track on the album was "Several Sins" which only nodded in the general direction of Blues; this was also the track that made me realise that probably the only reason this album is in the list is because the band features the overrated Nick Cave.

By far the worst so far. Unlistenable dogshit

Junk/5 After taking a few days off of the challenge, I've come back to... this. The album title fits this too well since it's trash music. I can't even describe it as music honestly, it's more like noise than anything else. It does make sense because it's Punk music which is often very underwhelming in terms of quality, but "Junkyard" is even more underwhelming. For stuff like this, the genre of post-punk doesn't really fit. Post lobotomy fits way better. I dare say this is even more shit than Elvis Costello, and that says a lot. ggz TBP, you suck a lot. And whoever put this on this list, please kys, thx.

Ils m’ont vraiment gardé le fond de chiotte pour la fin

Nick Cave grunting and screaming about stuff with disjointed guitars. It works in the chaos, but it's chaos nonetheless

Trash. Thankfully not consumed over Thanksgiving.

Completely unenjoyable shit show

Oh fuck, not Nick fucking Cave again? Fucking seriously? How many 1 fuckin stars do I have to post before this fucking misery ends? I mean, what the shit? Love, mum

That was the first album from this 1001 days run that I finally could listen to in FLAC. I could hear all of the details of how shit this album are, great goodness...

This would go super hard live

I don’t fuck with Zionists. It also wasn’t my jam.

It sounds like a load of 13 year olds making music at home.

I like it when within the first 2 seconds of the first song I can tell I’m going to hate an album. This isn’t edgy, experimental, or post punk. It’s noiseless garbage, dog shit. It tries too hard to be shocking. What they didn’t try hard at was writing better music.

This project has definitely improved my music knowledge. Today's another punk album? Damnit. The lead singer is Nick Cave? Double damnit! A year ago I wouldn't have had either of those reactions!

2 songs in and I'm pretty sure if you played this anywhere in the world people would walk out or destroy your audio equipment.. 3 songs in and its not any better.... 4 songs in and I went straight to song 5... 5 songs in and I'm about to destroy my own audio equipment.... okay at this point this is a joke right..... next song and I mean I'd rather listen to Spice Girls album.. 0/5 and didn't even finishing it.... wish I could go lower than 1

Meh

I did not enjoy this album. I get that it's a punk album, and it's supposed to be discordant and noisy. No redeeming qualities for me, and probably worse than Einsturbende Neubaten. My rating: 1/5 sniper rats

they should be ashamed

I can see the influence from this album, but I will never listen to this album again.

I had high hopes for this but it was an absolute mess from start to finish.

Love the noisy and brash style, if a bit tiring by the end

All right, kind of surprised to see this here. A very early Nick Cave in his career. Feels very much minimal, a DIY punk affair. I quite enjoyed it, but at the same time I don't think this is that great, not even sure if this is deserving of 3 stars.

I both understand and weirdly don't understand why this album is hated so much. It is pretty abrasive, but honestly I was somehow expecting it to be even more abrasive and experimental, closer to noise. It mostly sounds like if you took the most abrasive Nirvana songs and made them goth rock/post-punk. And there are some less abrasive, more traditional type stuff on it like Several Sins. Honestly quite enjoying this. Stuff like Dim Locator and Several Sins are great. Not the best Nick Cave project I've listened to (Murder Ballads and Tender Prey rank higher for me), but this is some good stuff.

I get it... but didn't particularly like it

This album was recorded at a time when the musical world was seeking a new direction and releasing its failures. This is crap.

this is the worst one yet!!

Nick Cave is a hero! But this is meh

Hard to listen to, which I suppose is the point. There's no question that this music is doing exactly what it's intended to do, but it's liberating to be old enough that I don't have to pretend to dig it.

I couldn't bear listening to this stress-inducing cacophony.

Surprisingly fun listen given how noisy it was. I love this style of bass playing, which helped.

sometimes noisy (derogatory) sometimes noisy (respectful)

"Release the Bats" is a common goth club/Halloween playlist standby, but it's seemingly not from the original release of this album and was a single added to later pressings instead. It's also probably the most dynamic and interesting track I listened to, which is a shame, because I want to like this weirdo band more than I did. So many of the tracks just felt like a wall of noise that was hard to pick apart into instruments and vocals and about halfway through I was just like "yeah yeah okay okay I got it" - not an enjoyable album listen. I get that they wanted to sound trashy on purpose but I am not obligated to enjoy it. 2.5 rounded up

Not a pleasant experience, but in a good way.

Sneaky way to get even more Nick Cave in here, I guess. Joke's on you though, I actually kinda liked this more than just about any of his solo albums that I've heard. Bottom 20 of all time here, and I can understand why, but this was a super cool album just for how wild it is. 3.5/5

Not to my taste unfortunately

Hmmm… Well…. In Platonic thought, to truly understand the quality of red, it is necessary to have blue. I appreciate this album because it showed me how good other albums are. Aside from that, mama always said if you can’t say thing nice….

Random thoughts: * I guess this is where Nick Cave got his start and why it is included on 1001. * Nick Cave must be an acquired taste that I have yet to acquire. * Messy and rough. Not quite punk but not quite anything else really. * I didn't hate this but I won't be playing this again.

HORRIBLE!

Well I couldnt find this full album anywhere but did listen to the title track to see what I was in for. Considering all the additional endless Nick Cave shit this list has forced me to listen to, I'm gonna do the right thing and not bother listening to this one. Prejudice? Yeah, maybe, but after 953 albums with more being like this than less, I dont give a fuck

I didn’t listen to this yet. It wasn’t on Apple Music. Update: I listened to it. I stand by my score.

I'm not a Nick Cave guy, something about him was always off-putting. I don't get this appeal, but that's fine. Some of the songs here had solid music, and that's about all the positive I can muster.

I almost rated this a bit higher because I would notice my foot tapping to the music before it totally lost the plot. Nice to see the evolution of Nick Cave though

shit

1/5, another DNF, kinda painful to sit through. Certainly interesting going from Songs In The Key of Life yesterday to this today

Australia has all sorts of things that try to kill you. This is the most painful of those things.

This is an album by someone who misunderstood punk, but does eventually get better

Yes this is a challenging listen, but yes sometimes that's good. If you include 'release the bats' (strictly a non-album single initially) then this is a solid three for screaming, bleeding guitars and all-round batshitness. Also an awesome cover by Ed Roth of Kustom Kulture fame.

Nah this is not it

Sounds exactly like what the cover looks like.

I was unfamiliar with this band prior to the assignment yesterday. They were described as “Australian post-punk”. Apparently I do not like Australian post-punk.

Den finns på listan pga att det är Nick Caves band? Antagligen. För inte fan bör den vara på listan alls. Mycket märkligt. Oljud.

Började som en solklar etta men framåt mitten kom åtminstone någon eller några låtar som inte var olyssningsbara (typ Several sins). Det ska förstår premieras så landar i en stark etta.

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds showed me what can happen with "Ghosteen", and now I've heard the rookie version of Nick Cave. If nothing else, the man is versatile. Other than one catchy track, and some other rad sounds, this album belongs in the junkyard. Favorite Track: "Hamlet(Pow, Pow, Pow)".

Uh. What the hell was that? I wasted 45 minutes of my life listening to what I thought was supposed to be post-punk music. That was just annoying noise making. 1/5

Irritating sound, not for me

I dont think I like this but it interesting

This was interesting!

This is trash, i am into it. It scratches the itch of Tom Waits, a little Squirrel Nut Zippers, and like an evil Elvis Costello. Utterly bizarre.

God this was horrible. Not the worst I've seen in this list, but horrible.

I love the cover art. I absolutely understand the album's influence on goth culture. I like many projects Nick Cave has been involved in. And also, this album was a bit of a slog to listen to for me. Went with "Big-Jesus-Trash-Can" and "6" Gold Glade" for the playlist.

hard to believe Nick Cave put this junk out

I could hear better music at my local diy scene than this.

Horrible; a junkyard of noice & bad music.

oooooookay

Not a great start for my first album. Pretty much hated every song. A shame because I like the later Nick Cave stuff I’ve heard. Found the whole thing atonal and can’t imagine ever wanting to hear it again .

Nick Cave doesn't have enough entries on this list he needs to sneak in MORE?? This album was hard to find and not worth the battle....

I mean, I get what they were going for but can't say I'm exactly a fan of the No Wave philosophy. There are a lot of music conventions some musicians accept as gospel truth, and purposely abandoning them can lead to some unique sound. But the thing is, I actually like a lot music conventions, and rhythmic and melodic music by extension. I certainly don't hate this, though. It's far from the most abrasive or dissonant music out there (not that being either of the two is necessarily a bad thing), so it's not like it's unpleasant to listen to, and it also has some cool moments. But this is still ultimately not my thing. The cover does look exactly how the album sounds, gotta give them that.

So noisy

Redeeming qualities? Couldn't find any.

I’ve had enough of Nick Cave

Nick cave and a brilliant crew being deranged.

Wat een vunzig album. Insane, maar zo insane dat het ten koste gaat van het plezier. Begrijp hun plaats in het post-punk wereldje wel, en de significantie voor latere noise, math en industrial rock, maar het was een hard pill to swallow. 5/10

Door de reviews ging ik hier meer geharnast in dan nodig was. Ja, dit is een vunzige plaat en de term noise is natuurlijk op z'n plaats. Echter vind ik het nog aardig te pruimen. Dat komt volgens mij enerzijds door de zang. Die is in tegenstelling tot hedendaagse noisebands geen lange schreeuwsessie maar meer een zang die wat aan Ian Curtis doet denken. Zeker in bijvoorbeeld Kiss Me Black. Zeker het middenstuk van de plaat vind ik nog best aardig en daar zitten dan ook de nummertjes die op zichzelf ook nog wel oké denk ik. Al vraag ik me af ik ze kan pruimen als ze individueel in een playlist langs zouden komen. Blij dat ik hier toch positiever uit kom dan ik in ben gegaan, maar of er ooit nog een tweede luistersessie in zit betwijfel ik. 5,5/10 Highlights Several Sins Big Jesus Trash Can

When I pressed "play" and heard the music I knew exactly how they would ruin it. Weird skill, but now I have it You know hwat, I actually like it. The singer went full retard in the second song and now I don't mind him Nah nvm too shitty still

Punk? You are soooo different and interesting

hm no

noisy!

Knew it was Nick Cave’s voice right away. I did not like it.

It’s hard to believe Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds evolved from The Birthday Party, the two sound worlds apart. As much as I like Nick Cave, I just can’t warm to The Birthday Party. Their music feels chaotic, abrasive, and for me almost impossible to connect with. I’m a big fan of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, but Junkyard feels more like noise than music. It’s messy, jarring, and sounds quite dated. I can appreciate the influence it had on what came later, but it’s not something I’d go back to. Favourite track: Junkyard, if I had to choose one Least favourite tracks: It could be any of them, nothing really stands out Album artwork: Fantastic cover, wild and chaotic, and more enjoyable than the music itself

Fascinating. I don’t know if I would listen again, but this is a type of weird I can get down with. At first I thought I could not possibly continue on, but then I was suddenly lured into an underground vampiric one-man show with knife demonstrations that freak you out, but you remind yourself IT’S JUST A SHOW AND THEY’RE NOT GUNNA KILL ME DOWN HERE LOL! And yeah, it was kinda hot. And yeah, Big Jesus Trash Can might be my new favorite song. Sex bat horror vampire sex cool machine!

Damn don't judge an album by it's absolutely ridiculous cover! I thought this album was awesome in its raw, dirty, growling insanity. Dead Joe what a song yell it at me!!

This sounds like a high school garage band. It's raw, messy, and recorded like it too. Maybe that’s the charm for some, but mostly it just feels chaotic and unrefined.

Not a great listen, but definitely an interesting one. 2/5

I really enjoyed this. It felt timeless. It wasn't until about halfway through that I realized it was Nick Cave.

Woah. I need more re-listens, weird and heavy and chaotic. What did this sound like in the early 80s? Just might not be for me.

It's cool to hear where Nick Cave started but post-punk is frequently artsy for the sake of it.

This is awful. I do not get the authors obsession with Nick Cave.

Mejor de lo que esperaba

certainly different, but not for me

Not for me. MCR without any catchiness.

Unbelievably annoying. I can deal with sloppy noise rock and punk, but the jazz overtones and Nick Cave's monotone growling just made me angry.

A good run

Doesn't deserve the low rating. Oh, you don't want this at your birthday party? You'd rather have Neil Fucking Young or Radiohead, you sad sack of celebratory shortcomings?

Um ok but no

Gnarly stuff, but not at all unlistenable. I don't know what to do with that. I guess it'll just stay in the list.

When I was 6 I made a band in my basement with my friends. We had drums with pots and pans. We made up lyrics on the fly. We made lots of noise with lots of energy. We had fun and were terrible - the playlist of Hell. I didn’t realize that my mom recorded us and sent the tape to the record company. Here it is 40 years later for the world.

I wish more punk music sounded like this.

Ég var algjörlega hugfanginn af teikningunni hans Ed Roth á plötuumslaginu. Þetta er eins nálægt því að verða hot roddari og ég komst. Ég fílaði alltaf þessar teikningar og langaði að geta teiknað svona. Verst hvað platan er ömurleg. Mér fannst þetta minna mig á Nick Cave í lélegri rokkabillýpönksveit. Svo komst ég að því að þetta er Nick Cave í rokkabillýpönksveit þegar ég las um hljómsveitina á Spotify. Það hjálpar samt ekki.

absolutely bloody awful !!!!!

I really like Nick Cave usually but this is a bit much

Where The Birthday Party's debut album had noisy songs, their follow-up *Junkyard* abandons the "song" part and focuses on sheer noise. No attempts at hooks or melody are made here - guitars are unpleasantly reduced to distortion-producing devices, above which Nick Cave tunelessly wails about god-knows-what.

I've said it before: I find I have a weird relationship with most experimental music. On the one hand, I get exactly what it's doing, and I have a lot of respect for it. In a world of slickly produced records that're maybe a bit **too** perfect, it's nice to have people out there making weird shit. And not just weird shit, but **ugly** shit. Mean shit. Shit that'll shank you in the back alley, steal your wallet and then piss on your shoes just for kicks. You gotta admire that sometimes, huh? But on the other hand, I get exactly what it's doing, and I'm bored as hell by it. Like, yeah, you're loud, you're noisy, you've got a real mean mug... And? Like, am I supposed to **enjoy** listening to this? Or am I just supposed to shake your hand and give you a medal for purposefully making unappealing music? I get that there's a need and an audience for it, but that doesn't mean I **have** to be impressed. That's sort of where I find myself with this album, the second and final from Nick Cave's pre-Bad Seeds project. Really, if there's anything this album makes me feel, it's just gratitude for the fact that I discovered him through 'Shrek 2'. Could you imagine if "Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)" was the first song of his I'd heard and not "People Ain't No Good"? I'm sure it would've made the other albums of his on this little an **incredibly** pleasant surprise — but I don't think I'd wanna put myself through that just to get there. If I can be 100, I kind of wish it was more abrasive? I'd never **want** to re-listen to John Zorn's 'Spy vs. Spy', but there was at least something there to **react to**. I wrote 1.2k words about that album, for goodness' sake! Meanwhile, this album's production is so lo-fi and muffly. I guess that's another part of the thing's "unappeal," but it just makes everything sound like amateur hour. You're telling me this was rated one of the heaviest albums of all time? Heavy next to **what** — helium? I just can't imagine being the kind of person who'd listen to stuff like this exclusively. I mean, I don't think I'd do it just because I'm an asshole looking for "cool points" for listening to "non-mainstream music..." But would I really wanna throw away records like 'Purple Rain' or 'The Joshua Tree' just to subsist on albums like this? There is a part of me that wonders if it's just because I'm "basic" or whatever, but I feel like someone with "basic" music taste would be horrified and offended by this album — and it would have succeeded in one of its goals. Me, I'm just horribly bored by it — and thus, the album **fails**. Jus', I'unno. Somehow my ears have managed to jump over the uncanny valley where music like this would appeal to me. And as much as I can respect what it's going for, I gotta be honest and admit it's not something I particularly enjoy. I mean, it's like... Y'know, it's honestly like Captain Beefheart's 'Trout Mask Replica' to me. I get it — I get all the little bits and bobs that go into **why** it's so revered by some people. But in the end, all I can hear is just some sort of off-kilter blues and I'd rather go back to the polish of mainstream music. Heck, I'd go back to any other Nick Cave album. I'll tip my hat to the intent, but other than that, if that thing on the cover represents the music, then I wouldn't give it a second look.

More of the typical Nick Cave style people either seem to love or hate. 3.5 bumped down to 3.

I’m at a 2.5 that I’ll bump down to a 2, though I do genuinely think that with the right framing & a bit more immersion, it could bump up to a 3, and possibly higher, somehow. This album is an exercise in megalomania, egotism, paranoia, & fear, with a bit of a sadistic lean, touching on things like religion, murder, & sins, mixing itself in with totally incomprehensible concepts along the way. It is musically incoherent, yet intentionally designed that way to evoke a natural abrasiveness, and it’s one that’s openly invited by the album, constantly pushing the boundaries of what it’s allowed to “musically” do, forcing you to accept it for what it is, even if you actively don’t like it. This album, in some fashion, is the audible equivalent of failed gaslighting combined with Stockholm Syndrome, and once that makes itself apparent, parts of this album make more sense. That’s a big fucking word salad to basically say “inner machinations of a psychiatric inmate-core”. Nick Cave’s vocals fluctuate between that one homeless guy next to your local pharmacy who’s on so many drugs that you actively fear him, and shades of what would eventually come with his work with The Bad Seeds, some of whom are members of The Birthday Party. As far as the instrumentation goes, the guitar plays its role as the loudest & most distracting thing here, acting as a sort of barrier to the vague, echoing morally corrupt consciousness that Nick Cave portrays. This is contrasting against the percussion, which generally tends to find a decent rhythm on a lot of these tracks, save for the moments where it feels like they’re smashing it with such ferocity that it feels like The Hulk destroying a music store. The bass is the singular consistent instrument here, and I suppose it represents one vague thread of normality left in the minds of the protagonists of all these tracks. This is all in combination with the lyrics, which are normally either drowned out or screamed out, save for an occasionally calmer moment. The lyrics feel incomprehensible at times, and I still think they’re written from the perspective of a total madman who’s lost all grip on reality. That is the mindset & immersion that feels like it can crack, unlock, & truly open up this album. I made it a point for the final track, “Junkyard”, to go the extra mile & sit in a room with total darkness, just to feel the track as I was listening to it. That’s an extreme measure, mind you, but I just couldn’t get that sort of “psychiatric inmate” frame out of my mind, and I just wanted to see what would happen. It felt claustrophobic. Genuinely, as his vocals grew more intense, and as the soundscape continued to swirl up with a sort of manic passion, I found myself wanting to turn the lights on, get up, and get out. In a way, it kind of felt awesome because of just how effective it was. I’m sure that’s not the intent of the album, but I just found it so fascinating that I could feel the potential that might come with a second listen. If I came back to this album another day, I think I might be able to appreciate it as an audible journey through genuine madness. As it currently stands now, I think the album itself just has too many musically driven flaws in terms of song length, some genuinely ear-piercing mixing at times, & a few moments where the performance / facade breaks for long enough to just feel far less engaging at some points than others. The ceiling for this album, to my mind, is a 4. I’m at a 2.5 that I’ve nearly talked myself into bumping up to a 3 on account of potential alone, but given that the first half of the album bounced off of me in a way that badly set the tone (seriously, “She’s Hit” might still be the worst track on the album given the absolutely glacial pacing), I just don’t think I could do it in good faith. I do, however, genuinely recommend this as an album one you should listen to before you die just for the aural hell of it, and I admire the vision / scope of the album & the authenticity at which they just fucking went for it, without a single care for perception or commercial appeal. It’s a 2.5 that will go down to a 2 for now, but I can see it going up should I ever come back to this.

Couldn't even listen to it

** Never heard about this one - well, nothing missed. A really wired one...

Not for me

Noise rock at its noisiest. The record has its moments - “She’s Hit” and “Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow) among them - but just lacks something, whether hooks, melodic moments, or on the other end of the spectrum adequate batshit weirdness. “Prayers On Fire” is a better record, and of course Nick Cave would go on to produce magnificent art. Far from a fail, but not quite scaling the heights of artistic greatness.

No thanks. Talented players trying too hard to be weird and edgy. I can hear the influence they had on a certain kind of thrash metal (?). But it’s not music I’m at all interested in. 1 because I don’t want to hear this again, but 2 because of the talent and originality.

I've never listened to this album (25). I love Nick Cave but this was a rough listen, especially on Youtube since this album is unavailable on Spotify (Canada).

bof

Crap Would give zero if I could

Rock, 1982 -> 2

I get it and I get that most people don't

Interesting. Better than expected. But got a bit bored with it towards the end. R liked it; H did not.

Very different to what I’d normally listen to - raw and punky - enjoyed - not sure I’d search out again though

It's kinda good and kinda annoying

Like...I didn't hate it.

Truly awful. 1/5

This album was actually bad

The music on this album is adjacent to a good bit of punk, hardcore, and metal that I really enjoy. For the record, though, I wouldn’t say I enjoy listening to this album. There are a handful of songs I enjoy - like She’s Hit, Kiss Me Black, 6” Gold Blade. But most of it I don’t enjoy listening to. I probably like it more as an art piece than as an album of music. The album made me think a lot - made me think about music and what commentary they were making, and where it fits in the spectrum of music before and after. I love the absolute rejection of standard expectations of popular music. It’s taking aspects of the punk ethos to its logical extreme. And it also clearly informs a lot of hard core and harder core metal (vs hair metal) that comes later. I am also drawn to the darkness of the lyrics. 6” Gold Blade felt like a modern, post punk Murder Ballad. Definitely more of an interesting thing to experience.

Yeah I’m not gonna pretend I enjoyed a single second of this, but I will say that’s a banger cover art.

Meh.

Worst thing ever. Can I give it zero stars?

nah

Long time Nick Cave fan, but never delved into the Birthday Party. I loved this, it's raw energy and thrash is fantastic. More of this!

Yuck

I like Nick Cave but the background cacophony takes away from what I want to hear - his creepy voice.

Oh, Mad Max. I get it. I prefer the movie.

I was not expecting to like this as much as I did, but it was dynamic, gritty and short. Reminded me more of pure punk or grunge than post polunk which is probably why I like it a bit better. 4/5

I hate everything about this

This is like the Cramps if they sucked.

not for me. too weird, incoherent

Well… at least the cover is cool.

Was not a fan.

Definitely not my music

Nee doe ff normaal man... Wat is de reden van deze onzin? Het is herrie. Pure herrie. Ik doe mn best om iets van schoonheid of iets fijns te vinden, maar dat is gewoon niet te doen. De "teksten" zijn nauwelijks aanwezig, de "muziek" is distorted gitaar en een bak herrie daarbij. Het is me gelukt, ik denk dat ik het slechtste album op deze site heb gevonden, want 1 keer luisteren naar Hamlet(PowPow) en ik denk dat weinig mensen het met me oneens gaan zijn dat dit pure bagger is. Even gekeken en dit staat weer in het rijtje "artiest maakt later wel goede muziek en daarom moet letterlijk elke scheet in deze lijst worden opgenomen..." Interessant dat het elke keer dezelfde artiesten zijn. Een Lennon, Nick Cave, Damon Albarn, die worden altijd voor alles in zulke lijsten opgenomen. Maar goed, ik heb hier al meer tijd aan verspild dan de artiest in kwestie, Cave, dat zelf heeft gedaan. Laten we dit maar zn edgy shockrock fase noemen en snel doorgaan. Junkyard? Dat is waar dit album inderdaad thuis hoort.

The early Bad Seeds albums sound mannered in comparison to the genuine violence and chaos of The Birthday Party. I much prefer the latter. I prefer that to his 90s and 00s Hammer Horror Liberace mode as well. And only his more recent works, exploring the deaths of his sons, is so sincere as the self-loathing adolescent that sang Nick The Stripper. Nick The Stripper isn't on this album and I have no idea why Junkyard was selected over the superior Prayers on Fire or Hee Haw or the Peel Sessions or Drunk on the Pope's Blood. Still, these clattering drums, these needling guitars, and Cave's flagellating awfulness don't deserve to be in the twenty lowest albums on this list. Even if it's not great, it's not boring. 2.5 A funny thing happened to me on the way to the giving this 1 star. First I remembered, on my second listen to Junkyard, that I gave 1 star to Murder Ballads. Now I loathed Murder Ballads and begrudged my second listen to it. To be fair, the only reason I was giving Junkyard a second listen was because it occurred to me that, instead of dismissive contempt, sober deliberation would have a nice irony to it here. Yet I softened to Junkyard on that second listen as I thought of the later Nick Cave album, and not just because Junkyard is 20 minutes shorter. Should I have given Murder Ballads less? Probably, but the recollection as it turned out skewed positively for Junkyard rather than negatively for Murder Ballads. I don’t like Nick Cave, as you know, and I think the core of my dislike of him is the combination of his intellectual self-regard and his being, obviously, an idiot. The prevailing persona Cave has emphasised through most of his career as I have understood it, in my admittedly limited experience of his music, is of a Cohenalike poet struggles to make with God, cursed with good hair, who is obliged to take out his frustrations at being mistaken for a mere pop star by fantasising about murdering women. I find Cave’s melodies laborious. I find the oft-cited idea that he compares to Cohen as a lyricist ridiculous. The Good News about Junkyard, then, is that very little of this criticism applies. There is no pretence to musical depth here. No one, even if they happen to love this record, can pretend that there is anything like a Beefheartish deliberation here. This is the sound of drunk kids breaking into the practice room at night. Look at me lads I’m a drummer, bash bash bash bash lol. Look at me lads, I’m Elvis but also bark like a dog. “Pow pow pow pow pow pow” (Hamlet Pow Pow Pow) “Ho ho ho ho ho ho” (Dead Joe) “Hey hey hey hey hey” (Kiss Me Black) “Shake shake shake shake shake” (6 inch Gold Blade) Lyrically there is still some look at me lads (and girls) I’m a poet who kills women. But it seems to me to be in correct proportion here - there is only 1 part Hamlet to 3 parts Pow. This musical and lyrical reduction of Cave shows him in his sleekest and, for me, most sympathetic form; as an attention-seeking missile. And a day after k d lang I am anyone’s for their making a dirty lot of noise. 2/5

5/10

Love Nick Cave. Love tug Bad Seeds. Love Grinderman. Don't love thug Birthday Party. Several Sins is redeemable.

My initial reaction here was that it was very trebly and I looked it up and that was very intentional, so immediately it is an artistic choice that I didn't like, but got the reaction they wanted I think. The songs are ok, I really like Nick's vocals when he is in full baritone mode, I'm not so keen on his screaming. The music is often good, except again, I really disliked the first track. I think as it went on I like it more and more. The track kiss me black was a highlight, I do wonder if that is because I felt it was more like his later work with the bad seeds. Maybe that's unfair. I dunno. I think with more bass and less treble I'd like it more. Apparently the album before this they felt it was overproduced so I'm tempted to dig that out and see if I like that more. But again as this went on I grew into it. Not as much as I like some bad seeds stuff, but enough to be tempted to give it a low 4, but maybe that is a bias as I like nick cave as an artist rather than cos I liked this album. I am torn. I think let's be generous. Low 4.

This was awful

The Birthday Party is not for the faint of heart "I like everything" types. Abrasive, weird, and noisy. I prefer Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, but this is an interesting listen. 3.5/5 #177

Meh. All I can say is meh.

2/10

The performances and song-writing are impressive. It's noisy and chaotic. I didn't enjoy it.

Second day in a row I’ve gotten one of the twenty albums listed under “lowest rated” on the global stats page? What are the odds. Actually I did the math. Taking into account that I had 1089 - 27 = 1062 albums to go before this occurred the odds were (20/1062)*(19/1061) = ~0.034%. I guess I did get one of the *top* twenty albums a few days ago so maybe it’s only fair. Well anyway. I hate to be basic and follow the crowd, but, like, yeah, I didn’t really enjoy this one any more than yesterday’s, so, in my opinion there's a pretty good. reason they're both down there in the rankings. At least this one was half an hour shorter than Haunted Dancehall? I would say, at least it had vocals and should thus have been a little more interesting to listen to than Haunted Dancehall's aimless beeping, but actually the vocals might have been my least favorite part of this album. I had a Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds album just this past Saturday that I enjoyed (Abbatoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus), so I know that the guy is capable of producing vocalizations that don't make me feel like joining in on the other side of his one-way screaming match, but he really didn't do it for me here. :/ One star again. Sorry. I can only pray the next one I get is a little more fun. Maybe this is just the cosmic price I have to pay for getting to spend last Sunday with Ziggy Stardust (#8 highest rated in the global stats, also for good reason)? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I hated this album. 2 stars because there is definitely some musical skill here but all it did was give me a headache and wish for it to be over just 4 songs in. And apparently there are 6 more nick cave albums to go? Not looking forward to those.

I don't get it

It’s on the list cause it’s Nick Cave. Definitely some ideas here but it’s very uniform in its production and recording. Cool vibe. Excellent album cover.

Typical example of music that is fantastic in a live setting. Chaotic energy to lose yourself in. This needs a room of people ready to let loose. And the album obviously tries to capture that live feeling. But in album form this post punk burst of madness is unwelcoming and harsh. Would love to see them live in 82’ but I have zero interest in listening to this record.

feo? sí. discordante? sin duda. aburrido? absolutamente

So so .

1.5 Extremely not for me. Overlong, every song sounded exactly the same and it was a song I didn’t like from the beginning. Again, the album rocked, one of the best, but this isn’t 1001 Album Covers you must see before you die.

Bollocks.

Weird songs. I didn't like the album.

Dumb noisy rock.

That was truly a once in a lifetime experience... I guarantee it.

A couple of songs are pretty ass so far. Based on the first song i thought I'd hate it, and I feel like I should hate it but for some reason I don't. It feels like a band Jeremy and Super Hans would be in. Might have caught me on a good day but I didn't mind this

No thanks

Really liked, need to check out more

Probably my least favorite album I’ve been assigned so far. Through this project I have discovered that I am not a fan of early punk. While I appreciate it, it is just not a genre that I would seek out on my own. Australian punk? No thank you

Not many, if any, redeeming features to this one.

On the whole this is a painful listen, with a few promising moments poking through.

I never have listened to much Nick Cave, and definitely not pre-90s, but when I have I’ve always find his style rather captivating. Obviously this is all pretty raw and unhinged, but there’s real lyrical and vocal skill and style here. Yes the music is pretty experimental, harsh and challenging, but that grew on me. The last eponymous track the highlight. I’m just amazed this is early 80s, just sounds so ahead of it’s time, albeit when it’s time is I’m not really sure, maybe it’s hasn’t come yet.

Demonic fury, disintegrating blues rock, and a darkness falling over everything. (pow, pow, pow, pow).

There is way too much Nick Cave on this list.

I tried. Wow. This is terrible.

Not a fan. Too chaotic. The second I saw Nick Cave was involved I wasn't surprised I didn't enjoy it.

Stel toch dat je dit voor je 'Birthday party' krijgt... Meteen naar de 'Junkyard' brengen, zou je zeggen. Oh, het is Nick Cave? Tja, dan zou de attentiewaarde erin moeten liggen dat we weten wat de man voor achterlijk gekrijs heeft geproduceerd voordat hij die, euh, wat meer bedaarde eigenzinnige platen ging maken. Nou, daarmee red je dit album album niet hoor. In de 'Big Jesus trash can' ermee.

In het begin denk ik nog even. Ach, het is wat minimaal. Geef het een kans. Maar dan komt die overdreven lange schreeuw inclusief het naar adem happen. En dan ben ik eigenlijk al klaar met de plaat. Toch nog maar proberen iets positiefs eruit te pikken. Maar ik kom bij het tweede nummer niet veel verder dan een vergelijking met Marilyn Manson, maar dan zonder muzikaal gevoel uitgevoerd. Ik geef het op. Ik zal het netjes uitluisteren. Maar verder zoeken naar iets van waarde gaat mij teveel energie kosten.

Iggy Pop uitgevoerd door Nick Cave. Oh het is ook Nick Cave, die er sowieso veel te vaak in staat. Maar ja, je bent een snob of niet. Dit album komt van voordat hij soort van bekend werd en valt absoluut niet in de categorie die ik ooit gehoord zou moeten hebben wat mij betreft. Vanaf het eerste nummer heb ik al zin om dit uit te zetten. Bij het 2e nr heb ik genoeg gehoord. 1 ster.

Це клас, ранній Нік Кейв, крейзі енергетика.

Pretty good

Can appreciate it, but not a big fan. Not my type of post-punk.

Junk.

Honestly, it’s not very good... highly repetitive and, for 1982, lacking in originality. It's crappy version of the Cramps.

There were parts of this that wants to work but never got there. Probably would have been a good live experience at some basement space but as a record not so great.

This wasn't the Nick Cave I was expecting. A much more loud and punk record then his later work.

There is something here, and I think you can start to see where Nick Cave is going to end up. But the recording is pretty rough and the songs are like you took Joy Division and told them to forget how to play. That said, I might revisit in the future, as it's not terrible. It's okay.

Sounds like cave rock Nick Cave. I liked it at times, but not too thrilled overall. It feels a bit undercooked and unfocused and it's not too clear in what it wants to do. That said, it's really cool to see this proto-Nick Cave album and the album has its moments. The title track is really fun and the album is bursting with raw energy and power. Nick Cave belts his way through this album and the backing band adds to the force.

Almost entirely unpleasant to listen to. 3 Stars.

This was the worst album on this list so far. I get it you’re mentally ill, but why are you barking and growling and grunting into the mic? Call me conservative but I thought music was supposed to be enjoyable? Listening to this album in full would’ve made me just as mentally ill, so this is the first album I didn’t listen to fully.

It has a different energy than a lot of what I listen too, not bad

s het gheisse post punk und jo, da isch tatsach post punk. schlecht abgmischt und chli hässige bass, ungnau gspielt aber nöd so dases charme het irgendwie. AHAAAA da isch de nick caaave jeeeeetzeeeee. drum ish das do. jetz machts sinn. machts nöd guet. han seeehr wenig z sege. big jesus trashcan isch okay well no cools bluesy riff. aber s tont immerno nöd guet und uhuere dünn ufgnoh.

hahaha whaaat okeee die erste 10 sekunde töned öppe wie s cover usgseht she's hit osch ja mal insane nervig, hii und daa hetmer d gitarre no gfalle aber mmhh NERVIG aso I guess schono funny AHA NICK CAVE FUNNYYYYY pow pow pow INSANE ARSCH several sins ischs glaub s erste lied woni echt na cool find, na e cooli atmosphäre SCHREI SCHREI SCHREIIII hahaha sini schrei sind ja insane teilwiis öppe di 2. hälfti vo junkyard het schochli mini metalinstinkt kratzt hahah ich hett nöd cheggt, dassi dead joe schomal inere ähnliche form glost han release the bat hani de rhythmus na cool gfundr aber puuuu 1 oder 2, han nöd würkli spass gha aber es het öppis gha mengisch? und d bedütig vom album/vode band chammer glaub nöd abspreche. mal luege

Yikes

just awful

This was not worth the effort to find. Its cool to hear different genres from different countries but hoo boy this was just not good. Yelling is fine, but it all sounded so washed out. Maybe its a post punk thing, I dunno.

Had to seek high and low for this album and when I finally found it… it sucked!

Not familiar with pre-Bad Seeds Nick Cave. I like the sound of these songs, like a punk Tom Waits. 3.5 rounded down Heard before? No Owned: No. 5/1001, 5/20 (25%) Will I get? No Recommend: No

Like nick cave

Really. REALLY.

When I started this list, I committed to myself that I would listen to every album all the way through no matter how unpleasant. 430+ albums in, and this is the first to really tempt me to turn it off early. Just, why?

Not enjoyable at all

total chaos, I like it

Well, there's almost an hour of my life. I will never get back.

Jeg fik både svunget støvsugeren, og fjernet kanin lort. Så det går ikke stille for sig. Det er ret mørkt til tider, andre gange direkte gøglet.

Det er mørkt, råt og skramlet. Det hænger meget godt sammen med de tidlige Bad Seeds skiver

I already dislike Nick Cave. Giving me an earlier version of his singing is not going to be better. I want something that feels more gutteral if I'm listening to Punk.

Thoughts before listening: Nick Cave's first band I think. Dirty, punky rock n roll is what I believe this will sound like. Nothing I've ever felt like I needed to hear before. Review: While I want to celebrate weirdo 80s post-punk like this, I just can't do it with this one. This is a little too out there for me to enjoy, with discordant dirges and psycho freakouts dominating the tracklist. Like many of its contemporaries, this album also suffers from crappy production and sloppy performance. I'm sure purists would complain, but all of these 80s albums would really benefit from a re-recording using modern technology. This doesn't quite fall to 1-star territory (it's interesting if nothing else), but I also don't really like it. 2-stars

Like, it’s fine, but there’s much better in the genre.

1/5 does not have a genre, just annoying screeching

eh

Blasted the fuck off to this today. “All we get are forty hack reporters” is an edgy lyric. She’s fucking hit, man. “The Dim Locator” has a great sound. “Big-Jesus soul-mates trash-can, pumped me fulla trash at least it smelt like trash.” “Release the Bats” is a bop.

this was something!

We all have journeys, I’m glad Nick Cave’s journey departed from this stop long ago.

This album bit off my pinkie toe while my feet dangled off the edge of a pier.

Interesting to see where alot of the song ideas come from for many Nick Cave songs. Unfortunately this album is mostly the style of most of the Nick Cave songs i don't like very much. Although Several Sins is worth the listen alone.

Difficult listen but I got into it a bit from Kiss Me Black on...kind of a rockabilly Beefheart

Crikey this was a challenging listen. Why anyone would consider this anything other than utter garbage is beyond me. It’s better parts sound like a poor man’s Joy Division, and I don’t enjoy listening to Joy Division. Noise not music.

You might expect an album by a band called The Birthday Party to be mainly songs about jelly, cake and balloons, but hello, who’s this shambling into the studio? That’s right kiddies, it’s our old friend Nick Cave fronting this post punk band and sounding like Tom Waits, if he’d decided to focus on heroin instead of booze. This is reliably good stuff from Cave though, and clearly shows where he would be heading later with the Bad Seeds and his solo work. One track of note is ‘Release the Bats’ which was an early proto-goth song, featuring the memorable line "sex horror sex bat sex sex horror sex vampire sex bat horror vampire sex." Goth-tastic!

Post-punk much more off-putting than most of its counterparts. Lots of discordance, very jangly, purposefuly playing on your nerves, but I tend to like this kind of atmospheres. The way Cave is singing is also interesting, alternating between his disctinctive voice and grunts. Not the best album ever, but way more interesting that all the dad rock and other nonsense this list is full of.

I wish less than one was available. I don't understand the love for Nick Cave, then again, I've never had a brain injury.

1/10. I like Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, and I loved a couple of their albums. However, I hated "Junkyard". It was so exhausting to listen to. It's not for me. Sorry!!!

Not a good album to get on a sick day. Really had a hard time finding any enjoyment in this listen. At lease the cover art is... unique?

Llevo 3 álbumes seguidos de kk. Esto es Tom Waits pero peor grabado, menos interesante y sin talento. Es como el quinto álbum peor valorado de la página y lo entiendo. La portada mola mucho. 2/10->1/5

Well, this was thoroughly unenjoyable ⭐⭐ On a positive note, because I disliked this so much, I had some time to work on finishing The Who - Tommy from yesterday

Not an easy album to get into... It’s raw, angry, and as melodious as a bag a razorblades. It sounds like what I imagine psychosis must feel like, and the fine line between noise-rock and just noise is crossed more than a few times. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the dark and disturbing mood. I’m giving it a 3* for its originality and no-compromise attitude, and because fuck polite music.

Почему такой мусор попадает в список альбомов, необходимых к прослушиванию? Чтобы знать, какой отстой некоторые считают музыкой?

I get what they're doing here, in that it's artistic, and unhinged, and unique, and challenging. But is it fun to listen to? Not really. I can appreciate elements of it - the wildness of Nick Cave's vocal performances, the grunginess of the riffs, the unexpected turns of the lyrics. But good lord- would it kill someone in this band to be playing WITH anyone else, not AGAINST them? Anyways. POW POW POW THREE STARS

2.3 2x listened on youtube (not available on Spotify)

Bravo Nick, awfully brilliant

Oof this is one of my least favorite post-punk bands, didn't change this time around. Just nothing good to latch on to. "Oh but it sounding bad is the point" well the Fall dirties up their records in a fun way. Seems like an excuse to hide behind Rating: 1.2

the band are cool but nick's desperate spooky man shtick is so corny

I hear shades of Joy Division, Tom Waits, and Jim Morrison in this, all 3 who I've grown to love throughout this project. Problem is, Nick Cave is currently on the opposite side of the spectrum of that. I genuinely didn't mind it compared to some of the other lower rated albums on the list. I think if you Cave's vocals out for over half the songs, it's pretty decent musicianship. I also don't think we needed to reaffirm that Joe is dead, with a 2nd version but it never hurts I suppose.

Not quite 1 level but close

2,1/5

2 out of 5. This was a hard listen and it should be a 1 but it barely made it.

This album is a bit confusing to listen to. I'm surprised this ended up on the list but I'm reviewing it anyway. I took one look at the album art and knew this was going to be an experience, maybe not a good one but an experience nonetheless. While I am a fan of punk music, I just felt that a lot of this record was just noise. It didn't really feel like music to me, it just sounded like static going on in the background. It has only two songs I found to be palatable but the rest is really just something I can't explain. Yeah, I didn't really like this one at all. I also think the mix sounds horrible too, it sounds like it was recorded in a cave, you can faintly hear the drums, guitar, but the vocals and bass are as loud as they can be. Favorite Tracks: She's Hit, The Dim Locator Rating: 1/5

galera que frequenta esse site é MUITO dodói claro que tem umas músicas meio estranhas, mas a pira é justamente escutar coisa que vc JAMAIS escutaria sob outras circunstâncias e honestamente? no geral não é ruim

BARULHEIRA E GRITARIA CAÓTICA E DISSONANTE FINALMENTE PORRAAAAA. bem gótico/post-punk, dá pra ver que influenciou uma galera boa e que foi influenciado por uma galera boa tbm. achei bacana como algumas músicas parecem só uma super parede de som com uns berro do nick cave. ótima maneira de quebrar os 1000 albuns pau mole da lista. escutarei mais vezes!

Worst. Birthday party. Ever.

this album sounds like if a punk band tried to put out a goth record. it’s interesting for sure. the low-fi recording was a nice touch.

This is fucking awful. Not surprised to find out it’s early Nick Cave shit.

Could be worst things.

This album took a couple of listens, but it grew on me and I ended up quite liking it.

Really didn’t enjoy

some of you just have no stomach for weird shit

Knew I was gonna hate this album just by looking at the album cover.

absolute garbage i hate you

2.6 I am as big of as a Nick Cave fan as anyone but I dont think this would crack a regular rotation. Would have loved to seen a show back in the day though

Dark, sparse, post punk. Needs more spins but plenty to like.

Brilliantly nuts, I sort of love Post Punk in some moods

I’m glad Rat Fink could show up. I like this. Not ironically I actually legitimately like this. It’s messy and chaotic but it’s still clearly done with musicality. Like Dead Joe, that song rules, it also has the most Nick Cave ass section where he starts talking about Christmas halfway through.

I have got like Nick Cave over the last few years which is surprising because I remember hearing his early stuff on TV music shows and been far from impressed. This album is an example of that early music which bears no resemblance whatsoever to his last half dozen albums. I cannot think of another example of one artist been so at odds between their early and later work. There is no indication or clue within this album to suggest that small seeds had been sown which would develop into the magnitude of an album such as Ghosteen. 2/5 13/7/25

My kind of chaos

This is some Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas drug binge-ass music. I love the idea that this exists and that this is the primordial stew that Nick Cave emerged from. Will I listen to it again? Only if I’m trying to clear out a room at a party. But it does get my heart rate up in a fight-or-flight kinda way, and sometimes that’s enough for a band to put a grin on my face.

Guys, trust me. I love goth. I love post punk. I love Nick Cave. I still think this album is average and will continue to lean on Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Cure, Sisters of Mercy, and Bauhaus over The Birthday Party any day. Their albums are a bit more experimental and out there. I guess kinda like Killing Joke when they started off where it was over time they became the masters of the craft, but sometimes we have rocky first steps.

Hmm, I didn't dislike this, but I didn't love it either. Will have to revist a few times to see if it grows on me or its just not for me. Nick Cave was wild on this, super interesting to listen to him before he went "solo".

Its ok just i don't know a bit shouty

Was out biking when I put this on, so might not have been the best listening conditions, but man… this sucked hard! Felt like there were some interesting riffs in some places, but that felt more like happy accidents than intentional. Everything felt messy, dissonant, and the singer was garbage. 1982 felt very early for this type of music, but that won’t save it from a 1 star rating.

Ugh. I don't have anything good to say about this album. Album art was awful and the music also. Forced myself to listen through it but it never really got any better. "Hamlet (pow pow pow)" was by far the worst track. At least it tried to do something different and I get that some people like it. Not for me though.

No thanks! 1/5

Early Nick Cave noise rock? I'm in!

I am guessing this album made the list because Nick Cave is in it. Much like Tom Waits, I have not explored much of Nick Cave's career, and I feel he is another one of those acquired tastes. This album is pretty much just noise, and some of these tracks seem a bit long winded for punk. Is this album revolutionary? Maybe if you discovered it when it came out, and I can see where it probably had a big cult following back in the day. But I think discovering it 40 years after it's release, does not have the same effect.

Was interesting...mostly because every song sounded the same, and that was Nice Cave yelling. 2/5

Holy crap, this sucks. Is this on the list to give you the experience of listening to garbage? Like, "you must listen to this awful piece of crap in order to appreciate better music." I can't imagine listening to this for fun. This is Nick Cave?!?! I see why he moved on from whatever this is supposed to be. I went to RYM to check the original tracklist to ensure I could turn this tripe off as soon as possible. So no, I will not be listening to another version of this godawful Dead Joe song. I'm not kidding when I say IceJJFish makes better music than this. You can at least laugh at that. This is completely unlistenable noise with no redeeming qualities. The best part of this album was when I was doing the dishes and the water was running so I couldn't hear it. I would rather listen to 47 minutes of running water than this nonsense. Several Sins is ok. It's still not good, but better than the rest of the album so far... And we're right back into the trash with the aptly named Big Jesus Trash Can because Jesus would want you to throw this in the biggest trash can you could find so it could be buried by less repulsive trash. Im surprised Earth wasn't flooded again as punishment for humanity creating this so-called art.

This did not have any redeeming qualities. Except maybe the album art matched the music perfectly

How did they sneak another Nick Cave album in here? The people who make this list are obsessed with him, I've heard more Nick Cave than Beatles. I find it hard to believe that if I had to listen to 1001 albums before I did, this many of them would be by Nick. I didn't dislike "Blast Off", but it also didn't have a lot to offer for me. "She's Hit" was a very boring noisescape. "Dead Joe" has me wishing we could go back to the boring noisescape. I'm definitely not enjoying the vocals. The music seems to be trying to make noise for the sake of it. "The Dim Locator" is the most tolerable song yet. It's got some fun riffs and cool vocal sections in it. It still had plenty of annoying things greatly outnumbering the enjoyable, but it had the most good moments of any song so far. "Several Sins" was alright. I like the slower pace and the chorus was cool. I got tired of describing the specific reasons I didn't like the songs, so I stopped writing thoughts on individual songs. This was truly an album I had to get through. It can get worse than this, but it wasn't good. The songs were most frequently a mix of unpleasant and boring, and infrequently just OK. This album's vocals feel like the ambient noise that plays in a haunted house to put me on edge. It had a lot of abrasive elements, but not super abrasive, so that was OK, but it didn't balance them out with anything nice to listen to. 3/10

This album is a lot like cooking fish in a microwave: not as good as I hoped it would be, and left a really negative atmosphere that lasted well after it was over.

It doesn’t help that I mistakenly listened to The Junkyard’s titular album (which should be on this list) before listening to this. It wouldn’t help listening to any music because it would beg a comparison. Amateurish and annoying. They should have left off at Junk.

2.5*, but it's kinda hard to decide which way to round. Some of the elements were good, but the singing mostly wears on me. In the end, I was glad the album was over, so rounding down.

I’m on track three and this miserable to listen to. The odds of this landing right after trout mask replica are astronomical. Trout mask replica is beautiful by comparison

Wasn’t the worst thing in the world, but 47 minutes was WAAAAY to long for that to go on. Liked the goth/punk vibe when I got into it. Very droney.