Junkyard

Shityard.

Junkyard is where this album belongs.

This is noise for the sake of noise. The best part of this album is easily the cover art (which would get 5 stars, but unfortunately for The Birthday Party this rating is just for the music).

singer sounds like the personification of a cat in heat. no thanks

meh

Opener sounds like if Nick Cave went hardcore punk. Lol had no idea the singer is actually Nick Cave when I wrote that. I really hated this.

Absolutely horrible. An album of just wretched noise. This is Nick Cave at his worst. I'll take the slow and somber side over this post-punk junk. I'm not sure what critical acclaim the record can ever get. Right on tune with the other noise albums on the list. Why are these must listens? 0.65 stars.

Nick Cave has run the gamut across this list. Some of his albums I have rather enjoyed, others I would gladly have skipped. I tend to enjoy of his grungy punk rock stuff more than the somber, ambient experimental work he did. This album with The Birthday Party is more in line with what I like from his catalog even if it devolves to a bunch of weird loud noise rock and growling a lot of the time. I guess Junkyard is an apt title as its a little dirty, dusty, muddy. Segments of it do feel like spare parts of abandoned songs or the dregs of some garage experimentation with his bandmates. It's got quite a few noisy head-scratchers but something about it kept me listening for better or worse. If you had told me that Nick Cave was hospitalized for mental health issues in the wake of this album it wouldn't have surprised me. I'm not sure what the argument is for this album to be on the 1001 list as it's mostly a mess but it must have been significant for some reason. I didn't know much about Nick Cave when we started this list but he does enough interesting stuff in and out of his musical career that I'm glad I got the exposure even if I don't consider myself a big fan. Nick Cave continues to do just enough where I'll keep him on my radar moving forward to see if he can strike gold again. 1.48 stars

Wasn’t able to finish. Skip large part of songs. I prefer Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. 1/5. Won’t listen ever again. She's Hit : 1 Dead Joe : 1 The Dim Locator : 1,5 Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow) : 1 Several Sins : 1 Big-Jesus-Trash-Can : 1 Kiss Me Black : 1 "6" Gold Blade : 1 Kewpie Doll : 1 Junkyard : 1

não tem em qualidade decente, foi horrivel.

Almost a 2, but no, I couldn't make it.

Just a bunch of noise

Not necessarily the worst thing ever

Mother fucking Nick Cave

This was ass.

Relentlessly and excruciatingly crap

Not for me

i really tried to listen to this but i had to stop after 4 songs. it just didn’t get any better.

Not gunna lie the cover had me worried, the first word being screamed out of my speaker has not helped. God this is awful

junk music

Just awful.

Garbage album with no redeeming qualities.

I like some of Nick Cave's projects, this wasn't one of them

Whoever made this list has a ridiculous Nick Cave fetish. Even more shite than his solo stuff

No words to describe how horribly awful this is.

The album artwork is kind of cool. The music, however, is indeed a junkyard.

This is brutal. And not in the D&D barbarian hacking through hordes of goblins. Or brutal as in the sound of great metal music kind of way. No this is brutal in an assault on my ears. I can dig in experimental and lofi. And while post punk certainly isn't my favorite genre, there are standouts that work well. This isn't one of those. This is just hard to listen to for so many reasons. I'd say it wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the actual intention of it to sound like trash, but I'm not sure that is like it much better if the engineering was decent. As an audio guy, I'd be pretty uncomfortable putting my name on this release.

Yeah no. I had a feeling this wouldn’t be good, but it was worse than I thought it would be. 1/5

Nope, I didn't enjoy anything about this album. Luckily, it was the group's last full-length studio recording.

I’d rather listen to my lawn mower

You can't trick me into listening to more Nick Cave.

I'm sorry for being so mean 70s. This is worse somehow.

dreadful

I understand why this album is included, but that doesn’t mean I like it.

Okay, "Junkyard" is supposed to sound like that, and there will always be people who like that "sound." After all, some critics do. As a child and even a teenager, I liked junkyards, but these days there are hardly any left around here. That's probably a good thing, considering all the oil and other liquids that just seeped into the ground. I think this album by "The Birthday Party" will also be picked over and dug up. The stuff that Nick Cave and his crew have put together here is just too toxic. My God, the cover looks absolutely awful.

Godawful. Didn't finish a single song.

I love Nick cave but this early stuff just isn’t it. It’s exactly what I dislike on this list. Can see some of his stuff coming through but still almost unlistenable

no me apareció en spotify

No longer in youtube music, ass

1. blazt - 0 2. hit - 1 3. joe - 0 4. dim - 0 5. hamlet - 1 6. zinz - 1 7. trazh - 0 8. kizz - 0 9. blade - 0 10. doll - 0 11. junk - 0 12. batz - 1

Very bad

Just bad musicians making noise. 1 star or F.

This is not available on Spotify. The album cover is. That perhaps tells me all I need to know of this album. Favourite: When it finished Least favourite: The other 39 minutes

I didn’t enjoy the Nick Cave record with the best ratings on here, so this was never going to be a fun listen. But good god. This fucking sucks. I like weird music, and I like experimental music. This isn’t even music. This isn’t avant-garde. This is just random noises and yells put onto tape. I’ve given ten 1 stars and this was the worst of them. 1/5

Sounds like they were trying to give you a headache.

😖

Perfect name, JUNK!

Zero talent. Unlistenable.

Crap birthday party

To suggest this album be returned to the junkyard is an insult to junkyards; a landfill would be a better depository for this trash

I guess I just don't know. What drives a person to make something like this? What drives someone to listen to it? Maybe most importantly, what drives someone to tell other people to listen to it? This is almost comically bad. As close to zero musicianship as you can get. This also strikes me as a legitimately evil album. And mind you, I gave a 5 to fucking Marilyn Manson. But this is just grotesque. 47 minutes of artless vomit. Of course this came out in the 80s.

Yesterday I got a 3 hour Ella Fitzgerald/Gershwin compilation and gave it 4 stars for its length and this is my penance. I’m sorry, Ella! If I could go back and give you 5 stars I would! Forgive me 😭😭😭

Prva pjesma mi je bila grozna. Nakon prve mi je nedostajala prva jer je ostalo još neuporedivo gore. Mrzim Cavea svakako a ovo je kompletno novi nivo katastrofe. Mrtva trka s Limp Bizkitom za najružniji album art ikad.

생각 보다 정신이 너무 없고, 듣기 힘들었다. It was far more chaotic than I expected, and hard to follow.

Die australische Band um Nick Cave nahm ihr zweites und letztes Studioalbum unter erschwerten Bedingungen auf: Ein Teil entstand im A.A.V. Studio 2 in Melbourne, der Rest im Matrix Studio in London, wo Produzent Richard Mazda die Band kurz vor ihrem endgültigen Umzug nach Europa noch einmal einfing. Veröffentlicht wurde „Junkyard" 1982 über Missing Link in Australien und 4AD in Großbritannien – zwei Label, die dem Post-Punk der frühen Achtziger ein Zuhause boten, ohne ihn zu glätten. Das Ergebnis ist ein Album, das den ohnehin schon rauen Sound von „Prayers on Fire" noch einmal radikalisiert und in Richtung eines schroffen, blues-verseuchten Lärms treibt. „Junkyard" ist kein Album, das man sich zur Entspannung auflegt. Songs wie „Dead Joe" oder „Big Jesus Trash Can" wirken wie kontrollierter Kontrollverlust: Rowland S. Howards zerfetzte Gitarrenlinien reiben sich an Tracy Pews treibendem Bass, während Nick Cave seine Texte über Gewalt und Verfall fast schon predigend herausschleudert. „She's Hit" eröffnet das Album mit einer Dringlichkeit, die keinen Zweifel daran lässt, dass hier eine Band am Rande ihrer eigenen Auflösung agiert – tatsächlich verließ Schlagzeuger Phill Calvert die Gruppe kurz nach den Aufnahmen. Was „Junkyard" von vielen Zeitgenossen unterscheidet, ist die fehlende Berechenbarkeit: Statt einer geraden Post-Punk-Linie zu folgen, kippt das Album immer wieder in Free-Jazz-artige Ausbrüche und Rockabilly-Zitate, ohne dabei an Aggressivität zu verlieren. Es ist ein unbequemes, aber konsequentes Statement einer Band, die genau wusste, dass sie sich gerade selbst zerlegte. Ein Album, das seine eigene Zerstörung zum Klangkonzept macht.

this is not my jam fav song: she's hit

Perfecto para torturar prisioneros y despejar tu casa de ocupas tras una fiesta sin final.

Yeah, this is bad, but it'd be even worse without Nick Cave so at least they've got that for them

- I alr don’t like it I am one song in son - Yeah no I’m good - How does anyone listen to ts bro - Sorry this genuinely not for me

Wild to see this is a Nick Cave band. Not the worst album of the list, but not far from the bottom

Kind of embarrassed on behalf of my country for this one. I promise there actually is some music you'd describe as music from here! Some of it is even good! Try Midnight Oil; Men at Work; Cold Chisel; or Inxs if you want some less painful 80s Aussie rock. Anything but this. This sounds like a rough pub after midnight. A bunch of men, each a dozen drinks into their nights, just screaming. 40 minutes of sheer "What the hell was that?" I think it's safe to say "The Birthday Party" won't be playing at my birthday party later today. At least this album knows where it belongs, it's in the title after all.

Ears were bleeding two songs in

Ahh hell nah this is terrible.

sem opiniao, album nao esta disponivel no spotify

There were a few solid tracks, but this album goes on for way too long and I was kind of sick of it by the end. Punk (and by extension post-punk) seems to work best when it is kept brief. Lo and behold, it is yet another Nick Cave project. It wasn't all bad, there were a few decent tracks, but I easily could have gone my whole life without listening to this album, and I would not feel left out. Favorite track: "Several Sins" Favorite track:

I can appreciate what Nick Cave went on to achieve, but sitting through this album was genuinely one of the most abrasive and excruciating 42 minutes I've ever endured. It sounds exactly like its horrifying cover art, a rusty, demonic collision of screeching guitars, chaotic bass, and unhinged howling that feels like being dragged through the mud. This entire messy experience is exactly what it says on the tin: junk, absolute junk.

Yeah, idk about this one. I kinda liked the beginning instrumental for She´s Hit, but the rest is just not for me. I usually never skip, but I couldn't stand any of the songs.

there isn't a single positive comment I can make about this. it just sucks absolute ass.

2/10

Noise for the sake of being loud.

No thanks. This just didn't work for me at all. I've enjoyed plenty of Nick Cave in my time, but the sound, the vocals...none of this worked for me. Just not my style of music at all.

"This guy kind of sounds like Nick Cave." *reads Wikipedia* "Oh no...it is Nick Cave."

I'm only on track 2 and it's gonna be a long 45 minutes. I thought I liked Nick Cave, or at least I always understood him to be an important and influential icon of alternative music. Then I joined the 1001 albums and actually started listening to his work. Nothing I've been fed of Nick Cave has been enjoyable. The best I can say for this album is "Better than Murder Ballads".

Terrible tunes. Fantastic cover art.

Such a dogshit album for such a kick-ass album cover.

# Album Name: Junkyard # Artist: The Birthday Party # Rating: 1/5 # Comments: Rubbish # Top Tunes: # Would I listen to it again? no

Hard pass after the first 2 tracks. Hate everything about this one. ⭐

2.5/10

Verschrikkelijk

Just when you thought Nick Cave couldn’t suck any harder…1,5

The whole time I was thinking 'This sounds like a nastier Nick Cave, but I somehow I don't like it. His uses is voice interestingly though..' because apparently it IS Nick Cave. Listened twice, liked it a lot more the second time, still not my thing though.

Junkyard by The Birthday Party is a harrowing, claustrophobic descent into sonic chaos that is as intentionally abrasive as it is challenging to parse. While tracks like "Big Jesus Trash Can" and the title song lean heavily into a muddy, suffocating production aesthetic that can feel genuinely impenetrable upon first listen, the album serves as a masterclass in gothic post-punk distortion and nihilistic energy. It is far from an easy or polished record—often feeling like a sonic assault rather than a collection of songs—but for those who can stomach the jagged, discordant performances and the deliberately lo-fi, swampy atmosphere, it captures a raw, visceral intensity that few bands have ever successfully replicated.

I like the track Several Sins and the other elements of the album that remind me of Joy Division. I also appreciate the opportunity to hear early Nick Cave after discovering how much I love Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus. But this record is not one I’ll revisit very much, if at all. 1.5

So close to being my first DNF. Complete shit of the highest degree. Bad enough I had to stand on the packed train from Bristol to London - this made my suffering infinitely worse. Literally unlistenable but at least it was consistently shite. At least it wasn't like anything I'd heard before but maybe that's for a good reason. Album art was fun

Whoever made this list has a ridiculous Nick Cave fetish. Even more shite than his solo stuff

Nick Cave's success grew out of this manure. Unlistenable.

This was Drunk and coked up Nick Cave and the Bad Monkeys. This shouldn't even be on the 100001 albums list.

Two crappy albums in a row...what the hell?

I don’t care enough about this album to even comment on it.

I did judge a book (album) by its cover (album art) but I was correct - it sounds like the album cover which is just simply not for me - I feel like if this wasn’t nick cave it would have been lost to the sands of time

According to several reviews folks claim this album is supposed to be borderline ulistenable and unenjoyable, that's the point. Alright...but it still fuggn sucks lmao

Я не смогла это слушать, вообще не мое

Tää levy oli aikamoista kakofoniaa. Sitä ei pelastanut edes Nick Cave. Enemmän kuin kuraa...

What the actual heck? I am leaving the party early and my Mom says we can no longer be friends ...

It's not available

Seriously? What is this supposed to be? Made it to the 9th song and found better things to do. No redeeming qualities and straight to the Junkyard.

Todella surkea levy. Tällä kertaa ei pystynyt kuuntelemaan loppuun. 0,25/5.

⭐ Punk/ experimental rock. Intressant att detta är vad Nick Cave kommer från. Det är väldigt krävande att lyssna på. Det är stökigt, skramligt och skevt och Nick Cave låter helt galen på sång. Plus för att albumet är kompromisslöst och att man kör sin grej in kaklet men det är utmattande att lyssna på och inte min grej så det blir en 1a. Bäst är Several sins

Nick Cave is a talentless hack. I knew this was getting a 1 by the first song. I got about 5 songs in before I was done. This is genuinely one of the worst things I've ever listened to in my life holy fuck. This is probably the worst album art I have seen on 1001 so far and I'm at album #479 LMAO

My partner in this project was surprised this is Nick Cave. I don't know who Nick Cave is so I can't be surprised yet, maybe later. For now I am just appalled.

I could only find the title track. And well…

Skipped this. Unlistenable.

😒 Fuck no

Pre Listen: What the fuck is going on in the album cover. Looks like something I'd see on a wall in the greasiest pizza/burger restaurant in town, before eating the worst food ever. Slightly low expectations from the album cover alone. Notable Tracks: Blast Off - Heart sank progressively deeper every second the track played. Low expectations weren't low enough apparently. This is the kind of music a teenager plays to intentionally piss off their parents, and look back on with embarrassment. She's Hit - Skipped halfway through. This might be it. Dead Joe - Stopped listening to this about 20 seconds in. I've heard enough. The Dim Locater - Came back and listened to this one after taking a break. Quit listening about halfway through. Post Listen: Fastest 1 out of 5 to date. Might be the fastest for this whole project. This shit sounds like elementary schoolers got access to a recording studio. I know the band is doing it intentionally, because the lead singer keeps doing shitty voices and making shitty noises. The audio mixing is shit, the guitar work intentionally dirty and unpolished. It's an intentionally shit album, you'd be hard pressed to convince me otherwise, it's literally called "Junkyard". That's what this sort of punk-rock is, stylistically. Some people enjoy that kind of thing. I call them masochists. Not a great introduction to the esteemed Nick Cave. At least the album cover gives an accurate impression to the shitfest that is this album. 1/5.

Okay man this fucking sucked dude

This album is just a bunch of bullshit in mp3 form. Post-punk combined with industrial rock – the two worst genres of modern music. I knew it was going well when I found myself searching the "Lowest Rated Albums" stats within 20 seconds of starting the first track. And I wasn't disappointed. There's Junkyard by The Birthday Party, sitting at a cool 2.15-star average rating. The eighth-worst on the website. And damn well deserved. She's Hit approaches... something. The closest contact we have to genuinely listenable music. And yet it's still a pretty far cry from sanity. A half-listenable guitar line that indiscriminately increases and decreases its volume, coupled with a knock-off David Byrne bellowing empty lyrics like there's no tomorrow. And completely unlistenable drumming that picks random bars to get very suddenly louder and overdistorted. What's happening? My vision is going grey, as is any feelings of passion for what humanity has to offer. A brutal reminder that She's Hit is the best track on the album – according to listeners, at least. The entirely of Dead Joe sounds like Cookie Monster is getting a little too much pleasure from his cookies. Where's the explicit content warning? At least we have one chord being brutally slammed into the guitar over and over again for three minutes to distract us from Joe. The Dim Locator is actually pretty good if you imagine it sounding different to how it sounds. Take away all of the distortion, hire a better drummer, better guitarist, significantly better singer, and get some decent mixing and production... and there might be vestiges of listenable music here. I wonder if the purpose of this kind of music is purely for the beautiful "art" of people's reactions, rather than the music itself being art. Outsourcing all the effort to your listeners? Eh, why the heck not? It's genius. Several Sins is... okay, I guess. In the grand scheme of things, still absolutely unacceptable. After this point in the album I stopped giving any particular attention to the music. Tuning music out when it's already out of tune... in truth, surprisingly easy. Good thing they put in a second version of Dead Joe. Gotta make sure he's really dead. 1/5 Key tracks: none

The good news is that you don't have to listen to the entire album. If you've listened to the first 15 seconds of a song, then you heard the entire song. The bad news is that you have to listen to the songs at all. I have to chuckle at the fact that these guys are taking themselves seriously and probably high-fived each other like real bros at what they shat out.

I will never be a fan of the hooting and hollering genre of rock music. Very irritating

absolutely not for me. had to stop after 2.5 songs

genau so nervig wie das cover. jaja dAs aLbUm iSt ExTrA sO. das macht es nicht besser. sei leise.

Sucks

Absolute garbage

1.5 Been a while since I dished out a 1* so congrats. Absolute wank. Proper "I'm 14 and I'm edgy" energy. Just read the blurb - of course it's Nick Cave

This album really is a Junkyard!

1/5 Definitely an album I had to listen to before I died

There is nothing redeemable about this. It is a disgrace to music. I’m glad Nick Cave’s sound evolved, but it’s a shame our ears need to bleed for this. Awful, awful stuff.

Actual ragebaiting by the book to include this. Such a troll.

Sorry, this is just a pain to listen to.

The worst album on here so far

ehhhh music itself not bad but their voice absolutely ruins it for me

I hate it. I have tried but I cannot stand Nick Cave in any incarnation.

My brief search found no way to listen to this album in Canada & the parts I *could* listen to sucked

lo borraron

The only part I liked was the silence between the songs. Just awful noise, I couldn’t even finish half the songs

Horrible

why

🎧Oh this is Nick Cave’s first band, must be why I hate it. This sucks.

This album sounds exactly like the cover looks. That’s the only reason is gets a star.

The Good: It’s a birthday party! The Bad: Held at a junkyard… The Ugly: Getting bitten by the dog… Noise, for the sake of noise, is just noise… Experimental, for the sake of experiment, is just posing… Nick Cave get’s too much credit… Shit 1*

I had a messy piece of shit album yesterday and now this today. Stupid.

Früher Nick Cave. Überzeugt mich gar nicht

I had never heard of this band until today, and I'll happily ignore it again for the rest of my life.

wat

No

Not good in any way

You know when you can tell exactly what an album will be like just by the cover art. Yeah this is just as bad as I thought. I absolutely despise the art and the music is not too far behind. It sounds like it was recorded in a junkyard warehouse which definitely gives it some atmosphere. God I just hate this kind of music. It’s so stress and anxiety inducing. I get some people will like it but god fucking damn it it’s not me. This can riot in the junkyard for all eternity.

painful

I am reasonably confident this was added as a joke.

I don’t even know how this album got recorded. Terrible. Never even made it through three songs before I was completely annoyed

puta que pariu viu

Pure unpleasantness. Did not finish.

1/5 - Immortan Joe is on the cover, so I'm guessing this is his favorite record. It's not mine.

Anything with Rat Fink is a red flag. This album sucked.

No thank you.

There's definitely a respectable amount of creativity that went into this, but ultimately it's still just a mess of groaning and noise

Not my party.

1/5 NOT MY STYLE MEDIO ROCK DUROO METAL, lo peor es que no esta en spoty y lo tuve qe escuchar por youtube

Discordant noise. Just could not find a way into it at all. Relieved when it finished.

2 seconds in and it sounds immediately as expected based on the cover.

How was this universally acclaimed? God awful

quer dizer que além de aguentar os vinte mil álbuns chatérrimos do nick cave, eu ainda tenho que aguentar esse LIXO SONORO INAUDÍVEL da bosta de banda post punk dele?????? vsf cara horrível terrível nojo me faz mal. quem diz gostar desse tá querendo se mostrar e ser o diferentão. me poupe e se poupe.

Nooooope

This sounds like the type of music you make as a joke while jamming with your friends, but they were like, “fuck it, let’s release it.”

Absolutely dire

This is not the first time I have listened to a truly challenging album from this list while wandering in an airport. It kind of fits. I did not enjoy this though. I really don’t *get* nick cave.

They called this post-punk but that’s being too generous. Bad would be a better term. I just don’t like Nick Cave as an artist.

This is no doubt purposefully bad. Off key notes, talk singing. Sort of in the realms of Nick Cave. I think it’s Nick Cave I’m talking about. Whatever That sums up this album too.

This isn’t for me.

Appropriately named for where it belongs

Embarrassing inclusion. I've given some other 1s in this challenge, but this one has earned it.

Didn't enjoy this at all

First album I've actively disliked. It's just noise, and not in the good way. I can see what they're doing here, but it was a little painful and just couldn't wait for it to be over. I'm sure there's an audience for this, but it's the one I am not a part of.

You fuck this right off into space

Ein Album wie ein schlechter Tag: laut, chaotisch, und man fragt sich ständig, warum man das verdient hat. Historisch? Vielleicht. Hörbar? Eher nicht.

If you like this album, we cannot be friends.

Unlistenable… nothing lined up and the overall tone was awful.

I hated this so much. Just a wall of noise for me.

Shit. Glad he grew up a bit.

Dead Joe so good the made two versions that sound the same. Replay no

I seen this album and thought this is gonna be terrible but no way could it be worse than a nick cave album. I was wrong, this is genuinely the worst album I’ve listened to in my life. It sounds like he’s trying to do his best yoko ono impression. It was so bad I had to look this band up and found out I wasn’t wrong, it doesn’t get worse than nick cave because the fucking band is Nick cave. There is no way in hell that Nick cave isn’t the author behind this book because no one would ever listen to this garbage.

Better then expected

Not for me

DNF. This was terrible. Just noise.

Too screamy and SUPER repetitive, horrible rhythm, was all over the place

Several Sins is a good song. Peaky Blinders theme energy but too inconsistent

Wat een tering herrie zeg. Blij dat ik dit aan het begin van de rit heb gekregen in plaats van aan het eind.

I couldn't get through this - the tracks were too hard to find and I didn't love the music.

What I would imagine a trope of monsters making music out in a junkyard would sound like.

Dead Joe made me want to shoot myself. Weird grunting-singing that is more annoying than anything else. Trash album, I don't enjoy punk as much as I thought I did. 1*

This was incredibly difficult to get through. I have an open mind for music but I almost wish I DNFd it. I'm not sure it gets a whole lot stinkier than this, but for now it gets a 1.

Music as crap as the album cover.

Not my style but hit that "Industrial Complex" well

Hur mycket jag än gillar Nick Cave, klarar jag inte det här. Nog hör man spår av det som han och Bad seeds utvecklar senare i karriären, när han samlat ihop sin yvighet och fått styr på utbrotten. Men med undantag för Several sins och 6” Gold blade är det mesta här tyvärr nästan olyssningsbart.

wtf lol

Yeah nope

Music or just noise?

shit noise

Wtf

I didn’t like this album. But, I can see why anyone who appreciates punk at all would find this wonderful. This list has given me an appreciation for different genres of music that I never would have to listened to if I didn’t wake up to a new offering every morning.

I have never cared for the music of Nick Cave and I ain’t about to start now.

This album was not available anywhere

Not my thing.

Tried to listen to work. First album on this list I didn't finish for two reasons. First is that there isn't a proper version of this on YouTube Music, and the playlist on YouTube proper is all messed up. Second I did end up listening to the first four or so tracks and decided it just wasn't worth the effort to track down a proper stream because I just wasn't picking up what these guys were putting down. Never really got Nick Cave and this record certainly isn't changing my mind. Not for me.

Quite possibly the worst thing I've ever listened to.

Dnf. Might return to listen to the rest but I was not in the mood to finish

iskreno nisam ni mogao da se nateram da zavrsim

Que disco tan malo, no pude encontrarle una sola virtud al disco. No me gustó nada, un concepto que no entiendo su razón de ser, espero q. Tiene un sonido muy rancio sin sentido. Leí que Nick Cave quería un sonido basura y que parecía que animales estuvieran tocando, creo que lo hicieron muy bien. En verdad intente escuchar cada pista completa pero fue muy difícil

This is unlistenable. You strove to make a piece of trash. Congratulations, you did. No one should bother with this junk. Doing the bare minimum is not an artistic statement, it is just laziness. Just pure unimaginative bullshit. This doesn't sounds like a collapsed society in a post apocalyptic world, it sounds like a bunch of musicians doing a sloppy job of fucking around. Adding injury to insult, you have wade through the typical terrible Nick Cave singing and cliched lyrics. Anyone notice how long this dude has had an unnatural obsession with murder ballads? We get it, you saw MAD MAX and it made you spew in your shorts. And you couldn't wait to see THE ROAD WARRIOR when it would come out three weeks after the release of this turd. Even the album cover makes it clear that this album is a complete waste of time. Not remotely an essential album for this list and definitely not one of the most important albums from the 1980s. Again, the list is trying retcon history. The 80s did not sound this bad, and this band was not important to anyone.

This was terrible.

2/10

Does anyone have a hammer that I could use to pound my balls flat? Because I would rather do that than listen to this fucking abortion. I'm now convinced that some of the albums on this list were included, not because of how great they are, but because of how incomprehensibly awful they are. Like those commercials with the racoons eating the garbage, "oh, this is awful! Here, try it!". Possibly the worst thing I've ever listened to. 1

Se pudesse dava 0

I am at a loss for words,this is horrible but album cover is pretty fire

What in thr junk rat fugalatoogan

absolutely not

Sinnloses Gebrülle! Weg damit!

i actually hated this

This is the soundtrack to the worst birthday party ever.

I’m not going to make it thru. I’m going to use this album to express how frustrating it is to have a list that comprises albums that are objectively shit just cuz someone in it went on to do other things that are, if not great, at least influential. These are not albums that I need to hear before I die.

The redeeming quality of this album was imagining how Nick Cave and future members of his backing bands were attempting to rebel against conventional musicality of the early 80s. Because all of these songs felt like sonic attacks on the listener. I struggled valiantly to get through each song, usually failing.

Too much anger - too much screaming. 1,5

She's hit - 1 Dead joe - 3 The dim locator - 2 Hamlet (pow, pow, pow) - 2 Several sins - 3 Big-jesus-trash-can - 1 Kiss me black - 1 6" gold blade - 1 Kewpie doll - 2 Junkyard - 1

This album had a strong Dad Rock aesthetic, just a very thick sound and an unrelenting guitar. It's a very loud and in-your-face style that I thought was too harsh. Nick Cave's vocals (who I didn't know was the frontman) had some strong moments, but were too harsh. It added to the overall feeling of a strained execution that this record had. That's not to see that it was completely devoid of nuance, such as across the song She's Hit, or on some of the horns and drumming on other songs, but it felt like the positive moments on the record were just that: moments. Once you had enough time to start to follow a compelling sequence, it would lead back into a place of stagnation and forceful tones. Junkyard is an album that seemed more concerned with the appearance of being powerful rather than creating a sound that is powerful on its own merits. Faves: n/a

what is this?

I don't think this is the worst album I've ever heard, but it's pretty close. In theory, I can appreciate what they're trying to do with this album. In actuality, It's hard to appreciate anything about this album. I guess the instrumental is okay at times? One star. (Favorite track: Several Sins.)

This project has skewed heavily into Australian punk/post-punk for me lately. I had no idea Nick Cave was previously in a band. I saw him on Lollapalooza about 30 years ago and he has never really done much for me. I find him an interesting personality but never really got into his music. This album did not change that. The Ed Roth cover (and maybe the music) would have appealed to me when I was about 12 and buying things like this in the import section at Camelot Records. This gets 1.5 stars. It got annoying about halfway through.

Yuck

This made me question the this whole project of the top 1001 albums. This was really hard to listen to.

Horrible

Yeah no

Casting aside musical conventions is the easy part. The hard part is replacing them with something engaging, moving; something worth listening to. When you forego the hard part and, for example, make shitty music just for the shock value, then, over time, the shock value wears off, and your legacy is just a bunch of shitty music.

They should’ve rolled a giant stone over the entrance of the dank cave in which it was recorded, and never mentioned it again

Appropriate name for filing location

Artificial post-punk but too much noise for me.

Three fucking awful tracks in a row to start with left me with no option but to skip to each remaining track in turn and listen to the opening few seconds. They were all, consistently and equally, as fucking awful as the first 3 tracks. I quickly turned it off at that point.

Not really my thing. The menacing vocals were effective but just too much for me when listening to a full album. The thumping bass lines are the biggest highlight for me. 1.5/5.

The album is called Junkyard, and they were half right with that name. A junkyard can be defined as a repository for any old rubbish, and here they are 100% right. God awful. Avoid like the next pandemic.

Terrible. Interesting that it’s Nick Cave, but still terrible.

Shite

I thought I could get myself to give this a 2. Alas, no. They can make a two and a half minute song feel. Really. Long.

Nope

The album equivalent of infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters and just going with the first draft. I’m legitimately surprised this isn’t the lowest rated album on the list.

No fun

This album got me to overstimulated :(

I love Nick Cave, he's among my favourite artists, but the garbage he churned out with Birthday Party is practically criminal. It's just an assault of noise. People claim it's an arty statement about music, but I still fail to understand how someone who can produce such glory and beauty can also find this album an acceptable thing to release.

What even was this? I need to cleanse my ears with actual music now because what the actual fuck?

just absolute dog shit. i see a band I've never heard of and "post-punk" and I'm marginally interested but no, it's somehow a surprise SIXTH fucking nick cave album. "Dead Joe" is horrifically unlistenable, i mostly tuned it out after that, I'm done listening to, thinking or talking about nick cave

Oh no. Absolutely not.

Just not my thing. I didn’t enjoy this album at all.

Dischorndant mess, I didn't get it

This is truly awful. I waded through the screaming and screeching always hoping (in vain) that I might begin to hear something even vaguely tuneful. The lyrics were also meaningless nonsense. There's not a single track I could recommend. It seems to be a sort of anti-music album:(

I think I've been pretty generous with my reviews up until now. But this was dreadful. I will not be listening to it again in a hurry.

Well, the name is fitting as it sounds like heaps of junkyard trash falling into a dumpster.

this shit sucks im sorry

Nick Cave said he wanted the album to not sound like a Little River Band album and instead “sound like trash”. I can’t say that this doesn’t sound like trash.

Dead Kennedys while extremely intoxicated at the recording studio. Everything is terrible and this album should be lit on fire

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.

Lauter Schrott

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.

This is just terrible.

Not a Nick Cave fan, not a fan.

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

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

Absolutely not

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

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...

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

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

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.

this is the worst one yet!!

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

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….

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'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.

shit

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

Nah this is not it

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.

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

Horrible; a junkyard of noice & bad music.

oooooookay