Reviews (page 7 of 8)
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....
Redeeming qualities? Couldn't find any.
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
Punk? You are soooo different and interesting
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
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.
This is awful. I do not get the authors obsession with Nick Cave.
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.
Um ok but no
absolutely bloody awful !!!!!
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.
Couldn't even listen to it
** Never heard about this one - well, nothing missed. A really wired one...
Not for me
Crap Would give zero if I could
Like...I didn't hate it.
Truly awful. 1/5
This album was actually bad
Yeah I’m not gonna pretend I enjoyed a single second of this, but I will say that’s a banger cover art.
Worst thing ever. Can I give it zero stars?
nah
Yuck
This is like the Cramps if they sucked.
not for me. too weird, incoherent
Well… at least the cover is cool.
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.
This was awful
2/10
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 don't get it
feo? sí. discordante? sin duda. aburrido? absolutamente
Bollocks.
Dumb noisy rock.
That was truly a once in a lifetime experience... I guarantee it.
No thanks
I tried. Wow. This is terrible.
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.
Junk.
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.
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.
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!
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?
Well, there's almost an hour of my life. I will never get back.
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.
1/5 does not have a genre, just annoying screeching
We all have journeys, I’m glad Nick Cave’s journey departed from this stop long ago.
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
Почему такой мусор попадает в список альбомов, необходимых к прослушиванию? Чтобы знать, какой отстой некоторые считают музыкой?
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
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
Worst. Birthday party. Ever.
This is fucking awful. Not surprised to find out it’s early Nick Cave shit.
Really didn’t enjoy
Knew I was gonna hate this album just by looking at the album cover.
absolute garbage i hate you
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
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
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.
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
Some songs on the album are tolerable. I got halfway through Hamlet (Pow Pow Pow) and that was enough for me. Imagine if Tom Waits displayed no musical talent and a genuine desire to make his shows extremely irritating without redeeming artistic value.
Bullshit
Wow! That was horrible. I need some Propranolol to calm down. Truly anxiety inducing music. I can appreciate the intent and the execution but it's not for me. The best albums are usually ones that you either love or hate and unfortunately I hate this, it made me feel something but it wasn't anything good.
What a load of inane shouting and ‘songs’ that all sound the same!
Straight ass, would not recommend
This was quite the challenge. Really not on board with it, prefer his waily, miserable stuff. It was a bit unpleasant.
It’s insane, it’s chilling, it’s loud, it’s messy, and it’s not my thing in the slightest. I can respect it, especially with the influence it had on later rock acts, but maybe I just wasn’t in the mood for something like this because I couldn’t finish it. Didn’t like it at all.
Leave it in the Junkyard
I’m going to file this under ‘art I don’t understand.’ There are a lot of paintings I don’t understand, there is dance I don’t understand, and various other types of performance art I just don’t get. I think this is that. My one star rating doesn’t reflect active dislike, but rather a lack of understanding or, perhaps, just the idea that this album is not ‘for me’.
1. Not my thing.
not in spotify
Wow this was rough. Not sure the hype around it, I don’t think I vibe with any post punk. It’s too weird and not melodic enough, can’t enjoy the lyrics or vocals, don’t ever plan on listening again
Definitely not for me…. « Eh eh eh » … And no, you’re not the king !!
Makes me feel anxious. Not a big fan
Easily one of the worst albums I've ever endured. I've heard more pleasant sounds in public restrooms.
Just noise
Yeah. Just no. I skimmed through every song, to see if it got better. It didn’t. I’m struggling to understand how that was rated as one of the 1001 best albums on any metric. I feel like I can generally appreciate if something is good, even if I am not into it myself, but this one just left me baffled
Right up there with the Butthole Surfers. Who gave them studio time?
This is not conducive to being able to think and listen at the same time. Made it 3 songs before turning it off
Unappealing garbage. I can't believe Nick Cave ever sang for, wrote for, and was part of The Birthday Party.
The Birthday Party plays the type of music that, if played at an actual birthday party, would probably just encourage everyone to make a swift and urgent exit. Truly, I didn't enjoy a bit of this, not even with the goth elements that were sprinkled across the album. It's been a while since I've dished out a 1 star rating, but this album truly earned it.
# 492 : Junkyard : 30/05/2025 Borderline unbearable and makes you want to go and stab something. What a terrible listening experience. This was rated Number 17 in the Australian Top 100 Albums, better than many other Australian bands albums? Really? - Great album artwork though. The Dim Locator - if you have to listen to this, at least spin that one.
Barely qualifies as an "album". Horrendous production and unintelligible songs. Maybe would be better with a remaster, but its just 45 mins of noise
point6.
Might win the award for one of the worst albums I have ever not listened to completely because it’s just straight ass. 1/10
Shit noise
Just not good. Feels out of tune and out of time for most of it.
Terrible, no redeeming features.
Wow! I hated this! DNF
1 star
How is this punk rock?
Unfinishable
Nick Cave is the most over rated "musician". He sounds like a Temu version of Lux Interior only the shipping box was destroyed by the post man. It's not art, it's shitting on a pedestal in a museum and convincing all your friends to call it art. Another painful waste of my time.
Just a bit of a noise
Sounds like a full album from löded diper. Looked at the wiki and they’re from suburban Melbourne. Sorry but angsty can you really get with that much year round sunlight. Specific rating - 1.2 Fav song- junkyard Least fav- release the bats
Too chaotic and noisy for me personally. Hate to think that this is what living in London for two years does to Nick Cave. Favourite: Several Sins Least: Kiss Me Black
would not listen to again 1.
Nick Cave and the Worst Seeds
Some older Nick Cave is cool but didn't really connect with any tracks
Initial reaction upon seeing the album cover: what the fuck is this? Initial reaction upon hearing the music: What. The. Fuck. Is. This? After having some more time to think about it: WHAT THE FUCK? Seriously, this list is so fucked. I was looking at the index of all the artists/albums, and when absolute shit like this is a "must hear" album but others like Tool, Linkin Park, Gorillaz, and basically any and all influential country music after about 1985 is left off it really makes me question the validity of this list and (more importantly) my desire to continue this fool's errand. This is one of those albums that was forgotten for a reason, and should stay that way. I don't care if it has some link to a later singer or group that was influential. Shit is shit, and lots of groups have shit that has no reason to be dredged up again.
The best thing about this album is the cover was created by Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, the legendary artist behind the iconic hot rod character Rat Fink and a pioneer of the "Kustom Kulture" art movement, which later inspired inspired the "Weird Wheels" trading cards produced by Topps in 1980 that we avidly collected and traded as kids. Otherwise, everything else about the album sucked.
Utter trash
Fuck that.
КАКОФОНИЯ!!!!!
Taxing to listen to. Chaotic. Nihilistic. Violent. Misogynistic. I did enjoy some of the humor in this record (Hamlet and Big Jesus Trash Can) but that’s about it. Almost impossible to listen to in its entirety.
Blind album and artist. It sounded awful and loud and boring all at the same time, and personally would be okay to never listen to this again.
0.5
Not for me
Didn’t like the genre
1001 albums but they're all Nick Cave
Fuck Nick Cave
I just don’t get Nick Cave. He wants to be Tom Waits, but worse. Anyway, this is like mechanic-core metal. They put this on and bang one out to a model-t or something.
1.5 - Bad
Interesting album cover but it’s otherwise a dreadful listening experience
I'd rather pull someone else's hair out of my asscrack.
Good grief.
This is my least favorite one so far.
Junk Yard? Yep. (and yes I listened to it all. and no, it didn't get a second chance)
Dogshit album, wasted 47 minutes of my life I'll never get back. 0/5 stars
Did not love it. Just too weird for me and not enjoyable enough. Maybe it'd change if I listened more. I know Nick the Stripper, but that one is relegated to my eclectic party mix playlist for comedic effect.
WTF?
Look, I generally really like punk albums but Junkyard manages to spectacularly fail when it comes to everything. I don't think there are many redeeming qualities about this album. The music manages to be super messy and noisy. The vocals are a poor man's Tom Waits but far worse. The lyrical decisions manage to make me cringe so hard. The production is also terrible here but that might be a blessing considering that if it wasn't, i could fully hear just how bad this album is. Never before have i managed to find an album that managed to bore me to tears and also irritate me to the point of begging for it to be over but somehow, this album managed to do it. Best Song: Several Sins Worst Song: She's Hit
This is EXACTLY what you would expect if Captain Beefheart formed a magic punk band. Captain Beefheart had some pretty interesting music. You might want to go listen to it instead. I can only imagine this is on the list solely for those who are going straight to hell when they die. I don't know how it prepares you for any other afterlife. Which reminds me: please skip over the song about murdering the girl, and also the other songs, except maybe "Several Sins” which helps boost this album to 1.3 stars.
And right to the junkyard this album goes, and it is exactly where it where it belongs. This album is the musical equivalent of one of those mechanical car crushers. I would say, burn it, melt it down, and use it to make other albums, but I kind of want to make sure none of the DNA from this album makes it on to other albums.
I think the cover perfectly illustrates the kind of music contained.... Brash for the sake of of bring brash. I know some find that "Daring", I just find it obnoxious. The audio equivalent of Jackass I don't care if it's Nick Cave... It's absolutely atrocious (1.55) ½★
Horribly incohesive, awful cover, terrible lyrics, terrible vocals. This album is genuinely one of the worst I've ever heard
- war okay-ish-er, als erwartet, aber absolut nicht meins
This is the first album in this challenge I've had to stop playing. It just felt like a cacophony. But I guess some feel like it's a post-punk classic. 1/5
That was a miserable experience.
what i cant
Yeah idk what is goin on here. Like thrash punk with some nick cave lyrics or something. Really not a lot goin on.
From the album art to the music itself, this album is a fucking mess. How did this get critical acclaim??? 1 star
Wow that... was not for me...
Not good.
I despise Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, so I knew going in this was going to be a chore to listen to. Somehow this album is even worse than The Bad Seeds stuff. If I could give a negative rating, and wish for someone to hand me money for even putting up with 4 songs, I would!
1/5
Couldn’t get through it
Not my kind of thing at all 🤷♀️. Didn't even like the cover. Least I've heard of them now, I suppose!
Most appropriate title on the list?
Not on Spotify
It's a no from me dog. Listened to this for about 10 mins during a run and had to change it. Had a laugh or two during the album. More laughs than stars I'd like to give this.
This album cover looks like it could be a cover for Twisted Metal. Unlike the awesome game that Twisted Metal is, this album was really quite awful. Didn't realize it was Nick Cave until I read the wiki a couple songs in. Boooooo Nick you should only do stuff with the Bad Seed that is actually good music and not this instrumental vomit
This album fucking sucked
We did not enjoy this at all. Could not get through it all. Junkyard, emphasis on the junk.
I love Nick Cave but this shit sucks. Rare one star rating.
*should be No STARS, no music, just screaming and noise
All that did was give me a headache.
Pretty unlistenable for this guy.
Kocham Nicka Cave’a. Naprawdę. Ale ten album… ten zespół? Brzmi tak jak wyobrażam sobie zaburzenie psychiczne. Niepokojące, niespójne, chaotyczne, mroczne, krzywe. Jeden utwór przywrócił nadzieję, ale był chyba po prostu wypadkiem przy pracy. Nie polecam. 2.5/10
I hated every second of this noise bomb.
heinous
This was really unpleasant and I' having trouble finding the redeeming qualities.
who listens to this
# Playlist Track - N/A # Notes - Album not easily available in Brazil. Not in Spotify, not in Youtube. - Listened to some tracks on Youtube, with inconsistent quality and ordering. - They were....not good. - Maybe there's some historical reason this album is on this list? Is it because Nick Cave is on it? It must be, because there isn't much to it unless you are a gigantic Nick Cave fan. - Do not recommend.
Yep that was sonethin
This honestly had no redeeming qualities.
WTF is this? Weird and awful.
Just noise - again :-( it's a waste of time to listen to this record
Another album tanking the 80s for me.
Absolutely not.
Nowhere to play it. Eat me.
This album sounds like you are having a party with every person in your life that you dislike. Surrounded by those that annoy you, this party doesn't even have punch. The recording is the thoughts going through your head as you sit there pissed off and angry
Absolute dogshit. Worse than Murder Ballads.
Post Punk...
It's upsetting to think that people spent money on this.
I knew within the first 3 minutes of this album that it just wasn't for me. To quote Boogie Nights, I like simple pleasures, like butter in my ass and music that sounds like music. That's just me. That's just something that I enjoy.
It's as the title says, a junkyard of terrible music.
By far the worst album so far, it's an unhinged chaos that made me exhausted. It mistakes shrieking vocals, claning instrumentation and lack of cohesion as art. Spoiler: it isn't. Best song: Several Sins Worst song: Big Jesus Trash Can This album made me come up with a new remark I will make on the album cover and how well it fits the mood of the project Cover check: Fits the music perfectly, it's ugly, disjointed and impossible to enjoy. I might vomit.
11/12/24. Didn't feel this one at all, just seemed like noise to me.
When I began this journey, I feel like I was a bit harsh on Nick. But after having recieved a few of his albums, they were starting to grow on me. But now I feel like I'm back at square one with him. What the actual fuck is this. Before I mention anything else, this is some of the worst production I have ever heard in my life. And oh my God the vocals, it sounds like a really shitty attempt and imitating The Stooges, but forgetting the part where they are actually a good band.
Sounds like it was recorded in a junkyard. Seeing that this album includes Nick Cave, it's really no wonder I didn't like it.
It’s just terrible to listen to. This does not remind me of a birthday party and it kinda sucks.
Lo-fi noise wank. Didn’t care for it . Sorry
I prefer songs with melodies.
This sounds like it was intended to be a parody of Joy Division
One step above noise. Didn't enjoy at all.
Why is this on the list? 1/5
Dan - despite this being Nick Cave, it was almost unbearable to listen to
Não tem no spotify, escutei um pouco no YT. Nick cave
Just plain awful from start to finish.
Spotify describes this band as “most challenging.”
2/10 - wtf is this album. Sex horror sex bats sex horror sex vampire. It was just noise
Borderline unlistenable
Totally not my style. Repetition was a killer for this one. High 1
Horrible.
Not good.
With that album cover and title, we can't say we weren't warned.
Dark, strange, and disturbing. I only listened to 3 songs and that was 3 too many.
Not for me
It has received critical acclaim. Yeah, I bet it was ALL critical. Who in the _____ would listen to this? No way I could sit and listen to it. 1001 albums I must listen to? It's a joke, right? This does not deserve a star - at all.
Ummm.. No.
Man, I just don't jive with Nick Cave. His disturbing Southern Gothic lyrics do nothing to improve the noisescape, gained out, scratchy music he sings over.
Sounds a bit like a screaming gothic Primus. It’s sort of alright in some spots. But it’s trying too hard to be edgy and discordant. Not really hearing anything special. Just a lot of noise. And screaming. This is what clueless posh people think Punk is supposed to sound like. This is the bullshit they use in movies. Feels like the author was just fanboying again and wasting a spot. We all agree that Nick Cave is wonderful, but this was unnecessary. There are better things to listen to. This is shit, Mary. 1/5
Had to turn it off. Did not like. Thrash metal.
That was just bad. Really really bad.
holy crap no way i could get through more than 3 songs
Favorite Track: Dead Joe
Imagine listening to this utter shite for pleasure At least nick cave came out of it a pretty good artist. In tune isn't a requirement, in time is. Woeful
Wow, this was truly awful. Who would ever listen to this on purpose? Absolutely belongs in a junkyard itself, sorry Nick Cave.
Well that was terrible. Managed to endure the first 2 tracks before protecting my sanity. Then listened to The Good Son a Nick Cave album I actually like.
This is just awful. It almost made me physically ill. Why do we need to write a song about the carnage of a car crash? Every song he is just repeating himself over and over, while it sounds like toddlers are hitting things with hammers. No thank you....
I think I like Nick Cave and his bad seeds better. This is a special kind of awful. The annoying kind. The second version of Dead Joe sounds even worse than the first. 47 minutes of Nick Cave screeching and growling like a deranged pterodactyl.
I know I’m generalizing here, but was the post-punk movement basically an excuse to just make a bunch of weird noise and call it music? I consistently feel this way about post-punk albums in this project. And this is Nick Cave?? I gave his last album a 5, and this was a wildly different experience. Yuck.
Album covers can tell you a lot about what you're getting into and this one is correlating pretty well. This is the band that launched Nick Cave...it always surprises me how fame works. Every time I think I've just had bad luck in the albums I've gotten so far, I get hit with something like this again. This is like Rockabilly/Metal/Punk. It's like Elvis and The Ramones and Sepultura made an album. The screeching guitars are hard to listen to. Distorted guitars, distorted vocals, is this the original garage band? This is the music and album cover that inspired Mad Max: Fury Road, especially Dead Joe (2nd Version). The album switched to Sonic Youth and I barely noticed.
This is awful. 1. Cant event make it past the first song.
Genuinely, wtf is this??????????
Horrible. It sounded like a static-covered jam session by heroin junkies.
Nope
This is horrid
just, no
This ain’t it chief.
I was glad when it was over. That should say enough.
boooooring
If "Bobcat" Goldthwait had an album...
It is interesting to me that I find some men's angry barely-coherent screaming music appealing (NIN, Tool), yet I cannot stand another's (this album, a lot of punk). I hated the album art, was even more concerned when I saw it was post-punk and the era (1982) and unfortunately this album was everything I expected and worse. Rating: 1
Probablt the worst album I've ever listened to. Why does something that sounds this bad make a list of albums to listen to is beyond me, negative 5 stars, maybe negative 6.
I heard someone say this album sounds exactly like the cover. They were right. The vocals sound like nails on a chalkboard.
I’d give it zero stars if I could
01) Blast Off - 5,0 02) She's Hit - 5,5 03) Dead Joe - 4,5 04) The Dim Locator - 5,0 05) Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow) - 4,0 06) Several Sins - 5,5 07) Big-Jesus-Trash-Can - 4,0 08) Kiss Me Black - 4,5 09) 6" Gold Blade - 4,5 10) Kewpie Doll - 4,5 11) Junkyard - 4,0 12) Dead Joe (2nd Version) - 1,0 (first version was more than enough) 13) Release the Bats - 4,0 TOTAL: 4,31 (43/100) Current ranking: 229/237 This is the second lowest ranked album I've listened to so far (2.15). We have Nick Cave on vocals. Let's see what it's all about. Well, the atmosphere is as if we are in the original Mad Max movie, entering some obscure bar where some post-apocalyptic band plays post-apocalyptic music. Nick Cave sounds like he's possessed by an evil spirit. The whole album is on the border of unlistenable with very frequent excursions across the border.
Hardcore for people who eat McDonalds every day.
Lärm! Geschrei! Sprech-„Gesang“ der aus dem Takkt ist, einfachste Riffs und Drums die sich beweisen wollen. Nomen est Omen: Junkyard!
Actual junk.1.
Not very good
i just really really hate it sorry nick cave
It was really difficult to listen to even if I'm into all sorts of things, including avantgarde/noise/goth/post punk etc among others. Nick Cave's howling, yelling and the disturbing music that lacked any kind of melody was extremely challenging to listen to, especially the first half was unlistenable (the second half was a bit better, since it reminded me a bit more of 'regular' post punk.). I don't often give a 1 in this challenge but I'm afraid this album deserves it.
I will be stocking up on all the garlic, holy water, and stakes to keep away the "sex horror sex bat sex sex horror sex vampire." Definitely not inviting this album in to my home or onto my playlists.
I guess this was important 40 years ago; today it sounds like self-indulgent crap
Oooh, the Nick Cave origin story. Oh. Oh no. This is horrible noise and terrible shouting. Normally, I've found, when you get a noise/shouting album, they tend to also be short. Not this one.
I don't understand why anyone would listen to this voluntarily
Started off kinda interesting, like a punk sound with a classic rock aesthetic but got really boring real samey really fast.
Noise punk. Not my style
This is what a sex, drugs and rock & roll band would sound like during their withdrawal period. I managed to listen to this all the way through. The lyrics are actually good but the delivery isn't. "Junkyard" is a headache inducing insult to post-punk. Just because it's old doesn't mean it's a classic. 1 star for a terrible failure.
Don’t like at all…
Junkyard is offensively bad, apparently this is Nick Cave, who we've already had far too much of on this list, but this is by far and away his worst effort to be included. It tries to cover a few genres without doing any of them well, and I never want to listen to any of it again. 1.
This is terrible. Another Nick Cave album (I like him, but this is dire), doesn't ever really get near a tune, occasionally threatens to be somewhat interesting but chickens out at the last minute. Actively unpleasant to listen to in the most part, a 1.
My Nick Cave experience has hit its low point
Nee
What the fuck is this shit??!
No. No. No.
yeah this was difficult for me. i like challenging myself with music, but not like this. the music is aggressive but i can't get past nick cave's growling and howling on this one. it made it very hard for me to listen to. i actually liked the instrumentation but after a while it felt more and more like "ok, i get it, i get it." if i can give the album artwork some credit, it reminds me of garbage pail kids and the music on this album i think definitely fits the vibe of garbage pail kids. unfortunately, garbage pail kids is not my vibe.
What the fuck was this? It sounds like I found a bunch of instruments and tried playing them for the first time… at once.
NO.
Still mostly unlistenable after all these years
Did not enjoy the album at all. This might be post-punk, but I can’t even rate it high for historical context. 1/5.
Didn’t like it. I probably don’t like punk music from what I’ve heard so far. Standouts: Hamlet (Pow Pow Pow) and Several Sins.
Another entry to the shameful "I turned it down so low that I was technically still listening but could barely still hear it" club. Sneaky way to get more Nick Cave in.
Nope. Like Nick Cave solo but not The Birthday Party
I was eager for this to be over from the very first song, and did not change my opinion along the way. My only 1 star rating to date has been due a vapid no “evident effort at originality” album. I can’t say that about this. I can say that I never want to have to suffer through it again. More painful than my 2 star ratings, but more creative than the 1. Wishing half stars were allowed - 1.5
This was bloody awful
this belongs in a junkyard could i write poetry to this? n
Messy.
Through this app I have discovered that Post-Punk is my least favourite genre.
Not for me. It droned on too much
I’m sure this is for someone but it’s not for me
Grandissimo rispetto per Nick Cave, ma qui stava proprio male.
Why was this on the list ?
great album art
I really like nick cave but I hated this.
I know, it's Nick Cave. Rubbish, nonetheless.
Spotify describes The Birthday Party as one of the darkest and most challenging post-punk groups. Challenging is right. Woof.
Right up there with the worst of them.
Growly in a bad way.
This album is genuinely not listenable. It is not worth the 47 minutes of torture. Off the first four tracks, this album is hot garbage. All in all, Junkyard is an unlistenable album.
I didn't even finish this one
This is one of the worst album covers I've seen in a long time. The music isn't much better; couldn't make it all the way through.
Noise. Just noise.
Love the cover art. Not the album.
Pretty shit and not unexpected
I’m really glad this album is on the list. I listened to it 2.5 times so I could fully appreciate it. If Tom Waits and Nigel Spackman met at a Napalm Death concert and took a load of coke and went back to Tom’s basement and decided to make art I think it would sound something like this. Fave Tracks: Several Sins 1.3/5
Wdym nick cave
Not a fan. I kind of get the cultural significance of this Post-punk period of time. I think there's other examples of this genre that are just better, like Siouxsie and the Banshees, or Joy Division. I get the idea of breaking all the norms and just doing whatever you want, but in the end I don't want to just be assaulted with sounds.
i tried this album twice and I couldnt fucking stand it purely off of the first song. theres probobly a reason they have 50k monthly listeners, they are absolutly unbearable with the exeption of maybe being in twisted metal
And Nick Cave gets another one as part of The Birthday Party? Come on. Just because he's unique doesn't mean we have to hear everything he's done. Hard to listen to. Had to turn it off after song one (She's Hit) and come back to it later. It was still unlistenable. Maybe Several Sins I wasn't fully turned off by? I guess the instrumentation is fairly complex? Like a different style of death metal. Apparently they got the sound they were looking for. Why they were looking for it I don't know. Before I die I want to listen to melodic albums. Even if they're less unique. Got any more of those?
Nope
1.5 welcome to the cock smash
The Birthday Party - Junkyard This is noise. I didn't enjoy. 1/5
Not good
J'ai pas compris un traitre passage de cet album. ????
This was not enjoyable at all. While I am a fan of punk and discordant music, this is just torture.
This must be on the list of albums I have to hear before I die just to give perspective to how bad it can be.
Will never listen to this again & i quite like Nick Cave
Intentionally ugly and performative silliness. Whatever statement is trying to made does not deserve being dignified by a response.
Post punk, niet mijn jam
The reviews on this are kind. Can't believe someone would release this on purpose.
3 songs in and turned it off. Unlistenable noise and shouting mumblings.