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Album: Live 81-82
# Song Title   Time
  Disc 1
1)    Junkyard More Info... 0:06
2)    A Dead Song More Info... 0:02
3)    The Dim Locator More Info... 0:03
4)    Zoo-Music-Girl More Info... 0:03
5)    Nick the Stripper More Info... 0:04
6)    Blast Off! More Info... 0:02
7)    Release the Bats More Info... 0:03
8)    Bully Bones More Info... 0:03
9)    King Ink More Info... 0:06
10)    Pleasure Heads Must Burn More Info... 0:02
11)    Big-Jesus-trash-can More Info... 0:03
12)    Dead Joe More Info... 0:03
13)    The Friend Catcher More Info... 0:05
14)    6' Gold Blade More Info... 0:03
15)    Hamlet More Info... 0:05
16)    She's Hit More Info... 0:07
17)    Funhouse More Info... 0:08
 
Album: Live 81-82
# Song Title   Time
  Disc 1
1)    Junkyard More Info... 0:06
2)    A Dead Song More Info... 0:02
3)    The Dim Locator More Info... 0:03
4)    Zoo-Music-Girl More Info... 0:03
5)    Nick the Stripper More Info... 0:04
6)    Blast Off! More Info... 0:02
7)    Release the Bats More Info... 0:03
8)    Bully Bones More Info... 0:03
9)    King Ink More Info... 0:06
10)    Pleasure Heads Must Burn More Info... 0:02
11)    Big-Jesus-trash-can More Info... 0:03
12)    Dead Joe More Info... 0:03
13)    The Friend Catcher More Info... 0:05
14)    6' Gold Blade More Info... 0:03
15)    Hamlet More Info... 0:05
16)    She's Hit More Info... 0:07
17)    Funhouse More Info... 0:08
 
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Performer Notes
  • The Birthday Party: Nick Cave (vocals); Mick Harvey (guitar, percussion); Roland S. Howard (guitar); Tracy Pew (bass); Phil Calvert (drums).
  • Additional personnel: Jim Thirwell (saxophone); Mick Harvey (drums).
  • Digitally remastered by Dave Macquarie (1999, Studios 301).
  • The Birthday Party's LIVE 1981-82 is a vicious and incendiary assault on the nature of traditional both rock music and its various offspring. Words like "intense" are consistently overused when describing rock bands, but the Birthday Party worked overtime to make sure that they fully deserved them.
  • Recorded at three European concerts-- in London, in Bremen, and in Athens--this album displays a rock band caught in the act of simultaneous exorcism and self-destruction. Standouts include a high-speed swipe at "A Dead Song" that outstrips the studio version in nearly every respect; the tricked-out rockabilly of "Release the Bats," a song which probably did more for the then nascent Goth movement than anything since Bauhaus' "Bela Lugosi's Dead"; "Dead Joe," built on searing guitar feedback and accelerated drumming from Phil Calvert; and an eight-and-a-half minute cover of the Stooges "Funhouse," featuring each member of the band apparently attempting to perform head-on musical collisions with Tracy Pew's bass guitar line, otherwise the only thing keeping the song in line. LIVE 1981-82 is a worthy addition to the Birthday Party's influential legacy.
Professional Reviews
Alternative Press (11/99, p.88) - 4 out of 5 - "...a testament to the expatriate Australian quintet's frenzied and parched form of desert jazz and drunken lounge music....exemplifies the band's love of the sound of malfunction..."

The Wire (7/99, p.52) - "...[In] the volume and presence of these recordings...familiar songs are bruised, blackened and distended to the point where they split open....the songs emerge raw, livid and schockingly tender..."
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