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  The Birthday Party - The Bad Seed [BAD 301 UK 1983 24-Bit FLAC] Sticking around with 4AD, and falling into the wild & dark, drug fueled world of The Birthday Party. This four track EP was recorded at Hansa in Berlin during the autumn of 1982. The grunge-psychobilly of Sonny's Burning is classic Birthday Party whereas the remainder of the tracks point to the more dirty solemn blues which Nick Cave was to master in his extensive solo career.  Deep In The Woods remains one of my personal favourites with some of Cave's finest & darkest prose. Tracey Pew's throbbing bass intro and Rowland S. Howard's scratching & chopping guitar on Fears Of Gun still chills the spine after all these years. A1 Sonny's Burning A2 Wild World B1 Fears Of Gun B2 Deep In The Woods

  The Birthday Party - Junkyard [CAD 3223 UK 2012 24-Bit FLAC] Originally released in 1982, 4AD chose to use the Henry Rollins remaster for this deluxe vinyl edition of The Birthday Party masterpiece, Junkyard . My copy also includes a repress of the Release The Bats single.  Fueled by drugs and booze, Junkyard reaches into the darkest wells of the Nick Cave mind, this is an album firmly rooted in his fascination with American gothic. Is this the blues? Is this demonic scuzz-rock? Ed Roth and Dave Christensen's iconic sleeve is as disturbing as the music itself. Tracy Pew got locked up for persistent offending during the sessions,  so Barry Adamson began his lengthy association with Cave by stepping on on bass for Big-Jesus-Trash-Can . The inclusion of Release The Bats as a seven-inch was a great idea, especially for your scribe who would regularly be seen trying to dance to the track at one or two Manchester nightclubs back in the day. This record needs to be pl...

  The Birthday Party - Hee-Haw [DPRLP 31 USA 2016 24-Bit FLAC] Kicking off a new week with my 999th post to Needle Time (I wonder what might be my 1000th). Courtesy of American reissue label, Drastic Plastic Records on red vinyl, comes The Birthday Party's Hee-Haw  album which combines The Boys Next Door 1979 EP, Hee-Haw with their second album, titled The Birthday Party - originally released in 1980. These were originally only available in Australia,  however some tracks were included on the band's first 4AD singles after they moved to the UK in the early eighties. It took 4AD until 1989 to release this album in the UK, although only on compact disc.  Essentially, these tracks marked The Boys Next Door moves into a harder, more abrasive sound with the name change, prior to better known works such as the Release The Bats single and Junkyard album. A1 Mr Clarinet A2 Happy Birthday A3 Hats On Wrong A4 Guilt Parade A5 The Friend Catcher A6 Waving My Arms...

Various - Natures Mortes : Still Lives [P-1149 JPN 1982 24-Bit FLAC] I posted my 1997 compact disc reissue of Natures Mortes : Still Lives back on the old blog a few years ago prior to a huge run of 4AD posts. The original album is quite hard to come by as it was a Japanese market release by WEA. I picked up this copy at a recent record fair from a collector who was selling his collection, so it is with great pleasure that I can offer you my rip in 24-bits of high resolution flac. Enjoy! A1  The Birthday Party - Mr. Clarinet A2  Psychotik Tanks - Let's Have A Party A3  Rema-Rema - Feedback Song A4  In Camera - Die Laughing A5  Bauhaus - Rosegarden Funeral Of Sores A6  Mass - You And I B1  Cupol - Like This For Ages B2  Modern English - Gathering Dust B3  Sort Sol - Marble Station B4  The The - Controversial Subject B5  The Past Seven Days - Raindance B6  Dif Juz - Re