mind you saying that,his music is so pain related its hard to enjoy,i mean i love fuked up shit,but say for example the cramps for me show more inventiveness,nick basically hales a load ov pain down the mic like a screaming goat at sacrafice.
i was in the same room with nick at broadway lodge in 88,nice bloke.i didnt even know the birthday party,and he didnt mention anything,someone else did,like alot ov these talented people,you wouldnt know,if you hadnt heard of them.
Why does this sound so epic? They're are the one band I love that's really hard to defend, because I really can't describe in coherent words why this kicks so much ass; it just does.
Random coincidence: My friend once described Einsturzende Neubauten as German stoners in a junkyard. I typed that into the search box and got this. Nixa ftw!
I remember seeing this on Dutch TV in the early '80s (?) when it was first shown and being blown away. The entire album (Junkyard) is excellent. I think Götterdämmerung was a Dutch music programme (VPRO TV) rather than a German one.
I saw The Birthday Party at Leeds Poly in 1982. It remains the best gig I've ever witnessed. Two of the fine musicians are sadly no longer with us. RIP Rowland S Howard and Tracy Pew.
Cave doesn't give a shit! He's not thrusting to try and be sexy or anything he just does not care. Can't you see at 1:32 where he runs out of breath in the middle of saying "honey, honey, honey..." and just looks bored and like he doesn't really feel like being there. He's probably strung out and really craving a heroin hit that looking sexy and grinding his hips well is probably really low on his agenda.
@YemensGuy Wow, what an amazing observation! Nick Cave bored on a TV show? GET OUT OF TOWN! I''m sure he was strung out and not totally high whilst doing this performance. I mean, just look at how bored he is at thrusting his hips. Yep, you have him all figured out. And you are clearly very interested in his intentions in regard to looking sexy.
@YemensGuy Nick cave was shooting up meth more then smack in that era man...... Just saying. I know Lindy Morrison who was the drummer of the go-betweens, who toured with Nick round this time and she told me that that's what he was doing. Plus I don't really think you're understanding the 'theatrical' side to what Nick Cave does. He romanticised a character and became it. He looks bored because that's his stage persona.
This is not on german TV but on dutch television..I know because I saw it there.Götterdämmerung 2000 was an alternative music show by VPRO broadcasting.
When I was 20 years old, this LP was my soundtrack. I had his hairstyle too but that was not intentional, just genetics and not knowing what to do about it
@Purerockband I think that's like comparing the birthday party to the stooges, music doesn't exist in a vacuum. the jesus lizard were very much their own thing, and a force to be reckoned with. equally powerful in my mind. same for scratch acid. that being said, they're has been a lot of talk about other bands, people should check out laughing hyenas, and the chrome cranks, specifically chrome cranks self-titled, and hyenas "merry go round" yeah'p.
@conceptionblues Give me a hand... birthday party, scratch acid... what is this style of music called??? Someone in the press called it "sausage" in 1984 or so, but that's stupid and i've never heard anyone else use it.
So damn good. One amazing thing about this video is how totally on these guys are, even though the song as written is a crazy chaotic mess and they're all high out of their minds. Also - can you believe this shit was on television in like 1981? Ah, to have been raised in Germany.
So damn good. One amazing thing about this video is how totally on these guys are, even though the song as written is a crazy chaotic mess and they're all high out of their minds.
@karolyaczel Scratch Acid, Jesus Lizard, Cows, Killdozer, Die Kreuzen, Daughters, Antioch Arrow, Clikatat Ikatowi (they all surely took influence from them). But contemporary bands? hm, probably none, maybe the early no wave scene with Teenage Jesus and the Jerks or The Contortions (and that's maybe).
@samuraiinCfede what's the best shit that Die Kreuzen's done, cause all I heard from them was boring three-chord hardcore....Is there a particular album?
@Rankmoistmeat well I've only heard their debut, which is indeed mostly post-punk influenced hardcore but it seems they went for a darker path on their second album, 'October File' (which apparently influenced quite a lot of people in the 90's). I personally find them a good hardcore band, but nothing too special hm
@samuraiinCfede yeeee! Dark stuff is my favourite stuff! Yea I listened to October Files, but I actually can't stand the singer dude's voice, I don't feel it corresponds to the creepy music...Not like Nick Cave's voice in the Birthday Party, or Josh Homme's voice in Queens of the Stone Age, or Michael Gira's voice in Swans, or....
@samuraiinCfede That band that was on ThreeOne G Records .....ummmm..... SHIT......... oh yeah, Lovelife or Love Life. Not sure which one. They were fucking bad ass and they were strikingly similar to The Birthday Party, except with a chick singer. Don't know for sure what happened to them. Really good jams, though.
@pietrobembo It may be an epileptic seizure, although, considering the point at which it starts, who knows the extent to which it was done on purpose? Or, perhaps it's both -- maybe he felt it coming on & decided to turn it into a stage performance?
oh Tracy,you move like a taipan! Hope you have a great time in heaven or where ever you rest.It is a great pity that I never saw you and your mates on stage, cause I was to young by the time you entered europe. I`m from GERMONEY.R.I.P.Greetings to Rowland!
A few points. At :041 Mick Harvery looks horrified. Lol! Tracy Pew looks like a sick pervert with the humping and that porno mustache. Rowland S. Howard looks too drunk to stand up, let alone play guitar.
@gabrieldordali sorry man cant agree just dont get black hat, leather pants n frilly shirt. n that hip grinding! i mean i grind hips, im a bass player, but im good at it
@SidVicious1207 really? now that you mention it, i remember seeing this vid back in the 80s n thinking the exact same thing. dammit, there i go missing my *$#% cultural references again [sob]
To those who still believe the band is actually playing: watch the final 30 secs of this video and try not to focus on Mr. Pew's crotch but on his (cordless!) bass. He's not even touching the fretboard. Back then there was just one multi-purpose tv-studio complex in the Netherlands and it had strict restrictions on sound volume. It wasn't possible to let a rock band play live. Proper live performances were always shot on location.
@cquilty That all is very true, but shouldn't we thank the VPRO for at least recognizing the breath of fresh (or in this case putrified and rotting) musical air this band was spreading. And making it possible for all of us to still enjoy this footage? I say Yes, and I wish music programs on television were still this adventures today.
@WildWeaselNJ If we're going to play the man, then I'll play you. If you're going to shitcan someone's 'correct' spelling of recognise- then use inverted commas correctly and quote properly what you're querying. You Yankee fuckers are so small minded- incorrect spelling, ha!......recognize, cozy, color, neighbor, get some idea about English and other English speaking peoples, don't be so simple and phonetic! By the way this clip is gold and it is fact that this band influenced many others.
Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands, 1985, Dope and other drugs, Nick Cave, Birthday Party, The Bad Seeds, Fuck free without HIV. Fight Cops, Gangs and your Parents. Hate authority, Love Sex, Metallica and Thrills. Wish I was there again. To get fucked up. And then some more,....and more,........
I particularly enjoy finding someone who can not only use the word "seminal" in a sentence, but can at the same time incorrectly spell "recognize". I will have to admit however, that the reference to other bands just as horrible, being influenced by this piece of crap band, was a wonderful attempt at validation. Bravo!
huhhuhhuhuh...you said "seminal". fact remains: Birthday Party makes noises that will fuck your face in half, make you drop to your knees and beg for more. thanks for posting :D
@Rockguitarhero462 back then the stones were pretty uncool, they looked like gigantic rich dinosaurs and the punks (and early post punks) liked to poke fun at them. of course all of this became redundant and they stopped trying to mock them.
but think, at the same time this was happening with the birthday party, jagger was prancing around in pastel leggings.
oh well the stones are legends and so are the birthday party
you got it...exactly how i have always tried to talk about the jesus lizard...the way that each instrument does its own thing...with total trust from each other...incredible.
What garbage. Birthday Party top 10 most influential band of the 80s? You got to be joking. I could name hundreds more 80s bands that were more influential or sold more albums. Let`s start with Metallica, Nirvana (yes they started in the 80s), Guns & Roses, Killing Joke, Dead Kennedys, Napalm Death (who started death metal/grindcore), Motorhead (who started speed metal). As for more commercial bands - INXS, Duran Duran, Def Leppard, New Order, Billy Idol.. I could go on & on but run out of space
The Birthday Party influenced an american band called Scratch Acid, which influenced a Seattle band called Nirvana. East Bay Ray influenced, by The Birthday Party. Also Scratch Acid also influenced a whole decade in a half of inspiring artists in a little known genre called noise-rock. way more influential that a bunch of commercial artists recycling each other over time. sorry, but you lose, no one hear gives a shit about gun's n roses.
Oh yes the artic monkeys cover of red right hand, amazing. HughDW you are clearly an idiot, or young, or both? Animalzarg has the right idea, he clearly can't write correctly through alcohol abuse or ill education but he knows what's what.
artic monkeys been influenced in the way they sound nothing like birthday party, they not as heavy, theyre lame,and they wont grow older to be the giant nick cave is? artic et al suck arse,this is good music,please stop comparing to dumb yoofs
Wow, I watched this about 20 times again and again. I really don't know why, but I always loved their music. NOBODY is as cool as them. Pure energy! I wish I could have seen them live, but I'm a bit too young.
they let them on tv!! still one of the best dvd extras E V E R. when people rave on to me about utter SCUM like The National, Midlake, Coldpiss et all, i just play them this or The Friend Catcher, and they start to cry for mummy...fuck the Horrors as well not fit to lick the shit from their boots...I M O.
Jesus I love this performance, it's so fucking bizarre. It just seems like they're operating on a completely different plane from everyone else, like they come from another dimension where perversity and madness are the norm.
To understand this, you have to look outside of your "taste." You have to look into perhaps, an opposite viewpoint of reality than what you are fed with. Your disdain for abstract art is perhaps coming from a place you may not understand. If you read any of Chomsky, Foucault, and other people who theorized in media control, you can perhaps get a better glimpse into the vast network of control that exists in media and music. Further, nowave, and other forms of music got it, and they said, fuck it
I have a mcjob. I've had a mcjob since I was 15. I've been working class my whole life. Real abstract art, like this shit I believe, is so monumentally important because it deconstructs our notions of pop music. We don't realize it, but pop music is often an institutional brainwasher. I love pop music, very much, but I realize how it can be twisted to numb people into states of entertained boredom. This type of music is revolutionary in its refusal to be easily acceptable.
okay....thanks for the replies...so I gave this a second chance and actually listened and watched the entire tube....conclusion : this is the most forced nonsence I have ever witnessed in my entire life. What is amazing to me is that someone could actually coordinate this band of losers into a group setting long enough to actually film this crap. This guy could do better as a cigarrette salesman....
@konaono you are not at all taking into account any of the context surrounding the music. furthermore, have you ever listened to any of nick cave's post-birthday party music? i'd suggest looking into this stuff a little more.
This performance is one where you actually wonder if something is terribly wrong with Mick Harvey.
FreeTinfoilHat 6 hours ago
This makes me rather proud to be Australian. Absolutely hilarious and quite simply one of the greatest moments in modern music IMHO.
EYEmusique 4 days ago
rowland s. howard is a god,there can't be any other explanation.
captainawkwardify 2 weeks ago in playlist Goth Music
What we need to tell you folks, is there is a new band going on tour next year.
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GuantanamoMansonWar 2 weeks ago
Take notice, kids. This is what happens when you give musical instruments to heroin addicts.
ManFromMelbourne 1 month ago
i believe it was dutch TV, 1982 "Götterdämmerung 2000" Tracy Pew! Hell Yeah!!
MrScapex 1 month ago
mind you saying that,his music is so pain related its hard to enjoy,i mean i love fuked up shit,but say for example the cramps for me show more inventiveness,nick basically hales a load ov pain down the mic like a screaming goat at sacrafice.
zazen7 1 month ago
i was in the same room with nick at broadway lodge in 88,nice bloke.i didnt even know the birthday party,and he didnt mention anything,someone else did,like alot ov these talented people,you wouldnt know,if you hadnt heard of them.
zazen7 1 month ago
Why does this sound so epic? They're are the one band I love that's really hard to defend, because I really can't describe in coherent words why this kicks so much ass; it just does.
alund1306 1 month ago 4
this is great to listen after a hard day work
ColdOasisU2 2 months ago 2
this owns! fuckin love nick cave
deftones311100 2 months ago
Thumb up for the bass player's dance.
Gibrowsky 2 months ago 2
R.I.P Tracy Pew your are my fucking hero!!!
TheSellarDoor 2 months ago
@TheSellarDoor how'd he die... grinding too hard?
b100djunk133985 1 month ago
Random coincidence: My friend once described Einsturzende Neubauten as German stoners in a junkyard. I typed that into the search box and got this. Nixa ftw!
XXmello42 2 months ago
What I would do to meet nick cave back then!! Hes still awesome now but a bit soft
aireq101 2 months ago
Nick Cave. <3
And LOL Tracy Pew. R.I.P.
sjniazi 3 months ago
I remember seeing this on Dutch TV in the early '80s (?) when it was first shown and being blown away. The entire album (Junkyard) is excellent. I think Götterdämmerung was a Dutch music programme (VPRO TV) rather than a German one.
R.I.P. "hip cowboy" Tracy Pew.
sloopjohnk 4 months ago
rentbook i was there at the same gig, was awesome
wiseblood90 4 months ago
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bolicsoundz 4 months ago
he really is the king
pedrospike123 4 months ago
dost votřesný ehm fuj
:D
KabrioletHead 4 months ago
How can something so messy sound so good!
amandaa741258 4 months ago
A cowboy with a rickenbacker:Nothing can go wrong!
TheSellarDoor 5 months ago 3
@TheSellarDoor A RIC just completes everything. I'm sure the cowboy can handle it. lol
FarcusNS 4 months ago
56 ppl dislike this shit how could they miss the like button
the like button is twice as big as the dislike button
TheSellarDoor 5 months ago
I saw The Birthday Party at Leeds Poly in 1982. It remains the best gig I've ever witnessed. Two of the fine musicians are sadly no longer with us. RIP Rowland S Howard and Tracy Pew.
Rentbook2u 5 months ago
This is a DUTCH tv show, not german
herrAIDS 5 months ago
Cave doesn't give a shit! He's not thrusting to try and be sexy or anything he just does not care. Can't you see at 1:32 where he runs out of breath in the middle of saying "honey, honey, honey..." and just looks bored and like he doesn't really feel like being there. He's probably strung out and really craving a heroin hit that looking sexy and grinding his hips well is probably really low on his agenda.
YemensGuy 5 months ago
@YemensGuy Wow, what an amazing observation! Nick Cave bored on a TV show? GET OUT OF TOWN! I''m sure he was strung out and not totally high whilst doing this performance. I mean, just look at how bored he is at thrusting his hips. Yep, you have him all figured out. And you are clearly very interested in his intentions in regard to looking sexy.
subrosax 3 weeks ago
@YemensGuy Nick cave was shooting up meth more then smack in that era man...... Just saying. I know Lindy Morrison who was the drummer of the go-betweens, who toured with Nick round this time and she told me that that's what he was doing. Plus I don't really think you're understanding the 'theatrical' side to what Nick Cave does. He romanticised a character and became it. He looks bored because that's his stage persona.
deadjohnnymusic 2 weeks ago
I wish Cave would have worked wish Rowland in the 2000's before his demise.
ksjn6 5 months ago
è bello marcio qui Nick Cave!
diabolik00 5 months ago
fairly undramatic and quite light. :)
shutupandxplay 6 months ago 35
@shutupandxplay - rflmao ;)
EYEmusique 5 days ago
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modernlover0rosalyn 6 months ago in playlist IL/AH/ GD/ NC bad seeds whatever the fuck playlist
It's a rape
egck 6 months ago
so much heroin....SO MUCH HEROIN
PCHDX 6 months ago
hey deezcows!!! this makes me start smoking anything !!!!!
Siste4366 6 months ago
makes me want to start smoking cigarettes.
DeezCowz 7 months ago
pure sex
cBedny 7 months ago
This is not on german TV but on dutch television..I know because I saw it there.Götterdämmerung 2000 was an alternative music show by VPRO broadcasting.
Geedorama 7 months ago
@MrKatana1100sz You're right... I made a stupid fault (shame on me!)
PieterDrift 7 months ago
bon anniversaire Franck
aymericbas 7 months ago
When I was 20 years old, this LP was my soundtrack. I had his hairstyle too but that was not intentional, just genetics and not knowing what to do about it
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redxross 7 months ago
as(s) this, it shall be!!!
513119892 7 months ago
@Purerockband I think that's like comparing the birthday party to the stooges, music doesn't exist in a vacuum. the jesus lizard were very much their own thing, and a force to be reckoned with. equally powerful in my mind. same for scratch acid. that being said, they're has been a lot of talk about other bands, people should check out laughing hyenas, and the chrome cranks, specifically chrome cranks self-titled, and hyenas "merry go round" yeah'p.
conceptionblues 7 months ago
@conceptionblues Give me a hand... birthday party, scratch acid... what is this style of music called??? Someone in the press called it "sausage" in 1984 or so, but that's stupid and i've never heard anyone else use it.
redxross 7 months ago
So damn good. One amazing thing about this video is how totally on these guys are, even though the song as written is a crazy chaotic mess and they're all high out of their minds. Also - can you believe this shit was on television in like 1981? Ah, to have been raised in Germany.
NoDozBukowski 7 months ago
So damn good. One amazing thing about this video is how totally on these guys are, even though the song as written is a crazy chaotic mess and they're all high out of their minds.
NoDozBukowski 7 months ago
This is the best live performance I've ever seen
100fthearse 7 months ago 3
This video is from Dutch Television (I think around 1982)
PieterDrift 7 months ago
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PieterDrift 7 months ago
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/watch?v=R0-Qu9ZnNbc
FUCK BOYS, FUCK RELIGION, AND FUCK OMELETS!!
Rankmoistmeat 8 months ago
Hm so it's recreational epilecy.. interesting..
Load1Bongs1Not1Guns 8 months ago
Just another reason to see live videos !! Awesome, Even better to have been there. These guys are LIVING the song , not just playing it.
Way to make a simple bass line look like an oragasm.
Anyone know of any other bands that compare to the Birthday Party? (other than Einsturzende Beaubaten?)
karolyaczel 8 months ago
@karolyaczel Scratch Acid, Jesus Lizard, Cows, Killdozer, Die Kreuzen, Daughters, Antioch Arrow, Clikatat Ikatowi (they all surely took influence from them). But contemporary bands? hm, probably none, maybe the early no wave scene with Teenage Jesus and the Jerks or The Contortions (and that's maybe).
samuraiinCfede 8 months ago
@samuraiinCfede thanks man...plenty of stuff to check for me ...get back to ya
karolyaczel 8 months ago
@samuraiinCfede what's the best shit that Die Kreuzen's done, cause all I heard from them was boring three-chord hardcore....Is there a particular album?
Rankmoistmeat 8 months ago
@Rankmoistmeat well I've only heard their debut, which is indeed mostly post-punk influenced hardcore but it seems they went for a darker path on their second album, 'October File' (which apparently influenced quite a lot of people in the 90's). I personally find them a good hardcore band, but nothing too special hm
samuraiinCfede 8 months ago
@samuraiinCfede yeeee! Dark stuff is my favourite stuff! Yea I listened to October Files, but I actually can't stand the singer dude's voice, I don't feel it corresponds to the creepy music...Not like Nick Cave's voice in the Birthday Party, or Josh Homme's voice in Queens of the Stone Age, or Michael Gira's voice in Swans, or....
Rankmoistmeat 7 months ago
@Rankmoistmeat Maybe you must listen to more Aussi-stuff like The Scientists, Kim Salmon & The Surrealists and The Beasts of Burden
PieterDrift 7 months ago
@PieterDrift yea I've heard of the Scientists I'll check 'em out thx!
Rankmoistmeat 7 months ago
@samuraiinCfede That band that was on ThreeOne G Records .....ummmm..... SHIT......... oh yeah, Lovelife or Love Life. Not sure which one. They were fucking bad ass and they were strikingly similar to The Birthday Party, except with a chick singer. Don't know for sure what happened to them. Really good jams, though.
poopmcgee555 6 months ago
I never knew thinks like this were on youtube. My ears feel kinda raped. o_O
420HoLLyWooD420 8 months ago 2
goddamn sex on a stick, how can anyone dislike this? ultimate beauty, right here.
mirrorghost 8 months ago 2
Holy fuck! How cool is Tracey Pew from 4:20 onwards?!
pietrobembo 8 months ago 2
@pietrobembo It may be an epileptic seizure, although, considering the point at which it starts, who knows the extent to which it was done on purpose? Or, perhaps it's both -- maybe he felt it coming on & decided to turn it into a stage performance?
felixbunke 8 months ago
@felixbunke Yes, you might be right. I had forgotten he suffered from epilepsy.
pietrobembo 8 months ago
HOT MESS!
nena505 8 months ago
I've found out that this is really awkward to watch in front of your dad. Especially the end bit.
BilllyTrench 9 months ago 16
@BilllyTrench It was my Dad who introduced me to The Birthday Party!
StrayGhost 2 months ago 7
@BilllyTrench Yes, Mr. Pew does seem remarkably determined to show us the phallic symbolism of a bass guitar.
grahamlaur 1 month ago 2
The King of Desolation. Yessss
SlowDown101 9 months ago
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Br0kenFinger 9 months ago
Garbage in honey's sack again.
skeena42 9 months ago 2
Years ago Rowland S played amazing solo sets at my local Melbourne pub!?!
Am sooooo.... glad I got to see them! THANKS - R.I.P.
ichdenkeauch 9 months ago
LOL at Mick Harvey at 1:49 "Okay, um, I think I'll go right... over... here. Don't mind me, guys, just keep paying the bills and stuff."
CreativeImbalances 9 months ago 2
@CreativeImbalances if i could double like this i would. hah
420HoLLyWooD420 8 months ago
damn he fiiiine!
Hlewo 9 months ago
The positive side of drugs.
ManilaSyndicate 9 months ago 7
real shock rock
kingjojothegreat 9 months ago
oh Tracy,you move like a taipan! Hope you have a great time in heaven or where ever you rest.It is a great pity that I never saw you and your mates on stage, cause I was to young by the time you entered europe. I`m from GERMONEY.R.I.P.Greetings to Rowland!
Siste4366 9 months ago
The bassist totally has the man swivel down pack!
happytime13 9 months ago 2
I'd so totally play bass like that!
cyrus138 9 months ago
A few points. At :041 Mick Harvery looks horrified. Lol! Tracy Pew looks like a sick pervert with the humping and that porno mustache. Rowland S. Howard looks too drunk to stand up, let alone play guitar.
TorgeistLLN 9 months ago 2
pure filth........
TheLexyboy 9 months ago
SHEER PANDEMONIUM......in other words.....The Birthday Party cosmos
TheBitterSweetgr 10 months ago
the beginning is absolute the beginning for a real king.
ronaldvanderkleij 10 months ago
Nick is so high
liquidfreak 10 months ago
Fuck Nick Cave, Fuck Mick Harvey, Fuck Roland S. Howard.
Give me Tracy Pew.
Jaguiar05 10 months ago
thats one hip cowboy
gabrieldordali 10 months ago 37
@gabrieldordali sorry man cant agree just dont get black hat, leather pants n frilly shirt. n that hip grinding! i mean i grind hips, im a bass player, but im good at it
geoffhead111 6 months ago
@geoffhead111 The point is he's not good at it . He's not trying to be sexy or anything.
SidVicious1207 6 months ago
@SidVicious1207 really? now that you mention it, i remember seeing this vid back in the 80s n thinking the exact same thing. dammit, there i go missing my *$#% cultural references again [sob]
geoffhead111 6 months ago
@geoffhead111: how can you deny that mustache
gabrieldordali 5 months ago
Birthday Party was before their time.
I love this band.
lmcnasty69 10 months ago
Sounds like Berlin !
otispickett 10 months ago
I never realised how fucking amazing this tune is until I lost a drinking game and put it on again.
sonicwingnut 11 months ago
This is the first time I've ever listened to the Birthday Party, and wow. This is something else.
LubricatedSquirm 11 months ago 22
@LubricatedSquirm Was it as good for you as it was for me?
yinzerchick 3 months ago
If people were normally as clean as this band I'd be a happy boy.
mrgooders 11 months ago
what a bloody great mess. i love it
star17city 11 months ago 3
best dark song ever! pure inspiration..
HONEY HONEY HONEY HONEY HONEY HONEY HONEY!!!
berbil551 11 months ago
I really like this noise.
ScrewYouPeacock 11 months ago
To those who still believe the band is actually playing: watch the final 30 secs of this video and try not to focus on Mr. Pew's crotch but on his (cordless!) bass. He's not even touching the fretboard. Back then there was just one multi-purpose tv-studio complex in the Netherlands and it had strict restrictions on sound volume. It wasn't possible to let a rock band play live. Proper live performances were always shot on location.
cquilty 11 months ago
@cquilty That all is very true, but shouldn't we thank the VPRO for at least recognizing the breath of fresh (or in this case putrified and rotting) musical air this band was spreading. And making it possible for all of us to still enjoy this footage? I say Yes, and I wish music programs on television were still this adventures today.
antikist 11 months ago 2
in the words of the immortal Frank Zappa...."no commercial potential" ....gee can't imagine WHY they'd had such rotton commercial failure.
issofunky 11 months ago
@WildWeaselNJ If we're going to play the man, then I'll play you. If you're going to shitcan someone's 'correct' spelling of recognise- then use inverted commas correctly and quote properly what you're querying. You Yankee fuckers are so small minded- incorrect spelling, ha!......recognize, cozy, color, neighbor, get some idea about English and other English speaking peoples, don't be so simple and phonetic! By the way this clip is gold and it is fact that this band influenced many others.
Dbaker634 11 months ago 2
Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands, 1985, Dope and other drugs, Nick Cave, Birthday Party, The Bad Seeds, Fuck free without HIV. Fight Cops, Gangs and your Parents. Hate authority, Love Sex, Metallica and Thrills. Wish I was there again. To get fucked up. And then some more,....and more,........
marrick13666 11 months ago
I particularly enjoy finding someone who can not only use the word "seminal" in a sentence, but can at the same time incorrectly spell "recognize". I will have to admit however, that the reference to other bands just as horrible, being influenced by this piece of crap band, was a wonderful attempt at validation. Bravo!
WildWeaselNJ 11 months ago
@WildWeaselNJ Uh, I'd wager that he's a Brit. Those wacky kids spell all kinds o' crazy.
pat99cents 11 months ago
the cowboy inspired me to play bass back in the 80s......luv his impecable economy and tone.
posthumanhero 11 months ago
huhhuhhuhuh...you said "seminal". fact remains: Birthday Party makes noises that will fuck your face in half, make you drop to your knees and beg for more. thanks for posting :D
drphosferrous 11 months ago 2
the coolest uncle bassist in the world
severusma 11 months ago
pure sex style
neonneon21 11 months ago
That cigarette came out of nowhere; such immoral sexual maddening intensity- I can't HELP but love it!
tetiontkon 11 months ago 3
This is so brilliant.
midnightmiles5 1 year ago
Love Nick Cave's hair in this video. It probably inspired Robert Smith's own hair.
Rockguitarhero462 1 year ago
@Rockguitarhero462 haha yeah it's awesome, he was mocking Keith Richards
sashageyer95 1 year ago
@sashageyer95 why would he mock the great Keith Richards? That's blasphemy.
Rockguitarhero462 1 year ago
@Rockguitarhero462 back then the stones were pretty uncool, they looked like gigantic rich dinosaurs and the punks (and early post punks) liked to poke fun at them. of course all of this became redundant and they stopped trying to mock them.
but think, at the same time this was happening with the birthday party, jagger was prancing around in pastel leggings.
oh well the stones are legends and so are the birthday party
sashageyer95 1 year ago
@Rockguitarhero462 haha nick was doing this kinda stuff years before smith
theweddingband1 9 months ago
@theweddingband1 yup cause Robert Smith actually admitted to being a fan of Nick cave.
Rockguitarhero462 9 months ago
@theweddingband1 Correction: Smith never did this.
kingjojothegreat 9 months ago
Sexiest Video Ever.
deborahsamantha 1 year ago
This is like... 5.10 minutes of pure Hell... 'Honey honey honey honey kiss me!' Brilliant!
SawMovies 1 year ago
i'm pretty sure hole wrote this
veverzay 1 year ago
@veverzay
A couple of decades too early for that.
curseofmillhaven 1 year ago
@veverzay yeah except this was written in 1981 when courtney love was only 17, 8 years before anyone thought of hole
theweddingband1 9 months ago
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theweddingband1 9 months ago
SCRATCH AND SNIFF THIS HEAVENLY BODY! Oh, hang on.
samadriel 1 year ago
His screams are huge!
DarthBoEar 1 year ago
is that nick cave
112taker 1 year ago
@112taker it sho is.
misterbizzones 1 year ago
I love the democracy of this band!
BPCpresents 1 year ago
@BPCpresents
you got it...exactly how i have always tried to talk about the jesus lizard...the way that each instrument does its own thing...with total trust from each other...incredible.
marcuslobb 1 year ago
What garbage. Birthday Party top 10 most influential band of the 80s? You got to be joking. I could name hundreds more 80s bands that were more influential or sold more albums. Let`s start with Metallica, Nirvana (yes they started in the 80s), Guns & Roses, Killing Joke, Dead Kennedys, Napalm Death (who started death metal/grindcore), Motorhead (who started speed metal). As for more commercial bands - INXS, Duran Duran, Def Leppard, New Order, Billy Idol.. I could go on & on but run out of space
ManFromMelbourne 1 year ago
@ManFromMelbourne
The Birthday Party influenced an american band called Scratch Acid, which influenced a Seattle band called Nirvana. East Bay Ray influenced, by The Birthday Party. Also Scratch Acid also influenced a whole decade in a half of inspiring artists in a little known genre called noise-rock. way more influential that a bunch of commercial artists recycling each other over time. sorry, but you lose, no one hear gives a shit about gun's n roses.
conceptionblues 1 year ago 6
@ManFromMelbourne 'Cos Metallica isn't influenced by Nick Cave or anything. I mean, it's not like Metallica didn't cover the bad seeds, right?
superchunk321 1 year ago
@ManFromMelbourne you're sooooo basic
Thesagga 1 year ago
This magazine playlist ends up down the pan and no mistakin mister
nobodymuch 1 year ago
Oh yes the artic monkeys cover of red right hand, amazing. HughDW you are clearly an idiot, or young, or both? Animalzarg has the right idea, he clearly can't write correctly through alcohol abuse or ill education but he knows what's what.
dragginalong 1 year ago
I think this is immoral garbage and I dont care what you think you are wrong
Iamcola65 1 year ago
artic monkeys been influenced in the way they sound nothing like birthday party, they not as heavy, theyre lame,and they wont grow older to be the giant nick cave is? artic et al suck arse,this is good music,please stop comparing to dumb yoofs
animalzarg 1 year ago
serious bending at 4:20
himrawkz 1 year ago
lmao Tracy Pew looks like a freaking legs from Silent Hill near the end there
RavenXGhost 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
ah ah ah!
MrSedbarrette 1 year ago
Wow, I watched this about 20 times again and again. I really don't know why, but I always loved their music. NOBODY is as cool as them. Pure energy! I wish I could have seen them live, but I'm a bit too young.
AntjeBohnhorst 1 year ago 2
TBP define intensity. The real deal.
horseloverfatjr 1 year ago
I love how much Tracy Pew is constantly gyrating.
moldycarrots 1 year ago 6
Best bass performance of all time.
c0pper 1 year ago 8
hahah, oh my god, that guy with the cowboy hat on the right; his guitar stance is utterly disturbing.
KitchenNowBitch 1 year ago
@KitchenNowBitch
Bass.
ggriggles 1 year ago
EVERYONE IN THIS VIDEO HAS A BONER AND I LIKE IT
blowdry7 1 year ago 79
I'm a straight man, but Cave's little move at 00:34 is sexy.
GreenEyedLocoMan1 1 year ago
they let them on tv!! still one of the best dvd extras E V E R. when people rave on to me about utter SCUM like The National, Midlake, Coldpiss et all, i just play them this or The Friend Catcher, and they start to cry for mummy...fuck the Horrors as well not fit to lick the shit from their boots...I M O.
feralpriest 1 year ago
wtf am I watching lol
GhostOfSide3 1 year ago 3
Parece el Jim Carrey alemán
marchinasky 1 year ago
I love Mick Harvey's face at 0:42. Its like they all went on tour without him and he's like "what the fuck happened to you guys!?"
necklacing 1 year ago
Seems like conaono likes this but just can't admit it. It is what it is. Maybe if they had a major label conaono might like.
Akillerinthemind 1 year ago
Jesus I love this performance, it's so fucking bizarre. It just seems like they're operating on a completely different plane from everyone else, like they come from another dimension where perversity and madness are the norm.
StupidDance 1 year ago 3
To understand this, you have to look outside of your "taste." You have to look into perhaps, an opposite viewpoint of reality than what you are fed with. Your disdain for abstract art is perhaps coming from a place you may not understand. If you read any of Chomsky, Foucault, and other people who theorized in media control, you can perhaps get a better glimpse into the vast network of control that exists in media and music. Further, nowave, and other forms of music got it, and they said, fuck it
halfofsixteen 1 year ago
I have a mcjob. I've had a mcjob since I was 15. I've been working class my whole life. Real abstract art, like this shit I believe, is so monumentally important because it deconstructs our notions of pop music. We don't realize it, but pop music is often an institutional brainwasher. I love pop music, very much, but I realize how it can be twisted to numb people into states of entertained boredom. This type of music is revolutionary in its refusal to be easily acceptable.
halfofsixteen 1 year ago 3
@VenamousMuffin okay ..I hadn't even considered that.....good call!
konaono 1 year ago
@VenamousMuffin I don't like any kind of music
konaono 1 year ago
okay....thanks for the replies...so I gave this a second chance and actually listened and watched the entire tube....conclusion : this is the most forced nonsence I have ever witnessed in my entire life. What is amazing to me is that someone could actually coordinate this band of losers into a group setting long enough to actually film this crap. This guy could do better as a cigarrette salesman....
konaono 1 year ago
@konaono you are not at all taking into account any of the context surrounding the music. furthermore, have you ever listened to any of nick cave's post-birthday party music? i'd suggest looking into this stuff a little more.
jdriscoll2000 1 year ago
not german. dutch tv around 1983
irriboy1 1 year ago
@irriboy1 actually, very early 1982. Phill Calvert is on drums here and he left in april of 1982. Mick Harvey took over on drums from then on.
phantomrider78 1 year ago
3:19 is the reason why smoking is still completely fucking cool
smnmntl 1 year ago 18
@smnmntl hahaha fuckin right
crashtv 9 months ago
who are these guys?!?! i've never heard of this band - they are fantastic!
RainmanCT 1 year ago
smash tastic .The best band ever,Beethoven + Mozart = The Birthday Party
iamcaoimhe 1 year ago 2
This band makes Slipknot and all those other screamo bands look like pussies
MIKEDURSTEWITZ 1 year ago 7
Wow, its like everything the sex pistols never wanted to be... but might have if they bowed to satan. Astounding.
dbritz1 1 year ago
Tracey, was obscene!
ninyae 1 year ago