Birthday Party - She's Hit

[portlouie]

1:24 That's my dad (drunkenly) singing along in the bottom right hand corner!!

[jamievercauteren]

Watching this gets me hot

[GolliwoggMusic]

Golliwogg APPROVES of this song.

[tracycj2001]

And now I know where the idea for Marylin Manson's "Dope Hat" came from. Even the bass riff - wow.

[Nikosvoider]

mr. evangelist said she's hit..

[sirkevin1967]

And christen the bastard Jack.....

[WarGoatForestWolf666]

@sirkevin1967 the head shrinker is a quaaaaaaaaaack

[Hamsterzilla1349]

If I had a birthday party, that's exactly how I'd like it to be.

[HeadlandRoad]

Hell, I'm proud just to have lived on the same continent as Nick Cave.

[dubwise43]

@HeadlandRoad lol now he lives in hove i think

[happytime13]

He looks so much like his son; Jethro Cave here!



[JivemasterJ]

Dinosaur Holocaust is totally trying to make a career out of Jackin their sound!

[danpolicarpo]

great band, so much more influential than people give credit for...I think Jesus Lizard are/were great, but the blueprint for that sound is with the Birthday Party.

[PickUpYourLighters]

@danpolicarpo They are both such brilliant bands.

Absolute auditory sleaze, mixed in with huge amounts of musicality.

[triptoheaveandho]

hes very yo0ung and looks punky.. cooooolllll

[mamalaura]

love this song. thanks for putting this up, saigonbill

[swanlee33]

cool, this is like really shit Fall

[swanlee33]

cool grow a moustache

[swanlee33]

cool so you can grow a nice moustache tooo

[ggriggles]

Oh nick cave, you do me good...

and those four people missing the like button, suck one.

[jjfeighns]

i want pj so bad

[2n2equals5]

Devastatingly effective bass, especially just after 0:31

[R0WMaC]

FUCKING KICKASS SONG!

[martinhipocrita]

esta re drogado el flaco este

[happyjessus]

what kind of music do they play?

[damouj]

remember when Spin ran an article in 86 abouit Nick Cave being God?....Their timing was like 5 years late .................

[WingedDiskRecords]

Is this from the PRAYERS ON FIRE video?

[Msokeable]

superb

(i'm drunk)

[PoppyCrust]

3:50 was really beautiful

when that boy in the audience took Nicks cigarette, took a drag & gave it back

they were both so sweet-hearted about it

[psychedelichippyfish]

awesome. is it just me or does nick's voice slightly resemble jim morrison's?

[nois1211]

no...not just you.

i consider TBP the doors that took it to the next level.

[extinguishersoul]

slightly yeah i agree, not quite as much as glen danzigs tho

[damouj]

@extinguishersoul danzig went to a vocal coach...what a dork.......we heckled the fuck out of him in pdx 1992.............

[SammyLuvsYouForever]

nick cave sure was hot back then.

[bigbrownheapof]

well he's always been looking  kinda wasted, don´t kn ow, like an evil child

[SammyLuvsYouForever]

pshht who cares if he was always wasted. he was hot. have you read bad seed? its a really interesting biography.

[Didgebaba]

God they were good....

[shreivox]

re pousth, pethane o rowland

[longlegged]

kai an skefteis kati kathikia pou einai akoma orthia...

[TheKazoos]

for me, there has never been a better live band. The birthday PArty.

[Zombie325]

Fucking love it.

[1noen1]

Punk before it sold out.

[IronicKismet]

Wow! Where does this music come from? There seems to be really nothing derivative about it. It seems like Nick

Cave pooled this music from the ether. Truly epochal.

[LandofLostMinds]

Nick Cave looks so cool with that cigarette in his mouth.

[GyntherMeyer]

Thanks for posting this. I never saw the Birthday Party and didn't catch Nick live till 1988 in London.

[rogeliogonzalezmarti]

mientras esto sucedía nadie me lo presentó.

[awoodworm]

This may well be the gig I saw at the Watertower in Rotterdam in 1982. They were actually supporting Per Ubu! I was at the bar during the second part of the show and had a few beers with Nick. It was years later that I realised who I had spoken to!

[saigonbill]

Great story. My own is that I lived for awhile on the same block he did in Berlin, so I used to see him in the neighborhood, the supermarket, etc. in late 80s. Never spoke to him though. Before that, I saw him hanging out in Danceteria in NYC a few times when I lived there.

[indhold]

@saigonbill : where did he live in Berlin? tnx

[saigonbill]

@indhold It was in Kreuzberg 36 (what we called it at the time -- is it still referred to as that?) -- on Oranien Strasse. I don't remember which number, but his seemed to be in the 20s, definitely that block. My flat was at 17, at the corner.

[hellmik]

@saigonbill ,hello, im doing a research on what went on in West Berlin @ the time. My question is have u gone to the Risiko Bar and do you remember anything from that place? All best and thanx

[saigonbill]

@hellmik Sorry -- just looked it up on Google Maps and that place was way way out there, at least from where I used to hang out -- the name did sound familiar -- we did use to go check out places we'd heard about, some far away too, but that one's location and layout don't look familiar at all. I do remember going to see the Neubauten film (Halbe Mensch) out at UFA Fabrik -- is/was that in that same area?

[ribs303]

@saigonbill Wow! What was Danceteria like back then?

[HamburgerMartyr]

Good God, does that sound like an awesome gig. Pere Ubu and the Birthday Party

[freudastaire]

@awoodworm dream concert, oh my! a great 2010 for u! Sad 2009, took Rowland S. Howard from life!

[QuimChaos]

@awoodworm ho my fucking doG! long time without references to Pere Ubu!

[tinofpop90]

The Doors of the 80's? What the fuck are you talking about you penarse.

[Petrikau]

Paul Banks has said that if Interpol was to cover a song, it would be "She's Hit".

[crashburners]

shut up ignorant twat. this song is great

and "shit" is what you know about Birthday Party

[Psychonature]

damn ,so deep.... love it

[ichibadbad]

i bought this song off youtube.

but this live version is way better than the recorded one.

i wish i were there...

[ex1le444]

they were always better live xD

Unfortunately they never got their real sound to record, except maybe Bad Seed -that went closer than anything

[alexbericheath]

2:42 - 3:00 is one of many reasons that man is the coolest fucking thing on the planet.

[glenrich84]

im feelin this right here, its like the doors of the 80's with darker themes. plz post more birthday party.

[ex1le444]

The Doors of the 80's -I like that :D

[saigonbill]

Well, Birthday Party was already considered by people-in-the-know to be the most important band in the world at around the time of this show. Other groups might be packing stadiums but people at this concert probably were thinking that This is the only place to be on this planet right now. I don't think Cave was approaching his songwriting at the time less seriously.

[DPTG23]

I saw them in London and you are bang on with your description...nice one

[mothra1000]

Slutty, trash rawk...Drips ooze, cum, and what have you. No other band will match this shit, EVER! I feel the sleaze and will live it...

[kulimanga]

gooood, look at those junks down there!! they had no idea nick will become quite more serious in his career :)) for me it seems like one of the bands who just smack something before concert to be even able to play. but nick has a hidden unique grif inside him...

[idratherlistentobowi]

cool.

[LIZZAWR]

LOL! That's my boyfriend's Dad at the front :P spikey hair with a little spike against his forehead.

hahahaa :)

[angieh1313]

If J. morrison were alive...... wow!

[DPTG23]

don't bother, seriously.

[theappraised]

God,this is amazing!

[prismaticstrands]

woman-pie

[dekompres]

I love this song... wow

[junoyeop]

Wow, I really love this song.

[saigonbill]

Sorry, there is more from this concert out there somewhere. I grabbed this one back when a few more from this gig were posted here, I think about a year ago. They disappeared. This is the only one I saved.

Just did a search online: the DVD is called Pleasure Heads Must Burn, mainly live from 2 Hacienda gigs in 82/83.

[rightredbln]

i have this on tape, its amazing, im sure someone tries to drag him in on one song and he boots them in the face or something, am i right?

[saigonbill]

Sorry, I don't know -- I don't have the full concert -- I reposted this song, someone else posted it originally.

[beaverstroodle]

hey video is bloody awesome! is there a full concert of this performance?

[Sykorax]

absolute beauty. if only life were like this all the time.

[28g34ajbsd]

god

[tolerman1992]

Thanks of this posting

[ikszorn]

god

[helgajohn]

Oh to be young and angry, love that Nick

[spareco]

he was in his late 20`s in this vid