Criminally Underrated # 4
Artist: The Birthday Party
Album: Live 1981-82
For fans of: Hell, suicide (the band or the activity), Halloween, ear damage.
This album is Nick Cave and Goth music at their peak. Violent, ugly, disgusting and terrifying, even without the visual dimension of their live performance, The Birthday Party remains one of the most gripping live bands of all time. The band plays all their hits (I assure you, I use the term in its broadest definition) and conclude the album with a cover of The Stooges' "Funhouse" which sounds even more like the destruction of humanity than the original. Indeed, Nick Cave's three demonic shrieks that hail the beginning of the first chorus may be, if not the most sublime, certainly the noisiest moment of all recorded sound.
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