Led by the inimitable Nick Cave (who went on to great solo success), Australia's Birthday Party was a swirling maelstrom of post-punk discord, beat-influenced poetry, and gothic blues overtones. The band also gained a reputation for presenting some of the most intense live performances of the era. Though the Birthday Party were in existence for a only a few years in the early 1980s, they proved a profoundly influential act whose sound can be detected in a variety of bands.

Listen to The Birthday Party at Finetune.

• (1999)  Live 1981 - 82
• (1997)  Hee-Haw
• (1983)  Mutiny/Bad Seed
• (1982)  Junkyard

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