The Birthday Party

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.

• Bauhaus
• Blurt
• Einsturzende Neubauten
• Killing Joke
• Lydia Lunch
• Public Image Ltd.
• Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
• Sex Gang Children
• Siouxsie & The Banshees
• The Cramps
• The Cure
• The Pop Group
• The Psychedelic Furs

• Alice Cooper
• Joy Division
• Lou Reed
• Patti Smith
• Pere Ubu
• Public Image Ltd.
• Sensational Alex Harvey Band
• Suicide
• Swell Maps
• The Doors
• The Fall
• The Saints (Punk)
• The Sex Pistols
• Iggy & The Stooges

• And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
• Congo Norvell
• Crime & The City Solution
• Gallon Drunk
• Gunga Din
• Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
• La Muerte
• Missing Foundation
• Motherhead Bug
• Smoke
• Swans
• The Jesus Lizard

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