THE BIRTHDAY PARTY The Bad Seed 12" EP NM/OOP True 1st Press NICK CAVE l K

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  THE BIRTHDAY PARTY The Bad Seed 12" EP NM/OOP True 1st Press NICK CAVE l@@K THE BIRTHDAY PARTY "The Bad Seed" 12" EP

Original and OUT OF PRINT 4-song 12" VINYL EP as released by 4AD Records, UK (BAD 301) label back in 1983.

True 1st UK vinyl pressing.

Low starting price, NO RESERVE.

• Vinyl is NEAR MINT / Dust Jacket is NEAR MINT •

REVIEW by Ned Raggett
Mostly featuring songs written by Cave and Harvey together, Bad Seed forecasts the imminent future of Cave as a solo artist and Harvey as his right-hand man in more than just title. Now down to a four-piece following the departure of Calvert, the Party weren't any less confrontational than before; the opening sounds one hears is Cave yelling, "Hands up, who wants to die?!" Sound overall is a touch crisper than on other studio tracks, with Cave even more front and center than before. "Sonny's Burning" is a quick, brisk thrash, Cave's voice cracking more than once as the music builds to a series of climaxes throughout. "Wildworld" takes a bluesy tearjerker turn, Howard's death-rattle guitar perfectly suiting the song and setting the atmosphere. "Fears of Gun" builds up a tense energy over a favored lyrical subject for Cave (crime, insanity, and romance), with Pew and Harvey's tight rhythm matched by Howard's scratchy feedback. "Deep in the Woods" ends in all on a perfectly outrageous note, with Cave at his most sepulchral conjuring up a rural scene of devastation. The delivery and lyrics redefine the phrase "over the top,'" but the slow pound of the drums and Howard's downbeat, echoed plucking somehow makes everything work in spite of itself.

This specific title is part of a 5,000 piece record collection I am in the process of unloading and comprised wholly of fringe and underground music of all stripes. Punk, Post-Punk, KBD, SXE, Industrial, Experimental, Metal, Electronica, Goth, Free Jazz, Jazz, Sound Effects, etc.... so check back as I'll be posting on average 50 pieces or more a week. All records in this collection run primarily as being NEAR MINT with many being more to the top end of the MINT spectrum and with very few pieces being anything less then VERY GOOD PLUS.... Tons of rarities, all must go!!!!


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