The psychotic Yosser Hughes stare and cowboy gear is straight out of David Lynchs Blue Velvet. The pelvic thrusting in the leather kecks absolutely seminal. There will never be an artist like Tracy Pew ever again totally unique and gone far to early. RIP Tracy.

@slugluv1313

3 жыл бұрын

true but The Birthday Party was waaaay before Blue Velvet

@vollsticks

3 жыл бұрын

Yosser Hughes!!! PMSL!!! I think you'll have to explain who that is for non-UK readers...Bernard Hill, probably best known to international audiences for playing the captain in Titanic, and Theoden from LOTR: Return Of The King, and the final film. "GISSA JOB!"

@vollsticks

3 жыл бұрын

@@slugluv1313 It's just an observation, it's not, like, some sort of "inspiration competition", mate :)

@slugluv1313

3 жыл бұрын

@@vollsticks oops! sorry, was just my own observation too

@vollsticks

3 жыл бұрын

@@slugluv1313 Yah, I'm not dissing you or owt, mate! Honestly! No need to apologise! In fact I should probably apologise to you-- so, sorry for being a pedantic, picky bastard!

This bass line and drum loop is so infectious, love love love it! And Nick wailing like a junky is the icing on top. The guitars sound like chainsaws

most underrated thing about this video is Mick looking queasy like he's won a prize to play with his favourite band

@post-crucifixion

2 жыл бұрын

Ok I'm a bit drunk now but this comment made me laugh, haha. Spot on! Great musician.

@Bavodekat

8 ай бұрын

Mick= like..bankclerk

I just love how MIck Harvery never lost his nice, totally clean, guy image through the entirety of his musical career, despite being involved with some seriously dark and aggressive acts.

Tracy suffered a epileptic attack in 86 if im correct after being clean from heroin and booze. He was in the shower and just like that it happened and he hit his head so many times in the bath tub that he bled out. But in the shows in a drug frenzy he just went nuts, he never jumped or anything( for what i'ved read) he would throw himself back and just give in to the music. RIP Tracy. Hell of a fuckin' tone always.

@rockinbiff

Жыл бұрын

Cris, thanks for sharing that about Tracy. I never knew how he died. I saw them play live in LA on their last tour. It was simply the most ferocious, amazing, show I've ever seen.

@eddie20307

8 ай бұрын

Tracy Pew was a genius

@thunder_heads

15 күн бұрын

Shit he was epileptic

This is what happens when nice Australian boys move to Berlin.

@JackFromBeatStrings

7 жыл бұрын

Haha! Oh, I don't think they were all that nice.

@gpwnedable

6 жыл бұрын

This is what happens when you go to Scotch College.

@trapezoidspangle934

6 жыл бұрын

Caulfield Grammar.

@TheLee260

Жыл бұрын

Was the UK first

@benkeller6027

Жыл бұрын

Nah, this is what happens to "boys" when they leave Christian Brothers private boarding schools after being exposed to religion from a young age and entering the real world.

This is the moment when humanity peaked, no doubt about it.

@stephens4995

Ай бұрын

I love you

Whenever I return to the real depth of my despair, when the repressed shit comes to surface, I always return to this band. They are my Freudian nightmare to wallow in. No one like the birthday party

@bullebakb.v.8622

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@michelehemlokhexwhite4310

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely

@HeartsOfMold

Жыл бұрын

Boo hoo

@NikolasMitsugui

2 ай бұрын

@@HeartsOfMold I think someone saying "boo hoo" like you read something pretentious and whiny about a project with nick cave is ironic, after all, he's the most pretentious guy on earth (I mean I love his music, but just listen to him speak)

@spleneticheretic

2 ай бұрын

Love it

Through the various projects Nick Cave was involved in, the Birthday Party will always be my favourite.

I was 16 when I saw this on TV, one quiet Sunday night on prime time (!) in The Netherlands. I knew the band so the music was not new to me but the performance itself was a statement that is unique in the history of prime time TV to this day. Provocative, dirty, aggressive, druggy, dangerous, downright scary: cool as fuck. This night I learned there was no sexier bass than a Rickenbacker. I bought one myself later though I never masturbated inside a kick drum :-)

@Bavodekat

8 ай бұрын

Yea i saw it too..in 82..i was like 15 and already had prayers on fire and. I remember the day junkyard came out. Then the tour in belgium and holland .saw 2 gigs in holland..and 2 in belgium..the brussels one was insanest😅

Still sounds like a back-alley colonoscopy after all these years

@Za86m

2 ай бұрын

Back-Alley Colonoscopy is my favorite IPA

@Topshelf87

Ай бұрын

@@Za86m hahahahahahaha!!!!!

@nzclassictv6347

7 күн бұрын

That is extremely funny and perfectly described.

Junkyard is one of my favorite records. You need it on vinyl.

This is straight up inspirational. Blimey

truly incredible stuff

Probably the best set of reasons I've ever seen for not developing an addiction to opiates.

@slugluv1313

3 жыл бұрын

ahhhh but hardly the pharmaceutical crap that dominates now

@thefirebrigade7317

2 жыл бұрын

If all it took to sound like this was to shoot heroin, I'd go cop right now. The Birthday Party was a genius band.

@vollsticks

2 жыл бұрын

@@thefirebrigade7317 That's not what I was inferring at all. Maybe my sentence was too hard to parse. If so that's entirely my fault.

@strayghostABS

2 жыл бұрын

But also, unfortunately, a fairly good set of reasons to develop one too. hahaha

@Bavodekat

8 ай бұрын

Or booze or speed😅

Never ever seen anything like it..saw it on tv in 1982..followed them on tour..this video is just beyond great..its like 😮😮😮😮😮😮wow..

This is it - this is as good as it gets.

Heavenly racket

Tracy Pew Genious

just brilliant

this is the craziest and amazing ive ever seen in my life. wtf!

R.i.P Roland s Howard the six strings that drew blood

Mick looks like the supply teacher

AMAZING !!!!

Awesome footage of one of the great early 80s bands...

This still blows me away every time I see it

that snare sounds HUGE!

Swing it, Tracy!!!

ah the puffy shirt episode of Seinfeld where Kramer asks his friend Tracey to wear a shirt his designer friend makes, Tracey obliges with hilarious results

Rowland kills!!!!!!

Not sure if it's intended to be hilarious but I found it to be 😂👍 I thoroughly enjoyed this!

@sexobscura

Ай бұрын

Nick Cave is a clown, after all

@thunder_heads

15 күн бұрын

💀💀💀💀💀​@@sexobscura

Perfection 😂

The Birthday Party was all about Roland and Tracy

@ChevyRae

4 жыл бұрын

*Rowland

@ShakespearesBruv

4 жыл бұрын

@@ChevyRae *eat me

@bradirvin1274

3 жыл бұрын

Edgy opinion

@cubistblues

3 жыл бұрын

True. But even more about Tracy.

@emilyoshiro

2 жыл бұрын

Eggsackley!!

If aliens landed and asked what the 20th century was and I could only show them one thing, it would be this

DAMN eternally kicking myself for not seeing The Birthday Party LIVE -- pure fire genius

@rogerlegends166

2 жыл бұрын

I saw them in about 1981 supporting Bauhaus . I was 14 and thought it was the most exciting thing I'd ever seen . Now of course I find them laughably bad .

@rockinbiff

Жыл бұрын

They were epic live.

@Bavodekat

8 ай бұрын

Yea me too but bauhaus are the bad ones

@bemo9

18 күн бұрын

@@rogerlegends166your ears fell off

Just so great.

Top of the Pops was never this good. Ever!

@sexobscura

Ай бұрын

don't forget Milli Vanilli

Tracy Pew gyrating is everything.

This band was so unique.. Three one g did a Compilation called Release the bats.. got some banger covers!

@michelehemlokhexwhite4310

Жыл бұрын

I once did a fire spitting performance on a cruise ship to Release the bats lol

Nice man spread there Tracy

Finally coming a documentary late 2023. This is the melting pot of everything later.

THE BEST!

Perfect

art

O senhor da bateria trouxe-me aqui

I have a better version on DVD. Will upload in to youtube when i am sober again. Might take some time. Cheers.

@hkrug666

Жыл бұрын

You sober yet?

@andershansson2245

8 ай бұрын

Go on

@brigwood7658

Ай бұрын

​@@andershansson2245 Christ .. could you go to rehab already?

@andershansson2245

Ай бұрын

@@brigwood7658 waiting for mp3 and photos at the show my sober, responsible friends.

The bassist has exquisite drip

Best

forces of nature

Good clean fun

I’m a long term fan of Nick Cave but until recently, hadn’t tasted any of the Birthday Party. Holy crap!?! I’d heard it was wild, but this is something else. What do you even categorise it as? Punk, Thrash, Goth? Love it!!

@MrPboys1

2 жыл бұрын

It amazes me that so many bad seeds fans haven't checked out the birthday party stuff it is some of the sickest bad ass rock n roll ever...glad you started they have been weirdly overlooked in many ways

@nockee

2 жыл бұрын

Blown away by this. Been looking for modern post punk bands to listen to and this shit was here the whole time. God damn

@MrPboys1

2 жыл бұрын

@@nockee oh in that case have you heard any Gallon Drunk especially the first three albums my favourite live act similar intensity and style, and there's always the fall, oh or for something completely different Cardiacs but that's a whole other rabbit hole

@iskandertime747

Жыл бұрын

Undefineable

@rockinbiff

Жыл бұрын

It was something else. I saw them live & they tore the place & themselves up. Lydia Lunch opened for them at the Roxy. The closest band live I can describe them as playing like was is The Stooges only The Birthday Party was like 5 Iggys.

Hello Mat Korvette

CocaCola with the Coka in it. No smoke machine necessary.

So, one of the guitarists looks like he thought he was joining Simple Minds. And then Tracy Pew was just born for this moment. Rock'n' Roll needs more bass playing car thiefs.

@Bavodekat

8 ай бұрын

Yea mick harvey has always been a boring dude..he s..really dull on stage

I feel like the guy in the cowboy hat just impregnated someone.

@Bavodekat

8 ай бұрын

Yea your mama😂

👍👌❤️

Tracey at 2:08 tho…. pissed meself.

@toby4764

7 ай бұрын

4:25 too. horizontal bass. then the drummer loses his stick...

Ok Kids, beat that !

Reminds me of Scratch Acid

@gregf.4814

2 жыл бұрын

That’s who SA were aspiring to be…I remember going to a SA show tripping on acid. David Yow asked if anyone had seen the cover of their new album - ‘Berserker’. He handed me the mic, and I started spewing whatever lysergic razzmatazz flying through my brain at that moment. His eyes got wider and wider and he slowly attempted to pull the microphone away from me, growing almost desperate in his efforts. Needless to say, I scared the shit out of David Yow. I doubt I would’ve even gotten close to the microphone in Nick Cave’s hands in his Birthday Party pomp. Don’t put the cart before the horse, or in this case, the kicking mustang.

4:05 - 4:15 best part

Good smak

What in this context is "Gottendammerung"?

@pauliethepunk

5 жыл бұрын

Gotterdammerung 2000 was a German television show from the early 80's.

@bzfgt1

5 жыл бұрын

@@pauliethepunk Thank you!

@robspanjersberg9972

5 жыл бұрын

It was a Dutch TV show broadcast by the VPRO on Sunday Evening.

@bramskilove

3 жыл бұрын

@@pauliethepunk It was actually a Dutch tv show with a German name. This was made for VPRO Television, I should know cause I was the producer and co-editor :) Later I directed the documentary 'Stranger in a strange land' with Nick and the Bad Seeds in Berlin. Very honored that for the trailer of the current Copenhagen expo about Nick (Stranger Than Kindness), several shots from this clip were used.

@janbastiaansen2512

3 жыл бұрын

Gelukkig heeft de censuur knop tracy en zijn basgitaar nog niet getroffen. Bram van splunteren bedankt

This is the freakiest shit I ever seen!

I prefer his earlier work

Auuusssstttttraaalliiaa omg St Kilda private school Melbourne Caulfield Grammar sick

I am the best

The Fall meets Tom waites

@Bavodekat

8 ай бұрын

Nooo tom waits and the fall .are ultra dull compared to these hells on legs😂

So. Many. Drugs.

@slugluv1313

3 жыл бұрын

yeah but really gooood drugs :)

👁El ojo

Les groupes de black metal feraient bien d'aller se remaquiller

Heroin is coooool😎

@fulvnd5919

Жыл бұрын

Nono

lip sync and air guitar ? If so the greatest example of the form.

No dimwit Blixa around yet, good times

@Bavodekat

8 ай бұрын

Quite true.

I prefer AC/DC. 🇦🇺

Are we supposed to like this because it’s soo different or because the band is going out of their way to be different.

@southpakrules

10 ай бұрын

Just another''if i don't like it, no one else should''complainer.

WORST VOCALS EVER.

@rederickfroders1978

Ай бұрын

Im sorry about your stupidity.

Horrible

@helenbartoszek243

Жыл бұрын

@Practicalicalicalica Agreed, leave us alone.

@KevKavanagh

Жыл бұрын

In the best possible way, fixed it for you.

@rederickfroders1978

Ай бұрын

Not everybody can be intelligent

Poor Roland. No matter how hard he tried to look cool, he just couldn't pull it off.

@alexbowles9034

Жыл бұрын

I thought he looked pretty cool

@KevKavanagh

Жыл бұрын

@@alexbowles9034 He was the epitomy.

@twinpeaksVVV

9 ай бұрын

What is your idea of cool? A guy wearing a bandana or his cap turned backwards?

@KevKavanagh

9 ай бұрын

@@twinpeaksVVV Clearly none of that here, that's a start. WTF are you on about?

@Bavodekat

8 ай бұрын

I disagree..he was super cool on stage

Dreadful

@KevKavanagh

Жыл бұрын

You're either all in or have no idea, pity the fool.

Everyone remembers the first time they saw the camera slowly pan to Tracy Pew's gyrating pelvis.