Hits

by The Birthday Party

Hits cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 12 October 1992
  • Label: 4AD
  • Country: Australia
  • Length: 1:19:23
  • Community rating: 4.13/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Phill Calvert, Nick Cave, Tracy Pew, Rowland S. Howard, Tony Cohen, Mick Hunter, Nick Launay, Philip Jackson, Mick Harvey, Stephen Ewart

Album Notes & Community Reviews

An ironically titled, yet entirely essential compilation summarizing the wildly chaotic, brief career of Nick Cave's initial post-punk outfit. The tracks highlight the band's terrifying blend of jagged, swamp-blues guitar dissonance and completely unhinged vocal exorcisms. It serves as a definitive primer for one of the most dangerous and mythologized bands in underground rock history.

Genres

Descriptors: noisy, avant-garde, dissonant, compilation, confrontational

Tracklist

  1. The Friend Catcher (4:20)
  2. Happy Birthday (3:59)
  3. Mr. Clarinet (3:42)
  4. Nick The Stripper (3:50)
  5. Zoo Music Girl (2:36)
  6. King Ink (4:40)
  7. Release The Bats (2:30)
  8. Blast Off (2:17)
  9. She's Hit (6:05)
  10. 6" Gold Blade (3:37)
  11. Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow) (5:33)
  12. Dead Joe (3:08)
  13. Junkyard (5:45)
  14. Big-Jesus-Trash-Can (3:03)
  15. Wild World (3:26)
  16. Sonny's Burning (3:17)
  17. Deep In The Woods (4:46)
  18. Swampland (3:28)
  19. Jennifer's Veil (4:56)
  20. Mutiny In Heaven (4:17)

Credits

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