Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:I guess I just meant that, other than a couple of songs here and there, everything The Birthday Party put out was great--though I wouldn't say the best of The B.P. is better than The Stooges' best. Then again, The Birthday Party has not attempted to reform long after their heyday (and one hopes that with Tracy Pew, the soul of that band, dead, that they never will. Interesting that both bands lost their bass players.) I would say that Nick Cave's solo output has been far more consistent than Iggy's though. And better.
The Birthday Party, however, did do two of their most insane recordings ever ("Kiss Me Black" and the second version of "Dead Joe") with Magazine/future Bad Seed Barry Adamson on bass, so if Nick, Rowland, Mick, and maybe Phil (though that's fucking unlikely) ever did decide to do a couple concerts together as The Birthday Party with Adamson as the bassist, I doubt I'd be too angry about it all. They did tour as the Birthday Party with him on bass, after all.
The closest it probably should get to a reunion would be Rowland playing on a Bad Seeds record.
Actually, take a look at this clip to see what a live Birthday Party reunion might look like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4AM_DNZ7u4
Rowland does "Wild World" and "Dead Joe" with the Bad Seeds onstage live in 1992. Great performance of "Wild World" especially.
