BOYS NEXT DOOR Door Door LP MUSHROOM 1979 AUSorig+buff NICK CAVE-BIRTHDAY PARTY

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As the cult of Cave grows, more and more non-Australian music fans may discover 

the Boys Next Door and their lone album, 1979's Door, Door. Singer Nick Cave, 

guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey, bassist Tracy Pew, and drummer Phil Calvert 

were disaffected, dissatisfied teenagers growing up in a middle-class section 

of Melbourne, listening to hard rockin' glam acts.

As the rising tide of punk began to crash on Australia's shores, the Boys' realized 

that this was the proper direction for their chaotic, anarchic energies, and homegrown 

punk heroes like the Saints and Radio Birdman greatly influenced their musical direction.

"DOOR DOOR"

1979     LP     MUSHROOM RECORDS     L 36931

MADE IN AUSTRALIA    ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING

SINGLE SLEEVE + BUFF (Yellowish/Beige) LABELS EDITION

[Later pressing on Mushroom black labels]

This version: on front cover "Door, Door"; on labels "Door Door".

Sticker on front reads "AUSTRALIAN MADE".

On back cover "SOMEBODY'S WATCHING"; on label ""SOMEBOY'S WATCHING

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL: MISSING LINK - BUFF LABEL - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: (spine & rear) L 36931

Catalog on labels: L36931 (SMX-54215) / L36931 (SMX-54216)

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): SMX54215     ?2A

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): SMX54216     ?2A

On labels: rim text reads "All Rights............Made In Australia By Festival Records..............Prohibited"

(Aust. Comps.) (Mushroom)

? 1979 Mushroom Records, Australia

Engineered by Tony Cohen

Recorded at Richmond Recorders, January 1979

On Front Cover: FILE UNDER THE BOYS NEXT DOOR

On Back Cover: Side one produced by Les Karsky; recorded at Alan Eaton studios, Melb., June 78.

Side two produced by The Boys Next Door at Richmond Recorders, Jan. 79.

? 1978-79 Mushroom Records Australia............

from my records collection

tracklisting (from back cover)

Side A: THE NIGHTWATCHMAN - BRAVE EXHIBITIONS - FRIENDS OF MY WORLD

THE VOICE - ROMAN ROMAN - SOMEBODY'S WATCHING

Side B: AFTER A FASHION - DIVE POSITION

I MISTAKE MYSELF - SHIVERS

  grading

RECORD NEAR MINT but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)

......a deal with Mushroom, a successful Australian independent record label. 

The band recorded six songs before having the good fortune of stumbling upon 

Rowland S. Howard, who became the band's second guitarist and author of their 

most popular composition, "Shivers." That song, along with three others, was 

recorded in later sessions that featured the revamped lineup. "Shivers" became 

something of an anthem among the Australian punks and was the musical 

centerpiece in the bleak film Dogs in Space, concerning the sordid lives of 

a handful of young people in a Melbourne slum. The album that appeared, Door, Door, 

combined the two recording sessions but was not well-loved by the musicians, 

as they felt the results were too poppy (comparing it to any of their later releases, 

especially the albums Prayers on Fire and Junkyard, one can't help but agree).

"The Voice" and "Somebody's Watching" are filled with a paranoid mania and creepy, 

memorable musical phrases that make them two of Door, Door's highlights. (The lead 

guitar parts in the latter song make it seem as if Rowland Howard spent time listening

to Television at the wrong speed.) And "Roman Roman" is a frenzied schoolyard 

chant that hints at some of the anarchic pandemonium the group could create on-stage.

Nowhere is this more apparent than on the band's closing, mournful ballad, 

"Shivers," an unashamedly melodramatic example of post-adolescent anguish.

They were rapidly changing their style, anyway, as well as their name: in 1980 

they released their first album as the Birthday Party, 

and soon hightailed it from Australia to London...(AllMusic)