Mutiny/The Bad Seed

Mutiny/The Bad Seed
Compilation album by
Releasedoriginal EPs: 1983
compilation album: 1989
RecordedOctober 1982, April & August 1983
GenrePost-punk
Length39:44
Label4AD
The Birthday Party chronology
Junkyard
(1982)
Mutiny/The Bad Seed
(1983)
Hee Haw
(1989)
The Bad Seed album artwork
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Austin Chronicle[2]
Oxford Referencevery favorable[3]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide[4]

Mutiny/The Bad Seed is a compilation album by the Birthday Party. It is compiled from 2 EPs, The Bad Seed recorded in October 1982, and Mutiny! recorded in April and August 1983, and both were released in 1983. The Bad Seed and Mutiny! were released as a compilation in 1989. It is written by Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Rowland S. Howard, and Tracy Pew.

These are the band's final studio recordings, and the only studio recordings made after the departure of drummer Phill Calvert. The album marks the first collaboration with Cave's longtime collaborator Blixa Bargeld, who played guitar on "Mutiny in Heaven". The compilation adds two tracks not included on the Mutiny EP, "Pleasure Avalanche" and "Six Strings That Drew Blood," the latter later re-recorded by the Bad Seeds.

  1. ^ "Mutiny/The Bad Seed – The Birthday Party". AllMusic.
  2. ^ "Reissues". www.austinchronicle.com.
  3. ^ "Mutiny/The Bad Seed (Birthday Party album)". Oxford Reference.
  4. ^ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian David (2 April 2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780743201698 – via Google Books.