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Montage Monday | The Boys Next Door/Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds/Fontaines D.C.

Today’s spotlight is the first in a new series called “Montage Monday”, where the spotlight may be brief, possibly even silly, but is packed with a lot of music. Because, sometimes, you need a montage (montage!).[1] And, also, we still have like 950 more albums to get through, and Mondays are hard.

So, for our first Montage Monday, we’re going to cover 43 years of rock of the punk/goth persuasion across 3 bands from 3 land masses. And, each title is directly linked to its Bandcamp/Songlink, in case you want to just jump straight in and forego the montage completely. Ready?

The Boys Next Door – Door, Door (1979, Australia)[2] / Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Let Love In (1994, Australia/Europe)[3] / Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia (2022, Ireland)[4]

In 1973, Nick Cave and some Melbourne schoolmates formed a band that would eventually become a four-piece group (with Mick Harvey, Phill Calvert, and Tracy Pew) known as The Boys Next Door. Starting largely as a punk cover band, after Rowland S. Howard joined, their sound changed to some sort of gloriously eclectic post-punk, and they released one absolutely brilliant album, Door, Door.

The band then left Australia for London, changed their name to The Birthday Party, wrote some goth songs about vampire sex and rats, did a lot of drugs, and met Blixa Bargeld from that German industrial band with the unpronounceable name. The band broke up in 1983 but essentially resurrected as Nick Cave and the Cavemen, soon renamed Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. A few girlfriends, albums, and countries later, we were gifted the wonderfully moody Let Love In, whose side A closer “Red Right Hand” would become the theme song for the brilliant TV series, Peaky Blinders (2013-2022).

Among other things, Peaky Blinders – a British period drama set between WWI and II – is known for its spot-on use of anachronistic songs, including a lot of Nick Cave. One influence on the soundtrack was none other than the show’s star Cillian Murphy, a former musician with impeccable taste in music. Murphy must not have had enough influence on the soundtrack though, because one of his favorite bands, fellow Irishmen and goth/punk rock band Fontaines D.C., clearly got shafted by being left off all six seasons. Like, maybe the timing didn’t work for something from Skinty Fia to be included in the final season, but they already had a couple other albums that could’ve been drawn from. And they essentially carry on the spirit of the early days of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds but, you know, in an Irish way. So, wtf?! Perhaps to fully explore such a travesty, we should go back to the beginning of anti-Irish sentiment in Britain. In this essay I will…

Always fade out in a montage
If you fade out, it seems like more time has passed
In a montage (montage)[1]

  1. Team America: World Police soundtrack – “Montage”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK4gv11PTI8 ↩︎
  2. Number 249 in The List, submitted by buffyleigh. Discogs link. ↩︎
  3. Number 309, submitted by owlyph. Discogs link. ↩︎
  4. Number 142, submitted by zm1. Discogs link. ↩︎
The cover art is a black and white photo of a person staring intensely at the camera. Something about the person's head doesn't look right, like it might be bandaged or misshapen. The band name is in small white font at the top center, with the album name directly underneath in larger red font.
The cover art is a photo of a topless, long-haired Nick Cave looking up, against a red/pink background. The band name is in white font at the top, and the album name is written in red on Cave's chest.
The cover art is a shaky photo of a deer in a strangely red-lit, carpeted room, a staircase behind and to the left, and an open doorway on the right. The album name is in large yellow letters across the top. The band name is not on the cover.
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