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Melbourne, Australia (1973 – 1980)
“Boys Next Door” was formed in 1973 by Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, and Phill Calvert and others while they were attending Caulfield Grammar School outside of Melbourne, Australia. They were later joined by Tracy Pew on bass in 1975, and Rowland S. Howard in 1978 on guitar, thereby solidifying the line-up that would be The Birthday Party, to which they changed their name in 1980.
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Known to some as “the Beach Boys of the Midwest, “, The Boys Next Door were among the relatively few competent emulators of the Beach Boys/Jan Dean vocal/hot rod/surf sound, and certainly among the very few competent emulators to emerge from outside of California. Formed in Indianapolis, they issued a few singles in 1964-67, the first of these billed to the Four Wheels before they reverted to the name
The Boys Next Door (which they’d been known as before making their recording debut). They were made up of James Adams, Steve Lester, Jim Koss and Steve Drybread. The group had an extremely clean-cut image and sound, right down to the circa-1964 Beach Boys pinstripe shirts seen in some photos.
Actually, however, their recordings were pretty good and energetic, with melodic harmonies and a fairly kinetic drive. The early Four Wheels singles were convincing SoCal hot-rod pastiches, and singles such as “Mandy” were respectable approximations of the Beach Boys sound circa 1964-65 that could have fit in well as tracks on Beach Boys LPs of the period.
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Door, Door
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estravagaria
Door, Door is awsome, fuckin awsome.
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Pena123456
It turned out to be a really good project. Too bad they don't have so many songs
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Nimbie
Surprisingly good. Not _as_ good as Birthday Party or The Bad Seeds, of course, but still decent and enjoyable. And it's so weird (and charming) to hear young Nick singing in a poppy new wave guitar band.
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FabeRocker
Divine fits bring me here!
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top20fanatico
I hate last.fm because of this.I'm was listening the american TBND not the aussie ones.So bye to this group,because I generally don't listen artist with the same tags (exceps to BoA and JASMINE -.-)
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ynard
I actually think that BND era is better than The Birthday Party.. is it 'cos of the pop'ish sound? :o
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kjelt1963
o yes.. shivers!! i forgot about it.. the young nick cave (and the young me)
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estravagaria
The voice, the voice is caaaaaaalling yooooooou
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CaioMtta
This is not the band that I was looking for, I was looking for the surf band.
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lkuann
DOWN MY SPINE-YAYA-YAYA-YAYAYAYA-INE
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outrenoir
Sounds like The Jam. Does not compute.
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SonicNursery
"After a fashion" is hauntingly great!!!
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_rysler_
a czy ktoś pamieta "I Will Follow You"????
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kinkette1234
I f'uckin LOVE this!!! So perverse, dontcha think? You gotta love that. I'm laughing pretty hard, but I really liked it!
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Nochek
lOve this project! and RIP Rowland...
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Jamiiiiieee
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cyber330
RSH...Love you forever
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Severin_
R.I.P.Rowland. You'll always be missed but never forgotten
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betamerak
R.I.P Rowland S Howard
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Bethankurt
my favorite guitarrist of my world R.I.P.
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