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Boys Next Door
Band Melbourne Australia Active 1977–1980 early Nick Cave band, became The Birthday Party
Boys Next Door formed in 1977 in Melbourne, Australia and was active until 1980. Boys Next Door has 3 chart appearances on 3 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 1989–1991. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Shivers”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #12. The station that charted Boys Next Door most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 3 appearances.
The Boys Next Door came out of Melbourne in 1977 with punk rock on their minds and something darker brewing underneath. The lineup read Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Tracy Pew and Phillip Calvert, and in 1978 Rowland S. Howard came aboard and gave them a second, sharper edge.
Door, Door, their album from 1979, is where you can hear the band pulling against the three-chord blueprint. Its standout, "Shivers", swaps the pogo for a slow, sardonic crawl, sung with a curled lip, and it's the song rock radio's countdowns kept coming back to a decade later. By 1980 the Boys Next Door were finished.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
Songs by Boys Next Door on radio countdowns
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 38 | Shivers | Triple J Hottest 100 of All-Time (1991) |
| 1990 | 15 | Sivers | Triple J Hottest 100 of All-Time (1990) |
| 1989 | 12 | Shivers | Triple J Hottest 100 of All-Time (1989) |
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