- Prayers on Fire
Infobox Album | Name = Prayers on Fire
Type =Album
Artist = The Birthday Party
Released =April 06 ,1981
Recorded =A.A.V. Studio 2 ,Melbourne 1980 & 1981
Genre =Post punk
Length = 42:06
Label =4AD
Producer =Tony Cohen and The Birthday Party
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:8e881vjjzzha~T1 link] |Last album = "The Birthday Party"
(1980)
This album = "Prayers on Fire"
(1981)
Next album = "Junkyard"
(1982) |"Prayers on Fire", by The Birthday Party, was released in April 1981 on the
4AD label. This was the band's first full length release on an internationalrecord label (and the first under the name "The Birthday Party"). After leavingAustralia to broaden horizons inEngland , the band returned toMelbourne to record this album. It was recorded at Armstrong's Audio Visual Studios inMelbourne and Richmond Recorders in Richmond, Victoria,Australia , between December 1980 and January 1981. Members of Melbourne bandEqual Local contributed the brass section to "Nick the Stripper" (Tenor Sax player Mick Hauser was mis-credited as "Mick Hunter").Track listing
# "Zoo-Music Girl" (
Rowland S. Howard ,Nick Cave ) – 2:38
# "Cry" (Cave) – 2:42
# "Capers" (Howard,Genevieve McGuckin ) – 2:39
# "Nick the Stripper" (Cave) – 3:52
# "Ho-Ho" (McGuckin, Howard) – 3:07
# "Figure of Fun" (Cave, Howard) – 2:48
# "King Ink" (Cave, Howard) – 4:41
# "A Dead Song" (Cave,Anita Lane ) – 2:13
# "Yard" (Cave) – 5:04
# "Dull Day" (Howard) – 3:04
# "Just You and Me" (Cave,Mick Harvey ) – 2:03
# "Blundertown" (Howard) – 3:10 (CD Only)
# "Kathy's Kisses" (Cave) – 4:05 (CD Only)Personnel
*
Nick Cave - vocals,saxophone , drums
*Rowland S. Howard -Guitar , vocals, saxophone
*Mick Harvey - Organ,piano , guitar, vocals
*Tracy Pew - Bass,clarinet ,double bass
*Phill Calvert - Drums
* Phillip Jackson -Trumpet
* Mick Hauser -Tenor Saxophone
* Stephen Ewart -Trombone External links
* [http://www.nick-cave.com/_lyrics_tbp.php The Birthday Party lyrics] from [http://www.nick-cave.com/ Nick Cave Online]
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