THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, Prayers On Fire, Missing Link, debut LP with lyric sheet
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RARE AUSTRALIAN POST-PUNK/GOTHIC 12" LP - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY: Prayers On Fire (Missing Link, LINK 14) 1981
COVER IS VG+ to VG++ ... A little shelfwear and ringwear, light corner wear and creasing, top left. VINYL is NM- ... Hard to fault. The odd light mark and hairline. Top notch copy.
This one needs no introduction. Classic Australian post-punk album featuring Nick Cave, Mick Harvey and Roland S. Howard.
After recordings and moderate success in Australia (including hundreds of live shows) Boys Next Door headed for London in 1980, changed their name to The Birthday Party and launched into a period of innovative and aggressive music-making. Some sources say the band took its new name from the Harold Pinter play The Birthday Party;[8] others (including Ian Johnston's Cave biography) state it was prompted by Cave misremembering, or intentionally misattributing, the name to a non-existent birthday party scene in the Dostoyevsky novel Crime and Punishment. In a 2008 interview, Rowland S. Howard gave his own recollection: "The name The Birthday Party came up in conversation between Nick and myself. There's this apocryphal story about it coming from a Dostoyevsky novel. It may have had various connotations, but what he and I spoke about was a sense of celebration and making things into more an occasion and ritual".[9] They resided in London, with trips back to Australia and tours through Europe and the U.S. before relocating to West Berlin in 1982. Prayers On Fire is their debit album.
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