The Birthday Party - Prayers On Fire

Original Release Date

1981

Release Information

Australia LP 1981 (Missing Link - LINK 14)
UK LP 1981 (4AD - CAD 104)
US LP 1981 (Thermidor - T 02)

A1 Zoo-Music Girl 2:34
A2 Cry 2:39
A3 Capers 2:38
A4 Nick The Stripper 3:50
A5 Ho-Ho 3:06
A6 Figure Of Fun 2:47
B1 King Ink 4:39
B2 A Dead Song 2:12
B3 Yard 5:02
B4 Dull Day 3:03
B5 Just You And Me 2:01

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US CD 2000 (2.13.61 Records/Buddha - 74465 99691 2)

1 Zoo-Music Girl 2:34
2 Cry 2:39
3 Capers 2:38
4 Nick The Stripper 3:50
5 Ho-Ho 3:06
6 Figure Of Fun 2:47
7 King Ink 4:39
8 A Dead Song 2:12
9 Yard 5:02
10 Dull Day 3:03
11 Just You And Me 2:01
12 Blundertown 3:10
13 Kathy's Kisses 4:05

12-13 B-Side of Nick The Stripper, 1981

Chart Placings

UK Indie Hit: 4, 18 wks

Credits

Nick Cave - vocals; piano on King Ink; saxophone on Yard
Rowland Howard - guitar, vocals on Ho-Ho; snare on King Ink; backing vocals
Mick Harvey - guitar; organ on Zoo-Music Girl and Figure Of Fun; backing vocals
Tracy Pew - bass; clarinet on A Dead Song
Phill Calvert - drums
With:
Philip Jackson - trumpet on Zoo-Music Girl
Rowland Howard - backing vocals, vocals on Ho-Ho; snare on King Ink
Mick Hunter - brass on Nick The Stripper
Tracy Pew - clarinet on A Dead Song

Produced by The Birthday Party
Recorded Dec' 80 and Jan' 81 at A.A.V. Studio 2, Melbourne,
except Dull Day and Just You And Me recorded at Richmond Recorders.
Mixed at A.A.V, January 1981

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