The Birthday Party

Formed: 1977 in Melbourne, Australia

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Disbanded: 1983

Genre: Pop/Rock

Group Members: Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Tracy Pew, Des Heffner, Des, Phill Calvert, Rowland S. Howard

Biography: The Birthday Party were one of the darkest and most challenging post-punk groups to emerge in the early '80s, creating bleak and noisy soundscapes that provided the perfect setting for vocalist Nick Cave's difficult, disturbing stories of religion, violence, and perversity. Under the direction of Cave ...Read full biography

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The Birthday Party

Released: 1980

Label: Missing Link

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Originally released in 1980 and credited to the Boys Next Door, that early incarnation of Nick Cave's Birthday Party had existed in the Australian punk scene from as early as 1973, and their debut album ...Read full review

Prayers on Fire

Released: 1981

Label: Buddha Records

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It should come as no surprise that there is an album in Nick Cave's oeuvre called Prayers on Fire; a fascination with the dark, (self-)destructive side of religion is more than evident in his later work ...Read full review

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