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Prayers on Fire [Explicit Lyrics] [Import]

~ The Birthday Party
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (9 Feb 1996)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Explicit Lyrics, Import
  • Label: Shock
  • ASIN: B000006ZCD
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 70,658 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Having relocated, after one album, from their native Australia to England, The Birthday Party proved too much even for a post-punk London scene greedy for novelty. Led by drawn, gangling vocalist Nick Cave and addled, introspective guitarist Roland S. Howard, they set about provoking their audience with a brutal mix of rabid psychobilly, country blues and an ear-splitting mess of near-industrial percussion. Prayers On Fire (its title neatly capturing Cave's onstage persona--a hell-spawned and gothic Deep South preacherman) was as incendiary as the band's gigs. Though an aggravating shambles, it was hypnotically intense, featuring such deliberately barbarous live favourites as "Zoo Music Girl" and "Nick The Stripper", and also "King Ink", later the title of one of Cave's books. Poetic, violent and clearly drug fuelled, even today it explains the furore that led The Birthday Party to quickly move on to Berlin, then split altogether. --Dominic Wills


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Nick Cave is widely acknowledged as one of our most mature songwriting talents these days, but there was a time when heseemed to be the most unhinged soul in Christendom. The Birthday Party's performances, whether in the studio or on stage, were always compelling, and they left behind no more powerful document than this shattering record. PRAYERS ON FIRE, an intense, disquieting effort, was their first international release after relocating to London from Australia. While the violence of the group's urban rockabilly rumbles underneath, often to no obvious linear structure, Cave's lyrics are informed, acute, but utterly unyielding and savage. Check the no-compromise ferocity of "Nick The Stripper" and "King Ink", still among his best songs.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Light my fire!, 7 Aug 2001
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The Birthday Party's first 'proper' album (released in 1981, it was preceded by an eponymously-titled collection of EPs and singles) is a bona-fide rock classic. Although many critics prefer its successor, Junk Yard, for me Prayers on Fire has the edge, largely because of the inclusion of the terrifying Zoo Music Girl and King Ink. Although the band's arty, jazz-influenced sound was startlingly original, Cave's demented screaming and taste for self-degradation ( e.g. Figure of Fun, Nick The Stripper) recall Iggy Pop in his prime with The Stooges. As is the way with great talents, Cave built intelligently on rock's history and heritage without seeming merely derivative, and in so doing, produced a record that still sounds fresh and original after two decades. An essential purchase!
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Moribund Swampland Ozzie Boogie!, 29 April 2000
When this album landed on these shores it was hard to believe that something so right had suddenly splashed down amidst some of the worst music being commited in the u.k.It was post -punk time and everyone seemed to be self conscious and austere ,no show of emotions..a cooling off period...Then,BAM!Prayers On Fire arrived like a drunken Uncle at a Family Barbecue....One listen to Zoo Music Girl,the opening track ,will set up the onslaught to come ..Superb baby-Burundi drumming with a boiling brutal bass sat atop...itchy-scratchy guitars wading in through separate channels and then the booming tone of Mr.Nick Cave arrives...his lyrics a cut-up psychobabble of animal lust and cradled desire...And its got a singalong chorus too!It ends with a faded out trumpet the band still burning underneath..A brief rest and then a great drum and bass motif usher us into 'Cry'which features a slightly more subdued Cave until the chorus rips the top of your skull off! The power in this band is luckily captured forever on this album as they had yet to begin the transition toward their own take on world weary blues with the drummer,Phil Calvert,taking a backseat more often than not.Their poppunknewwave influences are still apparent on many tracks and also occasional displays of silliness(Capers)autobiographical confession (Nick The Stripper)and near perfect rock (King Ink)...At the heart of all this is a band at the top of its awesome power about to look inside itself and piece by piece,hack itself apart.
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