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Prayers on Fire [Explicit Lyrics] [Import] [from UK]

~ The Birthday Party
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Product Details

  • CD (2008/1/29)
  • Original Release Date: 1981
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Explicit Lyrics, Import, from UK
  • Label: 4ad
  • ASIN: B000006ZCD
  • Other Editions: CD
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.jp Sales Rank: #44,977 in 音楽 (See Bestsellers in 音楽)

    Category Ranking:

    #507 in  音楽 > オルタナティヴロック > ロック
    #721 in  音楽 > オルタナティヴロック > パンク・ハードコア

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Product Description

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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


Album Details

Australian reissue of their second album (1981) plus two outtakes from the sessions for the album. 13 tracksin all.

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4.0 out of 5 stars ダーク&クリアー。, 2003/8/2
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オーストラルアのメルボルン出身のNick Caveと、彼の親しい友人であるMick Harveyによって結成された前身バンド「Boys Next Door」がデビューした頃、オーストラリアのオーディエンスにうんざりした彼らは、当時のマネージャーのすすめもあってロンドンへ活動の拠点を移したのが1980年の事。そしてバンド名を「The Birthday Party」と改称し、心機一転、活動を始めます。しかし、当時のイギリスは大不況の中にあり、またパンク・シーンが既に過去の産物となっていたことから、彼らは音楽活動を断念することすら考え始めます。そんな中、アルバイトで稼いだお金でファースト・ギグを敢行し「Mute」レーベルのDaniel Millerに気に入られ「DAF」のサポート・アクトを務めます。このショーを観に来ていた「4AD」レーベルの創設者であるIvoの目に止まり、同レーベルと契約する事となります。程なくデビュー・シングルをリリースし、John Peel Sessionに出演、インディ・チャートでも好アクションを記録します。同年にオーストリアに舞い戻り、メルボルンにて制作されたのがこのデビュー・アルバムです。リリースは1981年。当時はエレクトロ・ポップが席巻してたロンドンの音楽シーンにおいて、彼らのダークでエモーショナル、かつ生音に拘ったサウンドは、非常に個性的かつ新鮮なものと写ったのか、ロンドン・インディ・シーンにて受け入れられるようになります。エキセントリックでダーク、そして退廃的な独自の美意識でもってサウンド構築を為されたアルバムであり、当時は「Bauhaus」を並び称される程の人気を博しました。「4AD」レーベルの以降のカラーにも大きな決定打となったアルバムとして、評価は高いアルバムです。傑作!
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