Birthday Party
Melbourne 1980-1983
Discography
Albums
The Birthday Party 1980 10
LP AUS Missing Link LINK-7 (Also released under the name "Boys Next Door")
AUS Missing Link LINK-7 (re-issue 1982, no mention of "Boys Next Door")
Prayers On Fire 1981 11 Produced by Tony Cohen and The Birthday Party
CD AUS Missing Link LINK 14 CD (2 bonus tracks; "Blundertown" and "Kathy's Kisses")
AUS Shock CAKE 2 (re-issue 1996)
UK 4AD CAD 104CD (2 bonus tracks; "Blundertown" and "Kathy's Kisses")
LP AUS Missing Link LINK-8
AUS Virgin VOZ 2038 (red vinyl, 2 bonus tracks; "Blundertown" and "Kathy's Kisses")
GRE Statik STAT 3103 (1 bonus track; "Release The Bats")
NZL Propellor
UK 4AD CAD 104
USA Thermidor T-2
Release The Bats 1981 2 Produced by The Birthday Party and Nick Launay
Single UK 4AD AD 111
Maxi-Single AUS Missing Link MISS 37.12 (issued 1983)
Junkyard 1982 10 Produced by Tony Cohen and The Birthday Party
CD AUS Missing Link LINK 21 CD (2 bonus tracks; "Release The Bats" and "Blast Off")
AUS Shock CAKE 3 (re-issue 1996)
UK 4AD CAD 207CD (3 bonus tracks; "Release The Bats", "Blast Off" and "Dead Joe, Second Version")
LP AUS Virgin VOZ 2049 (pink vinyl, 2 bonus tracks; "Release The Bats" and "Blast Off")
UK 4AD CAD 207
Drunk on the Pope's Blood 1982 4
CD AUS Missing Link LINK 29 CD (issued 1994, 7 bonus tracks)
LP UK 4AD JAD 202
The Birthday Party (The Friend Catcher) 1983 5
EP UK 4AD BAD 307
Hee-Haw 1983 5
CD AUS Missing Link LINK 7 CD (13 tracks) (issued 1988)
AUS Shock CAKE 1 (re-issue 1996)
UK 4AD CAD 307 (13 tracks) (issued 1988)
EP AUS Missing Link ING 008 (same as Boys Next Door EP)
UK 4AD BAD 307 (same as Boys Next Door EP)
The Bad Seed 1983 4 Produced by Tony Cohen and The Birthday Party
EP AUS Powderworks POWT 2007
UK 4AD BAD 301
Mutiny! 1983 4 Produced by Tony Cohen and The Birthday Party
EP AUS Powderworks POWT 2011
FRA Vogue VG 311026
FRA Vogue VG 114
UK Mute 12MUTE29
It's Still Living 1985 12
CD AUS Missing Link LINK 28 CD (issued 1991)
LP AUS Missing Link ING 009
AUS Virgin VOZ 2048 (green vinyl)
A Collection (Best and Rarest) 1985 12
LP AUS Missing Link LINK 22
USA Missing Link/Suite Beat LINK 22
A Collection 1987 12
CD AUS Missing Link SBCD 2017
The Peel Sessions (28/4 1981) 1987 4
CD-EP UK Strange Fruit SFPSCD020
EP UK Strange Fruit SFPS020
The Peel Sessions (10/12 1981) 1988 4
EP UK Strange Fruit SFPS 058
Mutiny/The Bad Seed 1989 11
CD AUS Shock CAKE 4 (issued 1996)
UK 4AD CAD 301 CD
Hits 1992 20
CD AUS Shock CAKE5 (issued 1996)
UK 4AD DAD 2016 CD
USA 4AD 9 45087-2 (1 track missing; "Six Inch Gold Blade")
LP UK 4AD DAD 2016
MC UK 4AD DADC2016
Definite Missing Link Recordings 1979-1982 1994
CDBOX AUS Missing Link LINK 30
Live 1981-82 1999 17
CD UK 4AD CAD 9005 CD
John Peel Sessions 1980-82 2001
CD
Members
Adamson Barry (b) 1982
Calvert Phillip (d) 1980-1982 Boys Next Door, Psychedelic Furs (UK), Blue Ruin
Cave Nick (v,sax) 1980-1983
Harvey Mick (g,d,k) 1980-1983
Heffner Des (d) 1983 The Scavengers, The Marquises, The Marching Girls, Permanent Press, Four Courners, The Slaughtermen, The Gospel According To St Kilda, The Great Temptation, The Black Sun, Barry Plankton, Maurice Frawley and The Working Class Ringos
Howard Rowland S. (g,bv) 1980-1983
Pew Tracey (b) 1980-1982,1982-1983 Boys Next Door, The Bad Seeds, The Saints
Wegener Jeffrey (d) 1982 Streetlife, Last Words, Out Of Nowhere, The Laughing Clowns, The Saints, The Young Charlatans, Immortal Souls
Sources of information: Sound Affects #16, Birthday Party 4AD Discography, Hands Up, Who Wants To Die?, Nick Cave Collector's Hell, From The Archives
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