The Birthday Party (band)

The Birthday Party was an Australian rock music group, active in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It launched the careers of the internationally renowned singer and songwriter Nick Cave and of the respected musicians and songwriters Mick Harvey and Rowland S. Howard. Their early music found them sometimes classed as goth rock, but they disliked the label, and in retrospect, sound very different from most goth rockers.

Discography

Albums

• The Birthday Party/Boys Next Door (LP, 1980)
• Prayers on Fire (LP, 1981)
• Junkyard (LP, 1982)
• It's Still Living (LP, 1985)
• Best and Rarest (LP, 1985)
• The Bad Seed/Mutiny! (CD)
• Hits (CD, 1992)
• Live 1981–82 (CD, 1999)
• Peel Sessions (CD)

Singles and EPs

• "Mr Clarinet/Happy Birthday" (7" single, 1980)
• "Nick the Stripper/Blundertown/Kathys Kisses" (12" single, 1981)
• "Nick the Stripper/Blundertown" (7" single, 1981/82)
• "Release the Bats/Blast Off" (7" single, 1981)
• "Mr Clarinet/Happy Birthday" (7" single, 1981)
• "Drunk on the Pope's Blood/The Agony Is The Ecstacy" with Lydia Lunch (12" EP, 1982)
• "Dead Joe" (7" flexidisc, 1982)
• "The Bad Seed" (12" EP, 1983)
• "The Birthday Party" (12" EP, 1983)
• "Mutiny! "(12" EP, 1983)
• "The Peel Sessions" (12" EP, 1987)
• "The Peel Sessions" (12" EP, 1988)