Record collection, Part 5, The Birthday Party 23/5-14

Now, we've really reached one of the favorite sections in my record collection.

The Birthday Party - Prayers On Fire (LP)
1981 (4AD)
First official BP album and an amazing debut it is.

The Birthday Party / Lydia Lunch - Drunk On The Popes Blood / The Agony Is The Ecstacy (12'')

1982 (Missing Link)

BP side is, as it says on the cover, 16 minutes of hell. A classic live recording.

LL side is just one long track.

The Birthday Party - Junk Yard (LP)
1982 (4AD)
More furious and harder hitting tracks than Prayers On Fire. Considered the best output by some.

The Birthday Party - The Front Row Is Not For The Fragile (LP)

1982 (Tuff Monk Records)

A semi-okay live bootleg. The only reason Lunch is portrayed/mentioned on the cover is that she performs one song with BP.

The Birthday Party - The Friend Catcher (12'')
1983 (4AD)
Singles compilation EP.

 The Birthday Party - The Bad Seed (12'')
1983 (4AD)

The Birthday Party - Mutiny! (12'')
1983 (Mute)

The last two studio recordings by BP. The recording session for Mutiny was also released as a DVD a while back, where it really shows that BP (by then) were disintegrating.
At the same time, the tracks on these two 12'' LP's are amongst the best tracks by the band.

Record collection, Part 4, BE - BI , 21/5-14

I'm back, with a new receiver, and eager as hell to continue this venture!

Bethlehem - Sardonischer Untergang Im Zeichen Irreligiöser Darbietung (LP)
1998 (Red Stream Inc.)
Album title reads S.U.I.Z.I.D. and you get that feeling, Bethlehems early albums was so friggin' dark and angstridden so nothing could compare. Not as great as Dark Metal or Dictius Te Nicare, but great anyway.

Bethlehem - Reflektionen Auf's Sterben (12'')
1998 (Red Stream Inc.)

Birdflesh - Alive Autopsy (LP)
2001 (Leather Rebel Records)
Bought this around it's realease. Birdflesh are always funny, but re-listening this also made it very clear that musically they make excellent grindcore as well.

Birdflesh - Catheter - Time To Face Extinction (Split-LP)
2004 (Civilisation Records)
Not as good as Alive Autopsy and Catheter isn't anything special.

Birdflesh - Mongo Musicale (LP)
2006 (Candlelight Records USA)
A bit harder, more metal and better recording than Alive Autopsy. Alive Autopsy may live a little more on nostalgia, since it was the first album I heard and I probably got this a couple of years after its release. But lyrically it isn't as amusing as AA.

Boys Next Door (The Birthday Party) - The Birthday Party (LP)
1980 (Missing Link)
Originally released as the Boys Next Door album, re-released two years later as a Birthday Party album.
I consider Birthday Party to be one of the most important artists/groups/bands in my life. The early Nick Cave albums (which we'll come to eventually) have also played a very significant role. The arrogance in the music, the darkness in the lyrics, the danger constantly present in the sound and the snottyness in the Birthday Party phenomenon is amazing.