Prayers on Fire

Tracklist

• 1
  Zoo-Music Girl
  2:38
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Cry
  2:42
• 3
  Capers
  2:39
• 4
  Nick the Stripper
  3:52
• 5
  Ho-Ho
  3:07
• 6
  Figure of Fun
  2:48
• 7
  King Ink
  4:41
• 8
  A Dead Song
  2:13
• 9
  Yard
  5:04
• 10
  Dull Day
  3:04
• 11
  Just You and Me
  2:03
• 12
  Blundertown
  3:10
• 13
  Kathy’s Kisses
  4:06

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Release credits

• Mick Harvey
  background vocals [2], electric guitar [2, 4-5, 8-9], organ [1, 6], piano [3, 8, 10-11, 13], snare drum [7]
• Mick Hunter
  brass [4], guest [4]
• Nick Cave
  drums (drum set) [11], lead vocals [1-4, 6-13], piano [7], saxophone [9]
• Phillip Calvert
  drums (drum set)
• Phillip Jackson
  brass [4], guest [1, 4], trumpet [1]
• Pierre
  background vocals [2], guest [2]
• Rowland S. Howard
  background vocals [2-3], electric guitar [1-10, 12-13], lead vocals [5], saxophone [11]
• Stephen Ewart
  brass [4], guest [4]
• The Birthday Party
  producer
• Tony Cohen
  engineer
• Tracy Pew
  clarinet [8], double bass [9], electric bass guitar [1-8, 10-13]

Issues

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  Prayers on Fire

  12" Vinyl
  30 March 1981
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  Prayers on Fire

  12" Vinyl
  1981
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  Prayers on Fire

  12" Vinyl
  1981
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  P
  Prayers on Fire

  12" Vinyl
  1981
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  Prayers on Fire

  12" Vinyl
  1981
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  Prayers on Fire

  CD
  25 April 1988
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  Prayers on Fire

  CD
  1988
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  P
  Prayers on Fire

  Cassette
  1990
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  Prayers on Fire

  CD
  16 May 2000
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  P
  Prayers on Fire

  CD
  2008
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  P
  Prayers on Fire

  12" Vinyl
  29 September 2015
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  P
  Prayers on Fire

  12" Vinyl
  7 October 2016
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  Prayers on Fire

  Digital Media