Side A
Artist	Song
Penitentiary Prisoners (Recorded by Alan Lomax)	Black Woman (Negro Prison Blues & Songs) 1947
Howlin Wolf	Moanin at Midnight (His Best) 1951
Screamin' Jay Hawkins	Alligator Wine (Frenzy) 195?
Lionel Long (co-penned by my Father)	Ring-A-Ling Hi (Waltzing Mathilda) 196?
Charlie Mingus	Passions of A Man (Best of) 1961
Tom Jones	Chills & Fever (Best of) 1964
John Lee Hooker	Leave My Wife Alone (EP Collection) 1965
Nina Simone	I Put A Spell On You (I Put A Spell On You) 1966
Lee Hazelwood	My Baby Cried All Night Long (The Very Special World of) 1966
Love	Signed D.C. (Comes In Colors) 1966
Tim Rose	I got a loneliness (Tim Rose) 1967
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	Zig Zag Wanderer (Safe as Milk) 1968
Iggy & The Stooges	Loose (Fun House) 1970
David Bowie	Black Country Rock (Man Who Sold The World) 1971
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Alex Harvey Band	Crazy Horses (Penthouse Tapes) 1976
The Saints	Story of Love (I'm Stranded) 1977
Elvis Presley	Way Down (Moody Blue) 1977
The Boys Next-Door	Shivers (Door, Door) 1979
Pop Group	We Are All Prostitutes (Post Punk 01) 1979
Fall	Industrial Estate (Post Punk 01) 1979
The Birthday Party	Nick The Stripper (Live 1981-82) 1981
Crime & City Solution	Free World (The Bride Ship) 1988
Beasts of Bourbon	Love and Death (Axeman's Jazz) 1990
Gallon Drunk	Just one more (You The Night & The Music) 1991
These Immortal Souls	The King of Kalifornia (I'm Never Gonna Die Again) 1992
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	Bring It On (Single Edit) 2003

Comment:

Band Members: Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Tracey Pew, Phil Calvert, and Rowland S. Howard

The best band I ever saw!

I'm always amazed when I click on Goth Mixes or see Goth Comps to see The Birthday Party included. Aside from Cave & Howard's mutual lusting for Carolyn Jones as Morticia in The Adam's Family; Howard's eye-liner, palid skin and blue black spike; Cave's cartoon haystack and a 7" titled Release The Bats there is nothing in The BP's canon to suggest Gothic. Southern Gothic, yes, but not The Gothic we use to describe Bauhaus, or Sisters of Mercy. Anyway, Goths were far too precious to attend Birthday Party Gigs in case their hair got tangled in Cave's flying boot.

A Few Notes

Lionel Long was an Australian Folk Singer, Ring-A-Ling Hi, co-penned by my father, was a song about Australian Outlaw Ned Kelly whom Cave became interested in.

Rowland S. Howard fronted the Immortal Souls.

Gallon drunk are a London based band, with obvious Bparty inflences. Lead Singer James Johnston replaced Blixa Bargeld in The Bad Seeds.

Beasts of Bourbon are an Australian Band, lead singer Tex Perkins has written with Cave and appeared on Bad Seeds Albums as well as fronting The Cruel Sea.

Crime & The City Solution was another Australian Band that both Mick Harvey & Rowland S. Howard played in.

The Pop Group was a Bristol Band and whose influence can clearly be heard in Bparty and were acknowledged by Cave to be a turning point in The Party's sound.

The Boys Next Door are of course The Birthday Party.

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