jennifer_nine's Full Review: Prayers on Fire [Remaster] by The Birthday Party
Oh.
My.
Gawd!
This album sounds so lifelike and so NOW that I just want to grab a megaphone and drive around all day declaring it! Perhaps I’ll rip my clothes off and run down the street . .. . No No No. I’m afraid that wouldn’t work. Not in my town anyway. The boys from Keesler AFB would be dry humping me in mere seconds. Enough with the visuals you say?
I’m just trying to put a little light into an otherwise dry, Ebertish world of dressed-up GOODS and exaggerated BADS. I know many don’t like my writing and that’s just fine. I read your reviews as well. There are many that confuse ‘there’ with ‘their’ and to me that’s like going up to your mom and saying, “Hey Dad. What’s up?!” You sound drunk! And then you critique my review like your Randolph Quirk. I still get past the fat-crayon style of jabber mouthing and find true heart in your feelings of certain songs and scenes. (I can’t get enough reviews about diapers and printers!) I love every one of you. Do I constantly have to say that?!
Before I ripped my hair out at another review of OK COMPUTER, I thought I’d do a write-up on an oldie-butta-goodie. Anyway, I love this album more than life and more than any words from my smelly thesaurus could say. Don’t get me wrong, I love Nick Cave’s solo work and his stuff with the Bad Seeds. But, whence returning to the fire, one will find, it still burns .. .. .. wildly! Nick’s self-destructive creativity shines and his penchant for the moody, dark, melancholic beams of echoing pasteurizing barks with guttural essence despite his meager vocals (which I just love!).
I don’t think there is one song on here that I can say anything negative about. It took awhile for words like gloom-loom and clock-lock from “Capers” to become appealing, but in the whole sense of albumry, I think helps display the wizardry.
Is their best release? Well, isn’t it their roughest? So, it’s a matter of opinion. In my opinion, this is Birthday Party’s best. If you want to purchase an album that reveals the darkest thoughts along with a picture-perfect Leonard Cohen afterworld (It’s here, I promise! You may have been searching for oh-so-long!) Nick Cave still amazes still today. ‘Prayers of Fire’ helps show the fans where he started. But on its merit, this album amazes beyond belief.
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