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The Boys Next Door

• Leathal Weapons (SUICIDE VXL4072) - Released March 1978.
  Compilation featuring three Boys Next Door songs: These Boots Are Made For Walking, Masturbation Generation, Boy Hero.
  
  

• These Boots Are Made For Walking/Boy Hero(SUICIDE 103140) - 7" single released March 1978
  The first song is a cover of the famous Nancy Sinatra song. Only about 1,500 copies of this record were ever pressed.
  
  

• Door Door (MUSHROOM L36931) - LP released May 1979.
  Side One : Night Watchman, Brave Exhibitions, Friends of My World, The Voice, Roman Roman, Somebody's Watching.(Side One recorded Melbourne, June 1978)
  Side Two : After a Fashion, Dive Position, I Mistake Myself, Shivers. (Side Two recorded Melbourne, January 1979)
  The tracks that appear on Side One were originally intended for release on an unfinished project called Brave Exhibitions. Half of the original songs were scrapped when Rowland S. Howard joined the band. The Boys Next Door then recorded a new set of songs with Howard including his masterpiece, Shivers, which he originally performed with former band, The Young Charlatans.
  
  

• Shivers/Dive Position (MUSHROOM K-7492) - 7" single released May 1979.
  These songs are the same versions that appear on Door Door. The original version of Shivers by the Young Charlatans is available on a cassette-zine called Fast Forward (FF 004). Shivers also appears on the Dogs In Space soundtrack (US-ATLANTA 81789-1)and also a MUTE compilation called The Tyranny of The Beat: Original Soundtracks From the Grey Area (MUTE A GREY 1) which was released in December 1991.
  
  

• Scatterbrain (CRYSTAL BALLROOM CBR-1) - 7" single released November 1979.
  This was a free single distributed by the Crystal Ballroom, Melbourne. The B-Side features The Models performing Early Morning Brain. The single was recorded on a four-track in Phil Calvert's bedroom. The song also appears on the Missing Link cassette release, From The Archives, on which The Boys Next Door are listed as Torn Ox Bodies.
  
  

• Hee Haw (MISSING LINK MLEP-3) - 12" EP released December 1979.
  Side One: Catholic Skin, The Red Clock, Faint Heart.
  Side Two: Death By Drowning, The Hairshirt.
  First 500 copies printed with the labels the wrong way around. Hee Haw was re-released on 7th August 1989 as a 13 track compilation featuring both Hee Haw and The Boys Next Door/Birthday Party LP.
  
  

• Happy Birthday/Riddlehouse (MISSING LINK MLS-16) - 7" single released February 1980.
  This single was distributed at the Crystal Ballroom, Melbourne, on 16th February 1980. This was the last Boys Next Door concert before the band moved to London and changed their name to The Birthday Party. Only 750 copies were ever pressed.
  
  

• The Boys Next Door/The Birthday Party (LINK 77) - LP released November 1980.
  Side One: Mr Clarinet, Hats On Wrong, The Hairshirt, Guilt Parade, Riddle House.
  Side Two: The Friend Catcher, Waving My Arms, The Red Clock, Catman, Happy Birthday.
  This is a compilation of B sides and EP tracks which carries a duel name. The cover artwork varies with different pressings.
  
  

• From The Archives - Cassette released by Missing Link containing Scatterbrain and Enemy of the State. Scatterbrain is performed by Rowland S. Howard's previous band, The Young Charlatans.
  
  

• Document 82/85 (PLEASANTLY SURPRISED) - Cassette released 1983.
  This is a compilation tape that was released in the UK. It includes the The Hairshirt.
  
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The Birthday Party

• Mr Clarinet/Happy Birthday (MISSING LINK MLS-18) - 7" single released July 1980.
  Same versions as on The Boys Next Door/The Birthday Party LP.
  
  

• Friend Catcher/Waving My Arms/Catman (4AD AD12) - 7" single released October 1980.
  Same versions as on The Boys Next Door/The Birthday Party LP.
  
  
• The Birthday Party/Boys Next Door (MISSING LINK LINK-7) - LP released November 1980.Later releases dropped the Boys Next Door from the title. For track listings, see The Boys Next Door/Birthday Party above.
  
  
• Nick The Stripper/Blundertown/Kathy's Kisses (MISSING LINK NSD 479) - 12" single released June 1981.
  First 1,000 copies had a pink and blue cover. Later pressings had a grey and black cover.
  
  
• Nick The Stripper/Blundertown (MISSING LINK MLS 32) - 7" single released 1981/1982.
  Different picture sleeve from above in black and white. New Zealand release had a pink sleeve.
  
  
• Prayers On Fire (4AD CAD 104) - LP released April 1981.
  Side One: Zoo-Music Girl, Cry, Capers, Nick The Stripper, Ho-Ho, Figure of Fun.
  Side Two: King Ink, A Dead Song, Yard, Dull Day, Just You and Me.
  Released in Australia on Missing Link (LINK 14). First 1,000 copies were on red vinyl. Greek and Japanese versions also have Release The Bats and Blast Off. CD version released in 1988 contained Blundertown and Kathy's Kisses.
  
  
• Release The Bats/Blast Off (4AD AD 111) - 7" single released August 1981.
  
  
• Mr Clarinet/Happy Birthday (4AD AD 114) - 7" single released October1981.
  Same cover as Missing Link release.
  
  
• Drunk on the Pope's Blood (4AD JAD 202) - 12" EP released February 1982.
  First side features Lydia Lunch performing The Agony is the Ecstacy. Second side is entitled 16 Minutes of Sheer Hell and features The Birthday Party performing Pleasureheads Must Burn, King Ink, Zoo-Music Girl and Loose. Released in Australia on Missing Link (ING-004).
  
  
• Junkyard (4AD CAD 207) - LP released July 1982.
  Side One: She's Hit, Dead Joe, The Dim Locator, Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow), Several Sins.
  Side Two: Big-Jesus-Trash-Can, Kiss Me Black, Six-Inch Gold Blade, Kewpie Doll, Junkyard.
  The CD version (CAD 207 CD) (LINK-14 in Australia) released in 1988 had Release the Bats, Blast Off and a different version of Dead Joe. Cover art is by Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. Kiss Me Black and Kewpie Doll were recorded in London and Barry Adamson plays bass on them. The rest was recorded in Melbourne with Tony Cohen engineering.

• Dead Joe (BAG 005) - 7" flexidisc released August 1982.
  Masterbag magazine put out this one sided single. Barry Adamson plays bass.
  
  
• The Bad Seed (4AD BAD 301) - 12" EP released February 1983.
  Side One: Sonny's Burning, Wild World.
  Side Two: Fears of Gun, Deep in the Woods.
  Recorded at Hansa Studios, Berlin. CD version (CAD 301 CD) released in 1989 as The Mutiny/The Bad Seed EP. Includes both EPs plus demos of Pleasure Avalanche and The Six Strings That Drew Blood as the masters had been lost.
  
  
• The Birthday Party (4AD BAD 307) - 12" EP released June 1983.
  Side One: Release the Bats, Blast Off, The Friend Catcher.
  Side Two: Mr Clarinet, Happy Birthday.
  This record is a compilation of singles.
  
  
• Mutiny! (Mute 12 MUTE 29) - 12" EP released November 1983.
  Side One: Jennifer's Veil, Mutiny In Heaven.
  Side Two: Swampland, Say a Spell.
  Recorded at Hansa Studios. Produced by the band. Blixa Bargeld plays guitar on Mutiny In Heaven.
  
  
• It's Still Living (Missing Link ING 009) - LP released May 1985.
  Side One: King Ink, Zoo-Music Girl, The Dim Locator, She's Hit, A Dead Song, Pleasureheads Must Burn.
  Side Two: Junkyard, Blast Off, Release The Bats, Nick the Stripper, Big-Jesus-Trash-Can, Dead Joe.
  These are recordings from a show at the Astor Theatre, Melbourne. Released on CD in Australia in 1991 (Virgin VOZ CD2048) and on green vinyl (VOZ 2048). According to Mick Harvey, this album was released by Keith Glass without the band's consent and the statement on the sleave that proceeds were going towards the completion of a film of a BP concert is a fallacy. The album was mixed in two hours by Tony Cohen while the band were rehearsing in a studio.
  
  
• Best and Rarest (Missing Link LINK 22) - LP released 1985.
  Side One: Blast Off, The Hairshirt, King Ink, Junkyard, Big-Jesus-Trash-Can, Release the Bats. (previously released versions)
  Side Two: Blundertown, Kathy's Kisses (both from Nick the Stripper 12"), Ho Ho (unreleased version with Nick singing), The Friend Catcher (previously unreleased), Scatterbrain (same as free single), The Plague (unreleased from Hee Haw sessions).
  This record was also released against the Birthday Party's wishes. Mick says "Some of this material was never meant to see the light of day".
  
  
• The Peel Sessions (Strange Fruits SFPS 020) - 12" EP released January 1987.
  Side One: Release the Bats, Rowland Around In That Stuff.
  Side Two: (Sometimes) Pleasureheads Must Burn, Loose.
  Recordings of the Birthday Party's second session with John Peel at the BBC in 1981. Also released on CD (SFPSCD 020).
  
  
• The Peel Sessions (Strange Fruits SFPS 058) - 12" EP released November 1988.
  Side One: Big-Jesus-Trash-Can, She's Hit.
  Side Two: Bully Bones, Six-Inch Gold Blade.
  The bands second BBC John Peel sessions also from 1981. CD (SFPSCD 058) released 1989.
  
  
• Hits (4AD DAD 2016) - Double LP released October 1992.
  Record One: The Friend Catcher, Happy Birthday, Mr Clarinet, Nick The Stripper, Zoo-Music Girl, King Ink, Release the Bats, Blast Off, She's Hit, Six-Inch Gold Blade.
  Record Two: Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow), Dead Joe, Junkyard, Big-Jesus-Trash-Can, Wild World, Sonny's Burning, Deep in the Woods, Swampland, Jennifer's Veil, Mutiny In Heaven. Compilation of hits. Also on cassette (DAD C 2016) and CD (DAD 2016).
  
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  Birthday Party bootlegs

• Devil In The Bottle - Compilation of live and studio tracks on Party Records, 1985.
  Side One: Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow), Deep In The Woods, Wild World, Junkyard, Jennifer's Veil.
  Side Two: Scatterbrain, Ho-Ho, Release the Bats, Little Doll, Cry, Fears of Gun, Catman.
  On blue vinyl.
  
  
• A Social Gathering for the Celebration of the Anniversary of Someone's Birth (Death Records BP 001) - LP released 1987.
  Side One: Big-Jesus-Trash-Can, Dead Joe, The Friend Catcher, A Dead Song, Six-Inch Gold Blade.
  Side Two: Junkyard, Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow), Pleasureheads Must Burn, Fun House (with Lydia Lunch).
  Taken from a radio broadcast of a gig in Bremen, Germany.
  
  
• Cremation
  Side One: Death by Drowning, Figure of Fun, Nick the Stripper, A Dead Song, Big-Jesus-Trash-Can, Loose.
  Side One: King Ink, Pleasureheads Must Burn, Cry, Sonny's Burning, She's Hit.
  Edition of 500 copies released by Preaching. Live and John Peel tracks.
  
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Videos

• Pleasureheads Must Burn (Icon Video FCL) - released 1983 and again in 1992.
  Highlights of two shows at the Hacienda in Manchester on 22nd July 1982 and 24th February 1983. From the first show there is Dead Joe, A Dead Song, Junkyard, Release the Bats, Pleasureheads, Big-Jesus-Trash-Can. From the second show there is Pleasure Avalanche, Six-Inch Gold Blade, Wild World, Six Strings, Sonny's Burning and She's Hit. Also the Rich Kids' (Paul Goldman and Evan English) video of Nick The Stripper.
  
  
• The City
  Unreleased footage of the recording of Mutiny! at Hansa Studios in Berlin. This 20 minute video directed by Heiner Muhlenbrock included the implosion of the band during the recording of Jennifer's Veil and Swampland.
  
  
  
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