Drunk on the Pope's Blood/The Agony Is the Ecstacy

Drunk on the Pope's Blood/The Agony Is the Ecstacy
EP by The Birthday Party/Lydia Lunch
Released	February 18, 1982
Recorded	November 26, 1981 at The Venue in London, England
Genre	Post-punk
Length	34:47
Label	4AD
The Birthday Party chronology
Prayers on Fire (1981) Drunk on the Pope's Blood (1982) Junkyard (1982)
Lydia Lunch chronology
Queen of Siam (1980) The Agony Is the Ecstacy (1982) 13.13 (1982)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Drunk on the Pope's Blood/The Agony Is the Ecstacy is a split compilation EP by the post-punk acts The Birthday Party and Lydia Lunch, released on February 18, 1982 through 4AD. It contains live material from a show performed on November 26, 1981 at The Venue in London. Three of the four Birthday Party tracks were included on their "Live 1981-82" CD. The song "1970 (Loose)" and the Lydia Lunch piece have never been officially reissued on CD.^[2]

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Pleasure Heads"	Nick Cave	3:40
2.	"King Ink"	Nick Cave, Rowland S. Howard	6:02
3.	"Zoo-Music Girl"	Nick Cave, Rowland S. Howard	3:00
4.	"Loose"	The Stooges	5:33

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Agony Is the Ecstacy"	Lydia Lunch	16:31

Personnel

Side one

• Phill Calvert – drums
• Nick Cave – vocals
• Mick Harvey – guitar
• Rowland S. Howard – guitar
• Tracy Pew – bass guitar

Side two

• Christian Hoffman – drums
• Lydia Lunch – vocals
• Murray Mitchell – guitar
• Steven Severin – guitar

Charts

Chart (1982)	Peak position
UK Indie Chart[3]	2

References

1. Dougan, John. "Drunk on the Pope's Blood/The Agony Is the Ecstasy [EP]". Allmusic. Retrieved February 22, 2013.
2. Gimarc, George (July 11, 2005). Punk Diary. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 575. Retrieved February 22, 2013.
3. Lazell, Barry (1997). Indie Hits 1980-1989. Cherry Red Books. Retrieved September 5, 2014.

External links

• Drunk On The Pope's Blood / The Agony Is The Ecstacy at Discogs (list of releases)