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

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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. Their version of the song "Loose" and the Lydia Lunch piece have never been officially reissued on CD. The Lydia Lunch side is a single track recorded up to the run-out groove, causing the song to play endlessly on manual turntables.

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
Total length:			34:47

Personnel

Side one

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

Side two

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

Charts

Chart (1982)	Peak position
UK Indie Chart	2

External links

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