― Sandy, Monday, 16 June 2003 00:24 (twenty years ago) link
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― gaz (gaz), Monday, 16 June 2003 01:47 (twenty years ago) link
born sandy devotional is a great great record of time and importanly place. it screaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaams western australia.
listen 'wwwwwwwwwesssssssssssssssssternnnnnnnnn australiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaa"
yup
― gallantseagull, Monday, 16 June 2003 02:19 (twenty years ago) link
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― gaz (gaz), Monday, 16 June 2003 02:25 (twenty years ago) link
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― s.r.w. (s.r.w.), Monday, 16 June 2003 06:56 (twenty years ago) link
(Actually there's an idea)
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 16 June 2003 07:01 (twenty years ago) link
― angelo (angelo), Monday, 16 June 2003 11:06 (twenty years ago) link
Very envious that you got to see them live!
― Sandy, Tuesday, 17 June 2003 01:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 00:49 (seventeen years ago) link
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― byebyepride, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 09:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Not decided on the exact makeup of TBS yet. It's very much a work in progress. (...) There's a huge amount of stuff to wade through. TBS was probably the most fully demoed album of all and the demos are high quality and quite revealing.
― StanM, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 09:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― byebyepride, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 09:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― SeekAltRoute, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Reviving cause there's the reissues of Calenture and In the Pines just about out on Domino. Which I'm lucky enough to be reviewing for Plan B. Ned Raggett (Ned) on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 1:49 AM (2 months ago)
― StanM, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― barnaby, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link
The documentary about Born Sandy Devotional is airing on Saturday. I was looking for a torrent source, but then I found a place to order the DVD: http://chaos.com/product.asp?intProductID=1541336&intArtistID=8865
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 10 August 2007 18:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Where is it on tomorrow? (don't actually remember where you're from, so maybe that's a very stupid question. I'm in Belgium, by the way. Hello.)
― StanM, Friday, 10 August 2007 18:57 (sixteen years ago) link
It's airing in Australia tomorrow (I'm in the US)
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 10 August 2007 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Ah. Thanks anyway.
― StanM, Friday, 10 August 2007 22:14 (sixteen years ago) link
So I got the BSD reissue used the other day (with the booklet even) -- very nice, had heard the original album via mp3s some years back but good to hear it straight up. That said I do agree with the occasional comments above that the band's work is almost too studied, just. There's something about a lot of their songs that doesn't dig as deep as I might have expected, even though I can admire the results. No complaints, though, and it'll likely grow on me more.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 January 2008 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link
The reissue of In The Pines is so so great.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 14 January 2008 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link
not classic by any stretch. david mccomb had a poet's lyrical flair alright but the triffids always struck me as a little lifeless musically, had nothing of the spark or imagination of a band like the go betweens (to whom they were often compared). 'wide open road' is an exception though - just a beautiful song. jill birt's songs always made me cringe too. i don't think their music has aged particularly well either.
OTM
― Michael B, Monday, 14 January 2008 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
No complaints, though, and it'll likely grow on me more. ned, you are too nice. i'd say pretty unsubstantial sunny easy listening music. wahat i heard (parts of bsd and itp) was flowing along without leaving any traces. like an aussie indie mainstream. no need really to listen to any more of that boring stuff. the go-betweens were a different kind of beast.
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 14 January 2008 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
the 7" singles box set is exceptionally well done - i usually hate reissues done this way but i was really impressed
― electricsound, Monday, 14 January 2008 22:55 (sixteen years ago) link
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=367992&rss=yes
The Triffids reform for memorial shows
Dude from Youth Group tho? O_o do not want.
― W4LTER, Friday, 18 January 2008 04:50 (sixteen years ago) link
aye, i just noticed this, noice
― mentalist, Friday, 18 January 2008 05:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I just picked up reissues of Treeless Pain, The Black Swan, and "Beautiful Waste and other songs (mini-masterpieces 1983-1985).
Should I be excited?
― bakerstreetsaxsolo, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 00:13 (sixteen years ago) link
yes
the last one is particularly interesting..
― electricsound, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link
black swan is 'restored' to how d. mccomb wanted it to be originally and is now about 40 tracks long!
― haitch, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 00:23 (sixteen years ago) link
oh awesome
― electricsound, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 00:24 (sixteen years ago) link
West Australian Premier takes on fans of The Triffids
"The people who are making the complaints are former fans, or groupies or roadies of The Triffids," Mr Barnett said.
"It's not about Colin Barnett, it's not about my son Russell Barnett, it's not about the heritage value of the house, it's not about the parliament.
"It's about The Triffids! It's about the Triffids! Don't you get it? It's about the Triffids!"
― I'm Australian or some other weird nationality (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 19 July 2009 07:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Why herritage list the house where some b grade band used to practice? Most people in the country have never heard of them anyway. What makes them so special? Do we now have to list every house that every muso ever grew up in. Just because a band gets fame on Tripple J doesnt make them a great band. Commercial radio rarely if ever played them.
looool
― matt preston's cravat rack (electricsound), Sunday, 19 July 2009 09:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I've never been inspired to pick up their individual albums, "Australian Melodrama" has suited me fine. I queued up the Blackeyed Susans "Hello Stranger", haven't spun that in ages and never moved beyond that either. McComb was involved in the next one but nothing after that, right?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 5 October 2009 23:19 (fourteen years ago) link
yes, all souls alive is the last album he's involved with
there's a lot in their catalogue that australian melodrama only hints at - you would not regret investigating further
i got their singles box set after only having BSD and black swan and was BLONE AWAY
― i'm the unban spaceman (electricsound), Monday, 5 October 2009 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
welcome stranger is my favourite blackeyed susans album, lame i know, but will's blues and ocean of you are some straight up genius
― i'm the unban spaceman (electricsound), Monday, 5 October 2009 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
They're a little too bloodless to be classic in my book. Tasteful rock for adult critics. Perhaps they were a refreshingly cool breeze in the world of overheated Australian bloke rock. Or maybe everyone here actually liked "Tojo" by the Gurus better back in the day but is grabbing the belated chance to claim more sophisticated tastes. I know I'd rather listen to the Gurus--and at least 50 other Australian bands--before getting to these guys. That doesn't make them a dud, far from it, just not classic. If they weren't Australian (which is exotic for us non-Aussies, and a patriotic obligation for those who are), would we be having this debate? They'd be third string were they from London, right? But with a devoted cult, fittingly.
― Michael Train, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 01:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Blackeyed Susans just got a box set: http://theblackeyedsusans.bigcartel.com/product/reveal-yourself-1989-2009-box-set
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 29 November 2009 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Triffids best of & box set news: http://thetriffids.com/sitefiles/
tracklist Best Of: http://www.dominorecordco.com/uk/reissues/21-01-10/wide-open-road-the-best-of-the-triffids/
Box set: will contain at least 8 cds, including lots of stuff from their early cassettes!
― StanM, Friday, 29 January 2010 11:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Recently got "Beautiful Waste And Other Songs", a compilation of their EPs from 83-85. Two holy-crap-this-is-awesome songs: "Property Is Condemned" (just shy of the ferocity of The Birthday Party) and "Field Of Glass" (9 minute epic).
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 4 March 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, "Field of Glass" is epic. Came across a 12" of it a few years ago, too bad it's crackling and popping all over. Must get the comp then I suppose :)
― willem, Sunday, 4 March 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
http://devonrecordclub.com/2015/04/19/the-triffids-born-sandy-devotional-round-80-toms-selection/
― yugi ex, Sunday, 19 April 2015 08:55 (nine years ago) link
For me, the Triffids, the Chills, the Go-Betweens, were all names that flowed through the inner pages of the music press I was discovering in the late 80s, but I never had the opportunity to get my hooks into them, or vice versa. Now when I hear them I hear sounds I like, patterns I recognise, signifiers I respond to, but I just don’t have the history, the personal and musical connections, the dust of the road engrained in the folds of my skin, to really get them completely.
Nooooooooooooooo.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 April 2015 14:15 (nine years ago) link
He's a bit of a luddite, I'm afraid!!
― yugi ex, Monday, 20 April 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
30th Anniversary event for Born Sandy Devotional, Oct 23 in Brussels:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lfoQPkyEzA
https://www.abconcerts.be/en/agenda/events/in-remembrance-of-david-mccomb-the-triffids-play-born-sandy-devotional-1986-artist-talk-w-the-triffids-documentary/19782/
― StanM, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 18:35 (seven years ago) link
IntroToo Hot to Move, Too Hot to ThinkThe SeabirdsEstuary BedChicken KillerTarrilup BridgeLonely StretchWide Open RoadLife of CrimePersonal ThingsStolen PropertyTender Is the Night (The Long Fidelity)Beautiful WasteTrick of the LightHell of a SummerIn the PinesRaining PleasureGood Fortune RoseUnmade LoveFairytale Love
Encore:Bright Lights, Big CityBury Me Deep in Love
― StanM, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
Truckload of Sky, the lost songs of David McComb, Vol. 1 - Feb 17, 2020
https://thefriendsofdavidmccomb.bandcamp.com/
Look, I loved the Triffids while he was alive and I get they miss him but... really? :-/
― StanM, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIVACqwx71A
― Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 00:21 (two years ago) link
Thanks! just a tad too raggedy for me but still, it's The Triffids! Live!
― StanM, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 16:02 (two years ago) link
the Triffids aren't a high rotation band for me but about once a year a certain set of climatic/emotional conditions align and they blow my mind
particularly Stolen Property -> Tender is the Night - and Save What You Can - huge songs full of devastation and joy
interesting indifference levels on this thread - maybe it's an Australian thing, I dunno. that's fine if it is - comparing them to the Go-Betweens is weird, as if Australian bands can only be evaluated in relation to other Australian bands. understandable but doesn't provide much insight. I think perhaps the Triffids' best-known songs don't give an idea of their overall breadth and ambition
I wish I'd seen them live but I was a bit too young and as a teen I didn't really vibe with their thing - living in Sydney I would had multiple opportunities to see David and never got around to it - then I went to one of those "remaining Triffids and guest vocalists" shows a few years back and it was an amazing crash course in David McComb's body of work - great song after great song, and smart and moving arrangements too - it was like that dumb scene in Jonny Mnemonic where Keanu downloads data into his brain, suddenly I was like "oh shit, I get it!"
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Sunday, 20 February 2022 20:43 (two years ago) link
anyway, CLASSIC
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Sunday, 20 February 2022 20:44 (two years ago) link
I know right. They got very good at closing LPs. And at casual (near-)tearjerkers that somehow creep up on you unannounced.
I was too young too but distinctly remember newspaper reviews of Calenture giving me my first sense of a special class of Bands Critics Like lol. I didn't get it at all for another decade.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 21 February 2022 00:29 (two years ago) link
OMG, the digital kangaroos in that Italian footage lol. Gawd.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 21 February 2022 00:31 (two years ago) link
I feel I should have known about this before today. My nearest public library has it, so I'll endeavour to fetch it later, as the physical issue seems to be packed with extra stuff.
https://www.madman.com.au/catalogue/view/62748/love-in-bright-landscapes-the-story-of-david-mccomb-of-the-triffids
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 10 November 2022 01:15 (one year ago) link
It's good documentary! Goes pretty deep with home movies, etc. The focus is very much on DM, but the other members are there to speak for themselves, so it doesn't feel too hideously unbalanced.Interesting to hear DM's move to Melbourne (the "substance abuse capital of Aus" or something lol) posited as an important factor in his downfall!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 12 November 2022 00:34 (one year ago) link