Triffids C/D?

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

welcome stranger is my favourite blackeyed susans album, lame i know, but will's blues and ocean of you are some straight up genius

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.

Blackeyed Susans just got a box set: http://theblackeyedsusans.bigcartel.com/product/reveal-yourself-1989-2009-box-set

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!

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).

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 :)

http://devonrecordclub.com/2015/04/19/the-triffids-born-sandy-devotional-round-80-toms-selection/

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.

He's a bit of a luddite, I'm afraid!!

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/

Intro
Too Hot to Move, Too Hot to Think
The Seabirds
Estuary Bed
Chicken Killer
Tarrilup Bridge
Lonely Stretch
Wide Open Road
Life of Crime
Personal Things
Stolen Property
Tender Is the Night (The Long Fidelity)
Beautiful Waste
Trick of the Light
Hell of a Summer
In the Pines
Raining Pleasure
Good Fortune Rose
Unmade Love
Fairytale Love

Encore:
Bright Lights, Big City
Bury Me Deep in Love

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? :-/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIVACqwx71A

Thanks! just a tad too raggedy for me but still, it's The Triffids! Live!

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!"

anyway, CLASSIC

particularly Stolen Property -> Tender is the Night - and Save What You Can - huge songs full of devastation and joy

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.

OMG, the digital kangaroos in that Italian footage lol. Gawd.

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

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!