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