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Triffids
Biography
The Triffids were a seminal Australian alternative rock and pop band formed in Perth, Western Australia, in May 1978 with charismatic, David McComb as singer-songwriter, guitarist, bass guitarist and keyboardist. They achieved negligible success in Australia, but greater success in the U.K. and Scandinavia in the 1980s and disbanded in 1989, Some of their best known songs are "Wide Open Road" (February 1986) and "Bury Me Deep in Love" (October 1987); while their 1986 album, Born Sandy Devotional was featured by SBS television in 2007 on the Great Australian Albums series. and in 2010 it ranked 5th in the book 'The 100 Best Australian Albums' by Toby Creswell, Craig Mathieson and John O'Donnell. The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) recognised The Triffids' importance on 1 July 2008 when they were inducted into their Hall of Fame. Music historian, Ian McFarlane, declared, "The Triffids remain one of Australia's best-loved, post-punk groups [... ... ] McComb was an authoritative singer and accomplished songwriter [... ... ] he infused his melancholy songs with stark yet beautiful and uniquely Australian imagery. Few songwriters managed to capture the feeling of isolation and fatalistic sense of despair of the Australian countryside". They, along with The Go- Betweens, from Brisbane, were and are regarded as two of the most literate and evocative Australian bands of the 1980s, that both interestingly were created outside the mainstream Sydney-Melbourne pop/rock nexus.
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Discography
- Field of Glass, 1985
- Bury Me Deep in Love
- Trick of the Light, 1988
- Wide Open Road, 1998
- Wide Open Road: The Best of The Triffids, 2010
- Calenture, 2007
- Born Sandy Devotional, 1986
- Live - Stockholm
- Goodbye Little Boy, 1989
- The Black Swan, 2008
- Stand Up, 1981
- Raining Pleasure, 1984
- Reverie, 1982
- Treeless Plain, 1995
- In the Pines, 1991
- Bad Timing and Other Stories, 1983
- Peel Sessions, 1987
- Beautiful Waste and Other Songs, 2008
- Love in Bright Landscapes, 1986
- Australian Melodrama, 1994
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Recently Played on Dig Music.

| Song | Suntrapper |
| Artist | Triffids |
| Album | In The Pines |
| Label | Liberation/Blue |
| Year | 1986 |

| Song | Hometown Farewell Kiss |
| Artist | Triffids |
| Album | Calenture |
| Label | FMR |
| Year | 1987 |

| Song | Too Hot To Move, Too Hot To Think |
| Artist | Triffids |
| Album | The Black Swan |
| Label | Mushroom/FMR |
| Year | 1989 |

| Song | Holy Water |
| Artist | Triffids |
| Album | Calenture |
| Label | FMR |
| Year | 1987 |

| Song | Born Sandy Devotional |
| Artist | Triffids |
| Album | In The Pines |
| Label | Liberation/Warners |
| Year | 1986 |
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On the ABC
- New Triffids books launched amid political controversy - ABC ...
- Blanchett, Triffids get top billing at Perth festival - ABC ...
- ABC Arts - Feature: Dreamers and Dealers
- ARIA honours Triffids, Max Merritt - ABC News (Australian ...
- Ausmusic month: 666ers' top five Australian Songs - ABC ...
- Long Way To The Top
- Friday Drive - 365 Degrees of Separation - ABC Canberra ...
- Perth International Festival of the Arts broadcast - The ...
- BBC to remake Day of the Triffids - ABC News (Australian ...
- Big day Out' Competition'
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Estuary Bed
Artist Triffids
Album Born Sandy Devotional
Label FMR
Year 1989
Yeah, nice. I wonder if the ABC can get the rights to show the video of their reformation shows last year: http://www.itsrainingpleasure.com/
Fella, check out this thang: http://www.abc.net.au/wideopenroad/
The greatest Australian band? Or at least, the band that best captured 'being' Australian.
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