The Triffids

I learned about this band from Courtney Barnett, another Australian musician who has a lyric referencing The Triffids in her song "History Eraser". She is great, I trusted her taste and was not disappointed. The Triffids remind me of if The Smiths and The Cars made a love child.

Jerdacuttup Man

One of these bands that are special with very pleasant and original music

So so glad to have discovered these guys today. Can't wait to explore their albums.

https://a1000mistakes.wordpress.com/2017/01/04/classic-albums-in-the-pines-by-the-triffids/

Their spare, sometimes mysterious music comes across as a series of mini love letters to Australia. Not the increasingly Americanized Australia that is prominent amongst the major cities along the coast. I'm talking true blue, dinky-di country towns, the rich red outback, diesel and dust, let's have a cold beer on a Sunday arvo and record an album in a sheep sheering shed kind of Australia. That's the Triffids. They were a special band.

I love them since I first listened to their music. And I love them more with time. Witty, smart, romantic, sometimes wry, sometimes crooning, a little bit of epic, a little bit of dust, and a little bit of homesickness. In one word: gorgeous

Best and most underrated band I've ever met

As a 15 year old my dad and a friend snuck into a Scientists gig. The Triffids, who were just starting out, were supporting. And they sucked. Naturally, dad and m8 started chanting 'TRIFFIDS WANK' and the whole room joined in.

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Great band. Lonely stretch is one of the best songs i've heard.

probably one of the greatest bands of all time-- once you scratch the surface you just find more and more completely essential music. way more than just another post-punk band. "Wide Open Road" and the like are amazing, but truly the best stuff is buried a little deeper with these guys.

Wide Open Road <333

I absolutely adore this band. The variety of melancholy displayed is amazing. The range from the brilliant "Convent Walls" to the equally brilliant "Tarrilup Bridge" says it all. Not to mention my all time favourite Triffids moment, the version of "Wish To See No More" from In The Pines.

The Dungeon Tape is incredible. Reminds me of Television - great stuff.

Jerdacuttup Man

'An Australia-sized talent'...... word!

So underrated, yet so wonderful!

I try to sing the praises of Dave and The Triffids but it doesn't seem to work most of the time. I guess some things never change. An Australia-sized talent.

totally agree

One of my favourite bands of all time......

amazing band, love it./

Эти ребята ещё в 80ые убирали всяких Аркад Файр... а их даже никто не знает Т_Т (2)

Эти ребята ещё в 80ые убирали всяких Аркад Файр... а их даже никто не знает Т_Т

@tea_leaves your comment may well be the most cunty thing ive read on this site in a while

Great!

Please come and join [group]The Triffids[/group] group!!!

tea_leaves: first of all because they don't sound very much like the go-betweens, but most of all because you don't really have to choose between them. both bands were great, and it's not like your schedule is packed full, is it?

The first track of The Black Swan, genious.

blinder by the hour when its sunny is bloody brilliant

In The Pines, then the ep collection, then Treeless Plain.

I've only got Calenture, and I love it. What should I pick up next?

The 10 CD version of of Greatest Hits will be worth buying for the PBS Prince of Wales concert alone. Bootlegged as "Caught in the Act" if this was released at the time it would have pushed The Triffids into the stratosphere. The missing link between Treeless Plain and Field of Glass

God, I could see Wide Open Road being used in some shitty show like Grey's Anatomy. Maybe it's best this band isn't so well-known...

http://www.last.fm/music/David+McComb/+images/614945

"He died of heart failure... and it wasn't even his heart!"

I was thinking about it recently, and I reckon they're like the Australian Smiths.

:') By Jove, I loved them all. And my 'rents knew them all personally.

@ lukemus, what I meant is that there IS a re-released version, which I am looking to get. It was released quite a while back, and it expanded and all!

A criminally underrated group. Imagine my displeasure playing the Triffids Radio, and not hearing them.( like I mentioned earlier) So I've scrobbled some tracks to get them up my charts, where they belong.

I love Black Swan! I bought it years ago as a cassette and it doesn't sound so good any more. It's great if there'll be a re-released version.

hearditfirst - agree about Black Swan. The tracks themselves don't stand out on there own but the album is to be listened to as a whole. I'm looking for the re-released expanded version so I could hear how it was intended. Apparently they wanted to make it their White Album.

born sandy devotional, such a sweet girl to meee...

Black Swan - an incredibly ignored album that I think is now their finest work. An album to listen to in one hit - shame there aren't any full tracks on here though...

She says "what's the matter now, loverboy, has the cat run off with your tongue? Are you drinking to get maudlin... or drinking to get numb?" <3

You cannot hear the band. They don't have any playable track here on Last FM, as is apparent from this page