Two days short of what would've been David McComb's 56th birthday, our mutual friend JC has done me the great honour of posting my Triffids Imaginary Compilation Album over at The (New) Vinyl Villain (here). As always when attempting to choose just ten tracks from a favourite artist, the final selection proved excruciatingly difficult to whittle down. In the end I tried for a representative mixture of the band's lighter and darker moments, sequenced into what I hope is a really balanced listen. Among the many other great Triffids songs that came under consideration as I fiddled and faffed with the final running order, was epic live favourite 'Field of Glass', which eventually only failed to make the cut by the smallest of margins. So imagine, if you will, that this is the hidden bonus track on the CD version of the compilation.
The Triffids - Field of Glass
7 comments:
Was so pleased to see the Triffids immortalized with your monumental ICA this morning. I know this is an all timer for you... and it shows! Nicely done, Swede.
Nice job on a great great band! No Jerdacuttup Man though... For shame.
Excellent. One of those bands that has been on my list for a while, so I'll be sure to burn your selections to a Cd for further investigation.
Thanks for your kind words everyone, it means a lot. Ramone666 - so many great songs and only 10 slots to fill!
As I just said over at TVV a band I know slightly but clearly not well enough. Thanks for all of this
That Peel sessions 12 inch is simply tremendous. The albums Treeless Plain and "Beautiful Waste and other songs" are in my collection, but no later offerings.
I haven't previously heard of The Triffids. Based on that track alone, the vocal is sort of a fusion of Jim Morrison and Nick Cave. Thanks for compiling the compilation!
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