3 Favourite Songs From Each Album

[Colt]

Treeless Plain
Red Pony
Hell of a Summer
Rosevel

Beautiful Waste
Beautiful Waste
Field of Glass
Property is Condemned

Born Sandy Devotional
Estuary Bed
Lonely Stretch
Wide Open Road

In the Pines
In the Pines
Kathy Knows
One Soul Less on Your Fiery List

Calenture
Bury Me Deep in Love
A Trick of the Light
Unmade Love

The Black Swan
Too Hot to Move
Fairytale Love
One Mechanic Town

[Colt]

As an addendum, if I am meant to be nominating songs from the original Raining Pleasure mini album, as opposed to the Beautiful Waste compilation CD, then I would select:

Raining Pleasure
Property is Condemned
Jesus Calling

[branded]

Beautiful Waste
Raining Pleasure
Property Is Condemned
St James Infirmary

Treeless Plain
Red Pony
Hell Of A Summer
I Am A Lonesome Hobo

Born Sandy Devotional
Lonely Stretch
The Seabirds
Tarrilup Bridge

In The Pines
Once A Day
Suntrapper
Better Off This Way

Calenture
Open For You
Jerdacuttup Man
Bury Me Deep In Love

The Black Swan
Too Hot To Move, Too Hot To Think
Can't Help Falling In Love
Goodbye Little Boy

Honorable Mentions-
Place In The Sun (early demo)
Reverie
(You've Got) A Funny Way Of Showing You Love Me
Stand Up
Lonely Stretch (David Solo)
Beginning To See The Light (live cover)

[Patrick Meagher]

i didn't grow up with the Triffids and only JUST got all the CDs i could find, so everything except the tapes and the Reverie and Bad Timing EP. As a new listener, here is my choices:

Treeless Plain:
Red Pony...It's just too anthemic to leave out.
Rosevel... That violin work gives me shivers.
Hanging Shed... when the acoustic guitar comes in you know you are in for a treat.


Born Sandy Devotional:
The Seabirds... The lyrics in the last two verses are amazing, and the 'where were you' line is very haunting for some reason.
Tarrilup Bridge... So strange but amazing. Great choice to have Jill sing!
Lonely Stretch... The Drones are my favourite band of today, and this is probably most similar to their music, so dark and angry, a really good contrast to the first two songs on the album.

In The Pines:
In The Pines... the version with the slide guitar is better, but still a great song and arrangement.
Keep Your Eyes On the Hole... The two acoustics sound really great together.
Born Sandy Devotional... probably sounded nothing like any other song that had been written at that stage. Really wierd mix of Australian indie folk and Eastern European string arrangements.


Calenture:
Kelly's Blues.. Awesome. The lyrics and the music fit in perfectly together.
Hometown Farewell Kiss... i love the shoop shoop in the chorus!
Save What You Can... really beautiful song. its just amazing, really well produced too.

Black Swan:
Goodbye Little Boy... I really prefer the demo version you can get off this website but its still amazing, and nice to hear the complete version too.
Good Fortune Rose... I'm going to choose all Jill Birt songs for this album because i think the way its produced, her voice suits it really well
Jack's Hole... Creepy sounding and the music is awesome. Lots of Tom Waits influence on Black Swan i reckon.

Beautiful Waste and Other Songs:
Field of Glass EP... its not a song but the songs all seem to go together as they have a distinctive feel to them, and they are all awesome, bright lights big city in particular is amazing, and the live version of field of glass is incredible too, would have been great to see that live.
Dear Miss Lonely Hearts... dark and violent, its awesome, 'i think i cut myself'.
Beautiful Waste... my favorite triffids song at the moment. i would love to get the tab for this. it sounds so different to everything else they did, not as folksy as anything on treeless plain or in the pines, but not as epic as Calenture or Born Sandy Devotional. I wish they d done some more stuff in this vein.


 

[Urpal]

Thanks for taking the time to do that, Patrick. Interesting to hear what a newcomer to the music makes of it.

[Sando]

right...here we go so....

treeless plain:
red pony
plaything
hell of a summer

raining pleasure:
jesus calling
raining pleasure
embedded

born sandy devotional:
wide open road
estuary bed
stolen property

in the pines:
one soul less
in the pines
suntrapper

calenture:
bury me deep in love
trick of the light
blinder by the hour

the black swan:
falling over you
new years greetings
too hot to move...

Hmmmm....interesting to revisit this list. This was me all those years ago before Sando stamped all over my true name. Anyway, I've never actually given this '3 Best Songs' thingy much thought since, and I'm struck to discover that most of my choices remain pretty much the same in 2010. Might swap one of the BSD tracks for Tender Is The Night, but that could be the only one that makes me seriously pause for thought. Anybody else find that their choics remain/change completely with repeated listens down the line?

[Stupy]

Hmm; old thread I've never commented on... never really thought of this before; the Triffids are more of an albums band to me...

In order from most favourite on each album...

Beautiful Waste
Mother Silhouette
Property Is Condemned
Raining Pleasure

Treeless Plain
Hell Of A Summer
Red Pony
Place in the Sun

Born Sandy Devotional
Wide Open Road
Lonely Stretch
Stolen Property

In The Pines
In The Pines
25 to 5
Once A Day

Calenture
Trick of the Light
Kelly's Blues
Blinder by the Hour

The Black Swan
Too Hot To Move, Too Hot To Think
Go Home Eddie
Spinning Top Song

[hiimpact]

Beautiful Waste
Raining Pleasure
Field of Glass
Property Is Condemned

Treeless Plain
Red Pony
My Baby Thinks She's a Train
Madeline

Born Sandy Devotional
Wide Open Road
Lonely Stretch
Stolen Property

In The Pines
In The Pines
Once A Day
25 To 5

Calenture
Trick of the Light
Bury Me Deep in Love
Jerdacuttup Man

The Black Swan
Too Hot To Move, Too Hot To Think
Fairytale Love
One Mechanic Town