Great Australian Albums / Born Sandy Devotional - The Triffids

[@donotwantahandle1111]

I was in the same class as David McComb in primary school. I remember a nice guy with freckles but my parents decided to move to Sydney for my high school years so we lost touch. Then I see him on tv fronting the Triffids!

[@mariadocarmomindudonascime9871]

Greetings from Brazil ! My favourite bands from Australia are The Triffids and The Go-Betweens. I love their 80's melodic guitars. Unfortunatly it's impossible find their CDs and the DVDs here in Brazil, so I listen and watch using You Tube. The album Born Sand Devotional was released on LP format in Brazil in the 80's and my ex boyfriend had this pearl. Great times

[@johangaudissabois8668]

Hallo Maria, you had the right boyfriend at the time if he was a TRIFFIDS-fan. I think their output has been re-released. I could buy all their albums on vinyl after I had acquired 2 of them (BORN SANDY and CALENTURE) a decade before that on CD. I saw them live in GHENT at the time of BORN SANDY DEVOTIONAL and it has always been one of my favorite concerts ever...

[@gavaniacono]

Brings back my youth in dry hot Australia. Captures life experiences with the world with perfect atmospherics.

[@ettieneterblanche290]

I bought this on vinyl in my first year of university in Johannesburg in 1992. I was so excited to play it, but there was no record player in my student digs. Had to wait two weeks til I got home. Why didn't I try harder? 😢

[@mozzrules]

Thanks for this wonderful documentary of my one of my favorite bands which I passionately love. Long live David McComb and co. Greetings from Istanbul.

[@ronjohn98]

Great documentary. Loved the album. Wished I'd seen them live,. Stolen Property always makes me cry,. Resonate to that song in so many ways.

[@robbieh1899]

These guys broke out when I was in high school, in love for the 1st time and the whole world looked like our oyster. The Angels, Cold Chisel, Australian Crawl, Divinyls, INXS, were our staples, then, The Church, Spy v Spy, Go Betweens, and The Triffids opened my mind to music that was just MAGNIFICENT. RIP Dave. Gone far too soon.

[@CelticFan]

This album is so, so timeless. It can be heard for the very first time at any time now and in the future - going way forward.without ending attraction or appeal. An extraordinary record. A totally unique sound. More so, David McComb has captured an incredible insight into the narrative of an Australian landscape, with universal appeal. A stunning stunning record that will never be dated.

[@glenngastonjonsson7954]

In Hultsfred '86 they took us in backstage. We had no drugs to offer but Dave sang "Red Pony" with me, playing his guitar. The proudest moment of my life.

[@andyking7621]

Sod 'Great Australian Albums' ...............it's one of the greatest albums the fucking universe has offered up....... utterly magnificent

[@gvese]

Wide Open Road brings me in tears, all over again.. Best wishes for the band from Finland!

[@kallenuppunen2059]

Multa myös!

[@kallenuppunen2059]

Here as well

[@LaughingStock_]

Frankly, I could've watched another hour of this. Wonderful documentary.

[@michaelstacey8507]

The best band that has ever come out from Perth. I was 3 years old when The Triffids formed. Great music is timeless. Coming from Perth Born Sandy Devotional is a story book for me. Accolades from Paul Kelly, Steve Kilbey, Robert Forster, Amanda Brown, say no more. We lost David far too soon.

[@maryburke5423]

Thanks for posting. Having a wee sob now. 😢

[@daverawcliffe3212]

One of my most favourite bands

[@happymedium27]

A beautiful and fascinating documentary about a brilliant band and a poetic genius and the lovely album they recorded. Taken too soon but the music and brilliance of David McComb and the Triffids lives on through Born Sandy Devotional and lovingly insightful documentaries like this one. Thank you.

[@Ando-ti6yi]

Great, great album....brings to mind physical and emotional distances. Thanks uploader.

[@danielmargrain6289]

I saw The Triffids in pub in Turnpike Lane, north London in the late eightees. I was one of the handful of Brits who knew about them.

[@floydgondolli7321]

The go betweens, the triffids, and the birthday party. The amount influence on indie music and to think they were chilling in london

[@APoxOnNordStream]

This is one of the best albums ever made - PERIOD - wherever it's from. At the same time I can't think of any lyricist who evokes landscape and emotions associated with it like David McComb.

[@styxcreek]

Like the Go Betweens they were criminally ignored in the meathead pub rock scene so prevalent in Australia during the 80s

[@WantonMyth]

Yep, and it was also what the major radio stations chose to play. If you were a little different, then you got little air time.

[@elizabethblackwell6242]

They had a huge following in Perth, not surprisingly.

[@deaddoll1361]

@@elizabethblackwell6242 Did they? When Robert spoke of the dangers of venturing into suburban Perth, he wasn't joking. While bands like The Frames, The Jets and V-Capri played to packed beer barns every week, The Triffids and a handful of other Perth bands that dared to be different, played old, small inner city pubs to a small but devoted following.

[@Enevan1968]

Big in Belgium, they were. Not joking!

[@OujiDarkmatter]

I'm so glad you put this up!The Triffids bring my head back....snd the memories flow,need it.Cheers and thanks again;I've watched it numerous times,even bought this and have had the album since it came out.This band comforts me

[@glennjonsson1819]

I keep returning to The Triffids now and again. A beautiful upload. Sincere thanks.

[@Muesli711]

I just can't get my head around David McComb being only 22 or so when he wrote Born Sandy Devotional.

[@ligwort]

Thank you; a beautiful documentary.

[@cosmicdrifter287]

love this band and album,thanks for the posting!

[@mikeperth8027]

This is a fantastic documentary of a brilliant band that ended just as they hit the ground running. Born Sandy Devotional has been one of my favourites for years, still on my playlist today. Great album to listen to on the way up tp Carnarvon.

[@alisonlaing4212]

Thank You Triffids!

[@LilikakiTsikris]

oh, my !

[@dreamsjamaan145]

Great album. I'd never seen this documentary. Thank you for uploading. I'm privillaged to seethem playing in Groningen( The Netherlands), Vera in the '80's. I'm privillaged too to have the original album. It's a wide open road... It's still a wide open road...

[@enzos222]

This is really a superb tribute to David and the Triffids. Thanks for posting!

[@peregrinemccauley7819]

Fantastic .

[@TheMimifur]

I remember the Trade Union Club in Sydney... a great place. Made me very welcome

[@shrew972]

It's a sad and beautiful world

[@alvaroasc]

I never knew - until watch this video - that "Born sandy devotional" was such a respected album so far. I had a brazilian copy and sold it but i´ll re-buy it next time i see one item. Very good program and a great talented band...Thanks for the post.

[@johangaudissabois8668]

So great to see STEVE KILBY as well. big CHURCH fan. I esp. love the STARFISH album (which is in my all time album list)

[@johangaudissabois8668]

BORN SANDY DEVOTIONAL" is one of my all-time favorite albums. It stands next to 16 LOVERS LANE by THE GO-BETWEENS. However, it is not the only great TRIFFID-album. Think CALENTURE, TREELESS PLAIN and even IN THE PINES (basically their BASEMENT TAPES)

[@Bennyboy1985]

I prefer the Demo version to 'Tender is the night' most of the way through- the slightly clumsy and off-centre playing of the organ and the rawness of their voices together makes it sound like they're drunk and playing one final song from the heart before they crash out for the night. Plus the lyrics are like one last eulogy they're playing, the last song at an alcohol-soaked wake for a friend at the end of a long, emotionally tiring day. What I love about the album version however, is everything after the last line of the song- the way the music just wanders off, up into the lonesome, starry night sky. Where you are, it's just getting light- but here it's dark and lonely and now as the music dies it's silent, save for the crickets and the faded memories of somebody from a life that no longer exists...

[@elizabethblackwell6242]

South Cott. I grew up on that beach. I seem a long way from home now.

[@realramone3455]

A wide open road never conducted them to Portugal... never saw them live...sad. GREAT BAND

[@joshmancell4539]

Shocked to be typing this... but after listening to BSD with headphones, I'm drawing a sketchy line to elements of later era Swans - based on commanding/sermon-like vocals, liberated slide guitar, jagged/powerful drums + overall cinematic sonics.

[@bluenightgrinner8620]

As much as I love BSD atmospheric openess....raw production...cinematic...I'd love to be a fly on the wall for the making of Calenture. I remember watching a U2 interview with Molly Meldrum and they raved about The Triffids and Calenture in particular. Same sensibilities as The Joshua Tree.

[@routeoz02]

Last night in London - totally fab.

[@poolfrank11]

Albums hardly ever hang together as perfectly as BSD. 10 songs, why could you possibly want any more?

[@craigbutler9200]

I bought the BSD album a few months ago, fantastic album and a tragedy in another sense .

[@Mr69906990]

great stuff..

[@BasswipeNC]

I was reading wikipedia about them and I never saw any mention of The Church (maybe I missed it). I was glad to see Steve Kilby comment as part of this. There are so many great Australian bands from that era.

[@DaveFurgess]

if this album came out in the 60's people would know it everywhere

[@salvadorromeromolina3719]

CALENTURE ( 1987 ) IS MY FAV TRIFFIDS ALBUM EVER

[@zt3811]

I'm really surprised they aren't very well known. Brilliant album, very dark tone about it.

[@louisekirby5080]

great doco

[@goncalorodrigues1964]

What a shockingly good album this was. What always stroke me was how cruel the lyrics are; my favorite song was always "Personal things", that was criminally neglected in this otherwise very good documentary. A very unusual song, that ends up with "I'm packing and unpacking personal things that fail to remind me of you" -- this is almost masochistic self-punishment.

[@tonycostanzo4276]

HOW ABOUT SOME PRODUCER MAKE A MOVIE ABOUT DAVID McCOMB

[@garycollingwood4002]

" VERY COOL 😎😎 NEW ZEALAND KIWI " 🌏

[@bundy643]

Does anyone know where I can listen to "Everything you touch turns to time"? Been in my head for years, only just found out what it was called and who it was by. Please help! Thanks.

[@resurrectionjose]

+Mick Bund -- Here you go. It's at the end of Disc 1 of the 2-disc remastered version of *_Calenture_* and also one of the b-side tracks to the *_Trick Of The Light_* CD-single. *_CALENTURE_* www.discogs.com/The-Triffids-Calenture/release/1596521 *_TRICK OF THE LIGHT_* www.discogs.com/The-Triffids-Trick-Of-The-Light/release/1596689

[@MiloshVictory]

in my case, maudlin.

[@tonycostanzo4276]

it worked out for him because he was able to take full control of every one else in the band ,no interference and that brings the best out of the best in the band, interesting story .i dont think they would have made it if they were perfect musicians , that would have caused restrictions

[@thepanel2935]

landscape painter

[@flachi32]

Not a word on his heroin episodes which I think may be an oversight unless they happened later...?

[@WantonMyth]

They alluded to it

[@seanyuke3249]

I am so appreciative of their work, and influence. But to be honest, it's mostly too dark for me. I've got all the darkness I need.

[@poolfrank11]

Got to be a contender for the best debut album ever. Seamless. But maybe they set the bar too high. Here in the UK they had massive critical acclaim for a short while, as it says in the doc, but they never capitalised on it, never went to the next level in terms of recognition.

[@kidoctane]

Except it was their second album, at least in vinyl.

[@andubh9360]

@@kidoctane Their third I think - I count Raining pleasure as an album even though it’s listed as an EP. But an EP tend to have like three or maybe four songs - Raining pleasure has seven. So Treeless plain and Raining Pleasure was released before BSD.

[@jonscott6293]

Is a great album but I think Calenture is far better.

[@bluenightgrinner8620]

Talk about atmosphere! Space, light, shade....melancholia. Not a filler on Calenture. Seemless...

[@User-mj9hv]

It’s weird hearing progressive arty types talking glowingly about Australia and its culture and identity…a very old documentary as they wouldn’t be caught dead doing it now.