Beautiful Waste

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“Beautiful Waste”
“Beautiful Waste” cover
Single by The Triffids
A-side "Beautiful Waste"
B-side "Property Is Condemned"
Released February, 1984
Format 7" Vinyl Single
Recorded December, 1983
Emerald City Studios, Sydney
Genre Folk rock
Length 6:14
Label White Hot Records / Mushroom Records
Writer(s) David McComb
Producer The Triffids
The Triffids singles chronology
Spanish Blue
(1982)
Beautiful Waste
(1984)
You Don't Miss Your Water
(1985)

"Beautiful Waste" is a single released by The Triffids in February, 1984. Whilst "Beautiful Waste" was not included on any of the band's studio albums or EPs the B-Side, "Property is Condemned", was included on the 1984 EP, Raining Pleasure. A film clip was made for the song "Beautiful Waste".

In May, 2008 Youth Group performed "Beautiful Waste" on Triple J's Like a Version.[1] Youth Group's Toby Martin had previously filled in as one of the guest vocalists for The Triffids, at the Sydney Festival[2] performances earlier in that year.[3]

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by David McComb.[4]

  1. "Beautiful Waste" – 3:20
  2. "Property is Condemned" – 2:54

[edit] Personnel

[edit] The Triffids

[edit] Additional musicians

  • Ian Macourt – cello
  • David Angell – viola

[edit] References