Beautiful Waste

"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 (nor any album at all until 1994's Australian Melodrama 'best-of' release), the B-side, "Property is Condemned", was included on the 1984 EP Raining Pleasure. A film clip was made for the song "Beautiful Waste" and it eventually lent its name to a 2008 posthumous compilation of mid-'80s non-album tracks, Beautiful Waste and Other Songs.

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 a reformed Triffids, at the Sydney Festival^[2] performances earlier in that year.^[3]

Track listing

All tracks written by David McComb.^[4]

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

Personnel

The Triffids

• David McComb – lead vocals, guitar, piano, miscellaneous
• Alsy MacDonald – drums, vocals, percussion
• Robert McComb – violin, guitar, keyboards, vocals
• Martyn P. Casey – bass, vocals
• Jill Birt – organ

Additional musicians

• Ian Macourt – cello
• David Angell – viola

References