Treeless Plain

Treeless Plain
Studio album by The Triffids
Released November, 1983
Recorded Emerald City Studios, Sydney
August/September, 1983
Genre Rock / Folk rock
Label Hot Records/Rough Trade
Producer The Triffids
The Triffids chronology
Bad Timing and Other Stories
(1983)		 Treeless Plain
(1983)		 Love In Bright Landscapes
(1986)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]

Treeless Plain is the debut album by The Triffids, released in November, 1983. The album was recorded at Emerald City Studios, Sydney, Australia in twelve midnight to dawn sessions, during August through to September, 1983.[2] It was the band's first release after signing with Hot Records.

A remastered version of the album, with seven bonus live tracks recorded in 1983, was released in Australia in June 2008 through Liberation Music.[3]

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by David McComb [4] unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Red Pony" - 4:11
  2. "Branded" - 2:44
  3. "My Baby Thinks She's a Train" - 3:36
  4. "Rosevel" - 2:59
  5. "I Am a Lonesome Hobo" (Bob Dylan[4]) - 2:14
  6. "Place in the Sun" - 2:22
  7. "Plaything" - 3:10
  8. "Old Ghostrider" - 3:09
  9. "Hanging Shed" - 4:02
  10. "Hell of a Summer" - 4:30
  11. "Madeline" - 2:35
  12. "Nothing Can Take Your Place" - 2:49

2008 Reissue

  1. "Red Pony"
  2. "Branded"
  3. "My Baby Thinks She's a Train"
  4. "Rosevel"
  5. "I Am a Lonesome Hobo"
  6. "Place in the Sun"
  7. "Plaything"
  8. "Old Ghostrider"
  9. "Hanging Shed"
  10. "Hell of a Summer"
  11. "Madeline"
  12. "Nothing Can Take You Place
  13. "Interview" (Live at ahe Wireless)
  14. "Old Ghostrider" (Live at the Wireless)
  15. "Plaything" (Live at the Wireless)
  16. "My Baby Thinks She's a Train" (Live at the Wireless)
  17. "Rosevel" (Live at the Wireless)
  18. "Hell of a Summer" (Live at the Wireless)
  19. "On the Street Where You Live" (Live at the Wireless)

Personnel

The Triffids

Additional musicians

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ "Listings for Treeless Plain". Discogs. http://www.discogs.com/release/685793. Retrieved 2007-12-20. 
  3. ^ Liberation Music website announcement
  4. ^ a b "Australasian Performing Right Association". APRA. http://www.apra.com.au/cms/worksearch/worksearch.srvlt?action=workSearch&switchDet=Y. Retrieved 2007-12-20. 
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