"Beautiful Waste" is a single released by The Triffids

The Triffids

The Triffids were a seminal Australian alternative rock and pop band formed in Perth, Western Australia, in May 1978 with charismatic, David McComb as singer-songwriter, guitarist, bass guitarist and keyboardist. They achieved negligible success in Australia, but greater success in the U.K...

 in February 1984. Whilst "Beautiful Waste" was not included on any of the band's studio albums or EP

Extended play

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s (nor any album at all until 1994's Australian Melodrama

Australian Melodrama

- Track listing :# "Red Pony" - 4:06# "Hell of a Summer" - 4:27# "Beautiful Waste" - 3:20# "Raining Pleasure" - 2:28# "Bright Lights Big City" - 3:30# "The Seabirds" - 3:18# "Wide Open Road" - 4:06# "Lonely Stretch" - 5:00...

'best-of' release), the B-side, "Property is Condemned", was included on the 1984 EP Raining Pleasure

Raining Pleasure (EP)

Raining Pleasure by The Triffids was released as a 12" EP in 1984 and reached #95 on the Australian Charts.Although the EP has not been in print for some time, selected tracks appeared on the Love in Bright Landscapes and Australian Melodrama compilations, while all seven tracks were compiled on...

. 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

Beautiful Waste and Other Songs (Mini-Masterpieces 1983-1985)

Beautiful Waste and Other Songs is a compilation album by The Triffids, released in 2008. The album brings together a number of Triffids EPs and singles that have never been previously released on CD....

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In May 2008, Youth Group

Youth Group

Youth Group are a rock band based in Newtown, Sydney, Australia signed to Ivy League Records.- Biography :Youth Group formed in Sydney in the late 1990s. They have released four albums in Australia, with the three most recent albums also gaining releases worldwide...

 performed "Beautiful Waste" on Triple J

Triple J

triple j is a nationally networked Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 30. The government-funded station is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...

's "Like a Version

Like A Version

Like a Version is a segment on the Australian radio station Triple J. It was created by Mel Bampton as part of the Mel in the Morning program. Currently the segment pops up whenever artists are available and willing to do it, though mainly on the Breakfast show...

". Youth Group's Toby Martin had previously filled in as one of the guest vocalists for a reformed Triffids, at the Sydney Festival

Sydney Festival

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  performances earlier in that year.

Track listing

All tracks written by David McComb

David McComb

David Richard McComb was an Australian rock musician. He was the singer-songwriter of the Australian band, The Triffids.-Early years in Perth:...

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

The Triffids

• David McComb
  David McComb
  David Richard McComb was an Australian rock musician. He was the singer-songwriter of the Australian band, The Triffids.-Early years in Perth:...
  
   – lead vocals, guitar, piano, miscellaneous
• Alsy MacDonald
  Alsy MacDonald
  Alan MacDonald is an Australian rock musician and lawyer, best known as the drummer of the 1980s band The Triffids, where he performed under his nickname 'Alsy'....
  
   – drums, vocals, percussion
• Robert McComb – violin, guitar, keyboards, vocals
• Martyn P. Casey
  Martyn P. Casey
  Martyn Paul Casey is an English-born Australian rock bass guitarist. He had been a member of The Triffids, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Grinderman. Casey plays either his Fender Precision Bass or Fender Jazz Bass.-Biography:...
  
   – bass, vocals
• Jill Birt
  Jill Birt
  Jill Birt is an Australian rock musician and architect, best known as the keyboardist of the 1980s band The Triffids.-Early years:Jillian Birt was born in Tambellup, where she attended Tambellup Primary School. She attended Methodist Ladies College in Perth, as a boarder...
  
  – organ