In The Pines is an album 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...

, released in August, 1986 and reached No. 69 on the Australian Album Charts.

The album was recorded in a woolshed on a remote Western Australian farming property, owned by the McCombs' parents, on an eight-track machine for a grand total of $1190 (the album notes that $340 of this was spent on alcohol (beer, wine and vodka), superseding the bill for food of $310 and also the $300 dollars for recording equipment hire and $240 for petrol.

"It was just an idea that had been kicking around for some time. We had some time to do it and it was something that didn’t involve a huge effort to do. If it didn’t work, it didn’t work. It didn’t matter. It was something of a holiday really. At the very least we would have had a chance to play the songs and if it didn't work out have demoed some songs for the next album. It was just something that we did and which turned out to be releasable." - Graham Lee

The reissue by Domino Records released in February 2007 included three additional songs that had previously been held over for Calenture

Calenture (album)

Calenture is the fourth studio album by The Triffids, released in February 1987 which reached No. 32 on the Australian Album Charts. Calenture also reached No...

: "Trick Of The Light", "Blinder By The Hour" and "Jerdacuttup Man". It also included two other songs that were not on the original edition: "She's Sure The Girl I Love" and "One Soul Less On Your Fiery List". The previous version of "Born Sandy Devotional" is expanded. The reissue was remixed by Bruce Callaway, the sound engineer of the original recordings.

Original edition

1. "Suntrapper" - 2:18
2. "In the Pines" - 2:35
3. "Kathy Knows" - 3:45
4. "25 To 5" - 1:06
5. "Do You Want Me Near You?" (Allan MacDonald) - 3:41
6. "Once a Day
   Once a Day
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   " (Bill Anderson) - 4:01
7. "Just Might Fade Away" - 2:59
8. "Better Off This Way" - 2:51
9. "Only One Life" - 1:30
10. "Keep Your Eyes on the Hole" - 2:14
11. "One Soul Less on Your Fiery List" - 4:18
12. "Born Sandy Devotional (Edit)" - 1:28
13. "Love and Affection" - 1:42

Remastered edition

1. "Suntrapper" - 2:34
2. "In the Pines" - 2:41
3. "Kathy Knows" - 4:01
4. "25 to 5" - 1:06
5. "Only One Life" - 1:39
6. "Do You Want Me Near You?" (Allan MacDonald) - 3:32
7. "Trick of the Light" (David McComb, Graham Lee)- 3:59
8. "Once a Day" (Bill Anderson) - 4:09
9. "She's Sure The Girl I Love" (Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil) - 2:24
10. "Jerdacuttup Man" (David McComb, James Paterson) - 4:51
11. "Just Might Fade Away" - 3:10
12. "Better off This Way" - 2:59
13. "Keep Your Eyes on the Hole" - 2:21
14. "Blinder by The Hour" - 2:59
15. "Wish to See No More" - 2:41
16. "One Soul Less on Your Fiery List" - 4:42
17. "Born Sandy Devotional" - 3:54
18. "Love and Affection" - 1:58

Personnel

• 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:...
  
   - vocals
  Singing
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  , guitar
  Guitar
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  , mandolin
• 'Evil' Graham Lee
  Graham Lee (musician)
  Graham Lee is Principal Trombone for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also Professor of Trombone at the Royal College of Music and Trinity College of Music....
  
   - acoustic guitar, pedal and lap steel guitar, backing vocals
• Martyn Casey - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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• 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...
  
   - vocals, keyboards
• Robert McComb - violin
  Violin
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  , guitar, drums ("Do You Want Me Near You?), harmonica, mandolin, backing vocals
  Backing vocalist
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• Alsy MacDonald
  Alsy MacDonald
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   - drums
  Drum kit
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  , backing vocals

External links

• A Retrospective with Graham Lee and Rob McComb by Wilson Neate