Treeless Plain is the debut 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 November, 1983

1983 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1983.-January-April:*January – ZTT Records is founded.*January 8 – The UK singles chart is tabulated from this week forward by The Gallup Organization...

. The album was recorded at Emerald City Studios, Sydney, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 in twelve midnight to dawn sessions, during August through to September, 1983. 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.

Track listing

All songs 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:...

  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
   Bob Dylan
   Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
   
   ) - 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)

The Triffids

• 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, hammer
• 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
• Robert McComb - violin, guitar, saw, keyboards, vocals
• Martyn 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 - organ