| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9166 Registered: 05-2005 |
David McComb is not on it, though they are his songs. I'm on track one, so I'll reserve judgement. Listen here: https://thefriendsofdavidmccomb.bandcamp .com | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4324 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for the link, Pádraig. I wonder if all these songs date from the 90s. I will get the CD of course, even if I don't find the interpretations very inspired. So far only on track three. | ||
| Randy Adams Unregistered guest |
All I had to do was look down the list to partially answer my question. There are three old, and not "lost," McComb songs from the early cassette days of the Triffids. I've always loved "Somewhere in the Shadows" but this version is so slavishly faithful to the original that there's no reason to do it. The song has plenty of potential. "Thanks for Everything" may not be my personal favorite song of McComb's but at least the version of it here is substantially different than the tossed-off Triffids version. The version of "No Desire" is also nicely reworked. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4325 Registered: 03-2005 |
This site is misbehaving right now. Like happened to Trou in a recent post, I've been zapped with the "unregistered guest" thing. Yes, I see three old cassette-era Triffids songs at the end of this collection. | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 136 Registered: 05-2005 |
I’ll wait to hear whether it’s worth acquiring. I’m struck by the title Truckload. I know The Pastels had a compilation called Truckload of Trouble and the word apparently means a large quantity in the USA and Australia. In the UK, there is word shedload which idiots think means a large quantity and possibly a politer version of shitload. It’s neither. It originates from shed-load, a load that has been shed by a lorry (truck), i.e. spilled cargo. |