Come Ride With Me… Wide Open Road

Compilation by The Triffids

Released 5 April 2010

alternative rock indie rock rock

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CD 1: Wide Open Road: The Best of the Triffids
1
Wide Open Road
4:09
3.0 ★
2
Red Pony
4:10
3
Reverie
3:05
4
Beautiful Waste
3:21
5
Hell of a Summer
4:28
6
Property Is Condemned
2:59
7
Raining Pleasure
2:30
8
The Seabirds
3:20
9
Lonely Stretch
5:03
10
Stolen Property
6:47
11
Kathy Knows
4:03
12
Bury Me Deep in Love
4:04
4.0 ★
13
A Trick of the Light
3:53
2.5 ★
14
Jerdacuttup Man
4:45
15
Too Hot to Move
4:04
16
Goodbye Little Boy
3:27
17
New Years Greetings
5:44
18
Save What You Can
4:33
CD 2: The Early Singles & EPs
1
Stand Up
1:39
2
Farmers Never Visit Nightclub
2:32
3
Reverie
3:03
4
Place in the Sun
2:35
5
Joan of Arc
2:15
6
This Boy
2:56
7
Spanish Blue
2:12
8
Twisted Brain
4:04
9
Bad Timing
2:46
10
Left to Rot
4:04
11
Being Driven
3:36
12
Snake Pit
3:44
13
Beautiful Waste
3:21
14
Property Is Condemned
2:56
15
Bright Lights Big City
3:33
16
Monkey on My Back
3:43
17
Field of Glass
8:59
18
You Don’t Miss Your Water
2:52
19
Convent Walls
4:06
CD 3: The Early Cassettes: A Selection From The Triffids’ First, Second, Third & Fourth
1
Mark
4:21
2
Martyrs
2:24
3
No
1:58
4
Take Me to Your Leader
4:52
5
Philosophical Stroll
3:13
6
What’s the Difference
2:42
7
Butterfly
1:46
8
New Vision
4:40
9
The Diplomatic Corp
1:53
10
Out of Time
3:26
11
I Was a Teenage Teenager
2:53
12
Sixteen Again (short version)
0:17
13
Jeremy Joy
3:09
14
Cyclone
2:44
15
Artist
2:44
16
Human Interest
3:41
17
Careless City
3:45
18
Blox
2:44
19
Fly to the Moon
4:06
20
Little Voices
3:17
21
Actress
3:10
22
Adaptable
3:48
23
Aim for My Heart
2:50
24
Glamour Boy
3:09
CD 4: The Early Cassettes: The Triffids’ Fifth & Sixth
1
Tuscan St Retirement Village
3:21
2
My Next Door Neighbour
2:44
3
Farmers Never Visit Nightclubs
2:26
4
It Was a Wednesday
2:33
5
I Can’t Wait to See Your Gun
3:39
6
Surfer Boy in Leather
3:01
7
On the Street Where You Live
2:19
8
In the Tropicana Lounge
1:33
9
The Trumpet of the Moon
1:47
10
Pile Up
3:03
11
Never Again
2:10
12
Hey Mary Ann
2:14
13
Nervous Side of Town
1:31
14
Southern Religious Program, Part 1
1:18
15
Southern Religious Program, Part 2
1:42
16
Somewhere in the Shadows
2:37
17
You Can Spend
2:33
18
The Marrying Kind
2:17
3.0 ★
19
A Place in the Sun
2:43
20
Stand Up
1:41
21
Calm Down
2:16
22
Reverie
2:45
23
Don’t You Know There’s a World Going On
2:58
24
No Desire
3:00
25
Digging a Hole
2:39
26
Terry Angeline
3:02
27
Native Bride
2:37
28
Providence
1:44
29
Thanks for Everything
2:44
30
Lanally
2:45
CD 5: Grandson of Dungeon Tape: Dungeon Tape & Son of Dungeon Tape: A Selection
1
Too Hot to Move (Too Hot to Think)
3:47
2
MGM
2:31
3
Man Who Can
2:48
4
Nothing Good Is Going to Come of This
3:05
5
(Secret Message)
0:07
6
Family Name
3:40
7
Madeline
2:34
8
Twisted Brain
3:56
9
Chew It Up
2:21
10
Work for Nothing
2:42
11
Happy Boy
3:45
12
(Instructions)
0:21
13
Dead Wind
4:25
14
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
2:26
15
I’ll Have It
2:23
16
Spanish Blue
2:07
17
You Can Keep It
2:24
18
Bad Timing
2:45
19
I Can’t Wait to See Your Gun
4:06
20
Hours at a Time
3:37
21
Son of Reverie
2:38
3.0 ★
22
Son of Stand Up
1:56
23
Red Pony
4:15
24
Plaything
2:48
25
Nothing Can Take Your Place
2:43
26
(Interview)
3:39
CD 6: Live to Air on 3PBS: From the Regal Room at The Prince of Wales Hotel, St. Kilda (16th April 1984)
1
Cahoun Surf
2:19
2
This Boy
2:56
3
Everybody Has to Eat
2:34
4
Embedded
4:08
5
Personal Things
2:48
6
Mercy
2:29
7
Pleasure Slide
3:46
8
Monkey on My Back
3:29
9
Field of Glass
2:31
10
Native Bride
3:43
11
Dear Miss Lonely Hearts
3:56
12
Jesus Calling
3:31
13
Satisfied Mind
2:31
14
Jack Frost
1:58
15
Ain’t No Sunshine
2:58
16
Property Is Condemned
2:35
CD 7: Live at the London School of Economics (13th October 1984)
1
Lonesome Hobo
1:57
2
Bright Lights Big City
3:48
3
Hell of a Summer
4:33
4
My Baby Thinks She’s a Train
3:23
5
Jesus Calling
4:37
6
Red Pony
4:18
7
Beautiful Waste
3:33
8
Raining Pleasure
2:48
9
Property Is Condemned
3:19
10
Monkey on My Back
3:59
11
Field of Glass
9:21
12
I Can’t Help Falling in Love With You
3:58
CD 8: Live at Melbourne University (27th March 1988)
1
Wide Open Road
4:31
2
Lonely Stretch
6:00
3
Property Is Condemned
3:38
4
Jerdacuttup Man
5:25
5
A Trick of the Light
4:06
6
Holy Water
3:46
7
Kelly’s Blues
4:44
8
Better Off This Way
3:22
9
Bury Me Deep in Love
4:13
10
Raining Pleasure
3:13
11
Red Pony
4:42
12
Place in the Sun
2:51
13
Field of Glass / Lonesome Hobo
7:34
14
What Goes On
5:13
15
How Could I Help but Love You
4:18
16
Hell of a Summer
5:01
17
I Can’t Help Falling in Love With You
3:48
CD 9: Jack Brabham 2010 #1: Live Recordings, Uneleased Tracks & Historical Snippets 1977 to 1989
1
Indiscreet Music
Dalsy
1:20
2
Radioactivity
Dalsy
3:15
3
Family Name
3:46
4
Spanish Blue
2:05
5
Crucifixion Speech
2:05
6
Night Life
3:34
7
Happy Boy
4:20
8
Mother Silhouette
3:05
9
Crucifixion Speech
2:11
10
Once a Day
3:47
11
Femme Fatale
2:25
12
You’re No Good
2:59
13
The Dave and Ritchie Show Radio ID
0:09
14
Good Morning Good Morning
2:45
15
Into the Groove
4:23
16
Goodbye Little Boy
3:10
17
Rent
2:42
18
Kelly’s Blues
4:47
19
Blinder by the Hour
3:03
20
Just Might Fade Away
3:45
21
Spinning Top Song
3:29
22
A Trick of the Light
3:09
23
Too Hot to Move Too Hot to Think
3:36
24
Fairytale Love
5:34
CD 10: Jack Brabham 2010 #2: Demos, Unheard Songs & Historical Snippets 1977 to 1989
1
Comment
1:00
2
Punk Rock
Pale Horse
0:49
3
Comment
0:28
4
Mark
Dalsy
3:49
5
Slow Decay
1:56
6
When She Goes Down
2:06
7
Embedded
3:15
8
Deadwind
3:47
9
Raining Pleasure
2:29
10
Story of Joseph
2:07
11
Lonely Stretch (solo demo)
2:04
12
Lonely Stretch (rehearsal)
4:47
13
Love and Affection (fragment)
0:45
14
Stolen Property (rehearsal)
5:35
15
The Seabirds (rehearsal)
3:27
16
Tarrilup Bridge
2:18
17
Wide Open Road (rehearsal)
4:18
18
Personal Things
2:21
19
Jerdacuttup Man
2:46
20
A Trick of the Light (demo)
3:05
21
Comment
0:25
22
Shell of the Man (rehearsal)
4:10
23
Save What You Can (rehearsal)
3:55
24
New Year’s Greetings (demo)
5:51
25
New Year’s Greetings (instrumental)
5:45

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Release credits

Adam Peters
co [12-13, 18], programming [13], synthesizer [1]
Alsy MacDonald
drums (drum set) [1], membranophone [19]
David McComb
co [12-13, 18], guitar [1], lead vocals [19], synthesizer [1], vocal [1]
Gil Norton
producer [1, 8-10, 12-13, 18]
Graham Lee
guitar [1], pedal steel guitar [1]
Jill Birt
organ [1]
Martyn P. Casey
bass [2.19, 1.1]
Nick Mainsbridge
engineer [2.13, 1.1, 1.6, 1.8-10], producer [1.6, 2.13], recording [1, 8-10]
Robert McComb
guitar [1]
The Triffids
arranger [1.1, 1.6, 1.8-10, 2.13], producer [1.1, 1.6, 1.8-10, 2.13, 2.19]

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Come Ride With Me… Wide Open Road
10x CD
5 April 2010