Beautiful Waste

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"Beautiful Waste"
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Single by The Triffids
A-side "Beautiful Waste"
B-side "Property Is Condemned"
ReleasedFebruary 1984
RecordedDecember 1983
Emerald City Studios, Sydney
Genre Indie rock, Folk rock
Length6:14
Label White Hot / Mushroom
Songwriter(s) David McComb
Producer(s) The Triffids
The Triffids singles chronology
"Spanish Blue"
(1982)
"Beautiful Waste"
(1984)
"You Don't Miss Your Water"
(1985)

"Beautiful Waste" is a single released by Australian rock group, The Triffids in February 1984. [1] [2] Not included on any of the band's studio albums nor extended plays, it was first compiled on Australian Melodrama (1994). Its B-side, "Property Is Condemned", was included on the 1984 EP Raining Pleasure . A film clip was made for "Beautiful Waste". Its name was adapted for a 2008 posthumous compilation of mid-1980s non-album tracks, Beautiful Waste and Other Songs .

Contents

In May 2008, Youth Group performed a cover version of "Beautiful Waste" on national radio station Triple J's "Like a Version" segment. [3] Youth Group's Toby Martin had previously filled in as one of the guest vocalists for a reformed The Triffids, at the Sydney Festival [4] performances earlier in that year. [5]

Track listing

All tracks written by David McComb. [6]

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

Personnel

The Triffids

Additional musicians

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