Beautiful Waste and Other Songs

Beautiful Waste and Other Songs is a compilation album, released in 2008. The album brings together a number of The Triffids EPs and singles that have never been previously released on CD. Specifically, tracks 1-7 were previously released as the Raining Pleasure EP and 8-13 as Lawson Square Infirmary Tracks 14-16 comprise the contents of 1985's "Field Of Glass" 12". Of the remaining compositions, "Dear Miss Lonely Hearts" and "Native Bride" appeared previously on the 12" version of the "Wide Open Road"" single while "Beautiful Waste" was a 1984 A-side, backed on the 7" by "Property Is Condemned". The original Lawson Square Infirmary EP was the result of a collaboration between McComb and other Triffids with James Paterson (most closely associated with JFK & The Cuban Crisis). Graham Lee, at that time not a member of The Triffids, was also drafted in to play dobro, bolstering the country sound of the recording, and the EP was released not under the moniker of The Triffids but rather as the work of a distinct eponymous band, Lawson Square Infirmary

1 Jesus Calling
2 Embedded
3 St James Infirmary
4 Everybody Has To Eat
5 Ballad Of Jack Frost
6 Property is Condemned
7 Raining Pleasure
8 Figurine
9 When My Heart Breaks
10 Mother Silhouette
11 Mercy
12 Crucifixion Speech
13 Not The Marrying Kind
14 Bright Lights Big City
15 Monkey On My Back
16 Field of Glass
17 Native Bride (Previously Unreleased)
18 Dear Miss Lonely Hearts
19 Beautiful Waste