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Track List
01) Too Hot to Move
02) American Sailors
03) Falling Over You
04) Goodbye Little Boy
05) Bottle of Love
06) The Spinning Top Song
07) Butterflies Into Worms
08) New Year's Greetings
09) Good Fortune Rose
10) One Mechanic Town
11) Blackeyed Susan
12) The Clown Prince
13) Fairytale Love
01) Too Hot to Move
02) American Sailors
03) Falling Over You
04) Goodbye Little Boy
05) Bottle of Love
06) The Spinning Top Song
07) Butterflies Into Worms
08) New Year's Greetings
09) Good Fortune Rose
10) One Mechanic Town
11) Blackeyed Susan
12) The Clown Prince
13) Fairytale Love
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First Released
1989
Alternative Rock
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The Black Swan is an album by The Triffids, released in April 1989 and reached No. 59 on the Australian Album Charts. The album was originally conceived as a double album.
In the recording sessions the Triffids were joined by producer Stephen Street (the Smiths' - Strangeways, Here We Come and Morrissey's Viva Hate). The Black Swan used a greater variety of musical instruments than their previous albums with bouzouki, güiro and accordion and a more obvious use of synths and programming. The title of the album was originally going to be Disappointment Resort Complex but was renamed to The Black Swan, which according to a 1989 interview by Stephen Phillips (NME) with David McComb is based on the 1952 novel (of the same name) by Thomas Mann.
The chosen single from the album, "Goodbye Little Boy", featured Jill Birt on vocals and ‘glammed up’ for the record sleeve.
"Too Hot To Move" was one of three songs written by David McComb which were used in the ABC TV series Sweet and Sour (1984) it had lead vocals by Deborah Conway (of Do-Ré-Mi). McComb bought the rights back to "Too Hot To Move" so that The Triffids could perform it again.
The cover photograph was taken in the stables at the rear of The Cliffe, the historic Peppermint Grove home in which David and Robert McComb grew up.
A deluxe version of the album, with a 17-track bonus disc of demos, was released in Australia on 7 June 2008 through Liberation Music.
David McComb
Alsy MacDonald
Robert McComb
Martyn Casey
'Evil' Graham Lee
Jill Birt
Additional musicians
Adam Peters
Philip Kakulas
Rita Menendez
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The Black Swan is an album by The Triffids, released in April 1989 and reached No. 59 on the Australian Album Charts. The album was originally conceived as a double album.
In the recording sessions the Triffids were joined by producer Stephen Street (the Smiths' - Strangeways, Here We Come and Morrissey's Viva Hate). The Black Swan used a greater variety of musical instruments than their previous albums with bouzouki, güiro and accordion and a more obvious use of synths and programming. The title of the album was originally going to be Disappointment Resort Complex but was renamed to The Black Swan, which according to a 1989 interview by Stephen Phillips (NME) with David McComb is based on the 1952 novel (of the same name) by Thomas Mann.
The chosen single from the album, "Goodbye Little Boy", featured Jill Birt on vocals and ‘glammed up’ for the record sleeve.
"Too Hot To Move" was one of three songs written by David McComb which were used in the ABC TV series Sweet and Sour (1984) it had lead vocals by Deborah Conway (of Do-Ré-Mi). McComb bought the rights back to "Too Hot To Move" so that The Triffids could perform it again.
The cover photograph was taken in the stables at the rear of The Cliffe, the historic Peppermint Grove home in which David and Robert McComb grew up.
A deluxe version of the album, with a 17-track bonus disc of demos, was released in Australia on 7 June 2008 through Liberation Music.
David McComb
Alsy MacDonald
Robert McComb
Martyn Casey
'Evil' Graham Lee
Jill Birt
Additional musicians
Adam Peters
Philip Kakulas
Rita Menendez
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