The Mighty Triffids were not on my radar yet. That didn't happen until 1985 and I was on my gap year in a Swiss hotel. My sister made and sent me a fabulous mixtape with several songs from their Treeless Plain record. My Baby Thinks She's a Train and Red Pony stood out. There were other songs frim the tecord but they didn't stand out quite so much and tell you that this was not just a band traumatised by The Velvet Underground, The Doors and Johnny Cash though they were all these things. But these two songs, and I wasn't sure what I thought of them, I wondered whether they were ridiculous for the longest while It took me the longest time for them to seep me into my DNA.
But they had arrived in the UK in 1984 and already made a significant impact on the British live circuit and in the music press. Read David Cavangh's essential Hell of a Summer a beautifully wrought piece about the author witnessing and befriending the band when they were unkniwn's but clearly something quite startling. They also released this.
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