Why do you feel it? When will it stop?

August 18, 2010
Filed Under: Australiana, Records

Beautiful waste, stupid feeling

Beautiful waste, wonderful feeling

Stupid feeling making fools out of us

Beautiful Waste by The Triffids is, surely, one of the best pop songs I’ve ever heard (mix tape staple). A big call perhaps, but heartfelt. A total jumping about in the kitchen tune, and the video is charming in that early 80′s suburban Australian home footage way (see also: The Go-Betweens Spring Rain). Consider listening to it on repeat today as I have done in between fighting with a taxi driver about the upcoming federal election (I am TERRIFIED but trying to maintain PMA), realising how bad my vision was when I put on new glasses, stacking it massively in a crowded press screening of a terrible film (OUCHx2) followed by late night dinner in my soon-to-be new neighbourhood at the wonderful Eathouse Diner.

Feeling of love, feeling of love, over and out, over and out now

* For some reason the video won’t play at the right speed (but song plays normally!) on YouTube on my laptop but totally fine via iPhone. Word to the wise.

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