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Raining Pleasure (EP)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Raining Pleasure

| type = EP

| artist = The Triffids

| cover = Raining Pleasure.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1984

| recorded = April/May 1984
A.T.A. Studios

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Rock, folk rock

| length =

| label = Hot Records

| producer = Nick Mainsbridge, The Triffids

| prev_title = Treeless Plain

| prev_year = 1983

| next_title = Lawson Square Infirmary

| next_year = 1984

}}

Raining Pleasure is a record released in 1984 by the Australian folk rock group The Triffids as a 12" vinyl EP.{{cite web | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20020728092009/http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/t/triffids.html | url = http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/t/triffids.html | title = The Triffids | last1 = Holmgren | first1 = Magnus | last2 = Skjefte | first2 = Morten | first3 = Stefan | last3 = Warnqvist | first4 = Vince | last4 = Simonetti | work = Passagen.se | publisher = Australian Rock Database (Magnus Holmgren) | archivedate = 28 July 2002 | url-status = usurped | accessdate = 18 May 2014 }} It reached No. 95 on the Australian Charts.{{cite book|title=Australian Chart Book 1970-1992|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}} Note: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988. Its seven tracks were co-produced by the group with Nick Mainsbridge who also supplied trumpet.

Although the EP has not been in print for some time, selected tracks appeared on the Love in Bright Landscapes (1986) and Australian Melodrama (1994) compilations, while all seven tracks were compiled on Beautiful Waste and Other Songs in 2008.

Further details

McComb said of the recording, "All of these songs are hysterical exercises to try and deceive people into thinking that the narrator is feeling one way, when it can be a damning indictment of the narrator of the song. He's the person mouthing off, covering up this great big hole. Mr. Butcher it was who said 'bluster emptily', which is the feeling of someone trying to hide an enormous wound by an enormous amount of words."{{cite web| work= Rock's Backpages | title=The Triffids: Roses, Knives, Dead Bodies|author=Mat Snow | url=https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/the-triffids-roses-knives-dead-bodies}}{{subscription required|s}}

In 1992 the Greek indie band Rest in Peace changed their name to Raining Pleasure as a reference to the record's title track. The song "Raining Pleasure" was covered by the Australian band The Paradise Motel on their 1996 EP Some Deaths Take Forever – the track is mostly a heavily processed instrumental with few recognisable vocal fragments. During 2007 Paul Kelly performed the track as a duet with his support act New Buffalo (a.k.a. Sally Seltmann) on his Stolen Apples Tour of Australia.{{cite news | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110607004845/http://www.ourbrisbane.com/whats-on/gig-guide/paul-kelly | url = http://www.ourbrisbane.com/whats-on/gig-guide/paul-kelly | title = The Fruits of Our Labour – Paul Kelly | work = OurBrisbane | publisher = Brisbane City Council | date = April 2008 | last = Sennet | first = Sean | archivedate = 7 June 2011 | accessdate = 20 January 2012 | url-status = dead | df = dmy-all }}{{cite news | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20140518115852/http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/35112143 | url = http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/35112143 | title = Live Apples – Paul Kelly | work = Trove | publisher = National Library of Australia | archivedate = 18 May 2014 | accessdate = 20 January 2012 | url-status = dead | df = dmy-all }} They recorded a live version on 20 September for Kelly's DVD, Live Apples (April 2008).{{cite web | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.cs-ma-an45536459 | title = Live Apples [kit] / Paul Kelly | publisher = Music Australia | date = 8 June 2010 | accessdate = 20 January 2012 }}

Reception

Mat Snow of the New Musical Express said of the EP in 1985, "Check out the mock-Christian celibacy of "Jesus Calling", or the loathing that spews out in "Property Is Condemned", The Triffids most viciously compelling song, both off '84's excellent Raining Pleasure mini-LP."

Track listing

All songs written by David McComb, unless otherwise noted.[http://www.apra.com.au/site/public/searchworksresult.stm Australasian Performing Right Association]

  1. "Jesus Calling"
  2. "Embedded"
  3. "St. James Infirmary" (trad. arr.)
  4. "Everybody Has to Eat" (David McComb, James Paterson)
  5. "Ballad of Jack Frost"
  6. "Property is Condemned"
  7. "Raining Pleasure" (David McComb, James Paterson)

Personnel

= The Triffids =

Credited to:

= Additional musicians =

  • John Sandow - piano
  • Neil Sanderson - viola
  • Michael "Blue" Dalton of The Lighthouse Keepers - harmonica
  • Margaret Labi - backing vocals
  • Melanie Oxley - backing vocals
  • Nick Mainsbridge - trumpet

References

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Category:1984 EPs

Category:The Triffids EPs