Field of Glass

Details

The first two songs, "Bright Lights, Big City" and "Monkey On My Back", deal directly with David McComb’s drug abuse and are infused with bitterness and desperation. The song which gave its name to the EP was originally two songs – "Field of Glass" and "Pleasure Slide". McComb said the song had an "abandoned narrative. It was based around some suburban boy and his fantasies, and the gap between his fantasies and the mundane realities of his girlfriend and his girlfriend's dog and parents and things like that."

McComb later said, "When we got to London I think we sort of felt we had to make a kind of statement. We recorded the Field of Glass EP just when we got there, which is still I guess the most aggressive and violent record that we had done. It gave us heaps of confidence."{{cite book | author= Tracee Hutchison | author-link= Tracee Hutchison |title=Your Name's On The Door|page=87|year=1992

"Evil" Graham Lee noted the EP was, "a psychodrama from beginning to end, with a ferocious, partly improvised maelstrom of a sound to match the tortured, twisted and sometimes very funny lyrics. Nothing The Triffids had done to this point could have prepared listeners for the onslaught of Field Of Glass."

Track listing

All tracks written by David McComb.

1. "Bright Lights, Big City"
2. "Monkey on My Back"
3. "Field of Glass"

Personnel

The Triffids

Credited to:

• David McComb – vocals, guitar
• Robert McComb – guitar, percussion, vocals
• Alsy MacDonald – drums, vocals
• Martyn Casey (aka Daubney Carshott) – bass
• Jill Birt – keyboard

Notes

References

1. "The Triffids". [[Australian Rock Database]] (Magnus Holmgren).
2. "Listings for ''Field Of Glass''". [[Discogs]].
3. (23 April 1986). "Triffids". [[Rock Australia Magazine.
4. Alex Denney. "A Beautiful Waste: in search of The Triffids". [[Drowned in Sound]].
5. "Australasian Performing Right Association". [[Australasian Performing Right Association.