Triffids - My Baby Thinks She’s A Train {1983}

#alternative_music Album/Single/EP : Treeless Plain The Triffids were an Australian alternative rock and pop band, formed in Perth in Western Australia in May 1978 with David McComb as singer-songwriter, guitarist, bass guitarist and keyboardist. They achieved some success in Australia, but greater success in the UK and in Scandinavia in the 1980s before disbanding in 1989. SBS television featured their 1986 album, Born Sandy Devotional, on the Great Australian Albums series in 2007, and in 2010 it ranked 5th in the book The 100 Best Australian Albums by Toby Creswell, Craig Mathieson and John O’Donnell. The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) recognised The Triffids’ importance on 1 July 2008 when inducting them into the Hall of Fame. David McComb died on 2 February 1999 “due to heroin toxicity and mild acute rejection of his 1996 heart transplant“, according to the coroner.