McComb formed The Triffids with school friends in April 1978. They recorded their first collection of original songs a month later, their second four months after that. When they finally ran out of puff in August 1989, they’d issued a dozen such collections. Nearly 200 songs! Most of them were written or co-written by McComb.
He was inspired.
His songs are inspiring and sometimes profound.
McComb began his writing life as a sardonic observer of his peer group and contemporaries: the first song on the very first Triffids tape qualifies his own enthusiasm for the local punk scene by asking archly, ‘What Would The Martians Think?’ Later songs – notably ‘Wide Open Road’ and ‘Bury Me Deep In Love’, lush productions steeped in corrosive regret – prompt a deeper, more emotive response. McComb was a dyed-in-the-wool romantic with a “big floppy heart” and a cynical wit. His songs chart his progress – if that’s the right word – from amused observer to bruised participant.
This book tells that story, too.
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