Raining Pleasure (EP)

Infobox Album
Name = Raining Pleasure
Type = EP
Artist = The Triffids


Released = 1984
Recorded = April/May, 1984
A.T.A. Studios
Genre = Rock / Folk rock
Length =
Label = Hot Records
Producer = Nick Mainsbridge & The Triffids
Reviews =
Last album = Treeless Plain
(1983)
This album = "Raining Pleasure"
(1984)
Next album = Lawson Square Infirmary
(1984)

"Raining Pleasure" by The Triffids was released as a 12" EP in 1984 and reached #95 on the Australian Charts.cite book |title=Australian Chart Book 1970-1992 |format=doc |last=Kent |first=David |authorlink= David Kent|publisher=Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W. |year=1993 |isbn=0-646-11917-6 |accessdate=2008-02-19]

"Raining Pleasure" was covered by Australian band, The Paradise Motel, on their 1996 EP, "Some Deaths Take Forever", which is mostly a heavily processed instrumental, with few recognisable vocal fragments.

Greek indie band, Raining Pleasure, based the name of their band on the song "Raining Pleasure".

Track listing

All songs written by David McComb, unless otherwise noted. Australasian Performing Rights Association: [http://www.apra.com.au/site/public/searchworksresult.stm] ]
# "Jesus Calling"
# "Embedded"
# "St James Infirmary"
# "Everybody Has to Eat" (David McComb, James Paterson) ]
# "Ballad of Jack Frost"
# "Property is Condemned"
# "Raining Pleasure" (David McComb, James Paterson) ]

Personnel

The Triffids

* David McComb - lead vocals, guitar, piano
* Robert McComb - violin, guitar, percussion, vocals
* Alsy MacDonald - drums, tympani, congas, vocals
* Martyn Casey - bass
* Jill Birt - keyboard, vocals, lead vocals on "Raining Pleasure"

Additional musicians

* John Sandow - piano
* Neil Sanderson - viola
* Blue - harmonica
* Margaret Labi - backing vocals
* Melanie Oxley - backing vocals
* Nick Mainsbridge - trumpet

References