“Bury Me Deep in Love” by Triffids

Island put out "Bury Me Deep in Love" in October 1987 as a single from Calenture, the Triffids' album that year. David McComb, the Australian band's singer and guitarist, wrote it alone and co-produced it with Adam Peters under producer Gil Norton. McComb said it began life as a slow groove in the vein of Al Green's "Beware" before swelling into the orchestral beast on the album, by way of a Craig Leon version he called a hideous mutation, a 30,000-pound mistake nobody would ever get to hear.

It stalled at 48 in Australia, but television kept rescuing it. Neighbours used it for the wedding of Harold Bishop and Madge Mitchell, which brought a UK reissue in August 1989 backed with the band's covers of the Pet Shop Boys' "Rent" and Madonna's "Into the Groove", and in 2009 Packed to the Rafters used it for a wedding of its own.

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