| Beautiful Waste | |
| Cover: | Beautiful_waste.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | The Triffids |
| A-Side: | Beautiful Waste |
| B-Side: | Property Is Condemned |
| Released: | February 1984 |
| Recorded: | December 1983 Emerald City Studios, Sydney |
| Genre: | Indie rock, folk rock |
| Length: | 6:14 |
| Label: | White Hot / Mushroom |
| Producer: | The Triffids |
| Prev Title: | Spanish Blue |
| Prev Year: | 1982 |
| Next Title: | You Don't Miss Your Water |
| Next Year: | 1985 |
"Beautiful Waste" is a single released by Australian rock group, The Triffids in February 1984.[1] [2] Not included on any of the band's studio albums nor extended plays, it was first compiled on Australian Melodrama (1994). Its B-side, "Property Is Condemned", was included on the 1984 EP Raining Pleasure. A film clip was made for "Beautiful Waste". Its name was adapted for a 2008 posthumous compilation of mid-1980s non-album tracks, Beautiful Waste and Other Songs.
In May 2008, Youth Group performed a cover version of "Beautiful Waste" on national radio station Triple J's "Like a Version" segment.[3] Youth Group's Toby Martin had previously filled in as one of the guest vocalists for a reformed The Triffids, at the Sydney Festival[4] performances earlier in that year.[5]
All tracks written by David McComb.[6]