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Crowded House - New stuff
Posted by DrJ on 31 March 2010 - 1:05pm.
Crowded House have a new album out in May-June called Intriguer. Here's the lead single, Saturday Sun (no relation):
I love the House and all things Finn. I really like this footage because they really are a tight proper band. And there's high hopes for the record as it was recorded in residence in NZ with a new producer - like Together Alone.
It's hard to explain to people who see CH as MagicFM fodder how great CH are live. In 92 & 07 I saw them do amazing shows in two totally different circumstances. I know Mr Hepworth is a fan so hopefully there'll be a big Word feature coming up.
Let the Crowded House love-in thread begin!
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I love them
Obvious influences, but with that magic ingredient that makes a band special, their own personality. Plus there are melodic ingredients that I think are very definitely their own.
i've long been of the opinion
that there are two kinds of people in the world
a) those that truly love Crowded House
b) those that haven't realised yet that they truly love Crowded House.
Saw them three times on the last tour and very much looking forward to this time around as well...
I love how
the newsreader can hardly control his excitement at the fact the band are playing.
As is ever the way with Neil Finn's song-writing his music sounds instantly familiar but as always he subtly but fundamentally makes a chord change that adds a completely different colour or texture to the song. With this new release the gob-smacker comes at the first line of the chorus when he sings "He's insane". He's a man who makes revelatory pop music but delivers it in such an unassuming manner that it's easy to either take it for granted or overlook the treasures within.
As this news of an imminent release has put me in such a good mood I'm going to go with It's Only Natural from Woodface. This is a song I sing out loud, really OUT LOUD when I'm in the car. It makes me feel happy, boundless and totally free and I'm not sure if there is any greater praise for music than that:
Well since we're on the subject,,,,
I'll put this one out there, only because I can't find a decent Silent House version.
Having seen them multiple times in multiple configurations, CH are brilliant ('specially when we were packed in like sardines at Selina's in Sydney), Neil or Tim on their own (with bands) are brilliant, Neil and Tim as the Finn Brothers a little less so (but still better than most others I can think of). You've got to go, you'll love it.
As They Say In Vegas
you can't beat the House
I only own a small number of music DVDs.
The Glastonbury Fayre one. The Glastonbury Festival one. The Rutles. Floyd At Pompei. The Song Remains The Same. And one other.
Which one do I reach for when I want to see a band at the top of their game with a back catalogue to plunder that is second to none? The other one.
Seven Worlds Collide.
God-like genius in DVD form.
what he said...
Finn World
Can't wait to see them in Manchester; I've seen Tim and Neil Finn both on their own solo gigs, Tim Finn with ALT, The Finn Brothers, but never Crowded House-which I'd seen them with Paul Hester though.
I'm waiting
on my tickets for their show at the Town Hall in Auckland next week. The only fly in the ointment is the fact that the GLW has booked a "surprise" holiday on the coast to coincide with the kids' school holidays. It also happens to coincide with the gig.
Expect a crisis of epic proportions.
I have nothing interesting or witty to declare...
...except my love for CH and all things Finn-y.
a bloody dore them
They let me watch the soundcheck and autographed the album for me at The Conde Duque in Madrid last time round. Finn's gift is similar to that of McCartney's. No more fulsome praise can I offer. Can't wait for the album.
I do believe I trump everyone...
....when I announce that I joined Neil on stage in Belfast to play guitar and sing on a stirring rendition of Distant Sun. Absolute musical highlight of my life, needless to say. Audience opinion may have been different!
I do believe I trump you
only because it was at the Largo in LA, and I know that *sounds* better than Belfast. It was Message to My Girl for me, me on Piano him on guitar. And Wendy Melvoin, Mark Hart, Jon Brion and others in the audience. I screwed it up, mind, be Neil was charming.
yep, it's not a competition
but you definitely win with that one.
Finn always seems to me to be a more complicated character than his affable manner suggest - anyone any views on why he split up the band at the peak of their powers first time around?
Did someone order a "synthesizer-powered dance jam"?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&ob...
edit
new single is at http://www.crowdedhouse.com/
a bloody dore them x 2
Really looking forward to the gigs this time round, much prefer tosee them in smaller venues. Heard a few tracks of the upcoming release and have to say, some really good stuff in there - "Twice if you're Lucky" should be a decent hit if the record company treat it right!
Did anyone win the Radio 2 tickets?
Silly waste of twitter:
https://twitter.com/JamieB1973
Agree...
One of the bands I come back to time and time again. Neil Finn is great solo as well.
I've never been able to understand how anyone sees them as MOR. Perhaps it's the fact that they broke in the U.S. first but anyone falling in to that trap is clearly just not listening, musically or lyrically.
Some early Neil.....
I love these Split Enz tunes....
I saw Neil live in London after Crowded House split up and he was great. Would love to hear another great CH album. Woodface is a peach of a record.
Some, but not all, of the new album available for streaming. . .
Here
http://www.take40.com/player/heraldsun?movideo_p=37663&movideo_pi=0
First Impressions
it's better than Time On Earth but not as good as Together Alone or Woodface still has good moments particularly like Isolation, Either Side Of The World and Archer's Arrows
Getting there
Listened to the new album twice now, it's too early to say.
Because the new one isn't on Spotify yet, I went back and listened to Time On Earth: It's a great record, full o' choons, a forgotten gem...