Crowded House Afterglow (CD, Capitol, 2000) ***
Crowded House Farewell To The World (CD, Capitol, 2006) ****
Crowded House Time On earth (CD, Parlophone, 2007) ***
Crowded House Intriguer (CD, Universal, 2010) ***
Places I remember: These have all come from various Warehouse stores - Cambridge, New Plymouth, Taupo, Hastings. There was a time there that these were the only places I had access to for CDs and they were cheap!
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Woodface is chocker block with fab songs - Weather With You, Four Seasons in One Day, Fall At Your Feet. Afterglow has a terrific version of Private Universe (another brilliant live version is on the Farewell To The World album).
Gear costume: Don't Stop Now (Time On Earth); Either Side Of The World (Intriguer)
Active compensatory factors: I feel that my Crowded House collection, as presented here, without either a Greatest Hits collection or three of their early studio albums, is on balance quite wilfully obscure.
There's only Woodface carrying the load - the amazingly brilliant third album that includes Tim Finn in the lineup and contains hit after hit. BTW: I've deducted a star for the length for Woodface - it needed to be pruned of at least two tracks for my money.
There's Afterglow (with the awful cover)- an odds and sods/ waifs and strays compilation of discarded tracks, the live Farewell To the World double which doubles as a de facto Greatest Hits of Crowded House Mark 1, and then the two post farewell reunions with new musicians augmenting Crowded House: Time On Earth (dedicated to Paul Hester) and Intriguer (a double as well - with the album twinned with a DVD of live stuff).
That said - there is a wealth of great material spread over these five CDs. Neil Finn (pronounced Nil Fun in Nu Zild) is one of our favourite sons, after all.
Where do they all belong? Crowded House: kiwi legends - something so strong! Indeed.
Where do they all belong? Crowded House: kiwi legends - something so strong! Indeed.
The big hole in my CH collection is Together Alone, which I need to correct post haste.
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