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Tim Finn Feeding The Gods (CD, EMI, 2001) ****
Tim Finn Imaginary Kingdom (CD, Capitol, 2006) ****
Hit The Ground Running kicks off this excellent album - he makes it a habit of starting albums strongly! The sound is relaxed in a confident way, there are pop hooks every way you turn, and Tim is in fine voice. Neil appears on a couple of songs as well.
Genre: NZ music, pop
Places I remember: Vinyl Countdown, Real Groovy Records, Slowboat Records.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Couldn't Be Done (Imaginary Kingdom)
Gear costume: Persuasion (Before & After); What You've Done (Feeding The Gods)
Active compensatory factors: As I've written previously, first track on his debut solo album, Escapade, and Tim Finn gets off to a belter! Fraction Too Much Friction was huge in NZ in 1983. That was thanks to a clever video and massive radio support. It was everywhere that year.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Couldn't Be Done (Imaginary Kingdom)
Gear costume: Persuasion (Before & After); What You've Done (Feeding The Gods)
It helps that it's a clever, catchy pop song with an infectious beat and Tim is all in for his vocals. Then there's the bar de bar de hook. Massive song, great start and well deserved.
We pick up the Tim Finn story at solo album number four (Tim Finn - his third album was also featured earlier). This is Before & After from 1993.
Feeding The Gods is another excellent set of songs. I especially like it when Tim rocks out on songs like What You've Done. He needs to do that more from my point of view.
Imaginary Kingdom was his seventh solo album, and one of his best. He's actually remarkably consistent with these albums. He's always looking to push forward, experiment with the form and try different things. Love that cover too!
Where do they all belong? Unlike Neil's solo output I seem to have been more eager to collect Tim's. In that case, I still need Steel City (a 1998 soundtrack album); Say It Is So from 1999; The Conversation, his 2008 collaboration with Eddie Raynor; and The View Is Worth The Climb (2011). I'm not too keen on his collaborations with Phil Manzanera so I won't bother with them.
Where do they all belong? Unlike Neil's solo output I seem to have been more eager to collect Tim's. In that case, I still need Steel City (a 1998 soundtrack album); Say It Is So from 1999; The Conversation, his 2008 collaboration with Eddie Raynor; and The View Is Worth The Climb (2011). I'm not too keen on his collaborations with Phil Manzanera so I won't bother with them.
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