Crowded House - Crowded House
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Artist: Crowded HouseEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Mean to Me
- World Where You Live
- Now We're Getting Somewhere
- Don't Dream It's Over
- Love You 'Til the Day I Die
- Something So Strong
- Hole in the River
- Can't Carry On
- I Walk Away
- Tombstone
- That's What I Call Love
Music reviews of Crowded House
Music Review: The soundtrack of my teenage years.
Rating: 5 Stars
It's not usual to re listen to an album you used to listen to a lot twenty years from now and feel, instantly, the same frenzied ecstasy some dare to call "happiness".
I suppose part of its pop power is that it sounds raw, young, unaffected. If you're over 30, it may help us connect with that aspect, and feel we could be like that. That's part of pop's magic, I guess, how it can tie a specific album with an epoch in the world at large. Irrevokably, this epitomizes the 80s as Nirvana means the 90s for me.
Since the first notes I felt I had to raise the volume, and more, till I realized of how bad the recording is... Even with my brand new Krell (advantages of being not-so-young :)) it soulds muddled, damp, well, the opposite of modern.
In spite of that, I'd like to think, its quick impact was still intact. Yes, I love "Don't dream it's over", but I can also quote by heart tracks 1-9. While the lyrics are not as deep as they pretend, they're solidly built. English being my second language, I am surprised of how this album touched me. It was not at all in fashion with my mates, definitely. So it wasn't "peer pressure" or "the song that played on the radio all summer". I suppose it's varitey with a catchy tune. From ethernal love in "Something so strong", doubts in "Can't carry on", despondency in "I walk away" (I wish I had this CD at hand when I needed it :)) to what I assume it's "grievance" and "family" in "hole in the river". I can't say I understood the lyrics, but yes, the music has, definitely, a place in my head. Now, thanks to internet and Amazon, I realize they were Australian, and consequently what I took to be "cockney accent" must be something else :).
I never read who the singers were, I must have opened the booklet only twice, and I listen to classical music 90% of the time. Not being exactly a fan, when I listen to my favourite, "Mean to me" I remember this idea that "a classic changes with you". Now the same song means different, richer things to me. Great drums. As is the bass on "World", another instant classic.
I can't understant why such a good band made bland albums like "Woodface" later... Definitely, sometimes first albums are the best, the most authentic. As usual, the Amazon reviewer R. Wright is right that there are chipper numbers like "Something ...", and in my opinion the last 2 tracks are the least memorable.
Amazon customer comment by "Doctor Beth" is also accurate in that the album is cohesive.
The guitar ending on "Can't carry on" tied to the beginning of the next track shows their ductility and changing genres and yet remaining masters of the "pathos".
Buy with confidence. When you least expect it, you'll realize you know it, and can sing it until having a sore throat, like I do. "Feels like teen spirit" :)!
Description of Crowded House
After gradually assuming a front-and-center role in brother Tim's band Split Enz, native New Zealander and transplanted Australian Neil Finn moved firmly into a leadership position with Crowded House, a trio whose debut album appeared in 1986. Slightly more mainstream than his new-wavy Split Enz work, the record nonetheless evinced signs of darkness ("Don't Dream It's Over," "World Where You Live," "Hole in the River") among more chipper numbers such as "Something So Strong." Often gorgeous, Crowded House proved to be the group's biggest release in America, which didn't seem to have a radio home for them after the success of "Don't Dream" and "Something." They disbanded in 1996. --Rickey WrightGeneral CDs
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