English Trees kinda reminds me of the Paul McCartney Chaos and Creation stuff.

Silent House is still growing on me — although I can’t help but read into the title — Crowded House with Paul Hester dying could put make the house silent. Makes me like it more.

There are a lot of lyrics that make me wonder about if Neil is specifically writing about Mr. Hester, although it’s never specifically stated. I like that ambiguity.

I’m presently contemplating if it’s worth getting my lazy bones over to Oakland for a concert in August. We’ll see…

It’s always fun to listen to an album where as you are introduced to the tracks for the first time you find yourself immediately hooked by several of the songs and doing “repeat play” after the very first listening. There aren’t a lot of bands that do that for me these days. But listening to this album reminds me of being introduced to Woodface for the first time (which I still regard as their best album), I’m now doing repeat play for several songs including Pour Le Monde, Don’t Stop Now, English Trees and Silent House.

Awesome. Thanks for the review or I would’ve completely missed this recording.

Really feel old because this is one of the “new” bands we discovered in highschool.

They have some videos on the Crowded House website if you want a peek under media files.

Oh, and check out the grey on Neil Finn in the second picture (I assume that’s him on the left), that’s making me feel old!