Neil & Tim Finn - Everyone is Here

[DudeAsInCool]

Crowded House released three more magnificent albums before folding the tent in 1996. Since then, Finn, now 46, stretched his skills even further with two solo works, "Try Whistling This" and "One All." Last month, he and his older brother Tim (erstwhile leader of Split Enz, New Zealand's top '80s new-wave draw) released the enchanting "Everyone Is Here." On the album, Neil turns down the volume on his angst and dovetails with his brother's more somber nature. Yet as Finn's voice carves a searing melody above a swaying rhythm, fleshed out by acoustic guitars and chiming piano in "A Life Between Us" -- "And we're staring at each other/ Like the banks of a river/ And we can't get any closer" -- you have to grin at Neil's parlous musical phrases. Few songwriters can make pop music sound like such poetry.

You can read the full review here:

http://www.salon.com/ent/music/feature/200...finn/index.html

[Umma]

Just got this one too.... even though, everything they do sounds the same... I like them !!

[KiwiCoromandel]

32 years ago this December 10th just passed, Split Enz first played in Auckland, New Zealand. i met both tim and neil in those early split enz days at auckland university...they were tripped out and brilliant days then.....things change....i`m not that keen on their ballad type stuff now...saw an interview with them on aussie channel nine in which neil finn had some rather nasty things to say about his home country.....he didn`t win himself too many new fans on that one.......bighead!!!! <_>

Edited December 28, 2004 by kiwibank