Song of the Lonely Mountain

I'd heard Neil Finn was doing the end credit song to The Hobbit movie; I'd thought I'd have to go see the movie or buy the soundtrack to hear it!  I know Crowded House songs have been featured in soundtracks before, and I know his brother Tim has done credits songs before, but this is the first one I've heard Neil doing ( Read more... )

( Gentle Hum... )

Well, I've done it and bought tickets. I haven't gone to see Neil Finn (or Crowded House) the last 3-4 times he's been in the area ( this was the last time I saw him - crap, in 2003!!). Next month he's going to be playing at some divey bar/venue in Costa Mesa, the next city over from me, about a block away from our local DMV. It's in a strip mall ( Read more... )

I meant to mention, when I doodled this for tikistitch the other day, I was listening to the following from Crowded House's newest album...kinda reminded me of those two...

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(There were a bunch of videos with concert footage, but damn if I can't stand that pornstache Neil had - thank gods he shaved it off halfway through the tour...)

( lyrics... )

Drat. I'm beginning to think I'm destined to never see Neil Finn/Crowded House ever again. Don't think I have since VT and I saw him during one of his solo tours at Downtown Disney (which seems like a weird place to see him in hindsight). They're at Club Nokia which is right across from the Convention Center where we went to AX last month, so we ( Read more... )

Hmm, Phantom of the Opera just came up on shuffle, and though I love it, I remember why I don't listen to it very often. On the CD I have, each act is only one track, almost an hour long. I really have to be in a Broadway mood to listen to it in one sitting. I see the one they sell now has Act One broken up into 14 tracks ( Read more... )

Has Neil Finn ever used any kind of nature sounds in his work? I seem to remember weird bird-like noises (gulls maybe? possibly backwards?) at the end of "Kill Eye"...any others?

This occurred to me after I recently purchased One All from iTunes after becoming a reluctant iPod owner (yes, I'm a bad Finn fan - but I did manage to get 7 Worlds and ( Read more... )

The song that just came up reminds me; when John used to work as a meatcutter at Food 4 Less, he got pretty sick of this track as it was repeated over and over on the store Muzak system. That and "Six Weeks in a Leaky Boat" bySplit EnzThing is, that was in Watts and Compton - inner city Los Angeles. Funny, those songs barely got any radio airplay ( Read more... )

OK, a couple of rather trippy musical moments for me in American Dad on FOX this evening.

1. Patrick Stewart, playing the head of the CIA, singing Oingo Boingo song, I Like Little Girls. In a pink, frilly bathrobe.
2. A clip from Crowded House's Don't Dream It's Over playing during a post credit slow-motion scene of Stan entering a room and hugging ( Read more... )

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