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Track List
01) Something So Strong
02) Weather With You
03) It's Only Natural
04) Chocolate Cake
05) Fall at Your Feet
06) Distant Sun
07) Better Be Home Soon
08) Four Seasons in One Day
09) Don't Dream It's Over
10) Mean to Me
11) Locked Out
12) Don't Stop Now
13) Pineapple Head
14) Instinct
15) Fingers of Love
16) Private Universe
17) Not the Girl You Think You Are
18) Nails in My Feet
19) Pour le monde
01) Something So Strong
02) Weather With You
03) It's Only Natural
04) Chocolate Cake
05) Fall at Your Feet
06) Distant Sun
07) Better Be Home Soon
08) Four Seasons in One Day
09) Don't Dream It's Over
10) Mean to Me
11) Locked Out
12) Don't Stop Now
13) Pineapple Head
14) Instinct
15) Fingers of Love
16) Private Universe
17) Not the Girl You Think You Are
18) Nails in My Feet
19) Pour le monde
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3:55
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5:41
4:12
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First Released
2010
Pop-Rock
Good Natured
Rock/Pop
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The Very Very Best of Crowded House is a compilation album featuring 19 singles from the period spanning Crowded House's first six studio albums. A CD and DVD box set is available, which includes a DVD of 25 of the band's music videos. The album is also available as a 'Deluxe Digital Version' which features 32 tracks including a rare 1987 live recording of the band's cover version of the Hunters & Collectors song "Throw Your Arms Around Me".
The band left Capitol/EMI records in 2010 and this album documents their time with that label. The album has not been not mentioned on Crowded House's official website, although an email was sent to subscribers to their mailing list to announce its release, which suggests that the band had little involvement with it. An official press release from Capitol/EMI states that the album is being released to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the formation of the band. No tracks from the band's 2010 album Intriguer are included because the band had left Capitol/EMI prior to the recording of that album, which was released on Mercury and ATO.
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It’s simple, really: if you write super songs, they won’t get old. Crowded House have a catalogue that features so many gems that they should, perhaps, be held in the high regard primarily reserved for acts that came before them, the likes of The Beatles and the Stones. At least, they should be seen as a sort of southern hemisphere R.E.M. – capable of writing the finest pop songs, but always with an air of vulnerability, with heavy heart and burning soul. Their roots are very different, but the songs speak for themselves: several of these 19 tracks are solid-gold greats.
Whether the world needs another Crowded House best of, after two already – 1996’s Recurring Dream and 2003’s US release, Classic Masters – is ultimately a moot point as, while the Neil Finn-led outfit has hardly been a global chart force since their 2006 reunion, the songwriting quality has remained firmly intact. This set, covering as it does all of their studio albums except for Intriguer of June this year, is their most complete hits package to date, and effectively becomes their definitive document. It is, therefore, essential – should these songs not already be part of your record collection, of course.
Highlights are only ever going to be determined by the period of Crowded House’s existence that the listener was first alerted to. For me, the songs of 1991’s Woodface and its great, dark follow-up, 1993’s Together Alone, are the most fondly remembered; but the group’s eponymous debut spawned its share of celebrated singles, including Don’t Dream It’s Over, Something So Strong and Mean to Me. Woodface’s Weather With You is the band’s only UK top 10 to date, but they’ve broken the top 20 several times: Distant Sun, a standout of Together Alone, reached 19, and the same LP’s Locked Out went higher still, peaking at 12. Private Universe flopped as a single, but it’s one of the most intimate and melancholic songs Finn and company have ever penned.
Of course, Crowded House are very much an ongoing concern, this release far from a full stop at the end of a career of highs and lows – drummer Paul Hester’s suicide in 2005 representing the lowest ebb of all. So while the finest songs here are worthy of unreserved acclaim, who knows: the band might just have even better numbers still up their sleeves. As they say themselves, Don’t Stop Now.
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The Very Very Best of Crowded House is a compilation album featuring 19 singles from the period spanning Crowded House's first six studio albums. A CD and DVD box set is available, which includes a DVD of 25 of the band's music videos. The album is also available as a 'Deluxe Digital Version' which features 32 tracks including a rare 1987 live recording of the band's cover version of the Hunters & Collectors song "Throw Your Arms Around Me".
The band left Capitol/EMI records in 2010 and this album documents their time with that label. The album has not been not mentioned on Crowded House's official website, although an email was sent to subscribers to their mailing list to announce its release, which suggests that the band had little involvement with it. An official press release from Capitol/EMI states that the album is being released to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the formation of the band. No tracks from the band's 2010 album Intriguer are included because the band had left Capitol/EMI prior to the recording of that album, which was released on Mercury and ATO.
User Album Review
It’s simple, really: if you write super songs, they won’t get old. Crowded House have a catalogue that features so many gems that they should, perhaps, be held in the high regard primarily reserved for acts that came before them, the likes of The Beatles and the Stones. At least, they should be seen as a sort of southern hemisphere R.E.M. – capable of writing the finest pop songs, but always with an air of vulnerability, with heavy heart and burning soul. Their roots are very different, but the songs speak for themselves: several of these 19 tracks are solid-gold greats.
Whether the world needs another Crowded House best of, after two already – 1996’s Recurring Dream and 2003’s US release, Classic Masters – is ultimately a moot point as, while the Neil Finn-led outfit has hardly been a global chart force since their 2006 reunion, the songwriting quality has remained firmly intact. This set, covering as it does all of their studio albums except for Intriguer of June this year, is their most complete hits package to date, and effectively becomes their definitive document. It is, therefore, essential – should these songs not already be part of your record collection, of course.
Highlights are only ever going to be determined by the period of Crowded House’s existence that the listener was first alerted to. For me, the songs of 1991’s Woodface and its great, dark follow-up, 1993’s Together Alone, are the most fondly remembered; but the group’s eponymous debut spawned its share of celebrated singles, including Don’t Dream It’s Over, Something So Strong and Mean to Me. Woodface’s Weather With You is the band’s only UK top 10 to date, but they’ve broken the top 20 several times: Distant Sun, a standout of Together Alone, reached 19, and the same LP’s Locked Out went higher still, peaking at 12. Private Universe flopped as a single, but it’s one of the most intimate and melancholic songs Finn and company have ever penned.
Of course, Crowded House are very much an ongoing concern, this release far from a full stop at the end of a career of highs and lows – drummer Paul Hester’s suicide in 2005 representing the lowest ebb of all. So while the finest songs here are worthy of unreserved acclaim, who knows: the band might just have even better numbers still up their sleeves. As they say themselves, Don’t Stop Now.
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