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23 January 2007

OMIGOD!!!!!! CROWDED HOUSE is reuniting! And they'll be playing here in SoCal in a few months at Coachella! I have just spent the past 20 minutes running around my house screaming.

post by: scody at: 01:07 | 38 comments

My utterly girly adoration of All Things Finn previously mentioned here.

posted by scody 23 January | 01:09

Holy crap! How wonderful!
I'm envious. I'd be screaming, too.

posted by lilywing13 23 January | 01:30

um. Didn't the drummer kill himself?!

And RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE is bigger news, IMHO!!

posted by black8 23 January | 01:30

Yep, Paul Hester committed suicide about 2 years ago. At the time, Neil Finn said there'd never be a reunion, but according to the article, he'd recently been recording his latest solo record with erstwhile CH member Nick Seymour, and apparently it just turned into... a Crowded House record. And now, with the 10-year anniversary release of Farewell to the World concert CD/DVD (I remember my ex and I actually fantasized about maxing out a credit card just to fly from Chicago to Sydney to see it!), it evidently feels right to say hello to the world once again.

God, I'm so happy! Never seeing Crowded House originally was always one of the top regrets of my life as a music fan.

posted by scody 23 January | 01:43

Road trip!

posted by mudpuppie 23 January | 01:59

I'm really looking forward to hearing the new Neil Finn solo album - his last two were great. I'm not a huge fan of Crowded House, but Together Alone is absolutely stunning. If, and it's a big if, they can top that, it'll be a great album.

Oh yeah, and RATM is interesting. I have a friend, who works for Audioslave's label in the UK, who's been saying for months that Audioslave have all but officially called it a day. Cornell has a solo album due out in March and the band are on "hiatus" whilst he tours that. And now RATM have reformed...

posted by TheDonF 23 January | 02:16

hm. never cared for ratm. liked audioslave though. oh well.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 23 January | 02:20

Uh, and James have reformed for a tour (although their Wikipedia page said they never actually split - they were just inactive. For a long time.). No mention of an album, though.

For me, RATM were one of those "2 or 3 great songs per album, and they were usually the singles" type bands.

posted by TheDonF 23 January | 02:46

I feel old. I saw Split Enz.

posted by essexjan 23 January | 02:54

Me too. At Bumbershoot in the late 80's...

posted by black8 23 January | 03:05

I feel even older. I saw them in the late 70s.

posted by essexjan 23 January | 03:11

*gazes at jan in envy*

posted by scody 23 January | 03:19

Split Enz was supposed to be at the aborted Gisbourne concert for New Year's 2000--Bowie was the main reason I wanted to go.

posted by brujita 23 January | 04:08

Wow, great news!

posted by dodgygeezer 23 January | 04:21

Time and Tide is such a classic. And this is an overlooked gem. Tim's lyrics are BRILLIANT. Turned me on to the story of Te Whiti, too.

posted by shane 23 January | 08:59

And RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE is bigger news, IMHO!!

RATM? the Cadillac Commies of pop? Please tell me you're kidding.

hm. never cared for ratm. liked audioslave though. oh well.

Well, Chris Cornell can actually sing and is a lot nicer to look at than Zach De La Rocha, not to mention less prone to strident posturing.

posted by jonmc 23 January | 09:03

Heh. I actually thought of you, scody, when I found out.

posted by gaspode 23 January | 09:08

Did Zach de la Rocha ever release that rap album?

posted by box 23 January | 09:22

ah, RATM, I was a huge fan...

Audioslave not as much but Chris Cornell is so incredibly handsome that I sometimes forget about that, and I just watch him sing and I'm happy

posted by matteo 23 January | 10:35

ah, RATM, I was a huge fan...

Yes, plotting the revolution from their limosuine using bad Ministry-lite as their weapon. I bet The Man was quaking in his boots.

posted by jonmc 23 January | 10:47

Yeah, Rage Against the Machine, those jerks. How dare they try to express themselves artistically?

posted by box 23 January | 10:55

box, come on. Is criticising RATM of limits? 'expressing yourself artistically' means that they can only be effusively praised? I'm merely stating the obvious: they're 'revolutionary' stance was nothing but posturing.

I've said it before:

Sweet Success, just take it
if you're sincere you can fake it
you can pray every night
when the sun goes down
but there's only two things that make the world go round...

posted by jonmc 23 January | 11:03

Nothing but posturing? Oh, I dunno--I'd guess that, just like with most people, they tried, not always successfully, to balance their political ideals with their other concerns--in this case, greed and the desire for fame, and to climb on the scenery at the MTV awards and release what is undoubtedly the worst version of 'Maggie's Farm' ever recorded.

Don't get me wrong--I'm pretty sure that I hate RAtM's brand of shout-along crap-rock a whole lot more than you do, and their politics are simpleminded even by dorm room bull session standards.

But critizing RAtM for their corporate-record-label hypocrisy is like shooting fish in a barrel. And, when it's so easy to find hypocrisy in pretty much any human being who has ever lived, I think that this kind of criticism isn't particularly constructive, and, worse, that it discourages people who might otherwise be tempted to try to do some good in this world.

posted by box 23 January | 11:33

I'm pretty sure that I hate RAtM's brand of shout-along crap-rock a whole lot more than you do, and their politics are simpleminded even by dorm room bull session standards.

Hey, I actually love shout-along rock, you should know that, but they suck by those standards, too. And their politics wouldn't bug me ever so much if they weren't so strident and the hypocrisy so blatant. And I think a healthy cynicism about people's motives, including our own, is simply maturity.

posted by jonmc 23 January | 11:37

Well, I liked what (little) I've heard. Please tell me you're kidding is kind of insulting. Sorry I'm not cool enough.

posted by danostuporstar 23 January | 11:39

shout-along crap-rock

Much better.

posted by box 23 January | 11:43

I love how this went from crowded house/Finn to Rage.

Nice turn. That's all.

posted by alicesshoe 23 January | 11:49

Please tell me you're kidding is kind of insulting.

I only said that since black8 and matteo generally have excellent (meaning similar-to-mine) taste in music. And it's got zero to do with cool, I could care less about cool. I'm probably the least politically astute person here and I could see through the who Che Guevara shtick.

posted by jonmc 23 January | 11:50

I love how this went from crowded house/Finn to Rage.

I met Tom Morello once at an anti-death penalty fundraiser in the mid-'90s in Chicago, and he was a swell guy. AND he said he liked Crowded House!

posted by scody 23 January | 12:03

He also likes Dio and Rush according to interviews.

posted by jonmc 23 January | 12:09

*sighs*
*ruffles jon's hair*

it was a joke to get the topic back to Crowded House, darlin'. ;)

(Though I did indeed meet him, and he did indeed seem like a swell guy.)

posted by scody 23 January | 12:37

Hey, I like RatM, Rush, and Dio. I wouldn't travel halfway across the country to see 'em, but I don't change the radio station when their songs come on. If liking high energy, meaningless pop is wrong, then I don't want to be right.

posted by muddgirl 23 January | 12:41

"You wanted to be bigger than The Beatles. I wanted you to be bigger than Chairman Mao."--John Sinclair, to the MC5

posted by box 23 January | 12:47

I love the MC5, but I've read Guitar Army. Sinclair likes Mao way too much to anything but a yo-yo.

posted by jonmc 23 January | 12:54

"You wanted to be bigger than The Beatles. I wanted you to be bigger than Chairman Mao."--John Sinclair, to the MC5

I'm bigger than Paul Simon.

He's pretty short.

posted by shane 23 January | 13:54

Not only am I (slightly) bigger than The Beatles, I'm also, therefore, bigger than Jesus.

It's the, whaddayacallit, transitive property? No, I don't think that's it.

posted by box 23 January | 14:16

FUCK YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME (money, royalties)
FUCK YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME (radio play, big tour)
FUCK YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME (Audioslave's latest bit it)

posted by Lipstick Thespian 23 January | 21:49

at least I guess we all agree that chris cornell is one handsome sonofabitch

posted by matteo 25 January | 20:06

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