Comments on: Basement Songs: Neil Finn, “Last to Know”

By: Respect Due: Crowded House | Sonic Clash

Respect Due: Crowded House | Sonic Clash — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:03:25 +0000

[...] You also might want to read this article from my friends over at Popdose, a story that uses Neil Finn’s “Last to Kno… [...]

By: Malchus

Malchus — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:26:34 +0000

You HAD to bring up the leopard print bikinis…

By: bvladika

bvladika — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:10:00 +0000

oh yes, the leopard print bikinis!

By: Karim Amir

Karim Amir — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:56:16 +0000

Neil Finn is one of my musical gods.
For me, it's Try Whistling This that brings me back to a certain seemingly hopeless time and place in my life. The CD got me through a really rough patch.

By: Malchus

Malchus — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:26:34 +0000

You HAD to bring up the leopard print bikinis…

By: Malchus

Malchus — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:26:34 +0000

You HAD to bring up the leopard print bikinis…

By: bvladika

bvladika — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:10:00 +0000

oh yes, the leopard print bikinis!

By: Karim Amir

Karim Amir — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:56:16 +0000

Neil Finn is one of my musical gods.
For me, it's Try Whistling This that brings me back to a certain seemingly hopeless time and place in my life. The CD got me through a really rough patch.

By: JonCummings

JonCummings — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:43:16 +0000

I've seen them three times over the last 14 months–most recently a couple of weeks ago, when they closed their tour at the Orpheum Theatre here in LA. Both that night and a year earlier, in a pre-Coachella gig when they had just started playing live again, they closed with “Better Be Home Soon.” At the Santa Barbara Bowl last summer they closed with “Don't Dream It's Over.”

That tour-closing gig was messy and glorious–with the bonus that they did “Throw Your Arms Around Me,” which they didn't do at either of the shows I saw last year.

By: Malchus

Malchus — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:18:19 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, Jon.

It doesn't surprise me that no one even found Finn's "Turn and Run", as most radio stations in our country have been indifferent to his music since, hmmm, the second Crowded House album.

I think that Mike (a couple comments below) best described Finn's work: "hopefulness and melancholy". Sadly, I don't think there's a real place for music like that on the radio dial. Maybe someday.