Crowded House - Recurring Dream
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Artist: Crowded HouseEdition: Music CD
Format: Import, Live
CD Release Date: 1998-10-20
Music Label: EMI Int'l
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Weather With You
- World Where You Live
- Fall At Your Feet
- Locked Out
- Don't Dream It's Over
- Into Temptation
- Pineapple Head
- When You Come
- Private Universe
- Not The Girl You Think You Are
- Instinct
- I Feel Possessed
- Four Seasons In One Day
- It's Only Natural
- Distant Sun
- Something So Strong
- Mean To Mean
- Better Be Home Soon
- Everything Is Good For You
- There Goes God
- Newcastle Jam
- Love You 'Til The Day I Die
- Hole In The River
- Private Universe
- Pineapple Head
- How Will You Go
- Left Hand
- Whispers And Moans
- Kill Eye
- Fingers Of Love
- Don't Dream It's Over
- When You Come
- Sister Madly
- In My Command
Free Music Notes for Recurring Dream
Free Music Review: 4 1/2 Stars: Nice Live Disc
Hit: 5 Stars
While Neil Finn has made albums with several entities, including Split Enz, the Finn Brothers and a solo career, perhaps his best known work was written during the course of Crowded House's four studio albums. Some of the best loved songs ever produced by a New Zealander are compiled on Recurring Dream: 'Don't Dream It's Over', a timeless ballad with a memorable organ solo, the jingle-jangle of 'Weather With You', and the sensitive ballad 'Better Be Home Soon'. The selections from each album are solid, although the democratic policy of allowing exactly four songs from each albums means that great Woodface songs 'There Goes God' and 'Chocolate Cake' miss out at the expense of inferior tracks such as Crowded House's 'Mean to Me.' The three new songs recorded for Recurring Dream are a disappointment; 'Everything is Good For You' is quite possibly the worst track that Crowded House ever recorded, 'Not the Girl You Think You Are' may be Beatlesque but it isn't particularly interesting, while 'Instinct' is merely the best of a bad lot. Recurring Dream inexplicably ends with new song 'Everything is Good For You', rather than 'Better Be Home Soon' which is tailor-made for the position. Despite its faults, Recurring Dream is a good introduction to Crowded House, containing key album tracks such as 'Into Temptation' and 'Private Universe', although fans will want to dig deeper especially into Together Alone and it might be simpler just to get each of their four albums individually.
Recurring Dream Bonus Disc
I'm not usually too excited about live albums, but this record, released as a bonus disc to Recurring Dream is good enough to stand enough on its own; as a bonus it's simply superlative. There's also very little crossover with the greatest hits tracks, as only four songs appear on both discs, and it covers a bunch of excellent Crowded House songs that didn't make the cut. `There Goes God', `Whispers and Moans' `Kill Eye' and `Love You Til The Day I Die' all could have held their own on Recurring Dream, and they're all presented in excellent live versions, making the 2CD version a much more valuable Crowded House anthology than the first disc alone. There are also a couple of otherwise unreleased songs - the catchy and atmospheric `Newcastle Jam' and `Left Hand'. Most of the recordings come from the 1990s, with Mark Hart featuring as the keyboard player or second guitarist - he's almost the ideal foil for the band, either able to reproduce or improve the original arrangement. While Hester and Seymour were fine musicians their influence wasn't always that apparent on record, but they were much more integral on stage - Hester's pranks (an extreme example entailed coming on alone for an encore in a Santa suit playing metal guitar riffs, stripping naked, then making obscene noises in the mike) were an important part of the band's charm.
I'm rather indifferent to the live versions of the Together Alone material here; `In My Command' lacks the energy of the studio version and `Pineapple Head' and `Private Universe' lack a bit of atmosphere, but otherwise these songs are pretty much all at least as enjoyable as their studio counterparts. Particular highlights include `There Goes God', much punchier here than on record, while the epic ten minute take on `Hole In The River', ending with traditional Irish ballad `The Parting Glass', blows away the studio version and might be my favourite Crowded House track ever. Lots of compilations throw on a couple of otherwise unavailable songs to entice completists, but there's a whole disc of first rate material here that any Crowded House fan will want to hear; it's not too hard to find copies of the bonus disc edition in New Zealand, but overseas fans may struggle to track it down. - Fyfeopedia Music Reviews
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Limited Edition Release featuring a Bonus 15 Track Live CD. EMI.Limited Edition Release featuring a Bonus 15 Track Live CD.
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