Crowded House - Temple of Low Men
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Free Music Review: Simply the best Crowded House album--a masterpiece
Hit: 5 Stars
I own several of Neil Finn & Co's albums, but this is the one I return to time and again. The debut was excellent, but doesn't quite compare to the haunting melodies and cool chords/textures of this CD. Look at all of the other reviews contained herein, and you'll hopefully give this brilliant recording a listen. All the songs are great, but standouts include Into Temptation, When You Come, Never Be The Same, In The Lowlands, and...heck, they're ALL great. Trust all these reviewers and buy this masterpiece today. If you like The Police, Sting, Gin Blossoms, Billy Joel, etc (if that makes sense--just think "thinking-man's pop"), you'll love this disc.Free Music Review: Another 1980s gem
Hit: 5 Stars
I probably wouldn't have liked this in the 1980s or the 1990s because it wasn't hard rock delivered by a female but now 19 years after its release I can really appreciate how skilled and how good Crowded House sounds and I don't need the shotgun blast affect of hard rock like I used to.
The music of Crowded House leaves decades of artists in the dust from the Beatles to the rest of these current overblown singer/songwriters who sound like crap. I pop this in the car radio when I don't want to listen to the annoying junk on radio and it's not chill music nor power rock but it isin the middle which suits me fine now in 2007.
Free Music Review: Highly Anticipated Follow-up that Delivers!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
After the success of their debut, people were eagerly anticipating the follow-up, and boy did it deliver! Certainly the best set of songs that Neil Finn ever wrote (and that's saying something, as he is a songwriting titan). Why it didn't sell more than a half million is beyond me. "Into Temptation" and "Better Be Home Soon" are two of the best ballads ever written, and should have dominated the charts in a perfect world. Like many others have said, there's nothing close to a bad song here. Since the CD is so cheap, one can hope that some unknowing soul will pick this baby up and have their life transformed, just like mine was.Free Music Review: One for the desert island
Hit: 5 Stars
There aren't too many perfect pop/rock records: this is one of them (it belongs on the same shelf as Revolver, OK Computer, Hunky Dory, Superfly....). All ten songs are great and, as with the other masterpieces mentioned, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. The album *sounds* unlike anything else ever released, and the songs collectively conjure up their own very specific, haunting and haunted landscape. A "ghost car on the freeway" of the 80's to use one of Neil Finn's stunning images, _Temple_ is a cd to live with, to always have with you on a long drive, and should you be banished to a desert island....Free Music Review: The flaws make the gem
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a stunningly introspective series of songs full of self-analysis and creeping self-doubt. The highlight for me is the needling "Into Temptation", if you have ever cheated, then the lyric "the guilty get no sleep, in the last slow hours of morning" will stay with you forever. Finn says he got the idea form a stay in a hotel where a hockey team and rugby team on tours were pairing off with each other, but that explanation belies the stark empathy of the song. Yes, this is an uneven album compared with some of the others, but the imperfections make the gem.