Crowded House - Woodface
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Free Music Notes for Woodface
Free Music Review: Career highlight
Hit: 5 Stars
Woodface is Crowded House's third and best album, the one that should have given the group a larger American audience, but didn't; it's a real shame, because I have heard very few joyous, fun, involving albums like Woodface. Tim Finn, Neil's brother and bandmate from the Split Enz days, joined the group for this one album and cowrote a number of the songs. His voice harmonizing with his brother's is one of the highlights of the album, especially on my favorite track, "It's Only Natural". Although I would say that the previous album, Temple of Low Men, may have had the higher high points, Woodface is the more consistent album. The only misstep on the album is the opener, "Chocolate Cake", which is not bad, but is an anti-American song that portrays us all as fat and uneducated. Wait a minute, it's right!The highlights of the album are "Fall At Your Feet", a classic ballad that should have been more than the minor radio hit that it was; "Weather With You", a feast of harmony vocals and Neil Finn's typical dour worldview; "She Goes On", a beautiful musical eulogy for a wife; and the album's closer, "How Will You Go", a song about an alcoholic.
If you're looking to get into the House, you can start here or on their debut album. If you're a fan of quality pop music, you won't be disappointed with either.
Free Music Review: Wore out my cassette in the early '90s
Hit: 5 Stars
I had a blank cassette copy of this album in early 1992 that didn't even have the last few songs on it but I loved it! I wore the darn thing out. Some 15 years later, I was trying to recall the band that made the album that I remember adoring for its clever lyrics, upbeat tempos, and my favorite- songs that tend to be in a minor key, slow-tempo-d, and evoke some kind of "Wuthering Heights" type romanticism in me! It took me 45 minutes and some bizarre UK 80's artists search to see the name Crowded House.
Thank goodness for the entire album listening snippets here on Amazon, because I had no idea once I found the band, what album it was!
I listen to this album in my car all the time. Fall at Your Feet is so poetic, I will sometimes repeat it 3 times in row. Weather with You is another fav- the lines that go "Julius Caesar and the Roman empire couldn't conquer the blue sky"- is exactly the type of melody and lyric that instantly creates this sense of timelessness and yearning for something I can't quite explain.
I am so glad I somehow was thinking of that old cassette tape and spent the time tracking this album down!
Free Music Review: Best Crowded House album! Best soft-pop album!
Hit: 5 Stars
I originally picked up this album only because it was from Crowded House. "Chocolate Cake" was the only tune I had heard from the album and I was not overly impressed by the song. Fortunately for me the rest of the album is nothing like "Chocolate Cake". I found that the more I listened to the disc the more I fell in love with it!Crowded House's songwriting and style are at their best on 'Woodface'. "Fall At Your Feet", Whispers and Moans" and "She Goes On" are all great enough individually to have made the band noteworthy if it hadn't already made it big. "It's Only Natural", "Four Seasons In One Day" and "Italian Plastic" are all close seconds in this respect.
Every single song is listenable and enjoyable. With the exception of the choppy-sounding, overtly-satirical "Chocolate Cake", this album is a wonderful, smooth drive through the typical Crowded House adult-soft-mature-pop genre. My personal collection includes over 1100 albums and I rank "Woodface" my -favorite- soft-pop album. Very highly recommended.
Free Music Review: A Durable Album
Hit: 5 Stars
I bought this album inspired by their great compilation "Recurring Dream" . "Woodface" was the logical choice with the outstanding "Weather With You" and the fine singles "Fall at Your Feet" and "It's Only Natural" - moreover "Woodface" is the only album to feature both Finn brothers.
At first the 4 tracks from "Recurring Dream" seemed to be the highlights of the albums, but soon I realized that there was much more to go for.
The Beatles inspiration is obvious on most tracks, not least on the great opener "Chocolate Cake" - "Rubber Soul" ala 1991.
Neil Finn's country-inspired "She Goes On" - is simply beautiful; reminds me of the best tracks of the Eagles' "Desperado".
Drummer Paul Hester's "Italian Plastic" is refreshingly different - with its raw John Lennon approach.
Of course the beautiful folkish "Four Seasons in One Day" has to be brought forward.
A durable album that can be listened to again and again.
Free Music Review: Face it this is a Great Album!
Hit: 5 Stars
So many of the songs on this album were hugely successful hits and many you'll still hear at least once every couple of weeks on the radio even today. Chocolate Cake would be my favourite Crowded House song and the only reason I can see that it never made their greatest hits album was because so many of the other songs from this album were included and the record company still wanted people to sell lots of copies of Woodface. It's Only Natural, Fall at Your Feet, Weather With You and Four Seasons in One Day would easily be Crowded House's most played songs and they are all on this album. There's nothing wrong with the other not so famous tracks on this album either it's only because so many singles were sold of the other songs that customers figured out they should buy the album that the other songs didn't become hits as well.
Both Australians and New Zealanders claim this band as their own so you know you can't go wrong by buying it.