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Hardin Smith
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Username: Manosludge

Post Number: 13
Registered: 03-2006
Posted on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 04:05 pm:   

I am also very enamored of some other great musicians from the Go-Betweens' part of the world: Paul Kelly and the Finn Brothers (individually and as a duo)....Anyone else here like 'em?

I'm still kicking myself for missing the Finn Bros. when they played the House of Blues in N.O. when I was living close to there (in Baton Rouge) a couple of years ago. They produce some sublime, gorgeous music...

And, Paul Kelly, geez, he is just a major, brilliant songwriter. Sadly, he's never played close to anywhere I've lived...If he doesn't play to huge arenas of adoring fans in Australia, then there is no justice in the world...
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Michael Bachman
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Username: Michael_bachman

Post Number: 39
Registered: 01-2005
Posted on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 05:23 pm:   

Wooden Face, the Crowded House album with both Finn brothers, is one of my top 50 albums of all time! I have a lot of the solo and duo Finn Brothers as well, but Wooden Face is still my favorite.
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Geoff Holmes
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Username: Geoff

Post Number: 66
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 07:54 am:   

Neil Finn is a perfect pop song genius. How could anyone not love his stuff? My fave Crowdies album is "Temple of Low Men", although, I hear, in the U.S., that it lived up to its original title of "Mediocre follow up". "Kare Kare" ( off "Together Alone")I loved so much that I made a pilgrimage there many years ago! - great song great place!!! I really love the first "Finn" album - sooo moody and "Last Day of June" is fantastic. Neil's first solo album, "Try whistling this" is very good too, as is the second proper Finn album, "Everyone is here". Split Enz, who have just reformed (yet again) for some concert dates, I really don't care for apart from Neil's songs (like "I got you", "History never repeats" and "One step ahead")and only a couple of Tim songs. Tim albums, unfortuneatly, only serve to indicate how poor a songwriter he is to his younger brother....which obviously really irks him! Tim's a really embarrassment to Neil on stage too for most shows. "Woodface" is great too.
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David Matheson
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Username: David_matheson

Post Number: 59
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Thursday, March 16, 2006 - 10:46 am:   

Hardin, I agree that Paul Kelly is brilliant. I particularly love his 1985 acoustic album 'Post'which is sparse and quite haunting in places.
Tim Finn had some great and highly creative moments with Split Enz, but I think the songwriting genius of Neil took the band to a new level when he joined. They complement each other well.
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Paul Wright
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Username: Wallaby

Post Number: 25
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Thursday, March 16, 2006 - 05:37 pm:   

Kylie.
Are you people blind?
(Obviously I don't listen to her)
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Randy Adams
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Username: Randy_adams

Post Number: 216
Registered: 03-2005
Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 02:16 am:   

I concur with David's comments about "Post." I still only have less than half of Kelly's releases and sometimes he can grate for me when I feel he's overdoing the "everyman" bit, but then a simple unassuming song like "Midnight Rain" will demonstrate his enormous skill as a songwriter. That is an amazingly visual song for me; somehow I put it with Peter Milton Walsh's "Something to Live For." Then there's that instrumental that opens up "Ways and Means" . . . .
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Matt Ellis
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Username: Matt_ellis

Post Number: 71
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 12:16 pm:   

Thats a bit strong Geoff!
I agree that Neil is the stronger songwriter but an 'embarrassment on stage'! I saw the Finn Bros at the Albert Hall last year and Tim was so charismatic (hope I have as much enthusiasm as him at 53) he seemed to grab the audience, in contrast to his more studious (but equally brilliant) brother.

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