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| 1. Chocolate Cake |
| 2. It's Only Natural |
| 3. Fall At Your Feet |
| 4. Tall Trees |
| 5. Weather With You |
| 6. Whispers And Moans |
| 7. Four Seasons In One Day |
| 8. There Goes God |
| 9. Fame Is |
| 10. All I Ask |
| 11. As Sure As I Am |
| 12. Italian Plastic |
| 13. She Goes On |
| 14. How Will You Go |
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Pop Songwriting At It's Finest!,
This review is from: Woodface (Audio CD)
When Neil Finn invited big brother Tim of Split Enz fame to join Crowded House in 1990, the collaboration resulted in one of the great pop-rock albums of all time! Track after track, WOODFACE is awash with memorable melodies and Neil Finn's off-the-wall lyricism. The catchy and cheerful "It's Only Natural" is quite simply the best song The Beatles never wrote, while "Chocolate Cake," with it's stinging jabs at American and British consumerism, is as witty as it is cutting. "Fall At Your Feet" and "All I Ask," are gorgeous ballads in the best Finn Brothers tradition; both seem effortless yet both are endlessly affecting.Neil Finn and CROWDED HOUSE have many fine albums to their credit, but WOODFACE is the band's masterpiece. Classic and essential.
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best of a great (short-lived) group,
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This review is from: Woodface (Audio CD)
With the Finn brothers together again, the group made their best record. Unfortunately, their hopes of becoming a hit in the U.S.A. went unrealized as they received the same poor support from Capitol Records that had doomed their sales for the earlier two ventures. Additionally, they had included, as the first track, "Chocolate Cake," that described (quite accurately, I think) the U.S. as a materialistic behemoth on a sugar binge--in the arts, in our diet and, generally, in the way we consume everything in sight; consumption as a life and national goal. The unsophisticated mass market neither understood nor appreciated this message. Those who might have bought the album in spite of, or because of that number never heard it or heard of it. Soon, the Finns went to record their own album and Crowded House was no more. BUT...this is a GREAT ALBUM with TERRIFIC SONGS; if you haven't heard it, do so--you might just like it as much as I!
4.0 out of 5 stars
Golden Wood,
By Tim Brough "author and music buff" (Springfield, PA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Woodface (Audio CD)
Even above their wonderful debut, this is my favorite Crowded House CD. It's probably because Neil and Tim Finn reunited long enough to work their brotherly chemistry for a batch of melodic, hook laden songs. Unfortunately, the image of goofy nonsense that the first album's hits and videos cultivated remained as one Crowded House couldn't shake, and despite such obvious charmers as "Weather With You" or "Four Seasons in One Day," chart success again eluded them. That's a darn shame, because the band's assimilated influences of Byrds and Beatles were at their peak on "Woodface." There was even a lethal double-dose of humor in the American Vs England "Chocolate Cake" (these guys were New Zealanders, remember), and the thinly disguised swipe at Hollywood in "There Goes God."Anyone who got to see Crowded House on tour during this period also got a magical show. I was fortunate enough to catch them on a night that Roger McGuinn came out for an encore of "Mr Tambourine Man" and "Eight Miles High." (If you can snatch a copy of the "Byrdhouse" EP, it's worth it.) Tim again left for solo ground after this, and took that little extra sparkle with him. But for the duration of "Woodface," the four cornered Crowded House managed to spin some of the lost magic of their Split Enz days.
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