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| From | KCGraham74@aol.com |
| Subject | Re: audities-digest V1 #22 (20 msgs) |
| Date | Mon, 3 Feb 2003 22:41:34 EST |
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In a message dated 2/3/03 3:00:46 PM Pacific Standard Time,
audities-owner@smoe.org writes:
> --- Miles Goosens <outdoorminer@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> >In fact, I've decided that I don't like Tim Finn at
> >all. The Finn Brothers
> >stuff doesn't do anything for me, and the WOODFACE
> >songs where Tim's
> >influence seems most prominent ("Chocolate Cake,"
> >"There Goes God") mar
> >what is otherwise an outstanding album.
>
> agreed. i also find tim to be something of an
> overbearing showman, which is sometimes warranted but
> not, IMHO, when it is to prop up songs of surprisingly
> consistent mediocrity. ooooh, who's feeling bitchy
> this morning? that's a little more harsh than i really
> mean to come off...i don't HATE the guy, I just don't
> like his output, and find his lil bro to have gotten
> all the songwriting genes that end up mattering to me.
> Every time I shudder hearing "Private Universe," you
> can be assured it's a very different shudder from the
> kind that happens during "Road to Roratonga." Yeah,
> they're both credited on this, but i blame tim for
> bringing out the worst in neil here: somehow that
> arty percussion crap smacks of meandering jam sessions
> in someone's basement, fueled by Fosters and possibly
> interesting, if it weren't already done better by the
> cast of Blue Man Group and Stomp!. For whatever
> that's worth to ya. Ditto the sentiment about the Enz
> stuff i like all ending up being Neil, not Tim....
>
> but JEEEZ o pete am i psyched to see neil and rhett
> miller this week....eeee! I'm like a little girl.
>
> --kelly
> my neighbor's cubicle playing michael jackson, "Butterflies."
>
Okay,
The slamming of Tim Finn will be answered!
First, Neil was maybe a better pop song constructor, and a more soothing
vocalist, like Colin Molding (but twice as prolific). However, what about
the concept of originality? Voice as well as lyrics, and at the time a
innovator, leader, in quirky pop songs.
When I hear Tim Finn I know within two notes! My top 20 favorite LP's
consisit of Sgt Pepper, Revolver, Kimmo My House, All Things Must Past, How
Dare You! (by 10CC). I consider Mental Notes (without Neil Finn, who is not
old enough to be in his big brother's band yet) to be epic, and as
emotionally moving their classic early 80's L.P.'s True Colors & Waiata.
Mental Notes is epic and stands alone in originality, at least if you're
crazy enough to like a songs where the main instrument (at least during the
second half) are spoons! Anyone can do a Beatles imitation straight, just
ask Todd Rundgren and the Spongetones. At least Tim and the boys, should be
credited with taking it down another street, dead end or not.
In good health, Casey
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