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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: Blondie, Cheap Trick, Crowded House |
| Date | Sat, 01 Feb 2003 23:48:03 -0500 |
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At 10:26 PM 2/1/2003 -0600, Rick McCall wrote:
>Crowded House - For my money, there is nobody in music, excepting The
>Beatles and Squeeze, that has a more intelligent, melodic and deep catalog
>than Neil Finn, starting at Crowded House (not Split Enz, who were spotty,
>but occasionally brilliant). And Neil is probably even with Squeeze, if not
>a bit ahead. LOVE
Split Enz were quite spotty, but I think that if you broke down the
songwriting credits -- Neil's songs, Tim's songs, Eddy's songs, etc. -- you
might be surprised. Neil's contributions were pretty uniformly fine, from
the first single he wrote (1979's "I See Red") all the way through the
artsy'n'weird SEE YA ROUND. Tim has always been capable of brilliance, but
he really needs a creative foil/editor who will stem his tendencies towards
excess.
S
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