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One of my favorite songs even when I was only into metal. The song and album bring back memories of playing whiffle ball in my buddy’s front yard. We always listened to music when we were outside playing basketball, whiffle ball, or catch with the football. His older sister always gave him music to play on the boombox and she really turned us on to a lot of great music. And yes, she was a smoke show. And yes, she wanted nothing to do with my skinny punk ###.Bracie Smathers said:83. Prince - Little Red Corvette
It was five years ago today that Prince passed away so this was moved far up the list to honor his day.
Actually yesterday was the anniversary of Price's passing.
a simple ditty, but more melodic invention to it than in some entire careers....
Some things he's done that seem/sound so simple have well timed/placed Swiss watch craftsmanship.
If you @ her, I’m sure she’ll come on down (down).
it's quite extraordinary. since k4 and i put together our Spotify McMix, i've listened to it a lot and i bet there are 500 honest song germs (ie whole-cloth song ideas for, say, Weezer) in our 70-80 besties. as a songwriter who may not be any good but doesnt consider a song a song unless at least 3 separate tunes died for it, much respect.
I don’t know if it’s going to show up, but there’s another song from this album that deserves to be mentionedBracie Smathers said:
Forgot about this song. This was a pretty big song in 82. Kind of caribbean sounding.
The song was written about Tim Finn's nervous breakdown. He would later leave Split Enz and his brother, Neil, would move on to form Crowded House. The brothers reunited for a while in Crowded House.Bracie Smathers said:
Did we draft this for the Saxy Time playlist in Genrepalooza 4? Indeed we did!Bracie Smathers said:
For one album, which was kind of a fluke. They had started making a Finn Brothers album at the same time Neil was working on the third Crowded House album. At some point they decided to combine the projects and Tim added vocals to the songs from the Crowded House sessions. The result became Woodface. Tim didn't return for the fourth and final Crowded House album because he felt like he was extraneous. They did eventually put out two Finn Brothers albums.
I've completely missed this thread...LOVE jumpin jive. I don't have proof, but imo this album was directly responsible for the jazz/swing renaissance in the late 80s, early 90d and later seen in the movie Swingers.
I agree that it kicked off a renaissance of big band swing bands.
Tim Finn's membership in Crowded House was obviously going to be a short one if anybody saw them on the Woodface tour. When they were playing songs from the current album or old Split Enz songs all was rosy. You could have cut the tension with a knife when they played songs from the first two CH albums. Tim seemed to be pouting throughout these songs.
There are more than a few other doozies for them during 1981-2. I won’t out them in expectation we’ll hear them again later on.
This song is so ubiquitous now that I would have sworn it was older than 1982.
Shake it
Nice - been a long time since I’ve heard this one. Good hook on the tune.
Wondering how this didn’t make the top 50.
Top tier AC/DC tune. Not that I care because it's all about discussing good music, but isn't this dipping into the 1980 well?
I still think it's hilarious that your username also happens to be the name of a Rundgren song.
Never knew it until you posted that. Fair Warning is a better name than Hello, its me.
Uruk-Hai said:
Thanks, I hadn't heard that. I went in search of info because I wondered who would replace Paul Hester.
luv you bud ...FairWarning said:
