Neil & Tim Finn

[CRAZY-HORSE]

TIM FINN "before and after" 1993.

inbetween this one and the previous effort, Tim reunited with Neil to work on a duo album, which eventually became Crowded House's "Woodface" album, he completed a tour with the House and again went back into the studio to record this one.
...and its quite a good album,several great Finn tracks here, the best is the lovely lornful ballad Persuasion and the upbeat Funny Way.
Neil Finn co-wrote two of the tracks here in #'s 3+9 and provided backing vocals on both.
not much wrong with this one except that there are about seven different producers at work on various tracks which does make the album sound like a collection of good songs rather than a concise album, other than that little hiccup the tracks are well written and performed, his best solo tracks up to this point...i guess working with Neil again helped him excel once again.
when i rated this one i thought that the mark might be a touch on the high side so i checked allmusic and they rate it 4/5 which equates to 2.4 which is even higher than my mark....so i'll stick with my original score.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

tracks:

1. hit the ground running**
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtW9rosjJlI video
2. protected**
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X4d_FIHJAk live
3. in love with it all**
4. persuasion***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4MR4I5jsBo video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QkNE4qMUkw live
5. many's the time (in dublin)**
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPyI49ldPl0 live
6. funny way***
7. cant do both**
8. in your sway***
9. strangeness and charm**
10.always never now**
11.walk you home**
12.i found it**

3s=3
2s=9
1s=0

rating: 2.2