So I need to create a best of compilation for Neil's solo work as one of my friends would like to hear some of his songs and that is her preferred form to experience music for the first time. As we know, there isn't a best of album.
Has anyone suggested a best of on a different thread on the forum? If not, what songs would you put on it?
Taking a quick crack at it, ordered roughly chronologically and obviously weighted earlier in his career:
She Will Have Her Way
Sinner
Astro
Addicted
Driving Me Mad
Last To Know
Lullaby Requiem
Into the Sunset
There Is a Light (from 7WC)
In My Blood
Chameleon Days
Terrorise Me
Only his solo albums? What about songs from Pajama Club, Lightsleeper, or the Finn Brothers?
Paināporo posted:Only his solo albums? What about songs from Pajama Club, Lightsleeper, or the Finn Brothers?
Fair enough. Maybe then just Non-CH/SE stuff.
Excellent. Here's what I recommend. You see the problem with Neil Finn is that his best songs are almost always slow or mid-tempo middle of the road pop songs. Don't get my wrong, they're the best songs ever written, but when you put them all together the result can be a bit dull. So you gotta spice it up with some of Neil's more interesting material. Otherwise you'll lose your listener. With that in mind, I like something along these lines:
Paināporo posted:Excellent. Here's what I recommend. You see the problem with Neil Finn is that his best songs are almost always slow or mid-tempo middle of the road pop songs. Don't get my wrong, they're the best songs ever written, but when you put them all together the result can be a bit dull. So you gotta spice it up with some of Neil's more interesting material. Otherwise you'll lose your listener. With that in mind, I like something along these lines:
- Bodhisattva Blues - 7 World Collide
- Can't Put It Down Until It Ends - Pajama Club
- Hole in the Ice (One All mix) - Neil Finn
- The Spirit of the Stairs (Neil solo version circa 1998) - Neil Finn
- Nothing Wrong With You - Finn Brothers
- Flying in the Face of Love - Neil Finn
- Souvenir - Neil Finn
- Last Day of June - Finn Brothers
- Won't Give In - Finn Brothers
- She Will Have Her Way - Neil Finn
- These Are Conditions - Pajama Club
- Last to Know (One All mix) - Neil Finn
- Anything Can Happen - Finn Brothers
- Dizzy Heights - Neil Finn
- Tokyo - Neil Finn
- Chameleon Days - Neil Finn
- Sinner - Neil Finn
- Driving Me Mad (One Nil mix) - Neil Finn
- Last One Standing - Neil Finn
- We Know What It Means - Neil & Liam Finn
This is amazing Painaporo! Out of curiosity, do you have anything similar for Tim?
