I came in late last night. So glad to see he played Walking on the Spot!
Stuck around for the after show this time. What a treat! Peace, Y'all.
21st April 2020
Neil SOLO
In The lowlands
Anything Can Happen
Nails In My Feet
I Can See Clearly Now [Johnny Nash]
Irish Heartbeat [Van Morrison and The Chieftains]
Proud Mary [Creedence Clearwater Revival]
To Love Somebody [Bee Gees]
Stuff And Nonsense [Tim Finn] - Neil started solo, 1st take not quite going to plan ... then playing along to a recorded version and ... getting there in the end, solo, finishing Strong 
think there was a little extra Neil (playing along ?) in the aftershow, lyric going "Get me on a plane, get me out of here ..." ... a "homesick mystery" to be unsolved ..
02:44 here In The lowlands is noooo mystery .... off to bed 
In2FINN2
"Get me on a plane, get me out of here ..." ... a "homesick mystery" to be unsolved ..
Maybe he is just sick of being locked up and not able to just go anywhere like the rest of us.
Get me a plane Get me out of here......
He’s echoing the sentiments of all. Just yesterday was thinking how we could sneak down the highway with our caravan in tow 🙃 missing the camping very muchly. Gosh if it wasn’t for these sessions I know I would be lost ...
In2FINN2 posted:21st April 2020
Neil SOLO
In The lowlands
Anything Can Happen
Nails In My Feet
I Can See Clearly Now [Johnny Nash]
Irish Heartbeat [Van Morrison and The Chieftains]
Proud Mary [Creedence Clearwater Revival]
To Love Somebody [Bee Gees]
Stuff And Nonsense [Tim Finn] - Neil started solo, 1st take not quite going to plan ... then playing along to a recorded version and ... getting there in the end, solo, finishing Strongthink there was a little extra Neil (playing along ?) in the aftershow, lyric going "Get me on a plane, get me out of here ..." ... a "homesick mystery" to be unsolved ..
02:44 here In The lowlands is noooo mystery .... off to bed
03:50 ... solved ... Maui Medley - by Barney Isaacs & George Kuo and a bit of Neil playing along ...
guess we're all at home feeling homesick for things to be going back to normal again ... if they ever will be ... and, truth be told ... then again, we'd really be missing our daily FINN session wouldn't we now 
22rd April 2020
Neil, Sharon
When Doves Cry [Prince and the Revolution] - with Sharon ... "All Hail Prince" April 21st
Fall At Your Feet
message from Buddy
Here, There And Everywhere [The Beatles] - dedicated to Neil's sister Judy and husband Simon
Blue Smoke - a capella snippet only
Nobody Wants To
Carried Away [Split Enz]
Mother Nature's Son [The Beatles] - on "Earth Day"
True Colours [Split Enz]
Pour Le Monde
Bound To Rescue (pre-recorded, Intriguer sessions, unreleased version)
tomorrow will have a slightly different concept ... Neil has pointed out a couple of minutes ago: "OK , lets have a no request Thursday . I will answer questions instead , no favorites"
..
Wow, not one but two Macca songs!
Nobody wants to, finally!
CARRIED AWAY???
I was listening to that yesterday and figured "this would be a request to tease Neil with" and he goes and plays it...
@Chris Camfield posted:CARRIED AWAY???
I was listening to that yesterday and figured "this would be a request to tease Neil with" and he goes and plays it...
Glad you got your request played Chris ... you may have noticed me supporting other people's requests - those on the corona front line, those having a hard time or who mentioned a relative or friend about to pass away/having passed away ... the hommage to Prince was another one I joined in requesting ...
Neil played quite a few of those requests, actuallly he played all of them ... to me it feels just as good, even better as having a personal request fulfilled "one-to-one"...
... it overjoys and sometimes overwhelms me to see how people who most probably have never met create wave upon wave of Positivity for each other thanks to the Fangradio platform ... the FINN Family isn't merely entertaining us playing some songs as far as I'm concerned ... They are the architect-creators of a valuable network connecting all sorts of people world-wide ... channeling THE buzzzzz in the back of our mind and heart ... the priceless vibe we'll all need once we start up "after corona" and rebuild ... perhaps a slightly better World ... Don't Dream It's Over !!
Oh no, he played it BEFORE I could request it 
If I tune into a show when it's playing, I will try to request "Voices".
23rd April 2020
Neil SOLO on guitar, Sharon
no requests today
only taking questions from audience, none about "favourite(s) ...?"
message from Buddy
Flying Horse ideas - played in background
Nobody's Fault But My Own [Beck]
Nobody Wants To
You Send Me [Sam Cooke] - snippet only
You're The One To Make Me Cry
Peony - pre-recorded, from Neil Finn's "Cornucopia of Flowers" series
Happy Together [The Turtles] - together with Sharon
... and Neil quickly popped back in at the very end of the broadcast for a "spoken" excerpt of ...
Stranger Than Fiction [Split Enz]
What's the secret to a Happy Marriage ? "Patience ... tolerance (Sharon) ... and a cheeky red (Neil) "
PS: my question's been answered ... I'd be in good hands, being Flower by name
So the news from today’s show was neil’s response to why matt and mark arent in the crowdies anymore ...
First time he’s addressed it.
two part answer along the lines of the band recorded some stuff a few years ago and neil didnt think it was very good ... nobody’s fault yada yada ... bands need to evolve ... when he played with liam and elroy and nick it felt good again ...
Hmmmm
@silent stream posted:So the news from today’s show was neil’s response to why matt and mark arent in the crowdies anymore ...
First time he’s addressed it.
two part answer along the lines of the band recorded some stuff a few years ago and neil didnt think it was very good ... nobody’s fault yada yada ... bands need to evolve ... when he played with liam and elroy and nick it felt good again ...
Hmmmm
I’m glad he addressed it. And that’s always been the case - Neil gravitates, in the studio, anyway, to people who inspire him. And Matt had more or less one chance at that, with Intriguer.. Mark has TA and Intriguer, but given how Mitchell keeps Mark out of the way...
If you asked Neil “who should play Crowded House songs on stage with you?!”, that group of course includes Mark. But if he wants to make a record and tour... it’s more complex.
I wish Mark was in the touring band this time. But I’d rather sing those songs with Neil/Liam/Elroy than not at all. And Elroy is one hell of a drummer.
@silent stream posted:So the news from today’s show was neil’s response to why matt and mark arent in the crowdies anymore ...
First time he’s addressed it.
two part answer along the lines of the band recorded some stuff a few years ago and neil didnt think it was very good ... nobody’s fault yada yada ... bands need to evolve ... when he played with liam and elroy and nick it felt good again ...
Hmmmm
And who could possibly disagree with his comments? What's the alternative ..he should disregard his own musical instincts and stay working with the same musicians to please others? Interesting and progressive and innovative artists do evolve and change. More power to Neil.
@silent stream posted:So the news from today’s show was neil’s response to why matt and mark arent in the crowdies anymore ...
First time he’s addressed it.
two part answer along the lines of the band recorded some stuff a few years ago and neil didnt think it was very good ... nobody’s fault yada yada ... bands need to evolve ... when he played with liam and elroy and nick it felt good again ...
Hmmmm
I listened to this only this morning and although I am the first to recognise Neil can do whatever he wishes - I wasn't satisfied with this reply.
IMHO the bonus tracks on the Intriguer deluxe which I think are some of the tracks Neil was uninspired by are phenomenal - 2 Minutes Silence in particular is better than any track on Intriguer and I am a huge fan of Intriguer, I think it is much under appreciated by the fan base. Also Strangest Friends is my favourite track of Dizzy Heights so I was really pleased to discover it was an Intriguer deluxe song - it is so Crowded House at their best.
Neil is totally entitled to his view, but for me it just adds to my theory that Neil does not know when he is onto a good thing musically,a point I have raised before in previous threads.
As for the future of Crowded House, I like and agree with Neil's assertion that it should evolve and I await the new iteration with interest and some trepidation. Why trepidation? In straight terms if Crowded House is becoming the Finn family band plus Nick I am not sure it will work.
To be honest, I found Lightsleeper really disappointing and now I hardly play it. Maybe one of Neil's better recent decisions was to abandon the promotion of Lightsleeper in favour of touring with Fleetwood Mac.
So we shall see will the new Crowded House album be new and inspiring without Mark and Matt or will it be a second snooze - Lightsleeper part 2?
24th April 2020
Neil SOLO
added all sorts of "spice" ... delay, reverb, tremolo, ...
slow jam "Got Your Own Mind" (demo?)
Harry’s Theme (Fangradio intro)
Love This Life - fingerpicking style with 1-second delay effect
MASH UP starting with improv segued into ...
Private Universe - played over the improv and a recording of Dorothy Ashby and Listen in the background segued into ...
improv "Everybody Wants To Make Good Time Last" segued into ...
Where Is My Soul incl. improv lyric segued into ...
In the Year 2525 [Zager & Evans] end of MASH UP
reverbed jamming into Locked Out incl. improv lyric segued into ...
Listen To The Music [Doobie Brothers] back into Locked Out segued into ...
improv "Sweet Tooth (there's 21 of Us)" back into Locked Out
improv "Have You Ever Met a Stringmaker?" - in response to the question: Neil, what sort of guitar do you play and what sort of strings do you use ? MATON guitar
improv "Diamond in the Rough" incl snippet of There Goes God chords, contemplating Liam's Thai family menu from the night before segued into ...
snippet of L.A. International Airport [Susan Raye - number one song in New Zealand in 1971] segued into ...
Lester
Stomp for Spark [Fangchat indicated "by unknown"]
... and closing the show ... a bit of Neil philosophy about being a "Wanderist"
A session like no other before !
Fangradio is becoming "devine"
PS: "Today’s show might be archived later… or it might not…"
25th April 2020
Neil, Liam and Sharon's Mum !
Harry's Theme
Pineapple Head
Distant Sun
Wherever You Are - dedicated to someone on her Birthday
Don't Dream It's Over Home Front version - recorded by CROWDED HOUSE for ANZAC
My Father Told Me So [Mick Fleetwood & Neil Finn] - unreleased
PREG JAM [Fang chat "by Unknown artist"]
and a loooong funky hilarious jamming "Tell me what to do" featuring Sharon’s mother on vocoder vocals
... twas loadsa Saturday Fun 
26th April 2020
Neil, Elroy, Liam
acoustic in the Leafy room
Harry's Theme
Independence Day
improv "Tuning"
My Favorite Things - The Sound Of Music OST
Sinner (music box version)
Fire In Your Belly
jamming along to a drum box
You Still Got It
... and at the end of the show ... a gem ...
You And I Know Mix2 MP16 Stereo EDIT2 VoxDown 20130501.wav by "Unknown artist" ... an out-take from Dizzy Heights
You And I Know has been played a couple of times on Fangradio. And it was first streamed years ago on neilfinn.com: https://www.neilfinn.com/the-k...-sink-rarities-vol-3
The one today is a different mix, which has been played before, back in November last year on Fangradio. You can most easily tell the difference in the intro as this "Mix2" has no drums til 19 seconds in, and the Kitchen Sink mix has drums from the beginning.
@silent stream posted:So the news from today’s show was neil’s response to why matt and mark arent in the crowdies anymore ...
First time he’s addressed it.
two part answer along the lines of the band recorded some stuff a few years ago and neil didnt think it was very good ... nobody’s fault yada yada ... bands need to evolve ... when he played with liam and elroy and nick it felt good again ...
Hmmmm
Thanks for telling us what he said 🙂.
It sounds very similar to the sessions with he had with Nick, Mark and Peter Jones ('help is coming' and 'spirit of the stairs').
@Left Hand posted:Thanks for telling us what he said 🙂.
It sounds very similar to the sessions with he had with Nick, Mark and Peter Jones ('help is coming' and 'spirit of the stairs').
I think it's sort of telling how infrequently he returns to tracks from Intriguer, also. So far in the Fangradio sessions, we've had Either Side, Isolation, and Elephants; at the Encore shows we got Either Side, and in his solo shows between '11 and '18 there were a couple of Amsterdams and a couple of Either Sides. Compare that to how frequently he plays something like English Trees or Say That Again.
Because of the time in my life (I was 21 when Intriguer came out, had just started a new job in a new town, moved house, generally doing grownup things for the first time), I have a ton of affection for that record, but I don't think Neil rates it. I also continue to think his comment from of his NF.com journals last year where he talked about burying a good hook just to be rebellious was about Twice if You're Lucky.
27th April 2020
Neil SOLO
Astro - dedicated to Atha 2020 on his Birthday
Dirty Creature [Split Enz] segued into ...
You Sexy Thing [Hot Chocolate]
People Are Like Suns
Recurring Dream
Rest Of The Day Off into addendum Coca-Cola Jingle from The Coca-Cola Kid movie
She Will Have Her Way
All God's Children (completely different version to album) - demo
... and in the aftershow these popped up ...
acoustic with keys.WAV by Unknown artist - demo by Neil Finn (first published in the Wellspring video on neilfinn.com in 2014) - thanks, Jeremy ;-)
Niwhai by Tim And Neil Finn - different mix
@Thom Bullock posted:I think it's sort of telling how infrequently he returns to tracks from Intriguer, also...
Because of the time in my life (I was 21 when Intriguer came out, had just started a new job in a new town, moved house, generally doing grownup things for the first time), I have a ton of affection for that record, but I don't think Neil rates it. I also continue to think his comment from of his NF.com journals last year where he talked about burying a good hook just to be rebellious was about Twice if You're Lucky.
Sorry, going off the forum thread here...
I also really like Intriguer too. And I still really like it.
In my way of thinking, if Neil doesn't really rate that album well, that still shouldn't stop you from having an affection for the album 🙂.
And from reading your comment in the NF journals, I read the one about Crowded House moving on after Mark was removed and I thought, 'umm, I think I won't read anymore of these!!'
@Left Hand posted:In my way of thinking, if Neil doesn't really rate that album well, that still shouldn't stop you from having an affection for the album 🙂.
That’s the wonderful thing about music. It is what it means to you. Intriguer is still my first grown up job in 2010. Together Alone was the album playing when I drove away from a tragic breakup in 2007. Anytime from the 7 Worlds album makes me think of walking alone in a forest in Bedfordshire around Christmas 2009. Spring 2014 was particularly good for me for various reasons, so all of Dizzy Heights has a warm glow. I spent much of summer 2017 riding a ferry because of where I was living, so Out of Silence will forever feel nautical to me.
i look forward to many similar memories from whatever comes next.
@Thom Bullock posted:That’s the wonderful thing about music. It is what it means to you. Intriguer is still my first grown up job in 2010. Together Alone was the album playing when I drove away from a tragic breakup in 2007. Anytime from the 7 Worlds album makes me think of walking alone in a forest in Bedfordshire around Christmas 2009. Spring 2014 was particularly good for me for various reasons, so all of Dizzy Heights has a warm glow. I spent much of summer 2017 riding a ferry because of where I was living, so Out of Silence will forever feel nautical to me.
i look forward to many similar memories from whatever comes next.
Thanks for sharing, Thom. My memories span childhood through to forty-something...Some songs are a little too evocative now: heartbreak, episodes of depression...but there’s also falling in love for the first time, career breakthroughs, and my mother’s garden. (She Goes On)
Today I was motoring to work, singing "The glory of these forty days..." That was a pretty amazing masterclass.
Definitely! The next two weeks will likely go until the end of California lockdown in any case?
did anybody else find the tuning on recurring dream slightly off ?
@UK Neil posted:did anybody else find the tuning on recurring dream slightly off ?
Has always bothered me that I can't figure out how to play that riff. Finally a version without the delay/second guitar to deconstruct! Anyone care to have a go at tabbing it out?
(or a YouTube tutorial; times have moved on)
28th April 2020
Fangradio highlights 01
Jeremy's selection from previous shows and a few extras ...
Pye Floater (demo)
Harry's theme (Fangradio theme)
Locked Out 30-03-20
Message To My Girl 01-04-20
"Heroes" 09-04-20
Listen 02-04-20
Last One Standing 14-04-20
Anger Plays A Part 02-04-20
History Never Repeats 18-04-20
"Buddy's Scat" by Buddy Finn
Note: these "highlights" shows start at 03 PM LA local time and will be the broadcast for the next couple of weeks while CROWDED HOUSE works on the new album.
Scoop: the show next Thursday night - Thursday afternoon / Friday morning for New Zealand-Australia listeners will have a guest DJ ... none other than Johnny Marr (The Smiths) !
How soon is ... Thursday ?
Just to repeat this: Johnny bloody Marr 😍
(That's all I've got to say.)
29th April 2020
Fangradio highlights 02
Compiled by Breanna (Neil's assistant) and Neil.
Harry's Theme (Fangradio Theme)
Sweet Dreams 12-04-20
Fall At Your Feet 08-04-20
The Climber 01-04-20
In My Room (Beach Boys Cover) 08-04-20
English Trees 12-04-20
Elephants 01-04-20
Anyone Can Tell 08-04-20
Four Seasons in One Day 12-04-20
THANKS Jeremy ... as always !
30th April 2020
Johnny Marr guest DJ !
Harry's Theme (Fangradio Theme)
introduction by Sharon Finn
Cloud Nein [Man Man]
Dusk Till Dawn [Ladyhawke]
Hole In The Ice [Neil Finn]
Down On The Corner [Johnny Marr and the Healers] - live acoustic
Shangri-La [EEOB (Ed O'Brien) - Radiohead]
Gather To The Chapel [Liam Finn]
Still Hearts [Nile Marr]
live instrumental improv
Junk Bond Trader [Elliott SMith]
Melt Yourself Down [Crocodile]
... had a looooong chat afterwards (not with Johnny)
Johnny's playlist was excellent, I loved every bit of it!
He seemed very prepared, I'm not used to hearing coherent stories on this show 😉 (don't get me wrong, I love Neil's meandering anecdotes)
@Mica posted:Johnny's playlist was excellent, I loved every bit of it!
He seemed very prepared, I'm not used to hearing coherent stories on this show 😉 (don't get me wrong, I love Neil's meandering anecdotes)
Also enjoyed Johnny's session, story about how the friendship with the Finn family started ... involvement in 7 worlds, Pajama Party ... appreciating Ed O’Brien's sideproject ... and we got to hear his son's track, I was not aware his son was a musician as well, must check out ... Nile Marr ... it was a fun experience, Neil's Fangbroadcasts are the ones taking me to Dizzy Heights, though
I’ve always liked Johnny Marr’s contributions to the 7 Worlds Collide project, but never really got into the Smiths until fairly recently. Such an innovative, unusual guitarist and writer - and weird to think that he achieved it all before he turned 24.
Hopefully someone has archived this so we can listen back to it.
It's archived at www.neilfinn.com/fangradio .