Together Alone Vinyl by Crowded House 1Record

Rating

Album: Together Alone Vinyl by Crowded House 1Record
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Kare Kare	More Info...	0:03
2)	In My Command	More Info...	0:03
3)	Nails in My Feet	More Info...	0:03
4)	Black & White Boy	More Info...	0:04
5)	Fingers of Love	More Info...	0:04
6)	Pineapple Head	More Info...	0:03
7)	Locked Out	More Info...	0:03
8)	Private Universe	More Info...	0:05
9)	Walking On the Spot	More Info...	0:03
10)	Distant Sun	More Info...	0:04
11)	Catherine Wheels	More Info...	0:05
12)	Skin Feeling	More Info...	0:04
13)	Together Alone	More Info...	0:04

Album: Together Alone Vinyl by Crowded House 1Record
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Kare Kare	More Info...	0:03
2)	In My Command	More Info...	0:03
3)	Nails in My Feet	More Info...	0:03
4)	Black & White Boy	More Info...	0:04
5)	Fingers of Love	More Info...	0:04
6)	Pineapple Head	More Info...	0:03
7)	Locked Out	More Info...	0:03
8)	Private Universe	More Info...	0:05
9)	Walking On the Spot	More Info...	0:03
10)	Distant Sun	More Info...	0:04
11)	Catherine Wheels	More Info...	0:05
12)	Skin Feeling	More Info...	0:04
13)	Together Alone	More Info...	0:04

Performer Notes

Crowded House: Neil Finn, Nicholas Seymour, Paul Hester.
Additional personnel includes: Dror Erez (accordion); Clyde Dixon, Stephen Bremner, Lauren Astridge, David Bremner, Shaun Jarret (brass); Eddie Rayner (keyboards); Geoffrey Hales, Noel Crombie (percussion); Matt Austin (programming); Sharon Finn, Tim Finn (background vocals); Te Waka Huia Cultural Group Choir.
Recorded at Nigel and Judy Harrock's House, Kare Kare Beach, New Zealand; Periscope Studios and Platinum, Melbourne, Australia.
More experimental and musically varied than any of their previous releases, Together Alone finds Crowded House branching out into traditional Maori music and heavy guitars, as well as the shining pop songcraft that is Neil Finn's trademark. Picking up a new guitarist and adding the production skills of ex-Killing Joke member Youth, Crowded House energize their sound without losing sight of Finn's classic pop songwriting, as "Locked Out" and "Distant Sun" prove. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone (4/7/94, p.76) - 3 Stars - Good - "...On TOGETHER ALONE, Crowded House's fourth album, the lurking melancholy has come out of the shadows and moved into the foreground....alluring sounds are still juxtaposed with ugly scenes...a dramatic technique which may be the band's forte..."

Entertainment Weekly (1/14/94, p.54) - "...songwriter Neil Finn's expertly tuned pop instincts sometimes rise to his old form..." - Rating: B

Q (1/94, p.84) - Included in Q's list of `The 50 Best Albums Of 1993' - "...fabulously well-turned songs edged by the non-conformism that comes from being nurtured outside of the US/British musical mainstream...."

Q (11/93, p.121) - 5 Stars - Indispensible - "...TOGETHER ALONE is every bit as good as it sounds..."

Melody Maker (10/16/93, p.41) - "...TOGETHER ALONE is sublime, a smouldering elegy to a relationship too painful to continue, too inextricable to fully exorcise....Pop is far from dead. It'll die when someone wears out the last copy of [this album]..."

Stereo Review (4/94, p.90) - Performance: Strong / Recording: Superb - "...strange and wonderful things can still happen in this imperfect world...musically [TOGETHER ALONE] is wonderfully rich and full..."

NME (Magazine) (10/23/93, p.33) - (7) - Very Good - "...TOGETHER ALONE is an ambitious and impressive fourth album....Crowded House have finally broken free of the Del Amitri netherworld of 30-something AOR..."