CROWDED HOUSE - NOW WE'RE GETTING SOMEWHERE

NOW WE’RE GETTING SOMEWHERE

CROWDED HOUSE

SONGWRITER: NEIL FINN

COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA

ALBUM: CROWDED HOUSE

LABEL: CAPITOL RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1986

 

   Crowded House are a rock band, formed in Melbourne, Australia in 1985. Its founding members were New Zealander Neil Finn(vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter) and Australians Paul Hester (drums) and Nick Seymour(bass). Later band members included Neil Finn's brother, Tim Finn, and Americans Mark Hart and Matt Sherrod. The current line-up includes Finn's sons Elroy and Liam and the American keyboard player Mitchell Froom. Neil Finn and Nick Seymour have been the sole constant members of the group since its formation.

      Originally active from 1985 to 1996, Crowded House had consistent commercial and critical success in New Zealand and Australia and international chart success in two phases, beginning with a self-titled debut album that reached number 12 on the US Album Chart in 1987 and provided the Top Ten hits "Don't Dream It's Over" and "Something So Strong". Further international success came in the UK, Europe and South Africa with their third and fourth albums (Woodface and Together Alone) and the compilation album Recurring Dream, which included the hits "Fall at Your Feet", "Weather with You", "Distant Sun", "Locked Out", "Instinct" and "Not the Girl You Think You Are". Neil and Tim Finn were each awarded an OBE in June 1993 for their contributions to the music of New Zealand.

     In June 1996, Crowded House announced that it would disband. The band played several farewell concerts that year, including the "Farewell to the World" concerts in Melbourne and Sydney. On 26 March 2005, Hester died by suicide, aged 46. In 2006, the group re-formed with drummer Matt Sherrod and released two further albums (in 2007 and 2010), each of which reached number one on Australia's album chart. After several years of inactivity, it was announced a revised line-up of Crowded House would tour the UK in 2020. The new line-up features Neil Finn, Nick Seymour, Mitchell Froom, and Finn's sons Liam and Elroy. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the band's planned 2020 concerts were postponed.

   Crowded House is the debut album by Australasian band Crowded House. Produced by Mitchell Froom, it was released in August 1986 and was certified platinum in four countries. The album includes the hit singles "Don't Dream It's Over", "Something So Strong", "Mean to Me", "World Where You Live" and "Now We're Getting Somewhere".

        At the 1986 Countdown Australian Music Awards the album won Best Debut Album. In December of 2021, the album was listed at nº 7 in Rolling Stone Australia’s ‘200 Greatest Albums of All Time’ countdown.

It never used to be that bad

But neither was it great

It's somewhere in the middle then

Content and much too safe

Oh, tell me please

Why it takes so long

To realise when there's something wrong

 

Well, lay me out with your heart

Now we're getting somewhere

Push me back to the start

Now we're getting someplace

Take me out, let me breathe

Now we're getting somewhere

When I'm with you I don't care

Where it is I'm falling

 

There's money in the Bible Belt

Hugs for daddy too

Three wishes for eternity

We've got some work to do

Oh, tell me please, why it takes so long

I believe there is something wrong

 

Well, lay me out with your heart

Now we're getting somewhere

Push me back to the start

Now we're getting someplace

Take me out, let me breathe

Now we're getting somewhere

When I'm with you, I don't care

Where it is I'm falling, oh oh

 

Oh, tell me please, tell me what went wrong

'Cause I believe there is something wrong

 

Oh, lay me out

Now we're getting somewhere

Push me back

Now we're getting somewhere

Well, take me out, let me breathe

Now we're getting somewhere

When I'm with you, I don't care

Where it is I'm falling

 

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah

When you took me to your room

I swear I said surrender

And when you opened up your mouth

I saw the words fall out

And when nothing much has changed

I swear I surrender

And there is pain in my heart, oh, oh

We can choose what we choose to believe.