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.
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