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crowded house in the promotional video for their single "mean to me", 1986.

#post concert depression still hitting so hard i'm making ch gifs for the first time since high school #this might be my favourite ch mv i feel like it aesthetically embodies a lot of what i try to achieve w my zines #anyway. they are all my babies (they are three grown men)#i would love to do a second gifset of the intro bits they do at the start before the song plays #hessie doing yoga and neil showing liam's toys :')#i love them so much guys #crowded house #neil finn #nick seymour #paul hester #mia makes stuff

#crowded house #neil finn #nick seymour #paul hester #and hi eddie

Neil Finn didn’t sound like a guy spending much time polishing the old trophies. “After I finish a record, I seldom listen to it,” he told me, which is a pretty crazy coming from the person responsible for a few songs most of us have had living in our heads for decades. With Crowded House’s Gravity Stairs, he was much more interested in what happens next, especially with Liam and Elroy now inside the band and the whole thing becoming a family conversation.

Finn talked about the album’s dreamy psychedelic feel, writing “Night Song” from a 16-minute Prophet synth jam, and making “Oh Hi” with school kids in Kenya and Tanzania in mind. He also said he’s more willing now to be direct in his writing. At a certain point, you don’t need to prove the songs can last. You just need to keep making the next one matter.

Neil Finn on Crowded House’s Dreamy New Chapter, Family Collaborations, and Writing With a Synthesizer in One Hand and a Mission in the Othe

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Elsa Gramcko, “Memoria” (Remembrance) (1964),

Mixed media on wood, 29 12 x 21 58 inches,

Photo by Paul Hester

#art #design #doorway #architecture #heavensdoorways #doorsdesign #entrance door #painting #elsa gramcko #memoria #remembrance #mixed media #paul hester

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Split Enz

Selected Discography from 1977-1984

An appreciation post for another under appreciated band

#split enz #tim finn #neil finn #eddie rayner #noel crombie #malcolm green #nigel griggs #robert gillies #paul hester #sorry if I missed your fav #only room for 10 #underappreciated

Back in February, in the Split Enz Discord server, I transcribed the banter at the beginning of the music video to “Mean to Me” by Crowded House where Paul Hester is on the phone talking over the scenes where they’re all doing things (Neil Finn showing and playing with vintage windup toys, Nick Seymour showing off his car, and Paul instructing yoga).

My plan had been to post those here shortly thereafter, but just as I was putting them in the Discord server, I got some bad news from home I’d known was a long time coming, and… augh. Well. But, here they are now, ready to be more than lighthearted levity before a storm.