I'm sort of partial to It's Only Natural or Fall At Your Feet, but it's been years since I heard the album. Maybe now's the for another listen.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 23 January 2008 13:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I love the entire record but "How Will You Go" is such a beautiful lullaby. And you have to like a song that claims God "can't stand Beelzebub 'cause he looks so good in black."
― ellaguru, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 18:34 (sixteen years ago) link
"It's Only Natural" for the win, with an honorable mention to "Whispers and Moans".
― o. nate, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
this is one of my favorite Geir Albums
i think i voted for "fall at your feet" but i forget already, there's so many tunes here i like
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
OMG WOODFACE. Half this album was written two streets from my flat.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
btw Four Seasons wins because that's what they played in Melbourne last year as a tribute to Paul Hester. Neil Finn teared up during the song (of course). The whole thing was so affecting.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Going to go with the flow and vote for 'Four Seasons...'. Though I think that Together Alone is the better album, more cohesive, darker and stranger.
― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link
its only natural is great songcraft, but the whole of weather with you is better imo
woodface > temple of low men > together alone
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
"Weather With You". What Alex said. Like Duran Duran's "Save A Prayer" and Air's "All I Need" it's one of those unique songs that never tire me, no matter how many times I hear it. Those high piano notes in the background - so great.
― willem, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 20:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Looks like a race between "Weather With You" and "Four Seasons In One Day" so far, and it's an interesting race because it's very much a question of the Finn brothers versus Neil alone. "Weather With You" is a very typical joint effort, with almost everything sung in harmony like Everly Brothers/Byrds, while "Four Seasons In One Day" is an archetypical Neil Finn ballad that Tim probably had little to do with (I know he is credited as a co-writer though). "Four Seasons In One Day" also represents more than "Weather With You" the kind of song that would dominate the "Together Alone" album.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 21:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Geir, have you heard the latest album?
― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
shocked shocked shocked that no one's said much about "Whispers and Moans" or the sublime "She Goes On." It's got that "And I Loved Her" vibe – rapture and lust cooled by simply being there.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/GeirH/my_top_50_albums_of_2007
:)
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 23:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll probably be flamed to death for this, but this year I'm going to listen to Geir's top 50.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 24 January 2008 01:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I wonder if we should have a thread devoted to Geir's top 50 albums (That Kent album is stellar, particularly after the one before it being so boring).
― edwardo, Thursday, 24 January 2008 01:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, I am among those who start most polls here, but I am not going to start that poll. :)
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 24 January 2008 01:38 (sixteen years ago) link
(Plus I am 100 per cent certain Radiohead would win)
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 24 January 2008 01:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Death by melody.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 24 January 2008 01:56 (sixteen years ago) link
"Tangled up necklace of pearls"--siiiigh... Soooo good this album. I LOVE this album--though I do think, like Billy Dods, that Together Alone is more cohesive. Four Seasons and Fall are both such stand-outs.
Apparently Mitchell Froom felt like the album would've been more of a classic if they had cut a few songs, like the "Tim Finn sings Sinatra" number.
And even though my band was mocked mercilessly for liking CH in a review, I still maintain, they are so cooooooooool.
― Jubalique die Zitronen, Thursday, 24 January 2008 04:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Another one for "Weather With You" here.
And agreed that Geir has been on a TEAR of late.
― rogermexico., Thursday, 24 January 2008 06:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Produced by Youth, no? AGAIN, IT ALL COMES BACK TO KILLING JOKE!
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 24 January 2008 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
KL FTW. Man, I'm torn about Youth. That Heather Nova record was like listening in an empty swimming pool.
― Jubalique die Zitronen, Friday, 25 January 2008 04:55 (sixteen years ago) link
i generally find this band dreadfully dull and laboured, but i somehow still know every song
will go with 'weather with you' - good lyrics, even better chorus hook
― Charlie Howard, Friday, 25 January 2008 05:00 (sixteen years ago) link
good lyrics
^ this is the story of Neil Finn
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 25 January 2008 05:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Produced by Youth, no?
He produced "Together Alone". On "Woodface" it was still Mitchell Froom, as it had been from the debut.
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 25 January 2008 09:00 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah autumn, definitely the spark of the band's music is in the lyrics
― Charlie Howard, Friday, 25 January 2008 13:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Saturday, 2 February 2008 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Sunday, 3 February 2008 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow - "Whispers and Moans" totally shut out.
― o. nate, Sunday, 3 February 2008 00:30 (sixteen years ago) link
these poll results are EXACTLY right. four amazing songs surrounded by a bunch of pretty good ones that are made by better by virtue of sharing space on a cd with them.
― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 3 February 2008 08:41 (sixteen years ago) link
foolish results. Whispers & Moans and Four Seasons should take it. All I Ask is a very, VERY weird departure on this lp?
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Saturday, 5 June 2021 14:53 (two years ago) link
otm
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 June 2021 15:16 (two years ago) link
I think it’s credited to both brothers, but All I Ask seems like a very much more Tim song, while Neil’s aesthetic dominates most of the rest.
― Kim, Saturday, 5 June 2021 17:15 (two years ago) link
The harmony vocals on the chorus of Fall At Your Feet are the pinnacle of CH's career.
― enochroot, Saturday, 5 June 2021 20:03 (two years ago) link
and the keyboard fills are Froom's.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 June 2021 20:10 (two years ago) link
As Sure As I Am is the one FFS. Robbed
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 5 June 2021 22:14 (two years ago) link
New album is out, btw. I've liked the songs released so far.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 5 June 2021 22:20 (two years ago) link