Crowded House Deluxe

Crowded House is the debut album by New Zealand-Australian 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.

With the heavy lifting of the Crowded House reunion out of the way, Neil Finn is able to settle into comfortable craft on Intriguer, the band’s sixth album. Intriguer isn’t as self-consciously weighty as Time on Earth – Finn is not tackling mortality in the wake of the death of his longtime friend and bandmate Paul Hester – but it’s also not as hazy as Finn’s pair of solo LPs.

Following the success of Crowded House's debut and the band's grueling promotion schedule, Neil Finn was clearly showing signs that he was no longer happy being New Zealand's zany ambassador to the U.S. While the material on Temple of Low Men demonstrates great leaps in quality over its predecessor, it is a darkly difficult album, especially for those expecting Crowded House, Pt. 2 – in short, there are no immediately accessible singles. Instead, Finn digs into the depths of his emotional psyche with obsessive detail, crafting a set of intense, personal songs that range from the all-too-intimate look at infidelity of "Into Temptation" to the raucous exorcism of "Kill Eye." Through all of this introspective soul-searching, Finn reveals most of all his true mastery of melody.

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.

Now That’s What I Call Music spotlights 1993 for the next release in their ongoing Yearbook series. This year was actually brilliant, with classics from ’80s’ pop bands who were making it work in the 1990s. In between, there’s songs like Crowded House’s ‘Distant Sun’, R.E.M.’s ‘The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite’, New Order’s ‘Regret’, Paul Weller‘s ‘Wild Wood’, Lenny Kravitz’s ‘Are You Gonna Go My Way’, Paul Young’s ‘Now I Know What Made Otis Blue’ and many more. Full tracklistings, below. Ususal formats: 4CD deluxe in hardcover book, 3LP coloured vinyl and standard card sleeved 4CD set. Now Yearbook 1993 will be released 28 June 2024. And as an addition to your collection and archives. Now Yearbook - 78 hits from 1993!

From an early age Leif de Leeuw, guitar player and founder of the Leif de Leeuw band, received several music awards. He won the Sena Young Talent Guitar award twice (2009 and 2013) and in 2016 he was awarded as best blues(rock) guitarist of the Benelux by the readers of the magazine “De Gitarist”. This year he has two nominations for this award, one as ‘Best Guitar Player Benelux’ and one as ‘Best Blues(rock)/Country/Folk Guitarist’.

Northern Soul: The 150 Greatest Floorshakers in the World… Ever! Updated Improved Remastered Expanded Super Deluxe Edition is designed and signed as a reference on your choice of several exchangers file. I decided to revisit my Northern Soul compilation of all-time greats and expand it to 150 of the absolute best of the best, cream of crop Northern Soul floorfillers, the tracks that most 'soulers' would want to hear and dance to at a party or an all-nighter. These are the songs which rate highly in virtually every Northern Soul poll online, and would be an absolute blast to play in the order I've compiled them.