Best Kiwi Rock Songs
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@dogmeat said in Best Kiwi Rock Songs:
True Colours by Split Enz has been re-released to mark the 40th anniversary of its initial recording and is now the #1 album in NZ - for the second time
Had gold fm on the car radio coming back from sons footy game on sat and I got you came on to which he remarked 'was a pretty good song'. It finished and a crap song came on so we flicked stations and then picked up History never repeats on the rock or hauraki. Both quality!
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@dogmeat said in Best Kiwi Rock Songs:
True Colours by Split Enz has been re-released to mark the 40th anniversary of its initial recording and is now the #1 album in NZ - for the second time
Just put this on and from first couple of minutes it is obviously remixed to the better.
Edit: Eddie Rayner has apparently been working on this for ages. He did a remix in 2006 and wasn't entirely happy. This one breathes new life into the album and takes something that sounds dated into very listenable territory.
Didn't think this was an album I'd ever really sit through as a whole ever again but this is very good.
According to Eddie he didn't do much to the original Masters which means that the original mixes and mastering must have been bloody awful. It always sounded weedy and nasally to me with little separation in the instruments. If this is how the album was originally meant to sound we have been ripped off for the last 40 years.
Edit Again: I don't believe Eddie. I think he totally reproduced the album and didn't want to scare people away in case they didn't like it. This is fresh and some of the vocal takes are obviously differentI started adding comments for each song expecting that there will be hits and misses but if you don't want to read and taint your own listening stop here and just play the album. It will likely surprise you in a good way.
Shark Attack is much much better with the vocals being back a little (the lyrics were never the best) and Crombies percussion brought forward. Sounds like a different vocal take as well.
I Got You heavier sounding, also sounds like parts of a different vocal take. Neil sounding more Crowded House and not as 'weedy'
What's the Matter with you sounds like an entirely new song. Lifted majorly. I like.
Double Happy. Hardly recognise but probably used to skip it anyway.
I wouldn't dream of it now sounds very much like a Tim solo recording that would shine on one of his later recordings
I hope I never. This could be re-released as a single and go up the charts (if single charts meant anything these days). Another improvement without destroying the original.
Nobody takes me Seriously I find this song a bit annoying really but this is another improvement even if the song itself dates poorly (IMO). The bridge has a great little keyboard solo.
Missing Person Another obviously Tim track that now has far more texture and nuance behind fairly average lyrics.
Poor Boy Not a great deal changed here but again, a richer sound.
How Can I resist Her I'm a broken record here but this just sounds so much better than the original.
Choral Sea another instrumental that I can take or leave.
Then seven live tracks ( I believe previously unreleased)
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@Crazy-Horse said in Best Kiwi Rock Songs:
@Crucial Missing Person is a Neil song isn't it? Definitely him on vocals on the original.
Could have sworn that sounded like Tim. My wrong then.
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@Kruse said in Best Kiwi Rock Songs:
I was inordinately pleased to walk into a store today, and hear "Wet Rubber" coming on the sound-system.
I haven't been in NZ for a long time... has HLAH been on mainstream radio for a while?Only maybe on the rock and only a handful of songs
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i listen to Flik Y'self Off Y'self all the time
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@Kruse said in Best Kiwi Rock Songs:
I was inordinately pleased to walk into a store today, and hear "Wet Rubber" coming on the sound-system.
I haven't been in NZ for a long time... has HLAH been on mainstream radio for a while?Comfortably Shagged is a timeless banger and they do Bruce Springsteen better than the man himself.
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@MN5 said in Best Kiwi Rock Songs:
@Kruse said in Best Kiwi Rock Songs:
I was inordinately pleased to walk into a store today, and hear "Wet Rubber" coming on the sound-system.
I haven't been in NZ for a long time... has HLAH been on mainstream radio for a while?Comfortably Shagged is a timeless banger and they do Bruce Springsteen better than the man himself.
Hell yes. My ex-girlfriend was a MASSIVE Boss fan... had been to over a dozen concerts, been on stage with him, etc. I got her to listen to HLAH's absolutely filthy take on "Hey little girl... is your daddy home, ..." - but she wasn't as impressed as I would have thought. Relationship didn't last long after that.
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my favourite album to ever come out of NZ
Bitter, You Again and Gimme Gimme are amazing,
and For What You Burn is in my 15 favourite songs of all time
Unreal album, fuck i love Shihad