Recurring Dream (album)

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Recurring Dream
Crowded House-Recurring Dream (album cover).jpg
Greatest hits album by
Crowded House
Released24 June 1996
Genre Rock, pop rock, jangle pop, alternative rock
Length70:11
Label Capitol
Producer Mitchell Froom, Neil Finn and Tchad Blake
Crowded House chronology
Together Alone
(1993)		Recurring Dream
(1996)		 Afterglow
(1999)
Singles from Recurring Dream
  1. "Everything Is Good for You"
    Released: 1996
  2. "Instinct"
    Released: 10 June 1996 [1]
  3. "Not the Girl You Think You Are"
    Released: November 1996
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Chicago Tribune Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [4]
Entertainment Weekly A− [5]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [6]
NME 8/10 [7]
The Village Voice Rating-Christgau-dud.svg [8]

Recurring Dream: The Very Best of Crowded House, usually abbreviated to Recurring Dream, is a compilation album by rock group Crowded House, released in 1996. It includes most of their singles, as well as three new songs, "Not the Girl You Think You Are", "Instinct", and "Everything Is Good for You". [9]

Contents

Background

Crowded House were touring in support of their album Together Alone , when after a concert in Atlanta on 14 April 1994, drummer Paul Hester decided to leave the band. [10] He was eventually replaced by Peter Jones. [11] The band completed the tour and returned to Australia where bandleader Neil Finn began writing songs for their next album, provisionally titled Help Is Coming. During this time he also wrote and recorded the album Finn with his brother Tim Finn. [11] At a press conference in 1996, at which the release of Recurring Dream was announced, Neil Finn revealed that Crowded House were to split up. The June concerts in Europe and Canada would be their final shows. [12]

The collection was released in June 1996 and features four songs from each of the group's four studio albums, as well as the three new songs. Hester returned to play on these songs, but despite this he is not credited as a full band member on the album sleeve, which reads, "Performed by Crowded House (Neil Finn, Nick Seymour and Mark Hart) with Paul Hester." The new photos on the album sleeve only show Neil Finn, Seymour and Hart, although Hester and Tim Finn both appear several times in a collage of old band photos. The wording on the album implies that Hart played on all 19 tracks. In fact he only became a full band member on their fourth album Together Alone, although he did receive an 'additional keyboards' credit for unspecified tracks on the album Woodface . Hester may not appear on the song "Weather with You", because Ricky Fataar is credited with drums on that track on the Woodface sleeve.

The album's title Recurring Dream, is also the name of a song written in 1985, when the group were still known as 'The Mullanes', by Finn, Hester, Seymour and the band's then guitarist Craig Hooper. The song "Recurring Dream" was not included on this compilation, but was later featured on Afterglow , Crowded House's 1999 rarities collection. At the 1997 ARIA Music Awards, Recurring Dream won in the 'Highest Selling Album' category. [13] The award was presented by Dave Graney who joked in his presentation speech that it's, "Sometimes just about the money!"

The album's cover was painted by bassist Nick Seymour. Like Together Alone and Temple of Low Men it features a red car. The cover also shows an electric fan, an item which appeared on the sleeve of their debut album. The bare chested man on the album cover appears to be Seymour himself.

New songs

Three new tracks were recorded specially for Recurring Dream by Finn, Seymour, Hart and Hester. "Everything Is Good for You", "Instinct" and "Not the Girl You Think You Are" were recorded at York Street Studios in Auckland, New Zealand and were produced by Finn, Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake. In a 2006 interview, Neil Finn said of "Everything Is Good for You", "The philosophy of the song is slightly obscure in the verses, but really it's about not allowing regrets to rule your life. But it's also got a sense of humour. There's a wryness to it. It's not a message song particularly." [9]

Of "Instinct" he said, "I did a demo of it at home. It's just built on a bass riff...I put down a drum track, put a bass track to it and had it around for about a month. The lyrics are, as it turns out, extremely appropriate for the time: Nearly time to flick the switch/Hanging by a single stitch/Laughing at the stony face of gloom. I mean, in a way it was an instinctive decision for me to discontinue working with the band. My stomach told me to do it, so that's what the song is about: recognizing those moments and having the desire to follow it through." [9]

Of "Not the Girl You Think You Are" he said, "I wrote that with the assistance of an Optigan keyboard, which is a weird old antique from the '60s, a trashy antique. It's a machine that reads optical discs, the most primitive form of sampling from the '60s. I had found piano loops on it that I just put a sequence together from and I wrote the song in 10 minutes on top of it." [9]

Due to this compilation being superseded by The Very Very Best of Crowded House in 2010 and "Everything Is Good for You" being omitted from that album, all three tracks were included on the 2016 deluxe edition of Afterglow .

Track listing

All songs were written by Neil Finn, except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Original albumLength
1."Weather with You" (Single version)Neil and Tim Finn Woodface 3:44
2."World Where You Live"  Crowded House 3:06
3."Fall at Your Feet" Woodface3:18
4."Locked Out"  Together Alone 3:18
5."Don't Dream It's Over" Crowded House3:55
6."Into Temptation"  Temple of Low Men 4:34
7."Pineapple Head" Together Alone3:28
8."When You Come" Temple of Low Men4:44
9."Private Universe" Together Alone5:36
10."Not the Girl You Think You Are" New song4:08
11."Instinct" New song3:08
12."I Feel Possessed" Temple of Low Men3:48
13."Four Seasons in One Day"Neil and Tim FinnWoodface2:48
14."It's Only Natural"Neil and Tim FinnWoodface3:32
15."Distant Sun" Together Alone3:50
16."Something So Strong"Neil Finn, Mitchell FroomCrowded House2:52
17."Mean to Me" Crowded House3:14
18."Better Be Home Soon" Temple of Low Men3:10
19."Everything Is Good for You" New song3:58
Total length:70:11

Special Edition Live Album

Special Edition Live Album
Crowded House Special Edition Live Album.jpg
Live album by
Crowded House
ReleasedOctober 1996
Genre Pop rock, jangle pop
Length72:43
Label Capitol
Producer Neil Finn
Compiler Nigel Griggs

Recurring Dream was also released as a two-disc version, the second disc being titled Special Edition Live Album. The songs were selected by Split Enz bassist Nigel Griggs, who was asked to do the job by Neil Finn, according to the album's sleeve notes. Just days after he accepted the job, hundreds of cassettes of Crowded House performances arrived for him to evaluate. The recordings he chose were not remixed or adjusted in any way before they were put on the album. Only four of the tracks from the main album had their live versions included on the second disc.

Five of the live album's songs are from the same concert, at The Civic Theatre in Newcastle, Australia. Other songs from this performance have appeared as B-sides, including "Chocolate Cake" on the "Instinct" single. The recording of "Fingers of Love" comes from Paul Hester's final show, in Atlanta, before he quit the band.

Track listing

TrackSongSongwriterVenueDateLength
1"There Goes God"N. Finn, T. FinnThe Civic Theater, Newcastle, Australia20 March 19925:37
2"Newcastle Jam"N. Finn, P. Hester, N. Seymour, M. HartThe Civic Theater, Newcastle, Australia20 March 19922:43
3"Love You Till the Day I Die"N. FinnThe Civic Theater, Newcastle, Australia20 March 19924:47
4"Hole in the River" [note 1] N. Finn, Eddie Rayner The Civic Theater, Newcastle, Australia20 March 19928:55
5"Private Universe"N. Finn Aston Villa Leisure Centre, Birmingham, England18 November 19934:55
6"Pineapple Head"N. Finn The Apollo, Manchester, England22 November 19933:26
7"How Will You Go"N. Finn, T. Finn Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, Scotland12 July 19923:23
8"Left Hand"N. FinnVooruit Concertzaal, Ghent, Belgium18 October 19913:14
9"Whispers and Moans"N. Finn Tower Theater, Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania, USA3 October 19914:43
10"Kill Eye"N. Finn Tower Theater, Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania, USA3 October 19913:19
11"Fingers of Love"N. Finn Roxy Theatre, Atlanta, USA14 April 19945:02
12"Don't Dream It's Over"N. Finn Cambridge Corn Exchange, Cambridge, England6 March 19924:03
13"When You Come"N. FinnThe Civic Theater, Newcastle, Australia20 March 19927:26
14"Sister Madly"N. Finn Portsmouth Guildhall, Portsmouth, England23 November 19936:45
15"In My Command"N. FinnPanzerhalle, Munich, Germany12 December 19934:22
  1. ↑ Contains the last bars of the traditional Irish song The Parting Glass

The album is performed by Neil Finn, Nick Seymour, Paul Hester and Mark Hart, apart from tracks 7, 8, 9 and 10 which feature Tim Finn rather than Hart.

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1996+)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [14] 1
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [15] 43
Canadian Albums Chart [16] 12
German Albums Chart [17] 57
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [18] 10
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [19] 1
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [20] 5
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [21] 43
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [22] 17
UK Albums Chart [23] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1996)Position
Australia (ARIA Charts)6
Chart (1997)Position
Australia (ARIA Charts)22
Chart (2007)Position
Australia (ARIA Charts)97

Decade-end charts

Chart (2010-2019)Position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [24] 47
Australian Artist Albums (ARIA) [24] 6

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [25] 13× Platinum910,000^
Belgium (BEA) [26] Gold25,000*
Canada (Music Canada) [27] Gold50,000^
Netherlands (NVPI) [28] Gold50,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ) [29] Platinum15,000^
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [30] 2× Platinum200,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [31] 4× Platinum1,200,000^
Summaries
Europe (IFPI) [32] 2× Platinum2,000,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

See also

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