Category Archives: Concerts

Great Crowded House Songs – Live

My CD player currently holds three of my Crowded House CDs:

  • Crowded House (1986) – with great songs like Don’t Dream It’s Over and Hole In The River
  • Temple Of Low Men (1988) – with the classic Into Temptation
  • Together Alone (1993) – with Pineapple Head and In my Command

The first two were produced by Mitchell Froom, who also has producer credits for artists like Sheryl Crow and Bonnie Raitt, and the third one by Youth, from the band Killing Joke. Continue reading Great Crowded House Songs – Live

Hothouse Flowers – People


In that same Boxing Day sale that I mentioned yesterday I also bought 3 Hothouse Flowers CDs. This Dublin band with its soulful singer Liam O’Maonlai offer a mix of bombastic rock and soulful folk and even gospel music. White gospel music, without the Church references. And with a lot of acoustic elements in their music too.

Lifted from obscurity by similarly passionate voice Bono from U2, they landed a record deal on Polygram but never managed to reach a very wide audience. But their concerts are a combination of folky gospel rock and progressive rock ballads.

Here is a YouTube video of a very sensitive yet very soulful song “Older We Get” from their 1988 debut album “People”: Continue reading Hothouse Flowers – People