We all love the finn's, but if you have to choose
who would be the better songwriter, performer or even musician? it's hard to choose, they're both great, but when it comes down to songwriting i'll go for Neil.

oh no, not again.

maybe Tim and Neil can thumb-wrestle each other and settle this once and for all...

Thumb wrestle? No fair, Tim's bigger and stronger. I propose a staring contest.

I'd say dancing...

how about a pentathlon: thumb-wrestling, staring, dancing, rock/paper/scissors, and pie-eating!

so off topic now...but perhaps no one will mind so much, given the topic

What a decision! OK, Neil for singing, song-writing, thoughtful lyrics, Tim for pure entertainment value. I'd have them both at a party, but at opposite ends of the room. Neil in the intellectual side and we'd all be straight there as soon as the party begins - talking philosophy, putting the world to rights. Then Tim would be at the moody, hazy end (smoke, whiskey, strobe lighting, you know) and we'd all be there at 3 in the morning, thinking we had found the meaning of life, discovered pure something or another. Anyway, we'd end up in the morning and realise that the only bit that makes sense sober was the bit we heard fom Neil!

Is that allowed?

sunset swimmer wrote:

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oh no, not again.

maybe Tim and Neil can thumb-wrestle each other and settle this once and for all...

Ditto

Got the best of both worlds so nothing to compare.

Sorry, Tim, but Neil if i had to choose. purely because i like him better onstage and i like him more as a musician. BUT I LOVE YOU BOTH! Also, Neil's younger, and people get disturbed when i tell them that Tim Finn is better looking than Jonny Depp, which he is! But id rather go to a FINN BROTHERS gig than a Neil or Tim gig.

That's like asking "Which breath of air is your favourite?"

I don't know who's the best between Tim and Neil but I think Huckleberry is severely over-rated IMHO.

Now, I'm sure I've had this conversation before.........oh yeah, now I remember. It was in 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984....................

How about an egg and spoon race? I'd like to see that.

Sorry, I'm being stupid now cos I'm tired... I agree we can't choose - they both rock!

Actually, it would be fair if you did a three legged race... they'd both get there at the same time.

Being really stupid now. :-p

He He He! Funny

This being an entirely original topic that has never been discussed in any form since the beginning of time...

I tell you what - Why don't we search through every version of this topic here on the board, every thread from the various mailing lists, interview everyone who's ever even met both of them, create the definnitive answer - And forward it on to the afterlife, should there be one, for the purposes of eternal judgment...

Or we could just get on with our lives ...

Maybe have a Neil month, then a Tim month - we're just about to start October, which loads of fm stations insist on calling (shudder) Rocktober so why don't we hijack this, and call it finntober?

We could also have enzuary, eddiebruary, hester,crombil - ok, this is silly, going back to work.

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Originally posted by Semi-Detached:
[qb] That's like asking "Which breath of air is your favourite?" [/qb]

Absolutely! No way we can choose at all.

Can't have one without the other! Go together like a horse and carriage..etc....Sorry, it's been a hard day!

As I've said before, neither write the same way or about the same things, nor are their arrangements remotely the same, so essentially it's apples and oranges, ie you can't really compare them.

The better question to ask surely would be which one do you prefer, not which is better, there by creating a highly subjective answer, after all, it's all in the ear of the listener.

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Originally posted by Camus:
[qb] As I've said before, neither write the same way or about the same things, nor are their arrangements remotely the same, so essentially it's apples and oranges, ie you can't really compare them. [/qb]

Absolutely right. I like both apples and oranges for their different qualities at different times depending on my mood. The same goes for Neil and Tim.

Both are very tasty. (Apples and oranges of course....!)