Yes the upcoming Crowdies album will have 11 new songs on it.

For a bit of fun we are posting the 11 new songs titles on Frenz com Twitter.

http://twitter.com/frenzdotcom

One title per day.... first one just went up.

Also, Neil just sent a tweet on what he has been watching on DVd for those that are interested.

Gryph
www.frenz.com

http://www.seashepherd.org/

That is so awesome!! Thanks PG! I'll be making sure I check Twitter EVERY day

P.S Love the first one already!

Ooooooohhhhhh

11 days, 11 days. wait a minute...Dylan sang about 7 days

LOVE it, thanks Gryph



Hoping some of my favourites *might* be on B sides to singles, if not the album



But seriously if Falling Dove is'nt on the album I just might cry

Kind of come to terms with 2 other of my favourites from Leigh not being on the cd because they seemed to have been the 2 songs played least on the 2008 shows


BUT.... new songs

joy


thanks for a much needed smile

Is twitter paying frenz.com for the plug? I can't keep track of one more website, especially one called twitter. Please just post the "tweets" here. As Tim once sang in Dirty Creature, "This is getting ridiculous!"

So the real question is, what do we get on the 12th day of Christmas?

The kitchen sink

Hey, beaglehowl, you don't have to join up to twitter or anything.
If you just click here:
http://twitter.com/frenzdotcom
you'll see it.

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Originally posted by Finngirl:
The kitchen sink

Obviously. How silly of me not to realize that, because there had to be a kitchen in there somewhere

I must also add that this is a brilliant marketing ploy, which has me, willingly and knowingly, hook, line and sinker. Not that we really need to be "marketed" I guess, because CH already has us hook, line and sinker. Great way to generate discussion and excitement around the album, not to mention great way to change the tone of things given recent events. *ahem*

Anyway, brilliant!!

Sorry, hit quote instead of edit

Had any of you heard of that one ('said' title) before?

............no, not unless it used to be called something else


No wuccas Half-Full

I've been saying forever that I would love to see a concise Crowded House album again, like TOLM. As great as Time On Earth, Woodface and Together Alone are, they would have been stronger with a few tracks snipped off. Radiohead's last one also reminded me just how great a short and sweet album can be - sometimes less is more.

Looks like I've gotten my wish! 11 tracks, a "band record" according to Neil...can't wait.

Love it! Now we'll all be waiting with bated breath to see which gems were included.

So will you be tweeting them in alphabetical order, Gryph?

The title from day #1 is an interesting one. Does it refer to the Merry Men's weapons of choice, a Tory MP-turned-crime writer's barbed jeremiads, or the criticisms fired at a long running British radio drama?

Or Sagittarians

quote:

Originally posted by slowpogo:
I've been saying forever that I would love to see a concise Crowded House album again, like TOLM. As great as Time On Earth, Woodface and Together Alone are, they would have been stronger with a few tracks snipped off. Radiohead's last one also reminded me just how great a short and sweet album can be - sometimes less is more.

Looks like I've gotten my wish! 11 tracks, a "band record" according to Neil...can't wait.

The problem with that is that no one will ever agree to exactly which songs should be snipped let alone sequencing perfections. Also, I see album 'lengths' as reference to the amount of tracks as opposed to the actual running time.

These days you tend to have the same amount of filler regardless of how many tunes you get. Today's pop artists are either lazy or at the whim of record labels that know exactly how to spread the releases so that the consumer does not become blasé.

I'd rather a long album if the alternative means that the average consumer loses key tracks. Sometime this even means that they are never properly recorded in the first place.

quote:

Originally posted by Watney Sideburns:
So will you be tweeting them in alphabetical order, Gryph?

The title from day #1 is an interesting one. Does it refer to the Merry Men's weapons of choice, a Tory MP-turned-crime writer's barbed jeremiads, or the criticisms fired at a long running British radio drama?

Great minds think alike.

Yeah I've got to have some fun, not sure if it's a marketing plan on my part- just a slow striptease maybe?

I'll probably just mention them in the order on MY cd, which might/might not be the order on the official release.

Remember you don't actually have to sign onto Twitter to get these , it takes about 5 seconds to access them via the Announcements Area of the Forum.

Gryph

Happy for you to have some fun...well deserved for all that you do. I'm sure I can see the grin from here. And it is your 'time off' after all.

Hmmm didn't think it got that hot up the mountain today... But if you feel you must

If it seems like more fun how about releasing them in random order? - I'm sure a few people here would be up to the challenge of putting them in the order that appears on your cd.

quote:

Originally posted by Finngirl:
Or Sagittarians

Well, obviously....


I always knew he's write a song about me

quote:

Originally posted by Noel Crombie's Hair:
The problem with that is that no one will ever agree to exactly which songs should be snipped let alone sequencing perfections. Also, I see album 'lengths' as reference to the amount of tracks as opposed to the actual running time.

These days you tend to have the same amount of filler regardless of how many tunes you get. Today's pop artists are either lazy or at the whim of record labels that know exactly how to spread the releases so that the consumer does not become blasé.

I'd rather a long album if the alternative means that the average consumer loses key tracks.

It's just my opinion that those albums could lose a few tracks (though I know there are others who think the same). Of course which tracks to lose could be a 100 page discussion here.

I'm not sure what artists you're referencing, but Neil is neither lazy nor a puppet of the record company...I'm sure the decision to have 11 tracks is purely motivated, and I can only imagine the purpose is to make it a lean machine of an album.

I should clarify that saying an album could lose a few tracks is not meant to say that those tracks are "filler." It's less about quality and more about economy. Like in writing prose - don't use 8 words when 5 will do (I'm sure I'm violating that one left and right ). Another angle...Movie directors ditch scenes from their movies all the time, not because the scenes aren't great, but because when all is said and done, they don't synergize with the rest of the film. That's more what I'm talking about. Like, Neil left "I Am In Love" off TA for this reason. It's totally an album-worthy track in terms of quality, but he's right, it just doesn't fit the vibe of the rest of TA. It's hard to imagine inserting it anywhere on the CD, or even reordering the tracks to include it, in a way that makes sense. I won't get into it but there are 1-2 others I would have left off on the same basis.

I'd rather the extra tracks come in the form of B-sides, than bloat on the album - Radiohead basically had a second entire album of B-sides that they made available with the beautifully concise, 10-track album In Rainbows. That's the way to do it!