Right. My Virgin Prunes suggestions were well wide of the mark.
I was actually going to suggest Amy, purely because of the Split Enz song. Imagine singing that chorus to your cat?!?!
Nikki is nice too...
Incidentally, if you were ever in the mood it would be wonderful to read about your Split Enz fandom. It's depressingly unusual to find fans of pre-1979 Split Enz.
(still think guggi is a great name for a cat)
when i was trying to think of a name, i actually briefly thought of amy, but decided i shouldn't go with another enz title. plus i wasn't sure about the name amy itself, though the chorus idea would be sweet. wait, i can still sing sweet talkin' spoon song to her
yeah, what the heck. dr. dré (axver) will remember our long lost interferencer timothius, another kiwi living in oz, who posted on here way back during the vertigo tour. this forum (out of control, that is) didn't exist back then and the vertigo setlist threads were sort of like the superthreads, cool people talking about random stuff. tim-tam (that's what i called timothius, yep after the biscuits and i also want to say the name bugged him, i can't remember) was also a huge fan of the crowdies and since livejournal was a thing back then, he'd post their albums on his journal, and i got into them. then he said since i was more of an 80s music fan, i'd probably like the band that came before that better, and started sharing enz stuff with me too.
i loved it and ended up downloading a torrent of their entire discography. trust me, i've given them more than enough money because i bought all the remastered cds when they came out like ten years ago (got the sweet gatefold ones) and i've seen all the finns live. never got to see the enz live either of the times they reunited since it was so far away, i just couldn't afford a flight. but i've seen tim solo a few times, the crowdies twice, and liam a few times. plus i've met all three of them. oh and the rest of crowded house. oh and the first song i ever heard crowded house perform live was recurring dream (yeeeeees)....sorry. back to the enz.
okay, enough about the finns. i'm finn-ished talking about them. being a fan of 80s music, by which i mean shit a lot of people consider to be cheesy and terrible, yeah my initial favourite by them was true colours, but eventually i got into their other stuff. dizrythmia is probably still my favourite of theirs, with mental notes (the actual for real first one, not the one released in 76 that's also called second thoughts) being my second favourite. phil's vocals are really...unusual, but in a good way. what could sound terrible if anyone else sang like that, he makes it sound really amazing. under the wheel and spellbound are great in particular.
the music in particular is really interesting (i'm not so good with words, even though i majored in english, i just suck at describing things i mean). i like the complex melodies and stuff. i mean yeah that's prog rock for you, but that's what i like about it. and of course they had their own take on it. like for example just a random thing but i particularly like the synth solo towards the end of under the wheel. i'm usually not big on acoustic guitars but they made it work, i think because with them, it was an accompaniment, like a rhythm guitar, rather than the main piece as folk rock and other kind of bands did.
don't get me wrong, i like their stuff from frenzy onward (these days i like waiata more than true colours, shock gasp) too, but there's no denying they pushed more boundaries with their pre-neil stuff, and when neil joined it became more glossy and commercial. it's not a bad thing, just different.
