Finn Brothers: FINN

Im Oktober 1995 erschien das erste Duettalbum der Brüder Finn bei Parlophone - in den USA ein halbes Jahr später bei Discovery Records; zuerst einfach FINN betitelt, dann FINN BROTHERS - wegen rechtlicher Verwicklungen mit der Band FIN. Das Album ist 38:29 Minuten lang und enthält 11 Lieder.
Dies sind die Titel:Plattencover FINN-Album

  1. Only Talking Sense
  2. Eyes Of The World
  3. Mood Swinging Man
  4. Last Day of June
  5. Suffer Never
  6. Angel's Heap
  7. Niwhai
  8. Where Is My Soul
  9. Bullets in my Hairdo
  10. Paradise (Wherever You Are)
  11. Kiss The Road of Roratonga

Ursprünglich waren die Songs auf der CD in einer anderen Reihenfolge. Geändert wurde diese vermutlich, weil "Kiss The Road..." als Einstieg die Fans der Finn-Balladen verschreckt haben könnte. Probiert mal diese Abfolge aus:

11, 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 2, 10

Das Album erhält ein deutlich geschlosseneres Bild auf diese Weise.

Die Entstehungsgeschichte beschrieben die Brüder sehr detailliert in einem Interview auf englisch, das sie einem japanischen Magazin im Oktober 1995 noch vor der Tour durch Europa gaben. Außerdem haben wir die Texte und eine gesammelte Kritiken zu beiden Finn-Alben.

Die erste Single, die noch vor dem Album ausgekoppelt wurde, war "Suffer Never", die zweite "Angel's Heap". Die dritte Single, "Only Talking Sense", war nur für Veröffentlichung in AU und NZ vorgesehen - es gab kurzzeitig eine Exklusiv-Edition nur für den Club. Für alle drei wurden Videoclips gedreht.

Als Bonbons enthalten diese Singles Demo-Versionen der ersten Finn-Brothers-Session im Winter 1989, die letztendlich zu Tims Beitritt bei Crowded House führte: u.a. "Weather With You" (mit zweiter Strophe!), "Chocolate Cake" (Tim improvisiert über Andrew Lloyd Webber) und "Four Seasons". Ein echtes Juwel: "Prodigal Son", das es nie bis zu einer Veröffentlichung schaffte.

Only Talking Sense

(Neil Finn, Tim Finn)

there's a wild thing in the woolshed
and it's keeping me awake at night
a devil in the closet
and a feeling I'd prefer to hide
he is religion
he won't hear me when I cry for help
he has a vision of me
but I am somebody else

we talk the pillow
there are times when I'm tied up to the fence
only talking sense

there's a mirror lake before me
but I'm frozen when it's time to jump
it's like maybe I'm afraid of what I'll find
when independence comes
you steel my shadow
you make my blood run dry

we are true only when we talk the pillow
there are times when I'm tied up to the fence
only talking sense

did you suffer as a child
that's why you want to make me cry
you are afraid of me
that's why you're so unkind

you won't deny it
when your child is tied up to the fence
and I'm only talking sense
lonely when we talk the pillow
and your child is messed up in the head
I'm only talking sense

Only Talking Sense Tab


Eyes Of The World

(Neil Finn, Tim Finn)

you're nothing in the eyes of the world
but you're riding up and down in
the elevator still
feeling just a little surprised
like you discovered Engelbert Humperdinck
or something
inside the fairy light
it's often hard to tell
the way you see yourself
will lead you to despair
the eyes of everyone will look right
through your sence
its nothing new to me that's what
I used to be

Someone in the eyes of the world
you look into the eyes of the world
hoping to catch your reflection again
missing all the real life action
so calm and dignified you rise up from
the chair
put the powder on and climb up the
slippery stairs
inside a sleazy room with a bible
for companion
bleeding fingernails you'll never
know yourself

the eyes ot the world they look right
through you
your nothing in the eyes of the world
the hint of a smile appears on your face
when you realize there's nothing
in the eyes of the world


Mood Swinging Man

(Neil Finn, Tim Finn)

he's a mood swinging man with his bag of tricks
never know where he's at
the life of the party when he's doing his flips
a drag when he's flat on his back
this town feels empty now he's gone away
please understand
something new discover everyday
the wheels in his hand

he takes me up
he brings me back down again
flash in the pan
mood swinging man can't pretend

tall dark stranger of the restless kind
shadow of a shadow
I'd like to wander through his mind
he's hard to get to know
he wakes you up in the dead of night
to tell you he's in love
he can give a heavy sleeper a terrible fright

and no one can keep up

with the mood swinging man
he'll be back down again
he lights up
he's a flash in the pan
mood swinging man
no idea who I am
I'm the mood swinging man

you know where he's at
he will crave your attention still
all to familiar
mood swinging man


Last Day Of June

(Neil Finn)

the firelight plays on me
the choir ignites behind me
the rising voice of discontent
all the guardian angels
you can bang the drum
look what we've become
I hope there might be one of us
who calls the tune
last day of june

the so called third dimension
hardly deserves a mention
the first and second stages
have been confused for ages
knowledge has been lost
how much does it cost
I hope there might be one of us
who calls the tune
last of june
who break the news
last day of june

the city draws it's breath in
I can almost hear it thinking
there are people within my walls
see their wild disorder
driving their machines
swarming like a million bees
I hope their might be one of us
who calls the tune
last day of june
who speaks the truth
last day of june
who breaks the news
last day of june


Suffer Never

(Neil Finn, Tim Finn)

has she fallen from the sky so heavy of heart
the sigh was on her tongue, the grief was in her arms
she will suffer never, I mean her no harm

she'll come slowly rising on the air
lift her weightless on the air, on the air

and the silence was enough to shed my guilt
she will always know my wishes cos I remember how it felt

kisses slowly rising on the air
lift her weihtless on the air, on the air

she will suffer never
I mean her no harm


Angels Heap

(Neil Finn, Tim Finn)

news travels fast
there's an old wreck in
the underpass
wine in a glass
and a well travelled bed
down the length and breadth
of the motorway
down the information highway

I took a ride in an
angels heap
and she took me away to where
the hills are steep
yeah I took a ride

in the still mind of a child
there's a live bird on her shoulder
she could swallow a lie
like she's drinking a flagon of beer
I'll never be the same again
let the black wheels fly over

I took a ride in an
angels heap
and she took me away to where
the air was sweet
and she made me come alive
in a red vinyl seat
yeah I took a ride

Tab Angels Heap


Niwhai

(Neil Finn, Tim Finn)

Niwhai she's so fly
making it happen
Niwhai be my witness
five satellites in hust one night

Niwhai pacific sister
her fathers son
she was something precious
and we all love what she's become
strange attractor
something wicked
paint her golden buddha
you're a blinding flash across the sky

Niwhai sequinned slipper
fly by radiating light
grant her secret wishes
five satellites in just one night

Niwhai she's so fly
making it happen
grant her secret wishes
five satellites in just one night


Where Is My Soul

(Neil Finn, Tim Finn)

wick in the candle
what lies beneath
look in the shadows and the spaces in between
a vision ghosted appearing on my screen

soul where is my soul where is my soul

I seek contentment
I'am acting still
all airs and graces with a smile before you kill
hold back the hostile crowd before they trample you down

soul where is my soul where is my soul

I'll go up with my conscience clean
down below they're looking for me
and I know you've got my soul

oh holy ancient
I'll smoke you up
I'll take your wisdom and I'll turn you into dust
you fill my ashtray
the one I've come to trust

soul where is my soul where is my soul
soul you have lost control of all you've had
soul where is my soul your will so bad

Tab Where Is My Soul


Bullets In My Hairdo

(Neil Finn, Tim Finn)

there's junk mail in my letterbox
and all the catalogues
I can't wait to buy it
no matter what it costs
the whistle of the sniper
the crashing of the bombs
put a spring back in my step
keeps me feeling young

and this shopping is a curse
everytime its getting worse
I got bullets in my Hairdo
the hairs on my shirt

many ways to spend your money
there's not alot to choose
the tanks are rolling over
my hundred dollar shoes
you can never find a taxi
to drive you into town
I'm always in a hurry
I won't go underground

and this shopping is a curse
everytime its getting worse
I got bullets in my Hairdo
and holes in my purse

all quiet on the street
silence breathing down
bullets in my hairdo
jewels in my crown

and this shopping is a curse
everytime its getting worse
I got bullets in my Hairdo
the hairs on my shirt


Paradise (Wherever You Are)

(Neil Finn, Tim Finn)

endless travel, can't remember
where I've been
lying in this hammock, feeling tragic
like the ones you hear so much about
can't wait to tell you what I've seen

skim the water, South Atlantic
ocean grey
always searching for his mate
lonely albatross cannot find them
the ones you care so much about
they're lost and you're losing your way

too much pressure, gin and tonic water
they'll forget you, the ones you care
so much about
the'll surrender to the need

Paradise where you are

Tab Paradise


Kiss The Road Of Roratonga

(Neil Finn, Tim Finn)

speed through the night
my gritty eyes so fever bright
scars on my hand
the gravel stones I took a bite

Kiss The Road Of Roratonga
taste some gravel
Kiss The Road Of Roratonga

my barefoot nurse
whisper sorry when it hurts
black sea slug sand
a velvet sky and and the roosters cry
bird flapped its wing
man I rode like a king

Kiss The Road Of Roratonga
taste some gravel
Kiss The Road Of Roratonga
stand up and flow, push it on push it on
island girl I'll stay with you

I give thanks to Roratonga
Kiss The Road Of Roratonga