Neil Finn: Try Whistling This

Neil Finns erstes Solo-Album Try Whistling This von 1998 zeigt eine Veränderung hin zu weniger bandorientierter, teilweise experimentellerer Musik. Das Album erreichte Platz 5 der britischen CD-Charts und führte mehrere Wochen die australischen und neuseeländischen Hitparaden an. Singles: »She Will Have Her Way«, »Sinner« und »Last One Standing«. Die Reaktionen nach der Veröffentlichung sind sehr positiv ausgefallen. Einige Kritiken (RS, ME/S, BILD, WOM) haben wir zusammengetragen, die Texte zum Album und den Single-B-Seiten findet Ihr hier.

Try Whistling This (Alternativ-Cover)

Probiert mal folgende Reihenfolge für Try Whistling This aus:
3,9,1,2,11,10,4,5,6,7,8,12,13
So paßt sie (mit der Pause zwischen 4 und 5) wunderbar auf eine 60er Kassette für's Auto...

  1. Last One Standing 
  2. Souvenir
  3. King Tide
  4. Try Whistling This
  5. She Will Have Her Way
  6. Sinner
  7. Twisty Bass
  8. Loose Tongue
  9. Truth
  10. Astro (Gavins Tab)
  11. Dream Date
  12. Faster Than Light
  13. Addicted

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Wie man TRY WHISTLING THIS am besten auf Kassette überspielt (oder 2 Vinylplatten daraus macht), lest ihr hier.

Letztes Update: 08.06.2002

LAST ONE STANDING

(Neil Finn)

Hand me down my favourite coat
Show what you're made of, surprise us both
Fly in the night, slow down town
Brake too fast, bring us round, bring us round

And our finest days have come
Summer nights go on so long
So high I might as well be gone

And you are magnificent
I can see you with my eyes closed
You're the last one standing

Lean and hungry with a fire in your eyes
I'll play catch up, you can show me where it's at
I'll go along with anything that you want to do
Everyday I'm making ground
So high I might as well be gone

And you are magnificent
I can see you with my eyes closed
When you come walking into my house
I'll be the last one standing

If you want you can get there
Night vision and I find your white doves
Landing in your treasure towers
And I promise that I won't look back
Everyday we're making ground
So high I might as well be gone

And you are magnificent
I can see you with my eyes closed
When you come walking into my house
I'll be the last one standing


SOUVENIR

(Neil Finn)

Don't ask the question
'Cause you won't like the answer
Got up off your chair
There's nothing for you here
Where the guests like souvenirs
They play with you till you're all worn out
Back where the guests like souvenirs

Prison colour blue
It's a uniform of choice
Count yourself lucky
That you don't write the software
And the guests like souvenirs
They play with you till you're all worn out
Back where the guests take photographs

They hope you had a good night
Loosen up your tie
Make the viewers cry
I cannot pretend to cry
Memorise by heart
Every single part
There's nothing for you here
Where the guests like souvenirs
They play with you till you're all worn out
Back where the guests like souvenirs
They hope you had a good night


KING TIDE (LOW WORLD)

(Neil Finn / Robert Moore)

It's a dark and empty room
The sun beating hard on your door
Feel emotion roar within you
You're flesh and blood like anyone

Make some sense of your life
Move your hand and make the mark
I don't know why you're so confused
You're flesh and blood, there's no excuse

And the hunger inside
Won't go away it's starting to rise
And the longer you hide
The more you deny
And the sea rushes in
The wind is howling at your back
The past is always overturned
It's a dead man who would refuse
And twice the man to fill his shoes

And the hunger inside
Won't go away it's starting to rise
And the longer you hide
The more you deny
And the sea rushes in
Into my world


TRY WHISTLING THIS

(Neil Finn / Jim Moginie)

Tales from my head
I can't buy the book
No-one's listening
But I guess you could
Try whistling this...
You say you're tired
Liquid as water
But you'll succumb now
As I stoke your back
'Cos I'm the best that you know

And every time you think of me
I hope you think of true romance
And every time you want to leave
You give us both another chance

Warmest welcome,
Violent stranger
Well he said, "Come here"
As he pushed me down
Impossible to do
In high heels
Walking into walls
Do you ever wonder
If you're here at all?
Well, try whistling this...

And my words are ringing in your ear
Drawing your attention now to all the things that you ignore
And if I can't be with you I would rather have a different face
And if I can't be near you I would rather be adrift in space
And if the gods desert us I would burn this chapel into flames
And if someone tries to hurt you I would put myself in your place


SHE WILL HAVE HER WAY

(Neil Finn)

I might be old but I'm someone new, she said
I'm so sore that I could cry always
In the night lay your tired arms

She will have her way
Somehow I will still believe her

She’s the life I've been frightened of
Seems like deathly silence and especially the dark
Feels like I am heavy and my spirit has died

She will have her way
Somehow I will still believe her
She will have her way
One day I will come back

Still no end in sight
Though I travel far and wide
A dying man is doing time
Thinker, soldier terrified

And she will have her way
Somehow I will still believe her
She will have her way
One day I will come back


SINNER

(Neil Finn / Marius de Vries)

See it anyone got my eyes got my face
Sing it everyone got my nose got my blood
Conscience plays upon me now
Safe until my luck runs out
Cuckoos call, pendulum swings
I thought you knew everything
Lift my hands make the cross

Sinner, I have never learned
Beginner, I cannot return
Forever I must walk this earth
Like some forgotten soldier

These things I should keep to myself
But I feel somehow strangely compelled
Under moonlight I stood wild and naked
Felt no shame just my spirit awakened
Sinner got my eyes got my face
Fireball drop from the sky
All my dreams have come to pass
Where's my faith - is it lost
Can't see it till you cast it off

Today I am still disconnected
To the face that I saw in the clouds
And the closest I get to contentment
Is when all of the barriers come down


TWISTY BASS

(Neil Finn)

The hangman's in the noose
The prisoner is loose
The wheel has come around
And the velvet curtain's coming down

I left it there
A suitcase on a chair
I feel my weight
And something tellls me
There's a river underground
In a place where there's no one to be found

And no one came to see
The oldest show in town

Santa's on the cross
And innocence is lost
The music's in your mind
And the windscreen wipers move in time

No one came to see
The oldest show in town
And the stranger was a ghost
The killer was a priest
Took the first excuse
Made the madness seem cute lipped
On your own you'll find there's no escape
There are many ways to choose
And I don't know which one you should take

A home is all you want
On the back of a truck driving down the street
It doesn't seem so much
But it's all you need to make yor life complete

And no one came to see
The oldest show in town

I lean the slightest bit towards you
White turns into brown, light goes to black
Your eyes danced in my reflection
And the horse ate my trousers


LOOSE TONGUE

(Neil Finn / Jim Moginie)

Remember my loose tongue
Forget what I just said
I'd crawl over broken glass
If we could start again
Before our plans were made
When the world was young
The house is falling down
Because of my loose tongue

Shouldn't say so much
Shouldn't talk so loud
No sooner on your lips
Than it's all over town
In all our given days
How many gone to waste
A good man has been hung
Because of my loose tongue

Your skin is changing it's hue
Your guard is coming down fast
Looks like someone I knew
Uncovered happiness at last

All the wagging tongues
Too much information
In the future now
Under massive doubt
The papers on the street
Get trampled under feet
And they settled for a princely sum
Goodwill is coming down
And when it rains
Your well is full

Well you shouldn't ask me, you shouldn't ask me,
You want the real story, you shouldn't ask me,
You better find someone else with the house key.
You know the pressure on his personal life,
You know the man's walking on the edge of a knife,
Tales keep going and nose keeps growing,
And after sometime you forget what you know,
Now I feel I'm getting caught with a psycho sycophant,
Now it's feeling like a kid shouting tin can,
Got the poor man nailed to the floor,
And that's not nothing you want me for.

Tab Loose Tongue


TRUTH

(Neil Finn / Jim Moginie)

Remember who we are supple and new
Lifting up your hand show me my rescue
If I lose my way you'll tell me the truth for all it's worth

What I said
Truth is worth more than pride
Truth is worth more than pride

Everything you do continues long after you've gone
Circle overhead the view from the bed so high and lonely
Sixteen times a day he comes to ground to get some attention

What I said
Truth is worth more than pride
Truth is worth more than pride
Truth is worth more than pride

They have showered me with riches
and they say that I am worthy of their love and their attention
but they still don't know the truth

Everything you do continues long after you've gone

What I said
It's worth more than pride
Truth is worth more than pride
Truth cannot be denied


ASTRO

(Neil Finn)

You weightless astronaut
You sunset diving bird
A cool wind set upon
The branches of a tree

You hold at my attention
You are my first impression
And I can recognize
The life that I've been given

One day they will discover you
Low cloud moving cross the sky
One day they will uncover you
Young girl wash the sleep out of your eye

Dust on my piano
Wool rest never sleeping
All your best one-liners
Borrowed from a film

The thing that gets to me is
How you'll never free him
How the spirit yearns
Your body is a prison

One day they will discover you
Low cloud moving cross the sky
One day they will uncover you

And the thing that gets to me
Is how you'll never free it
How the spirit yearns
Your body is a prison

Bright is her eyes
Wide in the night
Why can't you see me
Come with the wind
Time to begin
There'll be no compromise
When all you want is wrapped around you
There's no saints, preserve us when we're dying
To pick us up from where we're lying

One day they will discover you
One day they will uncover you
Bright is their eyes
Wide in the night
They will discover you
They will discover you


DREAM DATE

(Neil Finn)

Remove yourself from the past
Wherever you are you don't have to stay
Old and wise lion's eyes
I wish you were here to give me advice

Lightweight dream date
Fly or fall it's my call

In the club, halfway up
Whisky at five, a weekend retreat
Brave and young, the bells have rung
They're playing the tune, I'm tapping my feet

Lightweight dream date
Fly or fall, it's my call


FASTER THAN LIGHT

(Neil Finn)

Close your eyes go to sleep
Close your eyes get so dizzy
World is spinning in your bed
I know where the sun goes

Gone to wake up the sparrows
In England it's morning
In time you'll see that some things
Travel faster than light
In time you'll recognise
That love is larger than life

Now you know what you're missing
Now you've seen that I'm willing
If you look for the message
Close your eyes
Do you hear what I'm thinking
Is it how you imagined
In time you'll see that some things
Travel faster than light
In time you'll recognise
That love is larger than life

And praise will come to those whose kindness
Leaves without debt
And bends the shape of things to come
That haven't happened yet
Close your eyes, colours changing like a lizard
I know where the sun goes
I have seen the world turning
In time you'll see that some things
Travel faster than light
In time you'll recognise that love is larger than life
And praise will come to those whose kindness
Leaves you without debt
And bends the shape of things to come
That haven't happened yet


ADDICTED

(Neil Finn)

Hear the words a jumble try this tongue twister
Kevin has a caterpillar squeezed between his fingers
See the mailman come let's see what he delivers
And you wait and it makes you feel strange
As if you were afraid
And you lie with a look to the side
And you say I was addicted to the drug
But I know when I've had enough

Could curl up and sleep on the floor
But now I'm riding the train a hundred miles an hour
Seems like this train might never stop ooh

Watching static on the television
When the morning comes
And you wait and it makes you feel strange
As if you were deranged
And you lie with a look to the side
And you say I was addicted to the drug
But I know when I've had enough

So far, we've come so far

All copyrights untouched. Unless mentioned otherwise, all songs written by Neil Finn

 

RECORD ONE - SIDE ONE

  1. Twisty Bass
  2. Sinner
  3. King Tide
  4. 808 Song
  5. She Comes Scattered

What a start eh ? Twisty first for sure - an album of variety so let's announce it big and loud. I love all the changes in this with a nice drifty merge into Sinner - a warm up to the more familiar Neil. King Tide next - yep, we know this dude now :) A great follow on with 808 Song - what a chorus and vibe this has - not sure how this did not make it onto the album, but - the competition is indeed tough. Brilliant song. She Comes Scattered to finish, I think this ends well and also continues the guitar and keyboard style from the ending of 808 Song. 808 finishes damn well too doesn't it. Enough about that one. 5 cracking tracks - yes ?

RECORD ONE - SIDE TWO

  1. Astro
  2. Tokyo
  3. Truth
  4. Identical Twin
  5. Addicted

Side One is both familiar and different to what has gone before but these first 4 sort that out - Astro, Tokyo and Truth are a great hat-trick I reckon and Identical Twin is maybe my fave on this side. Addicted reminds you that Neil does other stuff too and just look at those 5 songs, they sure work for me - wonderful.

RECORD TWO - SIDE ONE

  1. She Will Have Her Way
  2. Family Ties
  3. Souvenir
  4. Dream Date
  5. Log Drums

A brilliant finish here with Log Drums. This one gets me, I don't know if it is that eerie bass line, or the vocals that seem to come in so bang on. Could've done with hearing more of that frenzied guitar at the end but I do like this one, nearly made Track 1 Side 1 on this fantasy release. Track 1 this time is She Will Have Her Way, a single - this sounds like a single and I think they kick off sides of albums well. It is a kind of 'traditional' song - as is Family Ties - skiffle ahoy which also eases well into Souvenir, I think. I can't hear Souvenir enough really and Dream Date sounds like it's going to be the ballad of the side but what a great ending. Then into Log Drums of course :)

RECORD TWO - SIDE TWO

  1. Last One Standing
  2. Faster Than Light
  3. Loose Tongue
  4. Spirit Of The Stairs
  5. Try Whistling This

The side that plants your jaw on the floor. For now I'm going for on a live Spirit Of The Stairs but this is a complete stormer, as you all know. For me, Faster Than Light is another of the unsung heroes of this album and it works great for me where it is. The ending on Loose Tongue I reckon is also going to go nicely into Spirit Of The Stairs, starting off a nice wind-down and album peak perhaps on Try Whistling This.