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Speaker 1: Cley Releases The Story Behind the Album.

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Speaker 2: Wo Face is the third studio album by Crab Crowded House.

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Speaker 2: The album was produced by Mitchell Froom and Neil Finn

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Speaker 2: and was released in July nineteen ninety one by Capitol Records.

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Speaker 2: It is chockers full of hits, Chocolate Cake, full oft defeat,

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Speaker 2: It's only natural weather with you, four seasons in one day,

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Speaker 2: doesn't go it does, It's amazing. It was a major

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Speaker 2: hit in Australia and New Zealand, as well as giving

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Speaker 2: the band their first top ten hit album in the UK.

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Speaker 2: It was listed at number three in the book one

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Speaker 2: hundred Best Albums in October twenty ten, and it was

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Speaker 2: voted at eighty in the third edition of Colin Larkin's

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Speaker 2: Top one thousand Albums of All Time.

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Speaker 1: Quite incredible now, Neil and Tim his brother Tim had

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Speaker 1: written some songs for a forthcoming Finn Brother's album. So

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Speaker 1: what happened? After the success of the first Credit House album,

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Speaker 1: which was a huge monster success, especially in the States,

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Speaker 1: Temple of Low Men, the follow up didn't do as well,

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Speaker 1: made it to number fort again. American executives at Capitol

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Speaker 1: Records were not happy with the new songs that Neil

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Speaker 1: had come up with for Credit House's third album. So

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Speaker 1: Neil asked Tim if the band could use some of

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Speaker 1: those new Finn Brothers songs, and Tim jokingly said, on

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Speaker 1: condition I could join the band. The joke was on him,

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Speaker 1: because all of a sudden he was part of the band.

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Speaker 1: Here are the boys talking about it, Neil talking to Tim.

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Speaker 3: Joining that period with Tim was inevitably relief and a

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Speaker 3: release from from the kind of daily ritual or the

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Speaker 3: machinations of being in a band. A lot had sprung

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Speaker 3: up around the band, and a lot of expectation, a

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Speaker 3: lot of people reliant on Credit House, a way of

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Speaker 3: doing things, a series of relationships, so you know, a

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Speaker 3: r think in a way, the Finn Brothers thing was

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Speaker 3: an un was something we were making up on the spot.

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Speaker 3: Nobody really even knew about it. It was just a

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Speaker 3: desire that we had, So we were writing songs for

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Speaker 3: all the right reasons really, because we had a desire

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Speaker 3: to make music together.

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Speaker 2: Two songwriters better than one, well, and there was more

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Speaker 2: than two too, because there was Nick Seymour and Poor Hester.

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Speaker 2: In fact, Paul Hester has a hidden track on wood Face.

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Speaker 2: Track fourteen is how You go. And then there's a

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Speaker 2: little hidden excerpt in there called I'm Still Here, which

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Speaker 2: was Hester's little hidden.

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Speaker 1: Egg, which is pretty haunting when you think about it,

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Speaker 1: isn't it very much? So he's the band's bass player,

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Speaker 1: Nick Seymour.

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Speaker 3: It was going to.

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Speaker 4: Help Tim out in respect of how Tim had helped

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Speaker 4: Neil out back in the day of Split Ends.

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Speaker 1: It was going to make their mum happy. It ticked

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Speaker 1: every box, it was. It was great. That's cute.

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Speaker 2: Oh we laugh about you know, Mum saying you let

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Speaker 2: your brother play.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting Nix. You want to say the same thing,

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Speaker 1: isn't it funny? And there's all these you later because

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Speaker 1: that's what happened because Neil was just a kid. Neil

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Speaker 1: got into Split Ends first place.

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Speaker 2: And now Mum said, now you replay the favor absolutely.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Here are the boys talking about the first session and

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Speaker 1: of course the pressure of writing a hit song, which

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Speaker 1: is what Capital were doing to them.

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Speaker 3: And I had some good songs standing by for even

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Speaker 3: the first sessions which we went we did in La

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Speaker 3: and we went over and we hold up in A

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Speaker 3: and M studios and remember we all had easels and

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Speaker 3: we all with the intention of all painting in the studio,

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Speaker 3: discussed it. In reality, Nick was the only one who

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Speaker 3: actually painted my room was there. I think I got

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Speaker 3: a couple of splashes on there because I was too

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Speaker 3: involved and agonizing about the songs.

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Speaker 4: The pressure on Neil to write a beatlesque sort of

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Speaker 4: hooky song with a big chorus, and you know, he

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Speaker 4: wanted to explore other kinds of things. He didn't want

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Speaker 4: to just do that.

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Speaker 3: We got quite a few tracks that didn't end up

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Speaker 3: going so well. So maybe one of the problems of

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Speaker 3: that early session was that we had twelve songs, but

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Speaker 3: only six of them were any good, and so the

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Speaker 3: other six were kind of weighing us down a little

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Speaker 3: bit because we were chasing things, you know, chasing phantoms.

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Speaker 4: There's nothing worse, nothing was destructive for any artist than

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Speaker 4: to be told, can you please go away and write

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Speaker 4: a single? It's just so awful.

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Speaker 1: How many times you hear that story is a hit?

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Speaker 2: It wasn't to be forever, unfortunately, because during the UK

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Speaker 2: leg of the wood Face to a Tim and the

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Speaker 2: band parted company, multi instrumentalist Mark mark Hart, who had

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Speaker 2: played keyboards on wood Face, was recruited to replace him.

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Speaker 2: For the remaining dates. It wasn't an Oasis brother's type

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Speaker 2: of No, not really fall.

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Speaker 1: Out wasn't really working.

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Speaker 2: It just wasn't it was. I mean, I guess in

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Speaker 2: a way he was just it was he did joke.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I joined that. It was a bit of a joke.

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Speaker 2: So it wasn't. I don't think it was going to

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Speaker 2: be a permanent thing, but it certainly turned out to

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Speaker 2: be quite a moment.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. It was a bit of a magical reunion, wasn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a piece of magic.

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Speaker 1: And when you listed those songs, incredible and there's a

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Speaker 1: little bit about the song whether with You Again, about

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Speaker 1: the boys, you know, basically coming together Neeel and Tim

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Speaker 1: once again and songwriting.

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Speaker 3: We talked about it for years and we eventually got

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Speaker 3: together and we were expecting al Roy, our second son,

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Speaker 3: Sharon was quite heavily pregnant at the time, and I

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Speaker 3: was cycling around to this little flat that we'd bought

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Speaker 3: Murchison Street next to this house. We were doing it

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Speaker 3: in Saint Kilda and Tim and I just had two

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Speaker 3: weeks there, which Paul eventually got involved with as well,

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Speaker 3: doing some demos, and it was a very effortless and

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Speaker 3: fruitful session.

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Speaker 4: It really was.

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Speaker 3: It was every day we felt that we were coming

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Speaker 3: up with something. The very first song that we emerged

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Speaker 3: with was Weather with You, some of which he already had.

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Speaker 3: He had the Everywhere you Go. He was take the

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Speaker 3: weather with You and the opening line walking around the room.

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Speaker 4: Singing stormy weather, and they got Neil going.

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Speaker 3: Some of them came out in one go and out

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Speaker 3: of than air, and others were drawn from a verse here,

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Speaker 3: or a chorus there, or a little idea that he had.

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Speaker 4: I had this repetitive thing.

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Speaker 3: Everywhere you go.

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Speaker 4: He was hit the weather with You, and they went, yeah,

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Speaker 4: you know, were straight away and he was throwing lines

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Speaker 4: at me like because a small boat made of china

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Speaker 4: going nowhere on the mantelpiece, you know, wonderful stuff like that.

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Speaker 4: It was just free associating.

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Speaker 1: Who writes lyrics like that?

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Speaker 2: Free associating too, Yeah, I know.

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Speaker 1: And the fact that they said they had twelve songs

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Speaker 1: and six were rubbish and a lot of people flamb.

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Speaker 2: The b Yes, lots of people have put their hand

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Speaker 2: up for those other scenes using them.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely