The 1986 Listening Post - Tim Finn - Big Canoe

Tim Finn - Big Canoe

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1986 Housekeeping

Tim Finn

Big Canoe

Genre: Rock

3.75 out of 5

Highlights:

Spiritual Hunger

No Thunder No Fire No Rain

So…Tim Finn wrote this, right? Cuz this is the most listenable Tim’s been in forever. I’m struck by just how much this sounds like Crowded House, not as catchy but the tempos and intentions are so similar. 

I know we are going to get to Neil’s big breakthrough album in a couple months and I kind of wish we had put these back to back. 

All of these songs sound like they were picked up by a scavenging Tim hanging around the studio waiting for Neil to fall asleep so he could grab songs that weren’t going to make it. 

(I hate Tim Finn as longtime LP members know. I truly believe he is responsible for every bad thing Split Enz ever did and it was the best thing Neil ever did when he went on his own)

That said, this is a perfectly fine record. One that sounds like Robert Palmer and Neil Finn got together one weekend and wrote a bunch of songs they would never record. 

https://music.apple.com/us/album/big-canoe/723416046

The 1983 Listening Post - Tim Finn - Escapade

Tim Finn - Escapade

Tim Finn
Escapade
1.6 out of 5

There’s a theory I and my friend, Kristen, have about Tim Finn. That whenever his brother, Neil, starts to have success (Split Enz, Crowded House), his mother calls him and tells him to let his older brother play with him.
Then Tim comes in and frankenstein makes everything sucky.
Now I know this is untrue since Tim started Split Enz but he did join Crowded House and the former was only good when they performed Neil’s songs and the latter started to suck because, well, Tim.
Maybe none of that is true but Tim is the weaker Finn. And this album doesn’t prove that otherwise.
Made My Day comes closest to anything I’d ever want to listen to again, like 4th rate Rupert Holmes.