Crowded House Live '92-'94

[brianderson]

Crowded House has compiled 16 songs performed in their heyday to help support the Australian Road Crew Association. The first of two volumes was just released on multiple streaming platforms, such as this You Tube channel:

music.youtube.com/watch?v=yp4fBvwBxJU&list=OLAK5uy_kI6BuGTU-Qv38_oxNad52hVlIuun4xQFE

Downloads are also being sold. Here's the webpage for ARCA's Desk Tape Series with the press release for this collection alongside shows recorded live by other artists in Australia and New Zealand, including a concert by Neil Finn in 2010:

supportact.org.au/arca-desk-tape-series/

[brianderson]

Last week, I learned that a two-CD set, “Crowded House LIVE ’92–’94,” is coming out in December to benefit the Australian Road Crew Association's charity for roadies. The word came in an e-mail -- the first blast from the official Crowded House site in nearly five months -- that looks exactly like this:

mailchi.mp/neilfinn.com/crowded-house-live-92-94-2-cd-set?e=b2395aed18

I'm at the age when I'm constantly questioning the urge to buy any more stuff, but this generous 32-song package is irresistible. I might have one of the best CD collections on the Left Coast of Split Enz, Crowded House and Tim and Neil Finn live performances (thanks greatly to Martine), most of them bootlegs (including one I put into circulation worldwide, back when people burned CD's, of a Split Enz show I attended in January 1977).  But I don't have any soundboard recordings like these of this band in their peak years right before they broke up.  Also, I want to support physical music while I still can -- the two discs in the set were only available previously for streaming or downloads.  I clicked on the preorder button and after a few clicks got the price:  $25.45 before shipping.