Old Enough to Forget

Tim Finn, founding father of Split Enz, occasional member of Crowded House and half of The Finn Brothers with little brother Neil and a fairly odd but incredibly cool album by ALT (with Andy White and Liam O Maonlai) back in '95. It's weird, not a bad weird, just weird that I came to Tim Finn's solo work backassward through his association with little brother Neil. Of course I knew of Split Enz, and dang it I loved "Shark Attack" and thought "Six Months in a Leaky Boat" were awesome, but on balance I liked Neil's songs better. Those first two Crowded House records only cemented that opinion for me. When Neil and Tim turned what was to be a Finn Brothers record into Woodface I was still drawn to Neil, but I had to admit Tim was pretty cool ... maybe I was missing out. Me being me, which is to say a borderline compulsive, I started looking for Tim's solo work. I found his debut from '83 which was okay, and I kept going and going. Of his solo wo...

Switchfoot is a band I've been long curious about. I know they have a tenuous connection to the Christian music machine and that at one time they were a pretty big deal. Heck their 2000 release Learning to Breathe went gold when they were on Sparrow records* a smaller imprint without the benefit of corporate muscle outside the weird Christian bookstore model. Their next album The Beautiful Letdown was distributed to the great unwashed outside of the CCM bubble by SONY BMG back in 2003 and the band went triple platinum. Kind of a holy shit moment for them I'm sure. A couple years after that Nothing Is Sound would be their highest charting album on the Billboard 200 reaching #3 but the album would only go gold ... only , sheesh most acts would love a gold record. As time went on each album would sell fewer copies than the copy before. They'd change labels a few times, and in 2021  interrobang would be their second album on Fantasy Records. I wonder if they asked John Foger...