Crowded House - Anyone Can Tell

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Uploaded by on Oct 22, 2008

From the Afterglow album released in 1999.

R.I.P. Paul

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  • Sounds like Nick Lowe in this song. 

  • @jml2621 I felt that Afterglow supported Nick's anger that Neil bailed in 1996, when the latter felt that there was at least one more album in the band. Sadly, it shows that Capitol were meddling for years - hence Neil's premature decision.

  • @anthonythirteen

    It's interesting. The original tunes for the album were Neil's and included Anyone Can Tell as well as Dr. Livingstone, Time Immemorial, and about 4 others that were released on Afterglow.

    Tim and Neil had been writing together for a Finn album, and many of those songs were used for what is now Woodface. The rest is history.

  • @jml2621 Wow! I always thought Chocolate Cake was the one the boys chose - as it reflected their Aussie humour that failed to translate to the US? Seemingly Capitol undermined CH's American commercial success?!?!

  • the opening of this song reminds me of Everything is Good for You, anyone else hearing that in the opening riff?

  • My reasoning - Neil begins with a huge hook in the verse - common for Neil unlike most pop songwriters. It is repeated. A variation on them A leads back to A repeated again.

    Then 3 hooks which serve as bridge to a Monster Hook for the Chorus...repeated, then again down a third - an altered blues trick. Repeat the chorus theme.

    AA A' AA 'bridge

    BCB

    D D D'

    D D D'

    "I will tell you everything straight" modified chorus hook to during the second go round.

    Classic Rock/pop single.

  • One of Neil's finest and uplifting tunes. Originally slated for Woodface, this was one of the songs rejected by the morons at Capitol records. Ironically, Anyone Can Tell would have been a huge hit if it had been the lead single, instead of the misstep known as Chocolate Cake.

  • Crowded House great band reason they were so underated is because they refused to bow down to scum and for that i respect them 100%!

  • thnks some rare fotos i havent seen b4.like 1.07 and 2.20

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