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Brian Timothy "Tim" Finn, OBE (born 25 June 1952) is a New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
singer and musician. Finn is most known for his music with New Zealand 1970s and 1980s rock group Split Enz
Split Enz
Split Enz were a New Zealand band of the 1970s and early 1980s featuring Phil Judd and brothers Tim Finn and Neil Finn. They achieved chart success in New Zealand, Australia, and Canada during the early 1980s ‒ most notably with the single "I Got You", and built a cult following elsewhere...
, and later for his solo work, a temporary membership in his brother Neil's band Crowded House
Crowded House
Crowded House are a rock band, formed in Melbourne, Australia and led by New Zealand singer-songwriter Neil Finn. Finn is the primary songwriter and creative director of the band, having led it through several incarnations, drawing members from New Zealand , Australia and the United States...
and his joint efforts with Neil Finn
Neil Finn
Neil Mullane Finn, OBE is a New Zealand Pop recording artist. Along with his brother Tim Finn, he was the co-frontman for Split Enz and is now frontman for Crowded House...
as the Finn Brothers
Finn Brothers
The Finn Brothers is a New Zealand Rock musical duo consisting of brothers Neil and Tim Finn. In June 1993 both members were awarded the OBE for their contribution to music....
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Early Biography
Brian Finn was born in Te AwamutuTe Awamutu
Te Awamutu is a town in the Waikato in the North Island of New Zealand. It is the council seat of the Waipa District and serves as a service town for the farming communities which surround it...
, New Zealand. He went to Sacred Heart College, Auckland
Sacred Heart College, Auckland
Sacred Heart College is a secondary school in Auckland, New Zealand. It is a Catholic, Marist College set on of land overlooking the Tamaki Estuary in Glen Innes.- History :The college was opened in 1903 in Ponsonby, by the Marist Brothers...
, a Catholic boarding school
Boarding school
A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers and/or administrators. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board," i.e., lodging and meals...
. In 1971 he started a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Auckland
University of Auckland
The University of Auckland is a university located in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the largest university in the country and the highest ranked in the 2011 QS World University Rankings, having been ranked worldwide...
. There he jammed in music practice room 129 (later the name of a Split Enz
Split Enz
Split Enz were a New Zealand band of the 1970s and early 1980s featuring Phil Judd and brothers Tim Finn and Neil Finn. They achieved chart success in New Zealand, Australia, and Canada during the early 1980s ‒ most notably with the single "I Got You", and built a cult following elsewhere...
song) with friends and future Split Enz bandmembers Mike Chunn
Mike Chunn
Mike Chunn is a former member of the New Zealand bands Split Enz and Citizen Band. He performed alongside his brother Geoff Chunn in both bands....
, Robert Gillies
Robert Gillies
Robert Bruce Gillies was a member of New Zealand band Split Enz between 1973 and 1974, and later between November 1975 and late 1977, playing the saxophone and the trumpet...
, Philip Judd and Noel Crombie
Noel Crombie
Noel Crombie is a New Zealand singer and former member of the band Split Enz. He fulfilled multiple roles including costume and hair designer, percussionist, album cover designer, and music video director...
. Music soon became more important to him than his studies and in mid-1972 he quit University. A few months later, Phil and Tim (the band's members used their middle name as stage names) formed group Split Ends
Split Enz
Split Enz were a New Zealand band of the 1970s and early 1980s featuring Phil Judd and brothers Tim Finn and Neil Finn. They achieved chart success in New Zealand, Australia, and Canada during the early 1980s ‒ most notably with the single "I Got You", and built a cult following elsewhere...
(renamed Split Enz
Split Enz
Split Enz were a New Zealand band of the 1970s and early 1980s featuring Phil Judd and brothers Tim Finn and Neil Finn. They achieved chart success in New Zealand, Australia, and Canada during the early 1980s ‒ most notably with the single "I Got You", and built a cult following elsewhere...
shortly before the group's first trip to Australia in 1975). Their music style is best described as eclectic
Eclecticism in music
Eclecticism is used to describe a composer's conscious use of styles alien to his nature, or from one or more historical styles. The term is also used pejoratively to describe music whose composer, thought to be lacking originality, appears to have freely drawn on other models .-Sources:* Kennedy,...
and wildly original, incorporating influences from art rock
Art rock
Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, with influences from art, avant-garde, and classical music. The first usage of the term, according to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, was in 1968. Influenced by the work of The Beatles, most notably their Sgt...
, vaudeville
Vaudeville
Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill...
, swing, punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
, glam rock
Glam rock
Glam rock is a style of rock and pop music that developed in the UK in the early 1970s, which was performed by singers and musicians who wore outrageous clothes, makeup and hairstyles, particularly platform-soled boots and glitter...
, rock
Rock and roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...
and pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
. Between 1972 and 1977, Tim and Judd alternated as frontman for the band. Once Judd permanently left the band, Tim Finn's younger brother Neil Finn
Neil Finn
Neil Mullane Finn, OBE is a New Zealand Pop recording artist. Along with his brother Tim Finn, he was the co-frontman for Split Enz and is now frontman for Crowded House...
took his place.
Solo
Finn recorded his debut solo albumSolo album
A solo album, in popular music, is an album headlined by a current or former member of a band. A solo album may feature simply one person performing all instruments, but typically features the work of other collaborators; rather, it may be made with different collaborators than the artist is...
, Escapade
Escapade (album)
Escapade is the first solo album by Split Enz frontman Tim Finn.-After Time and Tide:After the release of Split Enz 1982 album Time and Tide, Tim Finn decided to give the band a break after 10 years. Younger brother Neil Finn worked on some demos for the upcoming Split Enz album, while...
, in 1983, while still a member of Split Enz. This met with major commercial success both in Australia and New Zealand, and yielded hit song Fraction Too Much Friction, which revealed a more rhythm-based sound than Split Enz had been known for. The album's success brought about a decision to leave Split Enz permanently to focus on a solo career in June 1984. In early 1985, Tim moved to London and released his second album Big Canoe
Big Canoe
Big Canoe is the 1986 solo album released by former Split Enz frontman Tim Finn. This album was the first time that Tim had worked with Split Enz co-founder Phil Judd since Judd left the band in 1978. In interviews Tim has said that the idea was that he and Phil were intending on writing again,...
. The album utilised a wide variety of instrumentation, including orchestral backings and traditional Indian instruments - most notably on single No Thunder, No Fire, No Rain, which was inspired by the Bhopal chemical disaster. Though Big Canoe reached number three on the New Zealand charts, it failed to become the international breakthrough that Finn or record company Virgin had hoped. During this time, Finn's focus also turned to soundtrack music and he landed a few acting roles on-screen. Finn has composed music for a number of Australian films and TV productions, including 1981 teen tale Puberty Blues
Puberty Blues
Puberty Blues is a 1981 Australian film directed by Bruce Beresford. The film is based on the 1979 novel Puberty Blues, by Gabrielle Carey and Kathy Lette, which is a proto-feminist teen novel about two 13 year-old girls from the Sutherland Shire in Sydney, Australia...
and comedy Les Patterson Saves the World
Les Patterson Saves the World
Les Patterson Saves the World is a 1987 Australian comedy film. The plot involves the uncouth Sir Les Patterson, played by Barry Humphries, teaming up with Dame Edna Everage to save the world from a virulent bioterror attack ordered by Colonel Richard Godowni of the Gulf State of Abu Niveah.The...
. He had a small part in Australian film The Coca-Cola Kid alongside his then girlfriend Greta Scacchi, and a larger one in her Italian-shot romance La Donna della Luna (The Moon Woman).
Crowded House, Finn, Solo work
In late 1989, he was back living in Melbourne recording his eponymous third album, Tim FinnTim Finn (album)
Tim Finn is the self-titled album by New Zealand singer/songwriter Tim Finn. After having little success with his previous album Big Canoe, Tim signed up with Capitol Records, for which he released 3 albums....
, with a contract with Capitol Records
Capitol Records
Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...
. The album would yield strong reviews and New Zealand hit Parihaka
Parihaka
Parihaka is a small community in Taranaki Region, New Zealand, located between Mount Taranaki and the Tasman Sea. In the 1870s and 1880s the settlement, then reputed to be the largest Māori village in New Zealand, became the centre of a major campaign of non-violent resistance to European...
, based on a Maori village known for its campaign of passive resistance to European occupiers. In early 1990, he began playing music with his younger brother Neil, intending a collaboration on a Finn brothers record. After working together on some songs, Neil later proposed incorporating the tracks onto the latest album of Crowded House
Crowded House
Crowded House are a rock band, formed in Melbourne, Australia and led by New Zealand singer-songwriter Neil Finn. Finn is the primary songwriter and creative director of the band, having led it through several incarnations, drawing members from New Zealand , Australia and the United States...
, the group he had formed after Split Enz dissolved. Tim performed with the band to promote the band's album Woodface
Woodface
Woodface is the third studio album by the band Crowded House. The album was produced by Mitchell Froom and released by Capitol in July 1991. It features five singles "Chocolate Cake", "Fall at Your Feet", "Weather with You", "Four Seasons in One Day", and "It's Only Natural"...
, and co-wrote eight songs, including the hit Weather with You
Weather with You
"Weather with You" is a 1991 song by rock group Crowded House. It was the third and most successful single released from the group's third studio album Woodface, reaching top fifty charts in six countries with a peak of #7 in the United Kingdom....
. But soon all concerned realised that the combination was not a good fit. Tim Finn returned to pursue his solo career. Both Tim and Neil Finn were made OBE for services to New Zealand music in the 1993 Queen's Birthday Honours List
Queen's Birthday Honours
The Queen's Birthday Honours is a part of the British honours system, being a civic occasion on the celebration of the Queen's Official Birthday in which new members of most Commonwealth Realms honours are named. The awards are presented by the reigning monarch or head of state, currently Queen...
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The brothers Finn collaborated on another album in 1995, playing most of the instruments themselves. The low fi album Finn
Finn (album)
Finn is the first album by The Finn Brothers, a music project of New Zealand brothers Tim and Neil Finn.The album was produced by Tchad Blake and the Finn Brothers in Auckland, New Zealand...
was released as a Finn Brothers
Finn Brothers
The Finn Brothers is a New Zealand Rock musical duo consisting of brothers Neil and Tim Finn. In June 1993 both members were awarded the OBE for their contribution to music....
release instead of a Crowded House release. In support of this album, the brothers toured Europe, Australia and the USA. Also in 1995, Finn collaborated with singers Andy White
Andy White (singer-songwriter)
Andy White is an Irish singer/songwriter and poet, born in Belfast. He started writing poetry and music from a young age, penning a poem called "Riots" aged nine. He attended Methodist College Belfast. He studied English Literature at Robinson College, Cambridge University, graduating in 1984...
and Liam Ó Maonlaí
Liam Ó Maonlaí
Liam Ó Maonlaí is an Irish musician best known as a member of the Hothouse Flowers. Ó Maonlaí formed the band in 1985 with his schoolmate Fiachna Ó Braonáin....
, forming the band ALT
ALT (band)
ALT was a one-off band, featuring former New Zealand band Split Enz frontman Tim Finn, Northern Irish singer/songwriter Andy White and the frontman of the Irish band Hothouse Flowers, Liam Ó Maonlaí, that recorded and played together in 1995....
(the name being the initial letters of their names). ALT toured in the UK, New Zealand and Australia and released the album Altitude.
5 June 2000 was proclaimed “Tim Finn Day” by the Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...
, in the USA during Finn’s tour of the United States that year.
In 2000, the album Together in Concert: Live
Together in Concert: Live
Together in Concert: Live is a 2000 live album by Tim Finn, Bic Runga, and Dave Dobbyn during their Together in Concert tour. It was recorded in the months of August and September 2000 in venues around New Zealand...
was recorded featuring Finn, Bic Runga
Bic Runga
Briolette Kah Bic Runga MNZM is a New Zealand pop recording artist whose first solo album, Drive, debuted at number one on the New Zealand RIANZ charts. She has since become one of the highest-selling New Zealand artists in recent history...
, and Dave Dobbyn
Dave Dobbyn
Dave Dobbyn, ONZM is an award-winning New Zealand musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. In his early career he was a member of the rock group Th' Dudes and was the main creative force in pop band DD Smash...
. Recorded in the months of August and September 2000 in venues around New Zealand, the three performers are each equitably showcased. Both the concerts and album feature all three performers providing vocal and instrumental backing on each other's songs. The album was not released in the UK until 29 May 2007.
In 2004, the Finn brothers released their second album together, titled, Everyone Is Here
Everyone Is Here (album)
Everyone Is Here is the second album by The Finn Brothers, a music project of New Zealand brothers Tim and Neil Finn.The album was recorded twice, once in upstate New York with famed Bowie producer Tony Visconti, then again six months later in Los Angeles with Crowded House stalwart Mitchell Froom...
. The album originally was intended to be produced by Tony Visconti
Tony Visconti
Anthony Edward Visconti is an American record producer and sometimes a musician or singer.Since the late 1960s, he has worked with an array of performers; his lengthiest involvement with any artist is with David Bowie: intermittently from Bowie's 1969 album Space Oddity to 2003's Reality, Visconti...
but the final release shows most production credits going to long-time Finn producer Mitchell Froom
Mitchell Froom
-Career:Froom began his career as a keyboard player in Sonoma County, California. The band Crossfire featured two keyboards players; Mitchell on one side of the stage and brother David on the other with Gary Pihl on guitar...
. Reviewing the album, a writer for Mojo
Mojo
Mojo is a term commonly encountered in the African-American folk belief called hoodoo. A mojo is an amulet consisting of a flannel bag containing one or more magical items. It is related to the West African word "mojuba," meaning a prayer of praise and homage. It is a "prayer in a bag," or a spell...
magazine argued that it contained "some of the most haunting music to bear the Finn imprint".
Finn has continued to release solo albums, mining many genres along the way. He also contributed a song to the soundtrack of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a 2005 epic fantasy adventure film directed by Andrew Adamson and based on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first published and second chronological novel in C. S. Lewis's children's epic fantasy series, The Chronicles of...
entitled “Winter Light,” which later appeared on Finn's Imaginary Kingdom
Imaginary Kingdom
Imaginary Kingdom is the seventh solo album by New Zealand singer/songwriter Tim Finn. It was released in New Zealand on 6 October 2006 and in the United Kingdom on 16 October. The first single, "Couldn't Be Done", was released on 23 September...
album.
Finn has also guested on Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel
Peter Brian Gabriel is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career...
's song "Whole Thing" from the 2008 album Big Blue Ball
Big Blue Ball
Big Blue Ball is an album by multiple artists which "grew from 3 recording weeks" at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in the summers of 1991, 1992, and 1995. It is Peter Gabriel's fourteenth album project overall....
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Personal Life, Steel City
Finn is currently married to television presenter Marie Azcona, formerly of MTV and TVNZ One's Music WeekMusic Week
Music Week is a trade paper for the UK record industry.Founded in 1959 as Record Retailer, it was relaunched on 18 March 1972 as Music Week . On 17 January 1981 the title was again changed, owing to the increasing importance of sell-through videos, to Music & Video Week...
,. Finn and Azcona have two children; a son, Harper, and a daughter, Elliott. The pair have collaborated together on several songs, some of which are featured on Steel City
Steel City (album)
Steel City is a soundtrack by New Zealand-born artist Tim Finn which was released in 1998 on Sony Records. It was used for Steel City, a Sydney Theatre Company dance production, with all tracks written or co-written by Finn...
, the dance show that Finn wrote. Aside from co-writing two tracks with Azcona, Finn collaborated on one more with former Split Enz member Mike Chunn
Mike Chunn
Mike Chunn is a former member of the New Zealand bands Split Enz and Citizen Band. He performed alongside his brother Geoff Chunn in both bands....
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Discography
This discography relates to releases by Tim Finn only. See Finn Brothers' discography, Crowded House discographyCrowded House discography
This is a discography for the rock band Crowded House.The cover art for every Crowded House album has been created by or created under the direction of the group's bass player Nick Seymour, who is also a professional artist....
and Split Enz discography
Split Enz discography
This is a complete discography listing for Split Enz, a New Zealand originated experimental rock-pop group. Their creative output includes several albums, singles, music videos, compilations as well as having albums pay tribute by other artists....
for other related works.
| Date | Title | Label | Charted | Country | Catalog Number |
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| 1983 | Escapade Escapade (album) Escapade is the first solo album by Split Enz frontman Tim Finn.-After Time and Tide:After the release of Split Enz 1982 album Time and Tide, Tim Finn decided to give the band a break after 10 years. Younger brother Neil Finn worked on some demos for the upcoming Split Enz album, while... |
Mushroom Records Mushroom Records Mushroom Records is an Australian recoJrd company formed by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in Melbourne in 1972. After its sale in 1998, it merged into Festival Mushroom Records. From 2005 to 2009, it is one of the record labels operated by Warner Bros... |
#161 | U.S. | D19230 |
| 1986 | Big Canoe Big Canoe Big Canoe is the 1986 solo album released by former Split Enz frontman Tim Finn. This album was the first time that Tim had worked with Split Enz co-founder Phil Judd since Judd left the band in 1978. In interviews Tim has said that the idea was that he and Phil were intending on writing again,... |
Virgin Records Virgin Records Virgin Records is a British record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell in 1972. The company grew to be a worldwide music phenomenon, with platinum performers such as Roy Orbison, Devo, Genesis, Keith Richards, Janet Jackson, Culture Club, Lenny... |
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| 1989 | Tim Finn Tim Finn (album) Tim Finn is the self-titled album by New Zealand singer/songwriter Tim Finn. After having little success with his previous album Big Canoe, Tim signed up with Capitol Records, for which he released 3 albums.... |
Capitol Records Capitol Records Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine... |
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| 1993 | Before & After | – | – | CDP-594904 | |
| 1999 | Say It Is So Say It Is So Say It Is So is the fifth solo album by New Zealand singer/songwriter Tim Finn.After the release of Before & After Finn was left without a record company but with a lot of inspiration. He met producer Jay Joyce in Nashville, TN in 1998 with whom he worked. The problem was that there was still no... |
Sonny's Pop Records | – | – | |
| 2001 | Feeding the Gods Feeding The Gods Feeding the Gods is the sixth solo album by New Zealand singer/songwriter Tim Finn.After the release of Say It Is So Finn felt that he wanted to try something a bit "friskier" and more energetic... |
Sonny's Pop Records | – | – | 002 |
| 2006 | Imaginary Kingdom Imaginary Kingdom Imaginary Kingdom is the seventh solo album by New Zealand singer/songwriter Tim Finn. It was released in New Zealand on 6 October 2006 and in the United Kingdom on 16 October. The first single, "Couldn't Be Done", was released on 23 September... |
Capitol Records Capitol Records Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine... |
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| 2008 | The Conversation | EMI Records EMI Records EMI Records is the flagship record label founded by the EMI company in 1972 and launched in January 1973 as the successor to its Columbia label. The EMI label was launched worldwide... |
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| 2009 | North, South, East, West...Anthology North, South, East, West...Anthology North, South, East, West...Anthology is the first solo compilation album by New Zealand singer/songwriter Tim Finn. Released in 2009, the two-disc collection features songs from Finn's solo career as well as his time with Split Enz, Crowded House and the Finn Brothers.- Background :According to... |
Capitol Records Capitol Records Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine... |
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| 2011 | The View is Worth the Climb | ABC Music | – | – | |
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| 1999 | Far Out | Fan club release | – | ||
| 2001 | What You've Done What You've Done What You've Done was an EP released by New Zealand singer/songwriter Tim Finn.Referred to as a single in a lot of cases, it was released to support the album Feeding The Gods... |
EMI Records | – | – | |
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| 1987 | The Les Patterson Long Player | WEA Warner Music Group Warner Music Group is the third largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry, making it one of the big four record companies... |
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| 1991 | Woodface Woodface Woodface is the third studio album by the band Crowded House. The album was produced by Mitchell Froom and released by Capitol in July 1991. It features five singles "Chocolate Cake", "Fall at Your Feet", "Weather with You", "Four Seasons in One Day", and "It's Only Natural"... (with Crowded House Crowded House Crowded House are a rock band, formed in Melbourne, Australia and led by New Zealand singer-songwriter Neil Finn. Finn is the primary songwriter and creative director of the band, having led it through several incarnations, drawing members from New Zealand , Australia and the United States... ) |
Capitol Records Capitol Records Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine... |
83 | U.S. | CDP-7-93559-2 |
| 1995 | Altitude (with ALT ALT (band) ALT was a one-off band, featuring former New Zealand band Split Enz frontman Tim Finn, Northern Irish singer/songwriter Andy White and the frontman of the Irish band Hothouse Flowers, Liam Ó Maonlaí, that recorded and played together in 1995.... ) |
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| 1995 | Finn Finn (album) Finn is the first album by The Finn Brothers, a music project of New Zealand brothers Tim and Neil Finn.The album was produced by Tchad Blake and the Finn Brothers in Auckland, New Zealand... (with Neil Finn Neil Finn Neil Mullane Finn, OBE is a New Zealand Pop recording artist. Along with his brother Tim Finn, he was the co-frontman for Split Enz and is now frontman for Crowded House... ) |
Discovery Records Discovery Records Discovery Records was a United States-based record label known for its recordings of jazz music.Discovery was founded in 1948 by jazz fan and promoter Albert Marx... |
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| 1998 | Steel City Steel City (album) Steel City is a soundtrack by New Zealand-born artist Tim Finn which was released in 1998 on Sony Records. It was used for Steel City, a Sydney Theatre Company dance production, with all tracks written or co-written by Finn... |
CRS Records | – | – | 5011402000 |
| 2000 | Together in Concert: Live Together in Concert: Live Together in Concert: Live is a 2000 live album by Tim Finn, Bic Runga, and Dave Dobbyn during their Together in Concert tour. It was recorded in the months of August and September 2000 in venues around New Zealand... (with Dave Dobbyn Dave Dobbyn Dave Dobbyn, ONZM is an award-winning New Zealand musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. In his early career he was a member of the rock group Th' Dudes and was the main creative force in pop band DD Smash... & Bic Runga Bic Runga Briolette Kah Bic Runga MNZM is a New Zealand pop recording artist whose first solo album, Drive, debuted at number one on the New Zealand RIANZ charts. She has since become one of the highest-selling New Zealand artists in recent history... ) |
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| 2004 | Everyone Is Here Everyone Is Here (album) Everyone Is Here is the second album by The Finn Brothers, a music project of New Zealand brothers Tim and Neil Finn.The album was recorded twice, once in upstate New York with famed Bowie producer Tony Visconti, then again six months later in Los Angeles with Crowded House stalwart Mitchell Froom... (with Neil Finn Neil Finn Neil Mullane Finn, OBE is a New Zealand Pop recording artist. Along with his brother Tim Finn, he was the co-frontman for Split Enz and is now frontman for Crowded House... ) |
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| 2009 | The Sun Came Out The Sun Came Out The Sun Came Out is a charity studio album released on 31 August 2009 by New Zealand singer/songwriter Neil Finn for the benefit of Oxfam. The album was recorded at Neil Finn's Roundhead Studios and is a follow up to the 7 Worlds Collide live album of 2001... |
Sony Music | – | – | 88697568272 |
Singles
| Year | Song | Peak chart positions | Album | ||
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| 1983 | "Fraction Too Much Friction" | 8 | – | 2 | Escapade |
| 1983 | "Made My Day" | 22 | – | – | |
| 1983 | "Staring At The Embers" | 34 | – | – | |
| 1984 | "Through The Years" | – | 34 | – | |
| 1984 | "In A Minor Key" | – | – | – | |
| 1985 | "Home For My Heart" | 87 | – | – | The Coca-Cola Kid Soundtrack |
| 1986 | "No Thunder No Fire No Rain" | 46 | – | 24 | Big Canoe |
| 1986 | "Spiritual Hunger" | – | – | – | |
| 1986 | "Carve You In Marble" | – | – | 33 | |
| 1987 | "You Saved The World" | – | – | – | Les Patterson Saves The World |
| 1987 | "With You I'm Alive | – | – | – | |
| 1989 | "How'm I Gonna Sleep" | 24 | 77 | 2 | Tim Finn |
| 1989 | "Crescendo" | 97 | – | – | |
| 1989 | "Not Even Close" | – | 91 | – | |
| 1989 | "Parihaka" (with Herbs Herbs (band) Herbs are a New Zealand reggae vocal group formed in 1979 once described as "New Zealand's most soulful, heartfelt and consistent contemporary musical voice". It has been said their debut EP Whats' Be Happen? "set a standard for Pacific reggae which has arguably never been surpassed".-History:Herbs... ) |
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| 1990 | "Long Hard Road" (with Phil Judd Phil Judd Philip Judd is a New Zealand singer-songwriter known for being one of the founders of the bands Split Enz and The Swingers.-Split Enz:... ) |
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| 1992 | "Islands" (with MC Fli T) |
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| 1993 | "Hit The Ground Running" | – | – | 14 | Before & After |
| 1993 | "Persuasion" | 62 | – | 6 | |
| 1993 | "Many's The Time" | – | – | – | |
| 1994 | "Runs In The Family" | – | – | 9 | |
| 1998 | "Steel City" | – | – | – | Steel City Soundtrack |
| 1999 | "Twinkle" | – | – | – | Say It Is So |
| 2001 | "What You've Done" | – | – | 48 | Feeding The Gods |
| 2006 | "Couldn't Be Done" | – | – | – | Imaginary Kingdom |
| 2007 | "Horizon" | – | – | – | |
| 2008 | "Out of This World" | – | – | – | The Conversation |