I know this is hardly an original sentiment, but there's something about Crowded House. Their music has always been there, but that's not what gives it its power to evoke feeling - that's something that comes from the music itself. Anyhow, the greatness of that source material was a large part of what made She Will Have Her Way so good (though many of the other Finn songs are also v. strong); it's now been repackaged with a couple of extras (including Seeker Lover Keeper's "Sinner") along with the male follow-up that came out a couple of years back; on that one, my favourites are the first three, and possibly the three most straightforward - Oh Mercy's "I Feel Possessed", Chris Cheney's "Distant Sun", and, especially, Boy & Bear's take on "Fall At Your Feet" (my favourite from the original She Will Have Her Way has ended up being Clare Bowditch's version of the same, which may not be all that surprising given that it's probably one of my three or four favourite Crowded House songs full stop).
