Track Listing

1. Kare Kare
2. In My Command
3. Nails In My Feet
4. Black And White Boy
5. Fingers Of Love
6. Pineapple Head
7. Locked Out
8. Private Universe
9. Walking On The Spot
10. Distant Sun
11. Catherine Wheels
12. Skin Feeling
13. Together Alone

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32327 in Music
• Released on: 1993-10-11
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

CROWDED HOUSE - DEEP, MELODIC AND CAPTIVATING
Crowded House's follow up to their career defining Woodface album was an altogether darker and less immediate record. Songwriter in chief Neil Finn hired hip producer Youth with the idea of creating a more organic and less polished collection. The Beatles influences are still in evidence but Together Alone is a far more adventurous record full of strange instruments, dense melodies and lashings of Finn's KIWI heritage.
The album was another huge success in the UK and spawned an impressive 5 top 30 singles. Multi-instrumentalist Mark Hart was drafted in, as a replacement for the departed Tim Finn, and his supreme musicality also helped to make Together Alone such an accomplished collection.
'Distant Sun', 'Pineapple Head' and 'Locked Out' provided a triplet of uptempo singles whilst the ballads 'Fingers Of Love' and 'Nails In My Feet' also hit the top 30. As with all great albums though there is always much more than just singles - 'Walking On The Spot' is a gorgeous McCartneyesque strummer, 'Catherine's Wheels' a stunning Tim Finn co-write and the organic 'Private Universe' - subsequently became a huge live favourite. The thundering 'Black & White Boy' and the Nick Seymour penned 'Skin Feeling' also showed that Crowded House had the ability to rock out convincingly.
Together Alone isn't as immediate as Woodface - repeated listens however reaps rewards and, if anything, it may even be the stronger of the two albums.
A hugely melodic, textured and haunting record. The other classic of Neil Finn's career.

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Neil Finn's finest hour.
Every great musician goes through a period of being great. A time when their melodies, that on other occassions, do not quite come off, hit home. A time where their work is held together with genuine quality. For Neil Finn, this is such a time, and from the opening chords of the openner, 'Kare Kare' to the McCartneyesque closing title track 'Together Alone', this album is imbued with quality.
The album is moodier than Woodface, less commercial and has a darker tone. For example, on the track 'Private Universe' Neil sings 'they talk to me, birds talk to me, when i go down on my knees' and asks on another track, 'will we be in our minds when the dawn breaks'. But as with much of the band's work, where there is darkness, light is only a chord change away, and the album still possesses moments of sheer joie de vivre and two bonafide classics in 'Distant Sun' and 'Pinneapple Head'. On top of this, the band seem more sensitive to Neils's songs than in previous outings; guitars chime and the harmonies are rich.
But, if you need a reason to buy this album, it is that Mr Finn's melodies, while not always instantly catchy, will, when they've gotten under your skin, have you singing them for years to come.
Simply put: Neil Finn's finest hour.

Neil Finn's Masterpiece
This album is so very intoxicating, it should be available on prescription.

I recently re-listened to Together Alone for probably the 500th time and was reminded just how wonderful an album it is. I'm never sure whether I favour this album or Woodface - they're both such works of brilliance in their own unique, yet also similar way. This is definitely the more 'mature' big brother to Woodface, commanding several plays before you are able to appreciate all of the many textures and subtleties of the beautiful melodies held within many of the less obvious tracks (Fingers Of Love, Private Universe, In Your Command). Of course, being Crowded House, there are the tracks which hit you square in the face with brilliance, such as Pineapple Head, Locked Out and Distant Sun, which must be one of my favourite songs of all times, containing one of my most favourite lyrics (I don't pretend to know what you want/But I offer love).

Essential.