{"id":685,"date":"2004-10-13T10:50:13","date_gmt":"2004-10-13T15:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2004\/10\/13\/lord-of-the-songs\/"},"modified":"2004-10-13T10:50:13","modified_gmt":"2004-10-13T15:50:13","slug":"lord-of-the-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/13\/lord-of-the-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord of the songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin Berger of Salon Magazine has written a great tribute<\/a> to singer-songwriter Neil Finn<\/a> (of Split Enz and Crowded House). It’s the kind of article you see published in newspapers after the death of a public personnality but Finn is alive and well, and it’s great that someone thought about giving him all the credit he deserves as one of the best songwriters out there.<\/p>\n

How often do you read an article about a pop musician where the journalist quotes Yeats and makes comparisons to Raymond Chandler?<\/p>\n

« In every Finn song, you sense a shrewd musician at work. You sense he has sought and found the perfect chord and instrument to express each idea and emotion. It’s what Yeats meant when he said that a successful poem will « come shut with a click, like a closing box. » Listen to « It’s Only Natural » from Crowded House’s third album, « Woodface, » and the world all of a sudden makes sense in a three-minute pop song. It’s a fantastic feeling and why you wouldn’t want to try to parse the song for meaning. (…)<\/p>\n

In Finn’s homeland New Zealand, though, his career is another story. His celebrity stature is second only to that of a handful of rugby players and « Lord of the Rings » director Peter Jackson. »<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kevin Berger of Salon Magazine has written a great tribute to singer-songwriter Neil Finn (of Split Enz and Crowded House). It’s the kind of article you see published in newspapers after the death of a public personnality but Finn is alive and well, and it’s great that someone thought about giving him all the credit… Continue reading Lord of the songs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}