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 Crowded House, August 2007 (L–R) Liam Finn, Matt Sherrod, Mark Hart, Neil Finn, Nick Seymour | |
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| Also known as | The Mullanes (1985) |
| Origin | Melbourne, Australia |
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| Spinoff of | Split Enz |
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| Website | crowdedhouse |
Crowded House are an Australian and New Zealand rock band, formed in 1985 in Melbourne, Australia[1] The founding members wereNeil Finn (vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter) andPaul Hester (drums), who were both former members ofSplit Enz, andNick Seymour (bass). Later band members included Finn's brotherTim, who was also formerly in Split Enz; sonsLiam and Elroy; as well as AmericansMark Hart andMatt Sherrod.[2][3] Neil Finn and Seymour are the sole constant members.
Originally active from 1985 to 1996, Crowded House had consistent commercial and critical success in Australia and New Zealand.[4][5][6] They achieved success in the United States with theirself-titled debut album, which provided the Top Ten hits "Don't Dream It's Over" and "Something So Strong".[7][8] Further international success came in the UK, mainland Europe and South Africa in the early 1990s with their third and fourth albums (Woodface andTogether Alone) and the compilation albumRecurring Dream, which included the hits "Fall at Your Feet", "Weather with You", "Distant Sun", "Locked Out", "Instinct" and "Not the Girl You Think You Are".[9][10] Neil and Tim Finn were each awarded anOBE in June 1993 for their contributions to the music of New Zealand.[11]
Crowded House disbanded in 1996 following several farewell concerts that year, including the "Farewell to the World" concerts in Melbourne and Sydney.[2][9][12] Hester died by suicide in 2005.[13] A year later, the group re-formed with drummer Matt Sherrod and released two further albums (Time on Earth andIntriguer), each of which reached number one in Australia.[5] The band went on another hiatus, and reunited in 2020 with a new line-up featuring Neil Finn, Nick Seymour,Mitchell Froom and Finn's sons Liam and Elroy.[14] Their most recent album,Gravity Stairs, was released in 2024.
As of 2021, Crowded House have sold over 15 million albums worldwide.[15] In November 2016, the band was inducted into theARIA Hall of Fame.[16]
Neil Finn (vocals, guitar, piano) and drummer Paul Hester (the Cheks,Deckchairs Overboard) were both former members of New Zealand bandSplit Enz, which spent part of 1975–76 in Australia and several years in England.[2] Neil Finn is the younger brother of Split Enz founding member Tim Finn, who joined Crowded House in 1990 on vocals, guitars and keyboards for the albumWoodface.[2] Bassist Nick Seymour (Plays with Marionettes, Bang, the Horla) is the younger brother of singer-songwriter and guitaristMark Seymour[2] of Australian rock groupHunters & Collectors.[9]
Finn and Hester decided to form a new band during the first Split Enz farewell tour, "Enz with a Bang", in late 1984.[2] Seymour approached Finn during the afterparty for the Melbourne show and asked if he could audition for the new band.[9]The Mullanes formed in Melbourne in early 1985 with Finn, Hester, Seymour and guitaristCraig Hooper (the Reels) and first performed on 11 June.[2] They secured a record contract withCapitol Records, but Hooper left the band before the remaining trio moved to Los Angeles to record their debut album.[2][17]
At Capitol's behest, the band's name was changed to Crowded House, which alluded to the lack of space at the smallHollywood Hills house they shared during the recording of the albumCrowded House.[2][17][18] Former Split Enz keyboardist Eddie Rayner produced the track "Can't Carry On" and was asked to join the band. He toured with them in 1988, but was unable to become a full member due to family commitments.
Thanks to their Split Enz connection, the newly formed Crowded House had an establishedAustralasian fanbase.[2] They began by playing at festivals in Australia and New Zealand and released their debut album,Crowded House, in August 1986.[2] Capitol Records initially failed to see the band's potential and gave them only low-key promotion,[9] forcing the band to play at small venues to try to gain attention. The album's first single, "Mean to Me", reached the AustralianKent Music Report Singles Chart top 30 in June.[4] It failed to chart in the US,[7] but moderate American airplay introduced US listeners to the group.
The next single, "Don't Dream It's Over", was released in October 1986 and proved an international hit, reaching number two on the USBillboard Hot 100[7] and number one in Canada.[19] New Zealand radio stations initially gave the song little support until months later when it became internationally successful. Ultimately, the song reached number one on theNew Zealand singles chart and number eight in Australia.[4][6] It remains the group's most commercially successful song.
In March 1987 the group were awarded "Best New Talent", along with "Song of the Year" and "Best Video" awards for "Don't Dream It's Over", at theinaugural ARIA Music Awards.[20] The video also earned the group theMTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist that year.[21] The song has often beencovered by other artists and gavePaul Young a hit single in 1991. It was also used for aNew Zealand Tourism Board advertisement in its "100% Pure New Zealand" worldwide promotion from October 2005.[22] In May 2001, "Don't Dream it's Over" was voted seventh in a poll of thebest Australian songs of all time by theAustralasian Performing Right Association.[23]
In June 1987, nearly a year after its release,Crowded House finally reached number one on the Kent Music Report Album Charts.[4] It also reached number three in New Zealand[6] and number twelve in the US.[8] The follow-up to "Don't Dream it's Over", "Something So Strong", was another global hit, reaching the Top 10 in New Zealand,[6] the United States[7] and Canada. "World Where You Live" and "Now We're Getting Somewhere" were also released as singles with chart success.[4][7][9]
As the band's primary songwriter, Neil Finn was under pressure to create a second album to match their debut and the band joked that one potential title for the new release wasMediocre Follow-Up.[9] Eventually titledTemple of Low Men, their second album was released in July 1988 with strong promotion by Capitol Records. The album did not fare as well as their debut in the US, only reaching number 40 and selling around 200,000 copies,[8] but it achieved Australasian success, reaching number one inAustralia[5] and number two in New Zealand.[6] The first single, "Better Be Home Soon", peaked at number two on both Australian and New Zealand singles charts[5][6] and reached the top 50 in the US.[7] The following four singles were less successful.[5][6]
Crowded House undertook a short tour of Australia and Canada to promote the album, with Eddie Rayner on keyboards. Multi-instrumentalist Mark Hart, who would eventually become a full band member, replaced Rayner in January 1989. After the tour, Finn fired Seymour from the band.[3]Music journalistEd Nimmervoll claimed that Seymour's temporary departure was because Finn blamed him for causing hiswriter's block;[17] however, Finn cited "artistic differences" as the reason.[3] Seymour said that after a month he contacted Finn and they agreed that he would return to the band.[3]
Crowded House took a break after the Canadian leg of theTemple of Low Men tour. Neil Finn and his brother Tim recorded songs they had co-written for their own album,Finn.[9] Following the recording sessions with Tim, Neil began writing and recording a third Crowded House album with Hester and Seymour, but these tracks were rejected by the record company, so Neil asked Tim if Crowded House could use theFinn songs. Tim jokingly agreed on the proviso that he become a member, which Neil apparently took literally. With Tim as an official member, the band returned to the studio.[9]
The new tracks, as well as some from the previously rejected recordings were combined to makeWoodface, which was released in July 1991. The album features eight tracks co-written by Neil and Tim,[9] which feature the brothersharmonising on lead vocals, except on the sombre "All I Ask" on which Tim sang lead. The track was later used on AIDS awareness commercials in Australia.[9] Five of the album's tracks were Neil's solo compositions and two were by Hester, the exuberant "Italian Plastic", which became a crowd favourite at concerts,[9] and thehidden track "I'm Still Here".
"Chocolate Cake", a humorous comment on American excesses that was not taken well by some US critics and sections of the American public was released in June 1991 as the first single. It failed to chart in the US; however, it reached number two on Billboard'sModern Rock Tracks chart.[7] The song peaked at number seven in New Zealand and reached the top 20 in Australia.[5][6] The second single, "Fall at Your Feet", was less successful in Australia and New Zealand but did at least reach the USHot 100.[7] The album reached number one in New Zealand,[6] number two in Australia,[5] number six in the UK[24][25] and made the top 20 in several other European countries.[26][27][28] The third single fromWoodface, "Weather With You", peaked at No. 7 in early 1992 giving the band their highest UK chart placement. By contrast, the album had limited success in the US, only reaching number 83 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart and selling 225,000 copies.[8]
Despite the success of the album, Tim Finn left Crowded House suddenly part-way through the UK leg of theWoodface tour, a few hours before the band were due to play at King Tut's Club in Glasgow on 1 November 1991. Neil Finn noted that "on stage, it just didn't feel right for us or him. We're very off-the-cuff and conversational, whereas Tim is into creating a spectacle and the two approaches don't gel all that well ... We'd all open our mouths at the same time and then stop and go, Oh, after you. From Tim's point of view it was quite a relief to put it all on the table, I think. For half the set he was standing there with his acoustic guitar, not really feeling part of it." Paul Hester commented that "both sides felt good about parting before it could get ugly".[2][29]
Performances on the UK tour, at the Town and Country Club in London, were recorded live and given a limited release in Australia, while individual songs from those shows were released as B-sides of singles in some countries.[30] In June 1993 theNew Zealand government recommended that the Queen award an OBE to Neil and Tim Finn for their contribution to the music of New Zealand.[11]
For their fourth album,Together Alone, Crowded House used producerMartin Glover (aka "Youth") and invited touring musician Mark Hart (guitar and keyboards) to become a permanent band member.[2][17] The album was recorded atKarekare Beach, New Zealand, which gave its name to the opening track, "Kare Kare". The album was released in October 1993 and sold well internationally on the strength of lead single "Distant Sun" and follow-up "Private Universe". It topped the New Zealand Album Chart,[6] reached number 2 in Australia[5] and number 4 in the UK.[24] "Locked Out" was the album's first US single and received airplay on MTV andVH1. This track and "My Sharona" bythe Knack, which were both included on the soundtrack of the filmReality Bites, were bundled together on ajukebox single to promote the film soundtrack.[9]
Crowded House were midway through a US tour when Paul Hester quit the band on 15 April 1994.[17] He flew home to Melbourne to await the birth of his first child and indicated that he required more time with his family.[2][17]Wally Ingram, drummer for support actSheryl Crow, temporarily filled in[17] until a replacement,Peter Jones (ex-Harem Scarem,Vince Jones,Kate Ceberano's Septet) was found.[2] After the tour, theFinn Brothers released their albumFinn in November 1995. In June 1996, at a press conference to announce the release of their greatest hits albumRecurring Dream, Neil revealed that Crowded House were to disband. The June 1996 concerts in Europe and Canada were to be their final performances.[9]
Recurring Dream contained four songs from each of the band's studio albums, along with three new songs. The album debuted at number one in Australia,[5] New Zealand[6] and the UK[24] in July 1996. Early copies included a bonus CD of live material. The album's three new songs, which were released as singles, were "Instinct", "Not the Girl You Think You Are" and "Everything Is Good for You", which featured backing vocals fromPearl Jam'sEddie Vedder. Paul Hester returned to the band to play drums on the three new tracks.[31]
Worried that their goodbye had been too low-key and had disregarded their home fans, the band performed theFarewell to the World concert on the steps of theSydney Opera House on 24 November 1996, which raised funds for theSydney Children's Hospital. The concert featured the line-up of Neil Finn, Nick Seymour, Mark Hart and Paul Hester. Tim Finn and Peter Jones both made guest appearances. Support bands on the day wereCustard,Powderfinger andYou Am I. The concert had one of the largest live audiences in Australian history with the crowd being estimated at between 120,000 and 250,000 people.[9][12]Farewell to the World was released on VHS in December 1996. In 2007, a double CD and a DVD were issued to commemorate the concert's tenth anniversary. The DVD featured newly recorded audio commentary by Finn, Hart and Seymour and other new bonus material.[12]
Following the 1996 break-up of Crowded House, the members embarked upon a variety of projects. Neil Finn released two solo studio albums,Try Whistling This (1998) andOne Nil (2001), as well as two live albums,Sessions at West 54th (2000) and7 Worlds Collide (2001).7 Worlds Collide saw him performing with guest musicians includingEddie Vedder,Johnny Marr,Ed O'Brien andPhil Selway ofRadiohead, Tim Finn, Sebastian Steinberg,Lisa Germano and Betchadupa (featuring his sonLiam Finn). A double CD and DVD of the shows were released in November 2001.
Tim Finn had resumed his solo career after leaving the group in 1992 and he also worked with Neil on a secondFinn Brothers album,Everyone Is Here, which was released in 2004. Paul Hester joined The Finn Brothers on stage for three songs at their Palais Theatre show in Melbourne at the end of 2004. Nick Seymour also joined them on stage in Dublin, where he was living, in 2004. Peter Jones and Nick Seymour joined Australian groupDeadstar for their second album,Milk, in 1997. Seymour later worked as a record producer in Dublin, producing Irish groupBell X1's debut album,Neither Am I in 2000. Mark Hart rejoinedSupertramp in the late 1990s and later toured withRingo Starr & His All-Starr Band. In 2001 he released a solo album,Nada Sonata.[32]
Paul Hester worked with children's entertainersthe Wiggles, playing "Paul the Cook".[33] He also had his ownABC showHessie's Shed in Australia from late 1997.[2] He formed the band Largest Living Things,[2] which was the name rejected by Capitol Records in favour of Crowded House.[13] It was onHessie's Shed that Finn, Hester and Seymour last shared a stage, on an episode filmed as part of Finn's promotion for his solo albumTry Whistling This in 1998. Finn and Hester performed "Not the Girl You Think You Are" with Largest Living Things, before being joined by Seymour for "Sister Madly" and a version ofPaul Kelly's "Leaps and Bounds", which also featured Kelly on vocals. In late 2003, Hester hosted the seriesMusic Max's Sessions. Hester and Seymour were reunited when they both joined singer-songwriter Matt O'Donnell's Melbourne-based groupTarmac Adam.[34] The band released one album, 2003'sHandheld Torch, which was produced by Seymour.
In May 1999, Crowded House issued a compilation of unreleased songs,Afterglow, which included the track "Recurring Dream", recorded when the group were still called the Mullanes and included Craig Hooper on guitar.[2] The album's liner notes included information about the songs written by music journalistDavid Hepworth. Some limited-release versions included a second CD with songwriting commentary by Finn. The liner notes confirmed that Crowded House had no plans to reunite at that time.[2] A 2003 compilation album,Classic Masters, was released only in the US, while 2005 saw the release of the albumShe Will Have Her Way, a collection of cover versions of Crowded House, Split Enz, Tim Finn and Finn Brothers songs by Australasian female artists. The album reached the top 5 in Australia and New Zealand.[35]
On 26 March 2005, Paul Hester died by suicide in a park near his home in Melbourne. He was 46 years old. His obituary inThe Sydney Morning Herald stated that he had fought "a long battle with depression".[13] Following the news of Hester's death, Nick Seymour joined the Finn Brothers on stage at theRoyal Albert Hall in London, where the three played in memory of Hester. A snare drum with a top hat on it stood at the front of the stage as a tribute.[36] Writing in 2010, Neil Finn said that "When we lost Paul it was like someone pulled the rug out from underneath everything, a terrible jolt out of the dark blue. He was the best drummer I had ever played with and for many years, my closest friend."[37]
In 2006 Neil Finn asked Nick Seymour to play bass on his third solo album. Seymour agreed and the two joined with producer and multi-instrumentalistEthan Johns to begin recording.[17] As the recording sessions progressed it was decided that the album would be issued under the Crowded House band name rather than as a Neil Finn solo album. In January 2007, the group publicly announced their re-formation and on 23 February, after 20 days of auditions, formerBeck drummer Matt Sherrod joined Finn, Seymour and Mark Hart to complete the new lineup.[17] As Sherrod and Hart had not participated in the initial sessions, four new tracks were recorded with producerSteve Lillywhite including the album's first single "Don't Stop Now".[17]
On 17 March 2007 the band played a live show at their rehearsal studio in front of around fifty fans, friends and family. The performance was streamed live as awebcast. The two-and-a-half-hour set included some new tracks, including "Silent House" co-written by Finn with theDixie Chicks. A concert onboardThe Thekla, moored inBristol, followed on 19 March. Crowded House played at the Marquee Theatre in Tempe, Arizona on 26 April as a warm-up for their appearance at theCoachella Festival on 29 April inIndio, California. They played at the AustralianLive Earth concert in Sydney on 7 July. The next day, Finn and Seymour were interviewed onRove Live and the band, with Hart and Sherrod, performed "Don't Stop Now" to promote the new album, which was titledTime on Earth. The single was a minor hit in Australia[5] and the UK.[24] The album was released worldwide in June and July. It topped the album chart in New Zealand[6] and made number 2 in Australia[5] and number 3 in the UK.[24]
On 6 December 2008, Crowded House played theHomebake festival in Sydney, with warm up gigs at small venues in Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney. For these shows the band were augmented by multi-instrumentalistDon McGlashan and Neil's younger son, Elroy Finn, on guitar. On 14 March 2009 the band joined Neil's older son, Liam Finn, on stage for three songs at theSound Relief concert in Melbourne.
Crowded House began recording their follow-up toTime on Earth in April 2009, at Finn's ownRoundhead Studios. The album,Intriguer, was produced byJim Scott who had worked onThe Sun Came Out by Neil's 7 Worlds Collide project. In August 2009, Finn travelled to Los Angeles to record some overdubs at Jim Scott's Los Angeles studio before they began mixing tracks. The album was released in June 2010, in time for the band's appearance at theWest Coast Blues & Roots Festival nearPerth. Finn stated that the album contains some, "Unexpected twists and turns" and some songs that, "Sound like nothing we've done before."[38]Intriguer topped the Australian album chart,[5] reached number 3 in New Zealand[6] and number 12 in the UK.[24]
Crowded House undertook an extensive world tour in 2010 in support ofIntriguer. This was the first album where the band regularly interacted with fans via the internet on their own re-launched website. The band sold recordings of the shows on theIntriguer tour onUSB flash drives and made individual live tracks available for free download.
A new compilation album,The Very Very Best of Crowded House, was released in October 2010 to celebrate the band's 25th anniversary.[39] It includes 19 of the band's greatest hits and is also available in a box set with a 25 track DVD of their music videos. A deluxe digital version, available for download only, has 32 tracks including a rare 1987 live recording of the band's version of theHunters & Collectors song "Throw Your Arms Around Me". No mention of this album has been made on the band's official website or Twitter page, which suggests that they are not involved with its release.
Following the success of the albumShe Will Have Her Way in 2005, a second album of cover versions of Finn Brothers songs (including Crowded House songs) was released on 12 November 2010. EntitledHe Will Have His Way, all tracks are performed by Australasian male artists.[40]
In November 2011 an Australian tour featured artists involved with the "She Will Have Her Way" and "He Will Have His Way" projects, includingPaul Dempsey,Clare Bowditch,Seeker Lover Keeper (Sarah Blasko,Sally Seltmann andHolly Throsby), Alexander Gow (Oh Mercy) andLior.[41] The band played what would be their last concert for over five years at the A Day on the Green festival in Auckland on 27 February 2011.[42]
Former Crowded House drummerPeter Jones died from brain cancer on 18 May 2012, aged 49. A statement issued by the band described him as "A warm-hearted, funny and talented man, who was a valuable member of Crowded House."[43]
In September 2015 the song "Help is Coming", from theAfterglow album, was released as a download and limited edition 7" single to raise money for theSave the Children charity. The B-side, "Anthem", was a previously unreleased track, recorded at the same demo session as "Help is Coming" in 1995, with vocals added in 2015.Peter Jones plays drums on both songs. The money was used to provide shelter, water, sanitation and hygiene for refugees in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. Neil Finn said of "Help Is Coming" that "It was always a song about refugees, even if at the time I was thinking about the immigrants setting off on ships from Europe to America, looking for a better life for their families. There is such a huge scale and urgency to the current refugee crises that barely a day goes by without some crushing image or news account to confront us. We can't be silent any more."[44]
Neil Finn confirmed in a 2016 interview with the Dutch newspaperVolkskrant that Crowded House had been on indefinite hiatus since the end of theIntriguer tour.[45] Later that year, however, he and Seymour announced a series of concerts at the Sydney Opera House to mark the 20th anniversary of theFarewell to the World show (24 November 1996). The band, with the same lineup as its initial reunion andTim Finn as guest, performed four shows between 24 and 27 November 2016.[46] Around the same time, each of the band's 7 studio albums (including the rarities collectionAfterglow) was reissued in deluxe 2-CD format with bonus tracks including demos, live recordings, alternate mixes, b-sides and outtakes.
In April 2018, Neil Finn joinedFleetwood Mac, along withMike Campbell ofTom Petty and the Heartbreakers, as a full-time member in the wake ofLindsey Buckingham's departure from the band.[47]
In August 2019, Crowded House announced a reunion show at the 2020Byron Bay Bluesfest.[48] Shortly afterwards, Mark Hart announced that he would not be involved in the group's reunion.[49] Finn confirmed Hart's departure on his podcast Fangradio, noting that he "love[s] Hart dearly as a friend, as a contributor and a collaborator" and that "all will be revealed... trust that good thought and good heart gets put into all of these decisions."[50] In December 2019, Neil Finn announced that the new Crowded House line-up would consist of himself, Seymour, the band's original producerMitchell Froom and his sonsLiam and Elroy. He added that they were making a new studio album, the first since 2010'sIntriguer. Due to theCOVID-19 pandemic, the band's planned 2020 concerts have had to be rescheduled to 2021, and later again to 2022.
On 15 October 2020, the band released "Whatever You Want", the first single from the band in over a decade. The band also shared an accompanying music video, starringMac DeMarco.[51]
On 17 February 2021, the band shared another single, "To the Island."[52] The track serves as the second single to the band's seventh studio album,Dreamers Are Waiting, which was announced on the same day for release on 4 June 2021.[53] The band supported the single with a national tour of New Zealand in March 2021.[54]
On 19 August 2021, the band performed their single "To the Island" onCBS'sThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert. On 2 December 2021, the band announced that it will be touring Australia in 2022, with 6 shows around the country, including the 2022 Bluesfest lineup.[55] On 24 June 2022, the band played atGlastonbury Festival.[56][57] In May 2023, Crowded House tour North America for the promotion of the albumDreamers Are Waiting.
In February 2024, Crowded House released "Oh Hi" from their eighth albumGravity Stairs, which in turn was released on 31 May 2024.[58]
Crowded House would later announce a North American tour for the album and release "Teenage Summer" as the second single,[59] before later adding both a tour of Europe in October and a New Zealand and Australian tour beginning in November.[60][61]
As the primary songwriter for the band, Neil Finn has always set the tone for the band's sound.AllMusic said that Finn "has consistently proven his knack for crafting high-quality songs that combine irresistible melodies with meticulous lyrical detail."[62] Neil's brother Tim was an early and important musical influence. Neil first saw Tim play with Split Enz in 1972, and said "that performance and those first songs made a lasting impression on me."[63] His mother was another significant musical influence, encouraging him to listen to a variety of genres, includingIrish folk music andMāori music. She would play piano at family parties and encourage Neil and Tim to accompany her.
Bassist Nick Seymour, who is also an artist, designed or co-designed all of the band's album covers and interior artwork. He also designed some of the costumes worn by the group, notably those from the cover of the group's debut albumCrowded House. Seymour collaborated with Finn and Hester on the set design of some of their early music videos, including "Don't Dream It's Over" and "Better Be Home Soon". Since the band reunited, Seymour has again designed their album covers.[3]
The majority of the covers for the band's singles were not designed by Seymour. The artwork for "Pineapple Head" was created byReg Mombassa ofMental As Anything. For the first four albums Mombassa andNoel Crombie, who had been the main designer of Split Enz's artwork, assisted Seymour in creating sets and costumes. For theFarewell to the World concerts Crombie designed the set, while Mombassa and Seymour designed promotional materials and artwork.[64]
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| Paul Taylor | 2021–present |
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Crowded House have won several national and international awards. In Australia, the group have won 13ARIA Awards from 36 nominations, including the inauguralBest New Talent in1987.[20] The majority of their wins were for their first two albums,Crowded House andTemple of Low Men.[20] They won eightAPRA Awards from eleven nominations and were nominated for the New Zealand Silver Scroll for "Don't Stop Now" in 2007.[65] "Don't Dream It's Over" was named the seventh best Australian song of all time in 2001.[23]
In 1987, Crowded House won the AmericanMTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist for their song "Don't Dream It's Over", which was also nominated for three other awards.[21] In 1994, the group was named International Group of the Year at theBRIT Awards.[66] In 2009, "Don't Dream It's Over" was ranked number fifty on theTriple J Hottest 100 of All Time as voted by the Australian public.[67]
In November 2016, 20 years after their formation, Crowded House were inducted into theARIA Hall of Fame.
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