Crowded House discography
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{{Use British English|date=March 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2022}}
{{Infobox artist discography
|Artist = Crowded House
|Image = CrowdedHouse-HydePark.jpg
|Caption = Crowded House performing at Hyde Park in 2007.
|Studio = 8
|Singles = 36
|EP = 1
|Compilation = 7
|Live = 6
|Video = 7
|Tribute = 1
|Soundtrack = 1
}}
This is a discography for the rock band Crowded House. As of 2024 Crowded House have sold over 15 million albums worldwide.
Albums
=Studio albums=
=Live albums=
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2006
!scope="row"|Farewell to the World
|style="text-align:center;"| 43 |style="text-align:center;"| 120 | |
2007
!scope="row"|Live On Earth{{anchor|ref_A}}[A]
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2011
!scope="row"|North America Travelogue 2010{{anchor|ref_B}}[B]
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2011
!scope="row"|Intriguer Live – Start to Finish{{anchor|ref_C}}[C]
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2020
!scope="row"|Live 92–94: Part 1
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2021
!scope="row"|Live 92–94: Part 2
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colspan="15" style="font-size:90%" style="text-align:center;" | "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
:Notes:
- A {{anchor|endnote_A}}^ Live On Earth was recorded and released in five cities across the United Kingdom. The five albums received a limited release in the United Kingdom
- B {{anchor|endnote_B}}^ North America Travelogue 2010 received a limited release in April 2011 for Record Store Day.
- C {{anchor|endnote_C}}^ Intriguer Live – Start to Finish received a limited release in November 2011 for Black Friday Record Store Day.
In addition the above, KUFALA Recordings released numerous limited edition Crowded House recordings on CDr, recorded across USA and Canada in 2007 and 2010.
=Compilation albums=
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1996
!scope="row"|Recurring Dream: The Very Best of Crowded House
|style="text-align:center;"| 1 |style="text-align:center;"| 4 |style="text-align:center;"| 12 |style="text-align:center;"| 57 |style="text-align:center;"| 52 |style="text-align:center;"| 10 |style="text-align:center;"| 5 |style="text-align:center;"| 1 |style="text-align:center;"| 17 |style="text-align:center;"| 1 |
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1999
!scope="row"|Afterglow
|style="text-align:center;"| 36 |style="text-align:center;"| — |style="text-align:center;"| 98 |style="text-align:center;"| — |style="text-align:center;"| 23 |style="text-align:center;"| — |style="text-align:center;"| — |style="text-align:center;"| 30 |style="text-align:center;"| — |style="text-align:center;"| 18 | |
2003
!scope="row"|Classic Masters
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2003
!scope="row"|The Essential / Essential
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2007
!scope="row"|Platinum Crowded House
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2010
!scope="row"|The Very Very Best of Crowded House
|style="text-align:center;"| 5 |style="text-align:center;"| — |style="text-align:center;"| — |style="text-align:center;"| — |style="text-align:center;"| — |style="text-align:center;"| — |style="text-align:center;"| — |style="text-align:center;"| 12 |style="text-align:center;"| — |style="text-align:center;"| 49 | |
2012
!scope="row"|All the Best / Gold
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colspan="15" style="font-size:90%" style="text-align:center;" | "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
=Limited live / self-released albums=
Between 1996 and 2002, Crowded House self-released limited number of live albums.{{cite web|url= https://www.allmusic.com/artist/crowded-house-mn0000130173/discography/compilations |title=Crowded House Discography|website=AllMusic |access-date= 19 October 2023}}
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|+ List of limited, live, self released albums |
1996
!scope="row"|Marcia, Marcia, Marcia! Live, Los Angeles 06/04/89
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1996
!scope="row"|Bent in Gent 18/10/91
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1996
!scope="row"|Newcastle Jam
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1996
!scope="row"|Paul Is Dead
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1997
!scope="row"|Live on the Roof Top
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1997
!scope="row"|State of Mind
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1997
!scope="row"|Detroit Rock City
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1997
!scope="row"|Nick's Birthday Party
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1997
!scope="row"|In the Raw
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1997
!scope="row"|Graduation (Leeds University)
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1997
!scope="row"|Hometown
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1997
! scope="row"|Nick the Stripper
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1997
!scope="row"|One Night Stand
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1997
!scope="row"|Foreplay
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1997
!scope="row"|Dutch Treat
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1997
!scope="row"|Manchester Split
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1997
!scope="row"|Worst Kept Secret
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1997
!scope="row"|Spooky Vibrations
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1998
!scope="row"|Homebrew
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1998
!scope="row"|Exit Stage Left
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1999
!scope="row"|Back On the Bus
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1999
!scope="row"|Live At CBGB
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1999
!scope="row"|Acoustically Live
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2000
!scope="row"|Ghost Cars
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2002
!scope="row"|Taxi
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2002
!scope="row"|Buffalo '91
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2002
!scope="row"|Live in Berlin
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2002
!scope="row"|Live At the Warfield
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=Video albums=
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1987
!scope="row"|Spring Break '87
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1992
!scope="row"|I Like to Watch
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1996
!scope="row"|Farewell to the World{{anchor|ref_#}}[#]
|style="text-align:center;"| 1 | |
2002
!scope="row"|Dreaming: The Videos
|style="text-align:center;"| 1 | |
2003
!scope="row"|Live at the Corner
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2007
!scope="row"|Woodface (The Story Behind The Album)
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:Notes:
- # {{anchor|endnote_#}}^ Farewell to the World was released on VHS and re-released on DVD in 2006.
Singles
:Notes:
- D {{anchor|endnote_D}}^ "Now We're Getting Somewhere" was released in New Zealand after "Don't Dream It's Over" and "Something So Strong" in 1987.
- E {{anchor|endnote_E}}^ "Never Be the Same" charted on US Mainstream Rock Tracks due to radio airplay; it was not released as a proper single in the US.
- F {{anchor|endnote_F}}^ "To the Island" (Tame Impala Remix) did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, but peaked at number 36 on the NZ Hot Singles Chart.{{cite web|url=https://aotearoamusiccharts.co.nz/archive/hot-singles/2021-05-28|title=NZ Hot Singles Chart|publisher=Recorded Music NZ|date=31 May 2021|access-date=29 May 2021}}
- G {{anchor|endnote_G}}^ "The Howl" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, but peaked at number 32 on the NZ Hot Singles Chart.{{cite web|url=https://aotearoamusiccharts.co.nz/archive/hot-singles/2024-06-07|title=NZ Hot Singles Chart|publisher=Recorded Music NZ|date=10 June 2024|access-date=7 June 2024}}
Other charted songs
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2015
! scope="row"| "Help Is Coming" | — | 88
| Afterglow |
2024
! scope="row"| "Magic Piano" | 40 | —
| Gravity Stairs |
Other appearances
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scope="row"| "Many Rivers to Cross" (live) (with Jimmy Barnes)
| 1989 | "Last Frontier" (single) |
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scope="row"| "Tall Trees" (live)
| 1992 | Triple J - Live at The Wireless Volume 2 |
scope="row"| "Fall At Your Feet" & "It's Only Natural (unplugged)
| rowspan=2| 1993 | Triple M Cordless |
scope="row"| "Christmas Message"
| Santa Claus, Schmanta Claus (Kevin and Bean) |
scope="row"| "World Where You Live" (live)
| 1994 | KFOG 104.5 "Live from the Archives" |
scope="row"| "Hope Is Coming"
| rowspan=2| 1999 | Liberdade - Viva East Timor |
scope="row"| "Mr. Tambourine Man" (with Roger McGuinn) (live), "Eight Miles High" (with Roger McGuinn) (live), "Throw Your Arms Around Me") (live), "One Step Ahead" (live), "History Never Repeats" (with Pearl Jam) (live) | Other Enz: Split Enz & Beyond |
scope="row"| "It's Only Natural"
| 2000 | Top of the Pops 2 |
scope="row"| "My Legs Are Gone"
| 2001 | I Like It Rare |
scope="row"| "Weather with You" (acoustic)
| 2006 |
scope="row"| "Better Be Home Soon" (live)
| 2007 | Live Earth: The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis |
scope="row"| "Everybody's Talkin'" (Like a Version)
| 2008 |
scope="row"| "Don’t Dream It’s Over" (live)
| 2020 |
Crowded House song covers
- In 1991, Antonello Venditti re-arranged the song "Don't Dream It's Over", writing new lyrics instead of translating the original song, and naming it "Alta Marea", on the album Benvenuti in Paradiso.
- In 1991, British performer Paul Young covered "Don't Dream It's Over" as a duet with Paul Carrack.
- In 1996, Belinda Carlisle covered "She Goes On" as "He Goes On" on her album A Woman and a Man.
- In 1997, British punk band China Drum covered "Fall at Your Feet" on their album Fiction of Life 2.
- In 1999, Australian Aboriginal singer Jimmy Little recorded a cover version of "Into Temptation" for a rock-indie covers album entitled Messenger.
- In 2000, Nuevo Flamenco musician Jesse Cook closed the album Free Fall with a cover of "Fall at Your Feet".
- In 2000, Belgian band Clouseau released a single of their cover of "Weather with You".
- In 2002, Sixpence None the Richer covered "Don't Dream It's Over" for their 2002 album Divine Discontent.
- In 2004, Busted performed a cover version of "Fall at Your Feet" as a B-side to the single "Who's David?"
- In 2005, She Will Have Her Way, a cover album by a variety of female artists, was released featuring versions of Neil and Tim Finn songs from Crowded House, Split Enz, and the brothers' solo careers. A limited edition has a second disc which contains the original versions of the tracks. The Crowded House tracks included are:
- "Better Be Home Soon" by Kasey Chambers
- "Distant Sun" by Brooke Fraser
- "Don't Dream It's Over" by Sarah Blasko
- "Fall at Your Feet" by Clare Bowditch
- "Four Seasons" by New Buffalo (originally "Four Seasons in One Day")
- "Into Temptation" by Renée Geyer
- "Not the Girl You Think You Are" by Holly Throsby
- "Pineapple Head" by Natalie Imbruglia
- In 2005, James Blunt performed a cover version of "Fall at Your Feet" as a B-side to the single "You're Beautiful".
- In 2005, Howie Day performed a cover of "Don't Dream It's Over" for his live album Live From....
- In 2005, Patrizio Buanne covered the song "Alta Marea" by Antonello Venditti, which is a re-arrangement of the song "Don't Dream It's Over" with different lyrics, for his debut album The Italian.
- In 2006, Jimmy Buffett covered "Weather with You" for his album, Take the Weather with You.
- In 2006, Teddy Thompson covered "Don't Dream it's Over" for the compilation album, Q Covered: The Eighties.
- In 2008, Melbourne band The Resignators covered "Now We're Getting Somewhere" on their album Time Decays.
Covers performed by Crowded House
Crowded House themselves frequently perform a version of the Hunters and Collectors' "Throw Your Arms Around Me" and Paul Kelly's "Leaps and Bounds" during their live sets (including at the ARIA Music Awards of 1997 ceremony, inducting Kelly into the Hall of Fame). Their version of The Zombies' "She's Not There" was used on the soundtrack of The Crossing, a 1990 film starring Russell Crowe.{{cite web|url=http://www.beyond.com.au/pdfs/crossing.pdf |title=The Crossing Press kit |publisher=Beyond Films |year=1990 |accessdate=2008-03-22 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070901014015/http://beyond.com.au/pdfs/crossing.pdf |archivedate=1 September 2007 }} In addition to these, the group often would perform The Beatles' "Rocky Raccoon", among many other Beatles songs. The group would also often perform Irish folk traditional piece "The Parting Glass". As the group rose from the ashes of Split Enz, they often performed various Split Enz songs, in particular "This Is Massive" because it was written by Paul Hester for Split Enz's last album, the only studio album he performed on.
References
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