Name: Anthology: North South East West
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Album: Anthology: North South East West
#	Song Title	Time
1)	I See Red
2)	My Mistake
3)	Poor Boy
4)	Six Months in a Leaky Boat
5)	I Hope I Never
6)	Dirty Creature
7)	Maybe
8)	Stuff and Nonsense
9)	Fraction Too Much Friction
10)	Made My Day
11)	So Deep
12)	How'm I Gonna Sleep?
13)	Not Even Close
14)	Many's The Time
15)	Persuasion
16)	Into The Water
17)	Nothing Unusual
1)	Weather With You - (featuring Liam Finn/Neil Finn)
2)	How Will You Go
3)	It's Only Natural
4)	Underwater Mountain
5)	Dead Man
6)	What You've Done
7)	Subway Dreaming
8)	Angels Heap
9)	Disembodied Voices
10)	Luckiest Man Alive
11)	Winter Light
12)	Couldn't Be Done
13)	Astounding Moon
14)	Straw to Gold
15)	Out Of This World
16)	Saw And The Tree, The
17)	Light Years Away
18)	[Untitled]

Album: Anthology: North South East West
#	Song Title	Time
1)	I See Red
2)	My Mistake
3)	Poor Boy
4)	Six Months in a Leaky Boat
5)	I Hope I Never
6)	Dirty Creature
7)	Maybe
8)	Stuff and Nonsense
9)	Fraction Too Much Friction
10)	Made My Day
11)	So Deep
12)	How'm I Gonna Sleep?
13)	Not Even Close
14)	Many's The Time
15)	Persuasion
16)	Into The Water
17)	Nothing Unusual
1)	Weather With You - (featuring Liam Finn/Neil Finn)
2)	How Will You Go
3)	It's Only Natural
4)	Underwater Mountain
5)	Dead Man
6)	What You've Done
7)	Subway Dreaming
8)	Angels Heap
9)	Disembodied Voices
10)	Luckiest Man Alive
11)	Winter Light
12)	Couldn't Be Done
13)	Astounding Moon
14)	Straw to Gold
15)	Out Of This World
16)	Saw And The Tree, The
17)	Light Years Away
18)	[Untitled]

Performer Notes

Liner Note Author: Matt Cameron.
Recording information: Brighton Boulevard Studios, Sydney; Electric Avenue; Roundhead Studios, Auckland, New Zealand; Sing Sing Studios, Melbourne.
The first-ever Tim Finn compilation Anthology: North South East West bears the subtitle "A Journey Through the Years of Split Enz, Crowded House, The Finn Brothers, and Solo" and it does indeed touch upon every phase of his career in its generous 34 tracks spilled over two discs. "Touching upon" isn't quite the same thing as exploring, and this does lop off the earliest chapters of Enz, takes a roundabout through the Crowded House years substituting pleasant re-recordings for the original versions, and misses several mid-`80s singles entirely. It's also not a linear journey: it generally groups phases together, but it leaps from year to year, which would be more disconcerting if Finn didn't spend so much time cutting new versions of old songs (a whopping five classics are revisited), weaving these new versions and three new tunes into the overall fabric of the compilation. All this lends The Anthology a bit of a relaxed, ruminative feel, painting Finn as a songwriter troubadour, and while this approach is not entirely accurate -- it winds up downplaying the progressive pop of the `70s and the new wave leanings of the `80s -- it's not without its charms, as it does make a case that Finn has been consistently delivering fine songs for over 30 years. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine