Something So Strong
The fifth single from the debut, an American top ten hit and the title of the band's biography.
Crowded House, from Crowded House (1987)
- Written by
- Neil Finn, Mitchell Froom
- Released
- April 1987
- Length
- 2:51
- Album
- Crowded House
Chris Bourke writes that it was the first song Finn wrote specifically for Crowded House. Froom and Finn reworked parts of it, which is why Froom shares the writing credit. It came out in April 1987 as the album's fifth and last single. It reached number 18 in Australia on the Australian Music Report, number three in New Zealand and number seven on the US Billboard Hot 100. The video has the band playing in a barn with a classic American car parked outside. Bourke's 1997 history of the band, Crowded House: Something So Strong, takes its name from it.
The B-side on the standard 7-inch was I Walk Away, and the UK 12-inch carried a live recording made at the Trocadero in Philadelphia on 24 March 1987 for the King Biscuit Flower Hour. In May 2020 the band put out a lockdown performance of the song, and it appeared on the 2011 Flood Relief compilation for victims of the Queensland floods.
On stage
- 1987-03-24, The Trocadero, Philadelphia Recorded for the King Biscuit Flower Hour and issued on the UK 12-inch single.
More songs by Crowded House
Don't Dream It's Over, Fall at Your Feet, Chocolate Cake, Weather with You, Four Seasons in One Day, Better Be Home Soon, Distant Sun
Sources
- Something So Strong, Wikipedia
- Crowded House (album), Wikipedia
- Crowded House lockdown performance of Something So Strong, Rolling Stone Australia (2020-05)