Got to respect Letterman for always having real musicians on his show...

The talent from these 2 New Zealand brothers is astounding. Split Enz and Crowded House made such good music

@scottweston4370

Жыл бұрын

Couple of Aussies too... And we take credit for the Finns too! 🤣

@neilhobson3624

2 ай бұрын

It’s mad. I liked Split Enz , Crowded House and the Finn Brothers over the years and didn’t even realize that they were the same people.

*Only* Crowded House could have pulled off such a sublime performance!

I saw this when it initially aired...people need to just have a sense of humor about this song...great performance! RIP Paul Hester...you were one of a kind....we miss you!

@Schimechlyn

4 жыл бұрын

Same here, and I loved it. Didn't know they had a new album and immediately went out and bought it.

This song should have ranked higher on the charts. Such fun!

This is the first time I've really heard Paul Schaffer really let loose on the keys. wow.

@shawnuel

4 жыл бұрын

Jason Harrod Paul is absolutely NO JOKE!

Man Will Lee is killing that bassline...superb!

@jeffwolinski2659

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!!

@michaelcottle6270

8 ай бұрын

He doesn't play like Seymour - Nick's got a really melodic & innovative style that's hard to replicate.

I love the Finn brothers and Crowed House and Split Enz! Lighten up and have another piece of chocolate cake and have a laugh! They have put out some great songs.

Paul Shaffer and Will Lee are incomparable.

1:48 “Here comes Mrs. hairy legs.” Paul Shaffer’s keyboard solo!

Absolutely brilliant talks about the greedy people in society!! Like Rupert Murdoch & James Packer who want more !!!

I am a Midwestern American and I used to play this song for my kids while warning them of the excesses of our USA lifestyle. We would take road-trips up north and sing along LOFA off as we sank like a stone...

I stayed 3 months in California in summer 1991 and this was the first time I heard Crowded House. Loved the line "the excess of fat on your American bones will cushion the impact as you sink like a stone" :)

One of the best bands ever: seen them on the Royal Court in Liverpool many years ago, they where great and the memory will stay with me and my wife forever. Love to all who played with the band. Kev&Jude

@justmadeit2

9 жыл бұрын

+Kev Brown I was there at one of the Liverpool shows in the 1990s, 20th June 1992 ! Great music playlist on my channel if anyone wants to check it out after :)

@peterkirgan2921

2 ай бұрын

My drum teacher was Malcolm Green formally Split enz!!!😮

I remember those costumes from when I saw them twice in Australia, Aug 1991. Byron Bay and Tweed Heads. The Byron Bay show, in particular, was amazing.

I love the Finn Brothers

OMG. This is AWESOME!! What a find. Thanks so much for posting.

I wonder what the Yanks made of this song back then (I love it), it pays out American excess, albeit in a light hearted way RIP Paul Hestor. :(.

@baantalingngam

9 жыл бұрын

Hester

@b1akjak

9 жыл бұрын

Yeah sorry spelling has never been one of strongest abilities.

@JonnyContagious

9 жыл бұрын

I think it did for them with regards to their career in the States. They always operated on the periphery of wide acclaim over there and after this song, and this wonderfully spirited performance, the Americans would never fully take them to their heart. Who cares, right? In New Zealand, Australia and here in the UK they were universally adored. Still one of my favourite tracks.

@b1akjak

9 жыл бұрын

Yep, always loved Split Enz Mark II. :)

@harrodsongs

8 жыл бұрын

+JonnyContagious Unfortunately I don't think enough Americans heard this song for it to affect their perception of CH one way or the other. The charts were full of dance/pop like Madonna and Janet Jackson. CH was played mainly on college and indie radio. Too bad. "Woodface" is an amazing record.

What a great band, fantastic song !

Absolutely fabulous !!!great version with Paul doing the harmonica lead on keyboards... thanks Dave...

CH taking the piss out of American culture. Priceless.

Loved this song as did most of my friends. We were all big Split Enz, CH, Finn fans (and United States-ian)

What a performance. National Treasures

My brother stole woodface off me when he was four and it was the only thing he listened to for ages. Even now it's still the only CD he ever wants to play, good taste bro 😉

@jeanetteeastman1638

3 жыл бұрын

Now Neil has a 4 year old Grandson, Buddy! He's already jamming with Dad Liam and "Pop" Neil!

Love them.

I remember seeing this and LOVING it!!! Great stuff

Great performance!

OMG! This is so awesome!!!

i still believe that this song is why Crowded House didn't make it popular in the States, sad but true. they are spot on, as far as i'm concerned. i went to a local record store last weekend looking for some CH or Split Enz and the manager said, "we don't keep those albums in stock because they don't sell", so i asked, "well you have Hall and Oates vinyl", to which the manager said, "THEY sell!" UGH!! pissed me off because CH's "Chocolate Cake" speaks of much of America's eating it all up

@cascade3769

24 күн бұрын

Having a single making it to number 2 in the U.S is more than most bands can dream of.

I was born in 1991 that is the year my mom graduated from high school I love myself I love there music even "Don't Dream Its Over" classic song from the 80's.

The Finn Bros are on fire on this one !

I LOVE it!!! LOL

These guys were/are sooo good.

Artie Fuffkin really ROCKED that organ. The Brothers Finn, Fabulous as ever.

@carlkermode899

5 ай бұрын

To this day I never knew that was the same guy who was in TIST. Every day is a school day.

Neil Finn - straight up Peter Griffin here.

@c.mckenna1234

5 жыл бұрын

oh NOOOOOO *hides face*

❤❤

Great song.....Great performance....AND....Great fun watching CH plum dumb having FUN!! Cheers All

@harveylee51

8 жыл бұрын

+The Stuport much better than that creepy vid that use to air I hope those trousers they're referring to hold up !! enjoy the day!!

Paul kicked arse on this.

The Finn brothers are the best!¡ I've met them through my old drum teacher ĥe was an original before Noel Crombie took over Lol I had 2 tutor's?? Gary Haines & Malcolm Green!!😅😅😅

To me this song is Split Enz again

@Mirrorgirl492

7 жыл бұрын

Definitely the Split Enz of the spectrum, was thinking that last night watching them rip up the steps of the Sydney Opera House

@brucelamberton8819

7 жыл бұрын

If you mean when they did their "farewell" concert in 1996 I was there :)

@liannejenkins5074

5 жыл бұрын

@@Mirrorgirl492 you're so wrong, aren't you?

@Mirrorgirl492

5 жыл бұрын

@@liannejenkins5074 About what?

@liannejenkins5074

5 жыл бұрын

@@Mirrorgirl492 about everything

After Trump's asinine "most beautiful piece of chocolate cake you ever saw" statement the other day, I had to post this to my FB. Thank you so much for uploading one of my favourite CH songs & a stellar performance :)

Finn brothers pure talent

Whoever greenlit this song as the first single off Woodface made a colossal error. Insulting America to their face was never going to regain the ground lost by Temple of Low Men. Woodface is a spectacular album packed full of great singles - Chocolate Cake is probably the 5th or 6th best song, maybe even lower. If America had bought Woodface in the quantities it deserved they wouldn't have had to push so hard on Together Alone & Paul Hester might have stayed in the band. This one decision probably robbed the world of at least two peak era Crowded House Albums. A real "Sliding Doors" moment

Dig it!

great keys by schaeffer

I read that some people in the US didn't like, or at least, were confused by this song and whether it was attacking the US or not, and that this contributed to lower airplay and ultimately to Woodface being a financial failure

@JonnyCrabb

7 жыл бұрын

AikidoSensei I'm not surprised by that at all.

@Schimechlyn

4 жыл бұрын

Must've been alot of truth in the lyrics or they wouldn't have been offended.

must have been so much fun to sing the fat on bones line ON LETTERMAN TO HALF OF AMERICA.

I used to have that Crowded House tape.

@liannejenkins5074

5 жыл бұрын

I bet you never

@peterkirgan2921

3 жыл бұрын

I still have got it it's the woodface album

This is soooo funny.😂😂😂😂😂

This was an excellent live rendition by DA HOUSE...but lol at that guy with the blond mullet.

Excellent.... lol

Seriously, they should of worn fat suits. That would have been great.

@liannejenkins5074

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they'd be as fat as you

@rabbi7933

3 жыл бұрын

@@liannejenkins5074 did this or you age well? Now you’re older and fatter.

It's not my fave Crowded House song, but it does manage to stray the line of comedy/novelty and biting wit rather well.

@liannejenkins5074

5 жыл бұрын

Don't bother watching it then

@flipwright1138

2 жыл бұрын

Great song.

wow! Is that Will Lee on Bass?

Their trousers giving me Wiggles vibes

@peterkirgan2921

3 жыл бұрын

My friend Jimmy always wore purple skivvies! If we were @ a party or bar I'd say wake up Jim!!!!! Lol

@simfaithguitar1

3 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing.

Don't get cooler than that.

Magic band ❤

yeah, there's no excess in new zealand. brilliant comments below.

Oddly prophetic considering 2007....

Concidering the subject matter, l wonder how this song went down in the U.S.A. A bit close to the bone isn't? Albeit true.

The same thing happened when EMF were on the show, there was session musicians doing a lot of the work, why is that? I don't get why the bassist is playing guitar and some random is playing the bass?

@jeffwolinski2659

2 жыл бұрын

This pretty much was the standard for musical guests on Letterman, they integrated with the house band.

Why are musicians always good looking?

Pity they've been forced to rely on Letterman's house band for most of the accompaniment.

@liannejenkins5074

5 жыл бұрын

No they don't you're very wrong about that aren't you?

They had no qualms about taking American money though did they?

@champ10ns08

3 жыл бұрын

Heck, no!

The big difference between these two brothers is,Tim thinks he's a superstar where as Neil is a superstar

Errr is that a different bass player ? And is the original bass player playing acoustic guitar. I thought Neil Finn also played guitar

@johnpomp972

6 жыл бұрын

It's Will Lee on bass. He was the house bass player on the Letterman show. That is Nick Seymour playing guitar and yes, Neil usually plays guitar Looks like they were just having fun and making us of the talents of Paul Shaffer and the Letterman house band.

@loveiseternity

5 жыл бұрын

The music union meant they had to use letterman’s band or something I recall

@eronifitiao6660

9 ай бұрын

Who’s playing the electric guitar?

What the hell happened at 2:44?

Bold move singing "the excess of fat on your American bones will cushion the impact when you fall like a stone..." to an American audience. Apparently, this song lost Crowded House the American Audience.

Trump love his chocolate mud cake

Extremely good live version. Wonder if any Republican Americans in the audience were offended? ... Tim looks like he's got some real beef on his shoulders here... I always thought he was skinny - but NOT here.

Never realized how odd this song is. Weird choice for a single very dated now. 😀

@liannejenkins5074

5 жыл бұрын

Don't listen to it then

@stuartcarswell2815

5 жыл бұрын

It's genius... A deserved and clever poke at bloated American capitalism

@nickdryad

4 жыл бұрын

That was the record company position too. Crowded a House stood their ground. It really summed up the 80’s manifesto of ‘Greed is Good’ and History has shown that it was on the money. Is it dated? I don’t think so. Look at the America now. Not much has changed. So much fakeness now.

@kimberlyarlene4094

10 ай бұрын

Terrible choice. People were very patriotic in 1991. Everyone had a yellow ribbon. Wrong single for the time.

this song would be banned in PC 2018

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awesome. digging the trippy karaoke vibe. paul hester... the man was a showman. May he rest in peace with some bizarre bongo drums buried next to him. I can't say the same for that guy's blonde mullet. I hope it is in hell.(not the bassplayer - just his hairstyle obv.) hmmm...

Surely, only a fat american could take offence at this? And only then if they didn't have a sense of humour!! Anyway, I don't think Neil Finn is terribly bothered about his status as the world's greatest diplomat being under threat... The New Zealand government nominated him (and Tim), for an OBE for services to music in New Zealand in 1993. He commented that apparently there hadn't been a music industry in New Zealand before he came along. The suggestion being that his government was getting on the bandwagon.

@burnlastsunday

6 жыл бұрын

New Zealand had the Verlaines, the Chills, the 3D's...others. Music scene there was just fine.

@spencermccullum1

4 жыл бұрын

You're wrong... He said the NZ Government WAS UNAWARE of the NZ music industry... He was not self promoting.. Pls check out his words accurately

Were they serious with that look? Being ironic... Taking the piss?

@danmccarthy4700

7 жыл бұрын

Seriously? Look up some of the Split Enz videos from the late 1970s when Neil had just joined them. This is really, really tame in comparison.

@johnpollock3246

6 жыл бұрын

Nothing like the way Neil and Tim dressed when Split Enz were going in the 1970s. They wore make up then.

@erikhertzer8434

6 жыл бұрын

Tim doing a Tom Jones impersonation with that get up

@Schimechlyn

4 жыл бұрын

They were wearing the same garb (leisure suits) as on the album cover. This song is from the point of view of lounge lizards, which their decor' mocks perfectly.

This is weird af.

Weird shit man

The performance that ruined and ended their career

@daynatg6824

3 жыл бұрын

What an utterly ridiculous and completely untrue statement. 🙄

Tim Finn really didn’t fit the vibe of the band

Most awkward brothers dancing ever.