CROWDED HOUSE - MAGIC PIANO (OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO) 

I think that they are underrated. A great band, i love them

Chords Verse Em, B7/F#, B, A, D (3x) Little bridge A/E, E sus4-E Am//E (and an F if you can lol), E sus4-E Chorus E Major7, F#m7, A Major7, E Major7 (2x) Bridge E Major7, F#m7, F#7, B7

Best song on a great new album

Limitless well of talent... aka Neil Finn...

I know it's not a particularly shocking hot-take, but, hot-take: Neil Finn is the greatest songwriter of all time!

Beautiful! 😍

Thank you boys. You're a treasure. One of my few top tier inspirational melodic song weavers. I play flute and dream of jamming with you,!

i just got my signed copy today , as a life long fan, it was such a nice thing to do , but you have always been such nice down to earth guys , for far I'm in love with magic Piano , ;ike a fine vintage wine , Neil you keep getting better

Masterpiece

So endlos wunderschön

I just saw this band on Jimmy Kimmel. What a wonderful group. I do remember them very well. Will be buying their new music

Gravity Stairs is the eighth studio album by New Zealand rock band Crowded House, released in May 2024 through Lester Records. The band produced the album with Steven Schram, with Kiwi frontman Neil Finn stating that the band wanted to maintain a "dreamy quality" on the record yet be more "lyrically direct". The recording sessions for Gravity Stairs took place in New Zealand, Australia and California. The multi-national lineup for the band on the album is Neil Finn (lead vocals, guitar, songwriting), Nick Seymour (bass, backing vocals, keyboards), Mitchell Froom (keyboards), with his Neil's son Liam Finn (guitars, drums, backing vocals) and Elroy Finn (drums, backing vocals, guitar, keyboards). The title Gravity Stairs was inspired by a heavy stone staircase near where Neil vacations. The stairs are symbolic of the struggle to climb up, to keep going, which grows in difficulty as one ages and is a metaphor for Finn’s creative process, the building-up process that ends with the completed song. Highlights include “The Howl” written by Liam which is a gorgeous song and one of the highlights of the album. It’s got a great lead vocal by Liam too with excellent backing by the band, tight work by the rhythm section and great guitar. “Thirsty,” another highlight, is a softer song with acoustic guitar and brushes on the drums. Finn’s perfectly measured lead vocal is at its centre. A dreamlike song with good backing vocals, it has a countrified feel to it. “Magic Piano” is the first song that the band worked on for the album. It’s a mellow song with an echo-laden lead vocal by Neil. It gets a bit Psychedelic trip with great backing vocals at about the three-minute mark. Despite being listed as separate songs on the album’s tracklist, “Teenage Summer” and “Life’s Imitation” are really two parts of the same song. While there is a pop sound to “Teenage Summer” and Life’s Imitation,” the theme is of longing for connection during a time of isolation. The upbeat, bright “Oh Hi” was inspired by Finn’s involvement with the international nonprofit So They Can, which builds schools in remote parts of Kenya and Tanzania. Most of Gravity Stairs revels in a certain slowness, a soft touch that often barely registers. However, amid the lightness, there are plenty of revelatory moments to be found, perhaps the most impactful being “Some Greater Plan (for Claire),” a song inspired by Neil and Tim's Finn’s father’s war diary and a wistful, emotion filled melody with gentle harmony vocals, a song of sweet romance. Most of Gravity Stairs revels in a certain slowness, a soft touch that often barely registers. However, amid the lightness, there are plenty of revelatory moments to be found and yea while the material on this album is quite different from that of Crowded House’s 1980's heyday. Crowded house pay an obscure homage to "Revolver" and is very much evolution for the band with a few Finn family members and feel of it still resonates quite powerfully with the listener. Enjoy Jim

I've heard 4 songs so far and nary a one has any guitar riffs or lead guitar in them. What gives, Neil?

What's the go here?? Not only Copying the Revolver Album cover of the Beatles. Also trying to copy there sound 60 years later. Pfff

Neil Finn can write music like no other and he is in his mid 60s now.

New album is great, just like all their earlier albums. But Intriguer is the most important to me.

WOW NEW CROWDED HOUSE!!!! YIPEEE❤❤❤❤

Love it saw them at Eden Project. What a magical night

Im breathing in some magic piano air myself listening to this...😊 It's so smoothie, this sound. (Yes, i mixed, smooth and groovy together) 😎 I believe

Wow I love it. It is Lennon X the Beatles X McCartney and it is equal to this Crowded House incredible song, playing so divinely with Major and minor transitions and rythms cut.

no hard feelings.

This song has got under my skin and I can’t stop listening to it.

Gracias Neil!!! 🌻🌻🌻🌈💜🎶

💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾

This album entered the uk chart at number 8 ...the following week it totally disappeared out of the top 100 ... what ??? Yeah... why ? How ? Nobody buying it? They're buying everyone else. Ive found it to be a totally boring album.. forgettable barr 1 tune with Tim.. imo 😮

Just picked up a copy of Niel an Liam...wrapped in it like a blanket. Love to you and all around you! ~PB

I get it. it is all fine. Good song, thanks, crowded house.

I mean, c'mon. This is lush.

Brilliant

Serge! Sarica liebt dich ewiglich! sanfter Wind flüsterte mir dichterisch.

Beautiful! Has a mellow 70s vibe I love.