Crowded House combined a serious Beatles fixation with a strong sense of Catholic guilt to make the best guitar pop of the late 1980s and early '90s. Singer and chief songwriter Neil Finn was a one-man Lennon/McCartney, combining beautiful melodies, bright hooks, and multilayered production with often surreal lyrics that were oddly innocent or sweetly cynical. Brilliant live performers (CH were exceptional comedic improvisers, kind of like the Monkees recast as Monty Python), their ...  [+]