“Sister Madly” by Crowded House

"Sister Madly" comes off Temple of Low Men, Crowded House's second album, from 1988: Neil Finn's tune, sung by Finn over his own guitar, with Nick Seymour on bass, Paul Hester on drums and Richard Thompson dropping in to play the solo. It became the album's third single in New Zealand and its fourth in Australia, and it later ran alongside Russell Crowe as he jogs through the opening of the film The Sum of Us.

On stage it loosened up. At the farewell concert, Farewell to the World, Finn explained it as a song about waking to find his sister having nightmares in the same room, and the take on the Special Edition Live Album, which came with some copies of Recurring Dream, runs past six minutes because the band lost the beat, stopped, joked about it and let Finn improvise the words.

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