They Will Have Their Way: The Songs Of Tim & Neil Finn (LP)

The enduring legacy and massive appeal of Tim and Neil Finn was celebrated with two smash hit albums; 2005's She Will Have Her Way, and 2010's He Will Have His Way. Now both are collected as They Will Have Their Way.

"I am very grateful to have had songs become part of the fabric of everyday life for a lot of people. By the same token, it is very flattering to have other artists record my songs - reinterpreting, finding new colours and dimensions, all part of a process by which the good songs live on, being sung by people. That's all I could hope for." - Neil Finn

"When songwriters are asked to name a favourite song of theirs, they often fall back on the metaphor of songs as children, and declare themselves unable to single one out. Leaving aside the growing awareness over time that you definitely love some more than others, I'd like to extend the metaphor by suggesting that when a song is covered by another artist, it has finally grown up and left home. I'm told that you still worry about your child, and don't agree with how they present themselves to the world. But equally, you are delighted to step aside and watch them do it for themselves. John O'Donnell loved these songs enough to want to carry them to new people. Thankfully a number of idiosyncratic artists came on board. I'm flattered and grateful. Some are radical re-workings, but I do those myself as I continue, with different line-ups, to explore the songs in live performance. These albums are full of great surprises." - Tim Finn