Crowded House’s debut receives 2LP deluxe treatment

Crowded House’s 1986 self-titled debut album will be reissued as an expanded 2LP vinyl set, later this month, to mark the album’s 40th anniversary.

This comes courtesy of Capitol Records’ Capitol Records Club which has curated a 2LP coloured vinyl package (“on ember red and raincloud gray vinyl”) which includes a bonus LP of rarities and a 22″ x 33″ poster.

The album features the timeless US No 2 hit ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over‘ along with the classic singles ‘Mean to Me’, ‘World Where You Live’, ‘Now We’re Getting Somewhere’ and ‘Something So Strong’.

The reissue uses the original 10-track version of the album, as released in Australia and New Zealand with ‘I Walk Away’ one of the bonus tracks on LP 2. There is no word on mastering and if you recall Neil Finn didn’t want the albums remastered for CD, back in 2016.

The bonus LP is very interesting, since it includes six or seven tracks from those now decade old CD reissues which receive their vinyl debut here. The extended mixes of ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’ and ‘Mean To Me also feature’, which is something of a surprise since friend-of-Crowded House Jeremy Ansell told this writer in 2016 that Neil “didn’t like” these extended mixes, which is why they were not included on the 2CD set of Crowded House in 2016.

This rather splendid looking set is limited to 2,000 copies, and is only available via Capitol Records web shop in the USA. It will be released on 25 September 2026, via Capitol Records.

Tracklisting

Crowded House Crowded House / 40th anniversary edition

• Capitol Records Club
  • LP 1

    Side A

    1. Mean to Me
    2. World Where You Live
    3. Now We’re Getting Somewhere
    4. Don’t Dream It’s Over
    5. Love You ’Til the Day I Die

    Side B
    

    1. Something So Strong
    2. Hole in the River
    3. Can’t Carry On
    4. Tombstone
    5. That’s What I Call Love
  • LP 2

    Side C
    

    1. I Walk Away
    2. Recurring Dream (Original Version)
    3. World Where You Live (Extended Version)
    4. Don’t Dream It’s Over (Extended Version)

    Side D

    1. Something So Strong (Home Demo)
    2. Does Anyone Here Understand My Girlfriend (Studio Demo)
    3. Oblivion (Studio Demo)
    4. Hole in the River (Studio Demo)
    5. World Where You Live (Writing Demo)