The band's archivist and arguably biggest fan, Jeremy Ansell, has spent over a decade trawling through the band's vaults in consultation with Neil Finn to produce a collection of over 100 insightful demos, outtakes, and other live and studio bits and pieces.
Pearl Jam would do well to learn a bit from their 'other Uncle Neil' - these deluxe packages are FANTASTIC (and reasonably priced to boot), showing a real insight into the songwriting process of the man Paul McCartney once called the world's greatest living songwriter.
Given the plethora of live material the band has put out over the years, the sets focus mostly on home and studio demos, but also feature unheard b-sides, 'work-in-progress' live takes, and some great fly-on-the-wall studio outtakes including songwriting banter between Neil, the band and their producer.
The albums themselves have also been remastered from original tapes (and are being re-released on vinyl too), and from what I've heard so far buck the modern trend of brickwalling the shit of out everything
Anyone with even a passing interest in Neil should at the very least give the Woodface and Together Alone albums (and bonus discs) a listen - they're all up on spotify now
Anyone with a significant interest should check out this article up on superdeluxeedition.com:
http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/inter ... -2cd-sets/
