Split Enz discography explained

Artist:Split Enz
Studio:10
Live:5
Compilation:13
Video:7
Tribute:5
Singles:32
Music Videos:25
B-Sides:44

This is a complete discography listing for Split Enz, a New Zealand-originated experimental rock-pop group. Their creative output includes several albums, singles, music videos, compilations as well as having albums pay tribute by other artists.

Albums

Studio albums

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:22em;"
Album detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
NZ
[1]
AUS
[2]
CANUK
[3]
US
[4]
Mental Notes
  • Released: July 1975
  • Label: White Cloud (WCL 101)
735
Second Thoughts (titled Mental Notes in Europe and North America)
  • Released: August 1976
  • Label: Mushroom (L 35981)
1825
Dizrythmia
  • Released: August 1977
  • Label: Mushroom (L 36347)
318
Frenzy
  • Released: February 1979
  • Label: Mushroom (L 36768)
132449
  • RIANZ: Gold[6]
  • AUS: Gold
  • MC: 40,000 copies
The Beginning of the Enz (recorded 1973–1974)
  • Released: November 1979
  • Label: Mushroom (L 37132)
35
True Colours
  • Released: June 1980
  • Label: Mushroom (L 37167)
11103840
  • NZ: Multi Platinum[7] [8]
  • AUS: 4× Platinum[9]
  • MC: 2× Platinum[10]
Waiata (titled Corroboree in Australia)
  • Released: March 1981
  • Label: Mushroom (RML 53001)
111745
  • ARIA: Platinum
  • CAN: Platinum
Time and Tide
  • Released: April 1982
  • Label: Mushroom (RML 53012)
1147158
  • NZ: 2× Platinum
  • AUS: Platinum[11]
  • CAN: Platinum
Conflicting Emotions
  • Released: November 1983
  • Label: Mushroom (RML 53107)
313137
  • RIANZ: Platinum
See Ya 'Round
  • Released: October 1984
  • Label: Mushroom (RML 53146)
529
  • RIANZ: Platinum

Live albums

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2"
Album detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
NZ
AUS
[12]
The Living Enz
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Mushroom (RML 55007/8)
988
  • RIANZ: Gold
Anniversary
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: Mushroom (D 98010)
  • Recorded in New Zealand during Split Enz's Twentieth Anniversary Tour in March 1993.
Extravagenza/Greatest Hits Live
  • Released: 2005
  • Label: Liberation Blue (BLUE120.5)
  • Reissued and expanded version of Anniversary
Live in America
  • Released: 2007 (Europe only)
  • Label: The Store for Music (SFMCD044)
  • Recorded in October 1980
Live, Alive Oh
  • Released: July 2017
  • Label: Liberation Music (LMCD0326)
  • Recorded in New Zealand during Split Enz's Twentieth Anniversary Tour in March 1993 & NZ Farewell Tour Vector Arena 2008
91

Compilations

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2"
Album detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
NZ
AUS
Beginning of the Enz
  • Released: December 1980 (UK only)
  • Label: Chrysalis (CHR 1329)
  • Different album to 1979 album of the same name
Enz of an Era
  • Released: November 1982
  • Label: Mushroom (RML 52027)
18
  • RIANZ: Platinum[13]
  • AUS: Platinum
The Split Enz Collection 1973-1984
  • Released: June 1987 (Australia only)
  • Label: Concept (CC 0050)
41
History Never Repeats – The Best of Split Enz
  • Released: 1987 (US), 1989 (New Zealand & Australia)
  • Label: A&M (SP-3289)
    Mushroom (L 30222)
962
  • RIANZ: 5× Platinum
  • ARIA: Gold
Oddz and Enz
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Mushroom
  • Singles, rarities, demos and live recordings 1975–1979
  • Exclusive to the box set Split Enz 1972–1979
Rear Enz
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Mushroom
  • Singles, rarities, demos and live recordings 1980–1984
  • Exclusive to the box set Split Enz 1980–1984
The Best of Split Enz
  • Released: 1993 (UK & US only)
  • Label: Chrysalis (CDP 528409)
Spellbound
  • Released: May 1997
  • Label: Mushroom (MUSH33015.2)
175
  • RIANZ: 2× Platinum
  • ARIA: Platinum
Stranger Than Fiction: The Gold Collection
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: DISKY (724348828828)
  • Budget release
Other Enz: Split Enz & Beyond
(with various artists)
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: Raven Records (RVCD-100)
  • Split Enz & related artists/bands compilation
History Never Repeats: The Best of Split Enz
  • Released: 2002
  • Label: Mushroom (33619-2)
  • Expanded and remastered edition of earlier release of the same name
56
The Collection – The Best of the Early Years
  • Released: 2006 (UK only)
  • Label: EMI Gold (09463566862 9)
  • Budget release
Rootin Tootin Luton Tapes
  • Released: 10 November 2007
  • Label: Warner Music Australia (5144241092)
  • A collection of demos made in 1978

Box sets

List of box sets, with selected details! Title! Details
Split Enz 1972–1979
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Mushroom (D80940)
  • Details: 6×CD (Mental Notes, Second Thoughts, Dizrythmia, Frenzy, The Beginning of the Enz and exclusive Oddz and Enz)
Split Enz 1980–1984
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Mushroom (D80946)
  • Details: 6×CD (True Colours, Corroboree, Time and Tide, Conflicting Emotions, See Ya 'Round and exclusive Rear Enz)
Enz to Enz - The Ultimate Split Enz Box Set
  • Released: 2007
  • Label: Mushroom, Warner Music (5144255272)
  • Details: 11×CD (Mental Notes, Second Thoughts, Dizrythmia, Frenzy, The Beginning of the Enz, True Colours, Corroboree, Time and Tide, Conflicting Emotions, See Ya 'Round and Rootin Tootin Luton Tapes, the last of which was initially exclusive to this box set)

Video albums

Title! scope="col"
DetailsCertification
Live in Concert
  • Released: 1980
  • Label:
History Never Repeats – The Best of Split Enz
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: Mushroom
1972–1992
  • Released: 1993
  • Label: Mushroom
Split Enz
  • Released: 2002
  • Label: Festival Mushroom
One Out of the Bag
  • Released: 2007
  • Label: Warner Music Entertainment

Tribute albums

Title! scope="col" rowspan="2"
Album detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
NZ
[16]
AUS
[17]
ENZSO
(by Enzso)
24
ENZSO 2
(by Enzso)
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: Epic (492852.2)
  • Notes: A second collection of Split Enz songs with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
25
She Will Have Her Way
  • Released: 26 September 2005
  • Label: EMI, Capitol (09463404952 8)
  • Notes: A collection of songs written by Neil and Tim Finn, performed by Australian and New Zealand female artists
43
  • RIANZ: Platinum[20]
  • ARIA: 2× Platinum[21]
  • The album has sold over 350,000 copies[22]
He Will Have His Way
  • Released: 12 November 2010
  • Label: EMI, Capitol (9471022)
  • Notes: A collection of songs written by Neil and Tim Finn, performed by Australian and New Zealand male artists.
5
They Will Have Their Way
  • Released: 28 October 2011
  • Label: EMI (7305842)
  • Notes: A compilation of She and He with additional tracks
31
True Colours, New Colours: The Songs of Split Enz
  • Released: 12 February 2021[24]
  • Label: Warner (5419709451)
  • Notes: A compilation of True Colours reimagined and recorded by Australian and New Zealand artists.
39
[25]
Shades and Echoes
  • Released: 5 February 2022
  • Label: Warner
  • Notes: Debut album of a new project from Tim Finn & Eddie Rayner, reimagining old songs.

Singles

Where available, chart positions are given for each country of release.
A mark of " — " indicates the single was released in that country, but did not chart. Cells in dark grey indicate that the single was not released in that country.

Title!rowspan="2"
YearChart positionsAlbum
NZ
AUS
CANUK
US
[26]
"For You"
(released as Split Ends)
1973Non-album releases
"Sweet Talkin' Spoon Song"
(released as Split Ends)
"No Bother to Me"1975
"Maybe"Mental Notes
"Late Last Night"197693Non-album release
"Matinee Idyll"Second Thoughts
"Another Great Divide"1977Non-album release
"My Mistake"2115align=left rowspan=2Dizrythmia
"Bold as Brass"
"I See Red"19784315align=left rowspan=2Frenzy
"Give It a Whirl"1979
"Things"Non-album release
"I Got You"198011131253align=left rowspan=5True Colours
"I Hope I Never"3318
"Nobody Takes Me Seriously"
"What's the Matter with You"
"Poor Boy"
"One Step Ahead"6517104align=left rowspan=5Waiata
"History Never Repeats"19815463
"I Don't Wanna Dance"65
"Hard Act to Follow"
"Iris"
"Dirty Creature"198236align=left rowspan=4Time and Tide
"Six Months in a Leaky Boat"72783104
"Never Ceases to Amaze Me"50
"Hello Sandy Allen"
"Next Exit"198347Non-album release
"Strait Old Line"1542align=left rowspan=3Conflicting Emotions
"Message to My Girl"19842812
"I Wake Up Every Night"
"I Walk Away"1345align=left rowspan=2See Ya 'Round
"One Mouth Is Fed"
"I See Red" (re-release)19892775History Never Repeats – The Best of Split Enz

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: charts.nz > Split Enz in New Zealand Charts. Hung Medien. 2019-06-02.
  2. Australian chart peaks:

    . David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book. St Ives. 1993. 288. 0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid-1983 and 12 June 1988.

    • Top 50 (ARIA) peaks from 13 June 1988: Web site: australian-charts.com > Split Enz in Australian Charts. Hung Medien. 2019-06-02.
    • Top 100 (ARIA) peaks from January 1990 to December 2010: Book: Ryan, Gavin. Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. 2011. Moonlight Publishing. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia. pdf. 264.
  3. Web site: Official Charts > Split Enz. Official Charts Company. 2019-06-02.
  4. Split Enz Chart History > Billboard 200. Billboard. 2019-06-02.
  5. Web site: Split Enz Bio. AllMusic. 13 November 2020.
  6. Web site: Gold and platinum New Zealand albums to 2013. teara.govt.nz. 7 December 2021.
  7. Web site: Split Enz and True Colours. August 2020. 13 November 2020.
  8. Web site: Great NZ Album: Split Enz True Colours. RNZ. August 2020. 13 November 2020.
  9. New Faces to Watch . Cash Box. World Radio History. 10. 25 October 1980. 3 December 2021.
  10. Web site: Split Enz – Part Two - The Eighties. AudioCulture. 1 April 2013. 15 November 2020.
  11. Web site: Kent Music Report No 453 – 28 February 1983 > Platinum Albums 1982 (Continued). Imgur.com. 26 December 2022.
  12. Web site: ARIA Chart Watch #429. auspOp. 15 July 2017. 15 July 2017.
  13. Web site: Official Top 40 Albums. Recorded Music NZ. 14 April 1983. 6 December 2022.
  14. Australia. Split Enz. album. 2010. 28 December 2021.
  15. Australia. Split Enz. video. 2008. 15 December 2021.
  16. Web site: charts.nz – Discography Enzso. Hung Medien. 5 June 2017.
  17. Peaks in Australia:
  18. Web site: Official Top 40 Albums. Recorded Music NZ. 22 December 1996. 6 December 2022.
  19. Web site: ARIA Top 100 Albums for 1996. ARIA. 15 November 2020.
  20. Web site: Official Top 40 Albums. Recorded Music NZ. 13 February 2006. 6 December 2022.
  21. Book: Ryan, Gavin. Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. 2011. Moonlight Publishing. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia. pdf.
  22. Web site: How She Will Have Her Way Captured The Hearts of Australian Music Lovers. Junkee. 20 August 2020. 13 November 2020.
  23. Web site: ARIA Top 100 Albums Charts 2010. 13 November 2020.
  24. Web site: True Colours, New Colours: The Songs of Split Enz. JBhiFi. 13 November 2020.
  25. Web site: NZ Top 40 Albums Chart. Recorded Music NZ. 8 March 2021. 6 March 2021.
  26. Split Enz Chart History > Hot 100. Billboard. 2019-06-02.