Steely_D wrote:

How about when Leo Sayer came on to sing "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing"?

 danmc wrote: maybe the depression started here?...whatever - you do what you have to, i suppose. Kids love the Wiggles I'm told.

 Steely_D wrote:

You are... not kidding. Complete with children doing Riverdance kicking. And I'm not sure how I feel about that. Nor does Tim, it seems from the video. 

 xcranky_yankee wrote:
Just read this was briefly denied airplay because British programmers thought it was a Falkland War protest song. :) Split Enz reminded them it was written before the war.

 Steely_D wrote: cannot agree about the comment, though my favorite album wasn't Woodface; just enjoyed other Finn brothers albums more. including their solo work

 pggriff wrote:

We'll let Split Enz know. They'll be crushed!

 CCSandman wrote: Only missed it by 40 years...
c.

Thought it was Arcade Fire at first!

 k-man wrote:

Yes...it was a laser etched vinyl LP. It was for the 'True Colours' album released in 1980. There were only two bands at that time that had such vinyl released. I believe the other was Styx.

Wasn't is Split Enz who had that LP with the fractal-type patterns in the vinyl that reflected rainbows?

isn't this about Tim's struggles, addiction/illness?

This song always puts a smile on my face. Love it. 

 jmsmy wrote:

? Shake it Off  ?

1989 - Taylor Swift ? One of the Big Hits

 Steely_D wrote:
 
What kid didn't love the Wiggles?

We've just spent nine months in a leaky world.

Tim doing 6 Months with the Wiggles.

I am not kidding.

As Reguritator sang "their old stuff is better than their new(er) stuff". Back in highschool when these guys made their first impression here in Oz they were great and a real breath of fresh air. Oh to be 15 again...

GREAT RECORD!!

Taylor Swift is all over this song.

 melzabutch wrote: 

"Just spent six months in the shaky Isles"

 jmsmy wrote: 
Given recent lawsuits, Split Enz may have a claim here!

Shake It Off.

 Lumpy13 wrote: 
See, I think that's where Crowded House lost their mojo. Tim = Yoko.

 Stingray wrote: 
DAVE? DAVE'S NOT HERE. HE WENT TO GET THE DRUGS. 

 Shesdifferent wrote: 

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
It is interesting that what is arguably Crowded House's best album - Woodface- is the one where Tim joined the band. 

 pggriff wrote: 
their zany stuff was brilliant and their attempts at mainstream were often appalling.

Sometimes I think Tim Finn didn't quite realize how off the wall he actually is. He seems to have spent his life struggling to be accepted as normal (which his brother achieves effortlessly because he's well, he's Neil).  Tim is somehow tragically flawed but that is precisely the source of his brilliance. Without him I doubt Neil would have ever have had a career in music.

 pianocomposer wrote: 

I'm not sure why there's no album or year for this song. It's on Wikipedia: 

"The band's next release Time & Tide (1982) maintained their newfound commercial strength. However, the single "Six Months in a Leaky Boat" ..."

BTW: upgrade from 7 to 8.  

Always good to hear the Enz! ....Nuttin' to a leaky boat...ending with the piano melody is wonderfully haunting.

Hey Bill...wrong album cover art! This should be from an album entitled "Time and Tide". The one showing is "True Colours". Classic Enz!

 twitterpated wrote: 
I'm only familiar with the Cloud Cult songs on RP, and among those there are several that have many beep and blips and electronic/synthesized sounds.  Many folks have some strong opinions on that very element of their music - head to the comments page on those songs and check it out.

 Felix_The_Cat wrote: 

Hey Felix.  I don't see a similarity in sound to Cloud Cult myself.  I like both bands' music but CC uses a lot of classical string instruments where SE use mostly synthesized sounds.  Perhaps you mean in enthusiasm and a carnival-like quality to the music?  An interesting comparison.

LEAKING, ... DAVE...?

 Stingray wrote: 
Hey, I like this song and still have the vinyl record. Good stuff..But as a joker that song title was just asking for it

 DaveInVA wrote: 

Dave in VA - you are a "WITZBOLD" - aren't you?
What about "Six mothers got a creepy load"

What a carefree racket, can we have Crossword Puzzle please bill, loved the lyrics on that.

good ENZ split - this is the proof!

 TJOpootertoot wrote: 
Yep, great stuff! Love this song!
Even the version Tim Finn performed for the Australian kids show, the Wiggles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMMXsptE4p4.
For RP purposes, however, I'm glad you're playing the original!

Too many tunes trying to fit in one song. Most of the tunes annoy me as well. :(

Bill please play bold as brass or something a bit whackier from these guys.

This is ok but it's not their best.

Early Finn brothers - perfect for the 80's.  It hinted at more to come ~

Quite alike to Cloud Cult sound

 jenntenn wrote: 
I still have it also.

Six months with a leaky goat?

Holy memory lane!  Wow its been a long time since I heard this song!

 peter_james_bond wrote: 
Thanks so much for posting it! I freaking love this crazy video...especially those gorgeous Maori ladies.

Anybody remember the laser-etched holo-color thang they did on the vinyl issues of this album?

GOD, I'm OLD!

(Sure beats the alternative though, eh?)

 nigelr wrote: 
And here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeKdUeb1InI

goodpunk wrote: 
This looks like the text output generated by collecting several sets of prose into a statistically linked word list, then starting it on a random word pair and letting it run along. Generally the output mirrors the summed content of the starting prose, but it is completely lacking in coherency.

See Markov text generators

WTF are you talking about crokyJoke?
Just some happy sounding tune  from the talented Finn brothers & co.
In this respect it is a very nice, very good pop song!

 crockydile wrote: 

cutsie set? Bail! Bail!

the whistling made me go from 2 to a 1. Wretched.

 KermitDfrog wrote: 
Yeah, but he always seems pretty enthusiastic and happy. Even though (sometimes/frequently) a little cryptic

Nice.. Bill.... way back!!!

 DPDP wrote: 
I thought I had read about that somewhere. Isn't it odd that Tim and Vincent D'Onofrio both had nervous breakdowns, and both were married to the same woman, Greta Scacchi? Maybe she was just too much for them. 

 KermitDfrog wrote:  This sentence is very long and has no value until someone gives value to this useless sentence which will probably take a long time and that will simply not do at all for this sentence is not merely interesting but funny as well for the creator of this article was mental and had no sense and the article could use something actually funny, like how capybaras and fungi are related which would make the article very hilarious as well as useful and it might even be put up on the Main Page which would be amazing for such a boring article that doesn't even break the record for shortest sentence, because it is in fact an article about run-on sentences which are so meaningless like this one that they just look like a monotonous gray block, as well as the most boring article ever on this wiki but if it ever did break a record all cats would be famous and that would be very nice for cats love ice cream and pasta which the world could use getting rid of for they are very healthy and they taste like sushi and sushi tastes like milk and milk tastes like dino eggs and dino eggs taste like rocks and rocks taste like spinach which does not taste good at all but yet this article might be good if there was a such thing as a dragon for they breath fire and would kill everyone and that would be very funny and that would be so cool for dragons because dragons have lots and lots of fun killing but maybe they don't have fun killing maybe they just kill because they get to told to in books like Eragon which is not as cool as dragons in wintertime which is when everything is cold and not warm but sometimes it will be warm in winter if you are lucky and if you are not lucky it will be cold like ice cream which if you are lucky will be cold and if you are not lucky it will be warm and liquidy which could be a word and otherwise it isn't a word and if it isn't a word then I should not have used it because using made up words is not very smart because it seems like you can't find a real word to fit the situation such as that crocodile is so crocodiley, see look it makes you seem dumb because they think that you can't think of a real word when really if you have tried you could have said that crocodile is so reptillian which I think is a real word but maybe I spelt it wrong and maybe if I was lucky I did because at school I learnt to spell things correctly like the word the and cheese I spelt them correctly see check a dictionary I spelt that correctly too because I went to school which is where you can learn to spell and sometimes you learn things like the language features of a cinquain poem but not always but usually if you are doing a unit on poetry which was once said to be the English language at its best but not if the poem was in Spanish than it would be the Spanish language and its best which is not the same as the English language because they don't use the same words and Mexicans can't speak English; they speak Spanish, not Mexican which is what George Bush once said they spoke because I think it was supposed to be a joke like this article but it failed miserable because as said earlier it isn't funny and will not win any awards unless it is lucky and if it isn't lucky you might have a cold winter or maybe a warm ice cream which are both equally unlucky unless you do not believe in luck but instead believe in destiny or fate which is what I am trying to find out so I took up the hobby of palmistry which is reading palms and you can learn things like what your head line and life line are but you don't learn things like that in school you learn things like the language features of a cinquain poem and you also don't learn things about dragons who might or might not like killing people but dragons are cool and you might learn are them in school, if you are lucky, and if you are not lucky you will be forced to eat warm ice cream and have cold winters and while you are participating in such fun activities as the eating of warm ice cream and having a cold winter you may need to keep in mind that you could die at any second like now or now or now or now or maybe but not likely now and I don't think that anyone died when I was typing now or you were reading the nows but then again maybe some one in a place like Africa did because on planet earth someone dies every 2 seconds but that is probably because Africans die a lot because they starve and catch diseases because no one will teach them how to take over Microsoft and become rich like Bill Gates who is the captain of the chess team in the song High School Never Ends by bowling for soup which is a band like Fall Out Boy except the only difference if Fall Out Boy is actually good a ha ha ha just kidding they are not good they are the opposite of good they are bad which is the opposite of good or if you like you might say antonym I am definitely sure they taught me in homeschool along with the language features of a cinquain poem and guess what, I can recall which means opposite and which means something similar but synonym is probably the similar one because it sounds the same at the start or maybe I am wrong I have been wrong before like the time when someone was in an epic aeroplane chase from police heli-copters which were not as fast so they used the army jets to follow the criminal who was in an aeroplane which he got off eBay but anyway he was flying fast and I told the army to use a nuclear missile to hit the plane but not a homing missile just a nuclear one and I was wrong and it missed and hit Germany and that is how Hitler was born but not Adolf Hitler, his older brother Harry who was not Adolf Hitler because they can't both be Adolf Hitler unless they had the same name which they did not and I know this because I asked my mother when she was having a heart attack and answered my question which was 'was Adolf Hitler the same as his older brother' and she replied 'call an ambulance' which I assume was mother talk for no and since mothers know best I was sure my mother was right and you might be wondering why I say mother not mom and the answer is because I am a kiwi so I spell mom with a 'u' like mum and I wasn't sure if you understood it and I don't like spelling it like mom so I just say mother which is correct even if you are American or a Kiwi which is also the native bird of New Zealand but they like to call themselves Kiwis sometimes but even New Zealanders are not animals they are humans like you unless you are an animal or an alien and you may think this is is racist(creatureist?) to aliens because I said they don't count as humans but that is the truth they are not homo-sapiens they are aliens unless on some really far off planet they co-incidentally called themselves homo-sapiens too but they probably didn't just like Harry didn't have the same name as Adolf Hitler or pizza didn't have the same name as oinker who was a pig who starred in the classic movie released in 1987 titled 'Who'a stole'a my pig?' in which the pig runs around the well known country of Canada in an attempt to escape from the evil Italian chef who wants nothing more than to eat Oinker however the evil chef known only as 'Evil Chef' assumed some Canadian had stolen oinker and proceeded to slay 1 bajillion Canadians before Oinker gathered the courage to admit that he never was stolen and ran away because he wanted the Evil Chef to stop killing the friendly canadians who had sheltered him in his time of need which is why he confessed to the Evil chef but the movie received high ratings for having a pig who could talk a human language like Italian to humans unlike that lame pig Babe or that Pig in Charlotte`s Web whose name I cannot recall (maybe Wilbur) and if that pig had been able to speak fluent English he wouldn't've needed that spider's help but I think that is enough about pigs, so how about we talk about some current day music like Elvis who was good but I think he is no longer alive or he could be a zombie which would be cool because he could sing and write some cool zombie songs like 'Zombie Life Never Ends' or 'Boulevard of Broken Heads so I could Eat Brains' or 'Welcome to the Undead Parade' or 'Don't Feel Like Livin' or 'How to Take a Life' or 'One Way Ticket to being a Zombie' or 'Download this Brain' or 'Stacy's Mom's Brain' or 'When I'm Gone and Back as a Zombie' or 'Eat my Mind' or 'Ridin' Deady' or 'I died while landing Holly' or 'In the Summer-by the way I'm a zombie-time' or 'The Saints are Coming to Send Us Back to the Underworld But we are Going to Eat their Brains When They Get Here' or 'Love Me or Ate Me' or 'Roller-Coaster of Dead' or 'Windows Zombie' and if he zombie Elvis made all the songs it would be cool for a zombie I'm sure no-one would sue him and everyone would love the songs but then again I cannot tell the future so I don't know if they would sell well hopefully they do because Zombie Elvis could be the next Weird Al Yankovic but only bigger because he is the King because he is Elvis but enough about Elvis let's hear more about this article which only went to Dragons have lots of fun killing people and then I (imaginary person) did everything else because I am so nice and have nothing better to do because school just ended for the day and I didn't learn about any language features of a cinquain poem because I was lucky and get to eat cold ice creams and even though it is summer in NZ I might have a warm winter if I am lucky but anyway I was just wondering if you want to talk about something relevant to today such as T.V. shows of today but I am in NZ so it probably will be different than what you see on T.V. so maybe how about hold on I just realized school taught me how to spell maybe man that is crazy I never thought I would use something I learnt in school that is weird but it would still be better if dragon information was taught in school but I guess that is too much to hope for because dragon information has been obsolete since the death of Keith Moon in 5000 BC, man that Keith Moon was a funny guy with a red nose and blue eyes and a green face and blue hair even though nobody on this planet has blue hair except for the people who dye it blue and those people are nutto and they always love hot dogs except on Tuesdays because they prefer human babies then but on Wednesday they enjoy a few nibbles of bad video games and crappy computers made solely by Steve Jobs or in all probability by a young child in a nondescript third-world country struggling to survive on below-subsistence wages in a war-torn environment while in America people watch the news on the television and pay more attention to the latest exploits of Paris Hilton than to massive suffering of millions of people because lets face it some people are just stupid and shortsighted and selfish no alliteration intended and they cannot see the nose in front of their face for the very good reason that it is very difficult for the average person to consciously see their own nose unless they are Cyrano de Bergerac or they happen to be looking in the mirror in which case they are not seeing their nose but the light reflected from their nose (and some people's noses do reflect extraordinary amounts of light) but when you think about it no one ever really sees anything only the light reflected from an object so it's stupid to decide that seeing one's nose in a mirror is less real than seeing it in any other way, in the same way that many things are stupid, including communism sharks any novels by Charles Dickens and this long incredibly pointless sentence that is probably not worth your while to read, and if you did you probably have no life whatsoever, unless you just skipped here, which would be cheating, which would not be allowed, except in the case of certain games which allow cheating, thus making the cheating in fact not cheating, so cheating within the rules is sort of a paradox which one should normally not go into, but there's tons of space for it in this ridiculously long sentence which probably violates all of the part of Uncyclopedia guidelines that discusses being funny and not just stupid, but its not like is anyone is actually going to read this sentence, which was relatively recently discussing the paradox of cheating within the rules, a paradox which can be resolved with a healthy application of Oscar's Paradox Untangler Salve , which, by the way, contains the same active ingredient as Pre-Instant Cofee's Stable Loop blend, which is used to resolve paradoxes of all sorts, except for those involving the substance itself, causing a paradox involving the very means by which the parodox was to be avoided, this type of paradox being known as a "meta-paradox", or, a paradox that paradoxically involves another paradox, which could be a paradox concerning watermelons, which are especially prone to paradoxes as well as being prone to being the subject of ridiculously long sentences that no-one in their right mind should ever read, ever, and if you did read all the way through this monstrosity, you clearly, as has been mentioned above in that tangled mass which is now so large as to physically crush the text underneath, requirng restoration by underpaid workers, have no life.

 unbracketed wrote: 
Split Enz did the original. It's from their album Time and Tide.

Did these guys or Winechuggers (or someone else) do the original?

Possibly the longest run on sentence in history?

 coloradojohn wrote: 

...i'd feel pretty oogy after spending six months in a leaky boat...

 Shesdifferent wrote: 

You should get that bladder surgery you been hankerin' after.

ELOish

I just love what everyone says on this one...pretty eclectic.

 nigelr wrote: 
Man...this is probably blasphemy but I best know this song from one of my daughter's Wiggles videos.
Their cover isn't bad, come to think of it...

The video from this track is as classic as the song itself.

Bill and all! It's been one of the very finest days ever on RP! In two more days, I'll be on Hamoa Beach, and grok Kaihalulu's purple slice of the windward rainbow, and hang at the Hana Maui H for a few and then ~sigh~ hover a week over Kaanapali, Black Rock and Kahekili...and sadly I shall surely miss the music stream of RP and attendant vibes...and from the 14th on, I must make my way through Nishi Honshu and Kyushu and then head back to type it all up...who's gonna be next to me, with me and The Mac when I get back, well, RP it shall surely be, as was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be!

Amen... somewhere off the Atlantic Coast... all hands lost at sea... radioparadisehead wrote:

Much as I love this, I'd love some of the wackier Split Enz stuff on here. Bold as brass for instance.

No, I was wrong, Leaky Boat was on Time and Tide, not Conflicting Emotions which had Message To My Girl. Time and Tide was pretty good, and lots of songs about the ocean on it.

Keyboard player Eddie Raynor, highly underrated, gave the Enz much of their unique sound. It shows on this song. He really was great. This Cd was probably my least favorite of the post theatrical and more poppy Enz configuration, but it's still a decent record. And it has Message to My Girl, a beautiful song that sort of started Neil Finn's Crowded House style of ballads.

Bad_Art wrote: You could take your own advice.

one of Tim Finn's finest

radioparadisehead wrote: That was extremely rude.

It's like a Kubrick film ... just when you think it's over ... it's baaaaack! They got their message across in the actual song. When I was in training at my college radio station the DJ gave me the best piece of advice ever given anyone. "Remember, when you haven't got anything to say, SHUT THE HELL UP!"

Lived in NZ for a while as a student. If it wasn't so damn far from my family, I would never have left.

Classic. Great live song.

Six months is a Lot of bailing

Xeric wrote: Nice to see the ELO references. Although I think ELO were brilliant (although they're not playing their instruments during concerts was a huge disappointment).

I wish the boat had sunk.

revsully wrote: agreed.. really cool tho.

Agreed. Early Finn brother's emmulation of ELO. Not a bad thing.

yay !!!!

Did I just clap outloud?

Wow. Weird ending.

Ugh, Kiwiana! The tiny achievements of this blob in the South Pacific are to often haughtily presented. I was prisoner there for five long years. Bloody cold and damp!!!

How come I never noticed until now that this sounds (especially in the first few bars) EXACTLY like ELO? (Not that that's a GOOD thing!)

I'd love to hear some other Split Enz songs like One Step Ahead or Iris (my personal favorite).

Play it again!

Frater_Kork wrote: ?????? um - ok - if u sayso

Squirrel wrote: keep this up matey and I'll take you on a tour of the farm.

(first part of the last message) Not one of their better songs that's for sure...

but it was banned in Britain during the Falkland Islands "war". Damaging to moral.....WTF!!!

must be my love of the 80s

jackvh wrote: I see that Tim Finn of Split Enz was the guy who did this song with the Wiggles, which makes sense. When I heard the song on a Wiggles DVD, I was surprised that it didn't seem to be a normal Wiggles-type song, and wondered why it was there. Now I get it. At our house, we're grappling with the replacement of Greg with Sam. It's a hard concept to grasp: while Sam is now the Wiggle with the yellow skivvy, the DVDs that were made with Greg still, and will always, have Greg. Maybe when we've seen Sam actually perform, it will be easier to accept.

I prefer the Wiggles version of this song (wow, did I just say that!). Needless-to-say, not a fan of Split Enz

This sounds like old ABBA...

If I were in a leaky boat and all I had to listen to was this song, I'd jump in the river and drown myself.

NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: Maybe some iggs would be bitter? OK, I'll stop now . . .

Sink already!

Funny...I'm still in this leaky boat.

catchy tune. I like it.

Squirrel wrote: damn, have no tomatoes at hand. do you mind passing a few?

dionysius wrote:

Shupwricked love . . . can be cruel . . . (ducks as tomatoes fly in from Kiwi listeners)

dionysius wrote: well, I did say informal! the formal anthem is "God of nations" which would have most people puking in the aisles.. as for the album cover, yep, bang on!

All RIGHT! Nice set... Anything Finn hits the spot right about now!

i forgot these guys existed. nice stuff.

Hey, I love this song, but it just played twice in 2 hours...Unless the problem is at my end?

Aotearoa is Maori for Land of the Long White Cloud (New Zealand).

NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: Well, then you have a much, much cooler anthem than we in the States are stuck with (though it is rather cool that the unsingable "The Star-Spangled Banner" is based on the melody of the singable-by-drunks British drinking song "To Anacreon in Heaven"). Anybody else notice that the wrong album cover is credited here? It should be Time and Tide pictured.

RedG wrote: That's it! I heard something familiar - Adrian Belew... cool song.

Aotearoa, rugged individual Glisten like a pearl At the bottom of the world! Yeah!! (this is our national anthym by default)

Quite a catchy little number with a great mid section which sounds like a neo-classical church organ affair. Is it me or does this sound rather like Adrian Below, eitherway not a bad tune

Lazy8 wrote:Well, maybe not directly. "Lighting flash, tempers flare..." "... At the bottom of the world. The tyranny of distance, didn't stop the cavalier." "I'll conquer and set free".