Split Enz discography
Studio albums10
Live albums5
Compilation albums13
Video albums7
Music videos25
Singles32
B-sides44
Tribute albums5

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

List of albums, with selected chart positions and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
NZ
[1]		 AUS
[2]		 CAN UK
[3]		 US
[4]
Mental Notes
  • Released: July 1975
  • Label: White Cloud (WCL 101)
 7 35 — — —
Second Thoughts (titled Mental Notes in Europe and North America)
  • Released: August 1976
  • Label: Mushroom (L 35981)
 18 25 — — —
Dizrythmia
  • Released: August 1977
  • Label: Mushroom (L 36347)
 3 18 — — —
Frenzy
  • Released: February 1979
  • Label: Mushroom (L 36768)
 13 24 49 — —
  • RIANZ: Gold[6]
  • AUS: Gold
  • MC: 40,000 copies[7]
The Beginning of the Enz
  • Released: November 1979
  • Label: Mushroom (L 37132)
  • Recorded 1973–1974
 35 — — — —
True Colours
  • Released: February 1980
  • Label: Mushroom (L 37167)
 1 1 10 38 40
Waiata (titled Corroboree in Australia)
  • Released: March 1981
  • Label: Mushroom (RML 53001)
 1 1 17 — 45
  • ARIA: Platinum
  • CAN: Platinum[7]
Time and Tide
  • Released: April 1982
  • Label: Mushroom (RML 53012)
 1 1 4 71 58
  • NZ: 2× Platinum[7]
  • AUS: Platinum[11]
  • CAN: Platinum[7]
Conflicting Emotions
  • Released: November 1983
  • Label: Mushroom (RML 53107)
 3 13 — — 137
  • RIANZ: Platinum[6]
See Ya 'Round
  • Released: October 1984
  • Label: Mushroom (RML 53146)
 5 29 — — —
  • RIANZ: Platinum[6]

Live albums

List of albums, with selected chart positions and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
NZ
[1]		 AUS
[2][12]
The Living Enz
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Mushroom (RML 55007/8)
 9 88
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

List of albums, with selected chart positions and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
NZ
[1]		 AUS
[2]
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)
 1 8
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)
 9 62
  • RIANZ: 5× Platinum[6]
  • ARIA: Gold[2]
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)
 17 5
  • RIANZ: 2× Platinum[6]
  • ARIA: Platinum[2]
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)

Tribute albums

List of tribute albums, with selected chart positions and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
NZ
[1][15]		 AUS
[2][16]
ENZSO
(by Enzso)		 2 4
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
 4 3
  • RIANZ: Platinum[19]
  • ARIA: 2× Platinum[20]
  • The album has sold over 350,000 copies[21]
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[23]
  • Label: Warner (5419709451)
  • Notes: A compilation of True Colours reimagined and recorded by Australian and New Zealand artists.
 39
[24]		 —
Shades and Echoes
(by Forenzics)
  • Released: 5 February 2022[23]
  • 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.

List of singles, with selected peak chart positions
Title Year Chart positions Album
NZ
[1]		 AUS
[2]		 CAN UK
[3]		 US
[25]
"For You"
(released as Split Ends)		 1973 — Non-album releases
"Sweet Talkin' Spoon Song"
(released as Split Ends)		 —
"No Bother to Me" 1975 —
"Maybe" — — Mental Notes
"Late Last Night" 1976 — 93 Non-album release
"Matinee Idyll" — Second Thoughts
"Another Great Divide" 1977 — — — — — Non-album release
"My Mistake" 21 15 — — — Dizrythmia
"Bold as Brass" — — — — —
"I See Red" 1978 43 15 — — — Frenzy
"Give It a Whirl" 1979 — —
"Things" — — Non-album release
"I Got You" 1980 1 1 13 12 53 True Colours
"I Hope I Never" 33 18 — — —
"Nobody Takes Me Seriously" — —
"What's the Matter with You" —
"Poor Boy" — —
"One Step Ahead" 6 5 17 — 104 Waiata
"History Never Repeats" 1981 5 4 — 63 —
"I Don't Wanna Dance" — 65 — — —
"Hard Act to Follow" —
"Iris" —
"Dirty Creature" 1982 3 6 — — — Time and Tide
"Six Months in a Leaky Boat" 7 2 7 83 104
"Never Ceases to Amaze Me" 50
"Hello Sandy Allen" —
"Next Exit" 1983 47 Non-album release
"Strait Old Line" 15 42 — — — Conflicting Emotions
"Message to My Girl" 1984 28 12 — — —
"I Wake Up Every Night" —
"I Walk Away" 13 45 See Ya 'Round
"One Mouth Is Fed" — —
"I See Red" (re-release) 1989 27 75 History Never Repeats – The Best of Split Enz

Video albums

Title Details Certification
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

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "charts.nz > Split Enz in New Zealand Charts". Hung Medien. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Australian chart peaks:
    • Top 100 (Kent Music Report) peaks to 12 June 1988: Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives: Australian Chart Book. p. 288. ISBN 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: "australian-charts.com > Split Enz in Australian Charts". Hung Medien. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
    • Top 100 (ARIA) peaks from January 1990 to December 2010: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdf ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 264.
  3. 1 2 "Official Charts > Split Enz". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
  4. ↑ "Split Enz Chart History > Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
  5. 1 2 "Split Enz Bio". AllMusic. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Gold and platinum New Zealand albums to 2013". teara.govt.nz. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 "Split Enz – Part Two - The Eighties". AudioCulture. 1 April 2013. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
  8. ↑ "Split Enz and True Colours". August 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  9. ↑ "Great NZ Album: Split Enz True Colours". RNZ. August 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  10. ↑ "New Faces to Watch" (PDF). Cash Box. 25 October 1980. p. 10. Retrieved 3 December 2021 – via World Radio History.
  11. 1 2 "Kent Music Report No 453 – 28 February 1983 > Platinum Albums 1982 (Continued)". Retrieved 26 December 2022 – via Imgur.com.
  12. ↑ "ARIA Chart Watch #429". auspOp. 15 July 2017. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  13. ↑ "Official Top 40 Albums". Recorded Music NZ. 14 April 1983. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  14. ↑ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2010 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
  15. ↑ "charts.nz – Discography Enzso". Hung Medien. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  16. ↑ Peaks in Australia:
  17. ↑ "Official Top 40 Albums". Recorded Music NZ. 22 December 1996. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  18. ↑ "ARIA Top 100 Albums for 1996". ARIA. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
  19. ↑ "Official Top 40 Albums". Recorded Music NZ. 13 February 2006. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  20. ↑ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdf ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.
  21. ↑ "How She Will Have Her Way Captured The Hearts of Australian Music Lovers". Junkee. 20 August 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  22. ↑ "ARIA Top 100 Albums Charts 2010". Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  23. 1 2 "True Colours, New Colours: The Songs of Split Enz". JBhiFi. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  24. ↑ "NZ Top 40 Albums Chart". Recorded Music NZ. 8 March 2021. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  25. ↑ "Split Enz Chart History > Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
  26. ↑ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2008 DVDs" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
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