The Days of Lore

TDoL has Split Enz, pt. wha

Friday, February 15th, 2013 | musiX | No Comments

The final installment, but not the enz of my current Split Enz obsession. I leave you with a short documentary on the band’s calling it a day in 1984 (boo!), followed by a clip of The Enz performing “History Never Repeats” during a reunion show in 2007 (yay!). I’m now realizing how many music videos these guys made—Split Enz were prolific, weird, and fantastic popsters (and still somewhat underrated in America). Dig it, and dig in.

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Tags: "History Never Repeats", Neil Finn, New Zealand, Split Enz, Tim Finn

TDoL has Split Enz, pt. toru

Thursday, February 14th, 2013 | musiX | No Comments

Happy Valentines Day, the day I celebrate my love for my wife … and also Neil Finn. Released as a single in 1978, and later added to 1979′s Frenzy LP, “I See Red” is The Enz’s punk rock song. It also seems kind of fitting for today. Frenzy was the first record to feature Tim’s younger bro Neil, and it continued the band’s progression into simpler pop.

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Tags: "I See Red", Frenzy, Neil Finn, New Zealand, Split Enz, Tim Finn, Valentine's Day

TDoL has Split Enz

Tuesday, February 12th, 2013 | musiX | No Comments

I’m on a Split Enz kick … now, so are you. For the rest of the week I’ll be posting video earworms from my time down in the YouTube wormhole (not such a bad place if you can avoid the comments section).

I start with this one—one of the great pop songs … well, ever. And, of course, the video for “I Got You” shows why these kids from New Zealand were ready-made for MTV. It also gives me an intense flashback of eating Cap’n Crunch and playing drums along to it with markers on the arm of the couch.

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Tags: "I Got You", Neil Finn, New Zealand, Split Enz, Tim Finn, True Colours