<p>Tim Finn has a nervous breakdown and he's not alone; Split Enz record perhaps their best album; and 'Leaky Boat' is scuppered in the UK.</p><p><em>Songs in this programme include 'Remember When', 'Dirty Creature', 'Six Months In a Leaky Boat', 'Take a Walk' plus demos of 'Something To Do', 'Giant Heartbeat' and other rarities.</em></p><p><strong>Album Trivia: Time and Tide</strong></p><ul><li>'Six Months In a Leaky Boat', the first single released from the album in the UK, was sent to radio stations on record and, unusually, video.</li><li>In NZ, the third single released from Time and Tide was 'Hello Sandy Allen'. In Australia, 'Never Ceases To Amaze Me' was issued instead. The video for 'Never Ceases...', shot in a zoo and featuring Tim Finn with an extreme afro-hairdo, is now considered so embarrassing by the band that it was left off the recent Split Enz DVD. Neil has called the song itself "naff" and "twee to the extreme".</li><li>'Fire Drill' was recorded during the Time and Tide sessions, but was left off the album and became a B-side. The song opened many of the band's 1982 live shows and included an instrumental section previously used in the unreleased songs 'Murder' and 'Outer Mongolia'.</li><li>Eddie Rayner began composing Pioneer back in 1975.</li><li>'Giant Heartbeat', composed by Neil Finn and Nigel Griggs, was initially called 'Look-alike'. The instrumental break was recycled from a rejected Neil and Tim song, 'Silent But Deadly', cited by Neil as the worst he's ever written!</li><li>In 'Haul Away', after Tim sings "Ambition has lost me friends and time", a few seconds of the 1973 recording 'Split Ends' can be heard: "Telling them all about Split Ends".</li><li>The final line of 'Haul Away' was inspired by 5-year-old Sean Lennon's 'A Story' on Yoko Ono's 1981 album Season of Glass.</li><li>'Log Cabin Fever' was partly inspired by the movie The Shining.</li><li>Some UK copies of Time and Tide included a bonus LP of the remixed Frenzy.</li></ul><p><a href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/enzology?share=elf_audio_0002534644">Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details</a></p>
