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Split Enz - Mental Notes (1975)

Track listing:
  1. Walking down a road 5:26
  2. Under the Wheel 7:49
  3. Amy (darling) 5:18
  4. So long for now 3:19
  5. Stranger than Fiction 6:58
  6. Time for a Change 3:46
  7. Maybe 2:59
  8. Titus 3:12
  9. Spellbound 5:00
  10. Mental Notes 0:33

Notes

The first proper Enz album features the band at its eccentric best. Mental Notes is completely noncommercial art rock filled with ambitious arrangements and slightly disturbing themes courtesy of the Phil Judd and Tim Finn songwriting partnership. Finn's bittersweet crooning perfectly compliments Judd's madman persona on tracks like "Stranger Than Fiction." Although the album would be repackaged, renamed, and re-recorded in years to come, the band would never again produce anything like it.