240 gigabytes of Neil Finn podcast

Remember last year when Neil Finn made us feel good about life? Teresa dials in from Wellington to relisten and share her experiences from her first solo Neil Finn solo; 14 August 2025 at Roundhead studios. Featured performances include Quicksand, Faster Than Light, Gentle Hum, Time For a Change, Finger Of Love, Your Next Move & Only Talking Sense.

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Theres a lot of good acts around, but only one who really gets through to you with track by track Finn reviews! That is the ENZ TO END trio who are here again to break down the 1981 classic Waiata/Corroboree in all of it's contested glory.

We went with the 2006 remaster, tracklist as follows:

Hard Act to Follow
History Never Repeats
I Don't Wanna Dance
Walking Through the Ruins
Wail
Iris
Clumsy
Ghost Girl
Ships
Albert of India
In the Wars (bonus track)

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Rob Darcy joins Chris's pilsner infused video call to discuss the many offerings of Crowded House live at the Trocadero in Philadelphia March 24 1987. Songs featured in full include When You Come, Thats What I Call Love, Jamaican Farewell/Recurring Dream, Now We're Getting Somewhere, Better Be Home Soon, Sister Madly, Not Fade Away/Stir It Up.

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Dave, Adam and Chris are back to spin your heads with delight! Split Enz's commercial pinnacle 'True Colours' is taken for a permanent rinse with every track getting the ENZ TO END ranking/review treatment. Plus the episode features a song mash up from Dave that you never knew you needed in your life...

Tracks discussed:

Things
Shark Attack
I Got You
Whats The Matter With You
Double Happy
I Wouldn't Dream Of It
I Hope I Never
Nobody Takes Me Seriously
Missing Persons
Poor Boy
How Can I Resist Her
The Choral Sea

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Neil Finn live in Roundhead giving the first public glimpses of the Dizzy Heights era with insightful banter and lush arrangements. Featured performances include Private Universe, Not The Girl You Think You Are, Dizzy Heights, White Lies & Alibies, Kare Kare.

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Relive the adrenaline and emotional high that was the Forever Enz tour 2026! Darryl dials in for a thorough recap and listen back to Split Enz's second night in Melbourne 14 May 2026. Whilst we hear excerpts from every song in the set, noteable performances featured in full include Shark Attack, Time For A Change, Missing Person, Hard Act To Follow & Spellbound.

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Louis dials in from Brighton to enthuse on the spoils of Split Enz's Sight & Sound set in London 21 October 1977. Performances include Bold As Brass, My Mistake, True Colours (Let's Rock), Charlie, Crosswords, The Woman Who Loves You & Best Friend.

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Shed your long faces and long overcoats people, because it's time to do the Frenzy! The ENZ TO END trio return, this time putting their minds to the matter of Split Enz's 1979's album Frenzy. True to the masterplan, Adam, Dave & Chris spend precious hours talking mostly nonsense and plently of stuff in service of ranking each song on the record. Plus, we got an email message from the mighty NIGEL GRIGGS sharing a few reflections from his early days in the Enz!

Frenzy (2006 edition tracklist)

Give It a Whirl
I See Red
Famous People
Hermit McDermitt
Stuff and Nonsense
Mind Over Matter
Marooned
Master Plan
She Got Body, She Got Soul
The Roughest, Toughest Game in the World
Abu Dhabi
Betty
Frenzy

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Jamie dials in to acknowledge his late mate Zola and to explore a high quality live recording from the show in which they met; Neil Finn at the Palace Theatre, London, 4 February 2001. Performances include: Turn & Run, Message To My Girl, Four Seasons In One Day, Don't Ask Why, Secret God, Wherever You Are, Private Universe, Loose Tounge, Dont Dream Its Over

Check out the latest episode of Jamie's Friday Vinyl Club pod with Jeremy Ansell. Its streaming on all platforms, heres a spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1NzqXG9MpYjBPhtlQ6B7uh?si=OakmRBQ0RPCjc3hYhr0Z5g

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Almost 2 hours of uninterrupted Nick Seymour telling stories, answering questions and playing bass at Allans Music in Melbourne 14 March 2017. There is so much to love here about Nick Seymour in his flow!

P.s thanks Darryl!

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Wim dials in from Ghent to share his take on a stellar soundboard recording of Crowded House live at the Capitol Records Carpark 1991. Tracks featured in full include Weather With You, Tall Trees, Fall At Your Feet, Spellbound, All I Ask & Italian Plastic.

Wim gives further insight into learning the Crowdies catalogue with his tribute band 'Woodface' who are working up to a series of special shows to celebrate the Woodface album's 35th anniversary.

Check out Woodface's links over here:
https://linktr.ee/woodfaceCHtribute

Episode Cover: Four Seasons In One Day by Woodface

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The ENZ TO END podcasting trio assembles to rate and review the Rootin Tootin Luton Tapes. Recorded in 1978 and finally released in full to the public in 2007. Does the album live up to the lore of being a lost masterpiece? Or is it merely a mess mess messy pile of demos? Adam, Dave & Chris give you the straight talk for your information!

Tracks for reference

• Miss Haps
• Home Comforts
• Animal Lover
• Carried Away
• Semi-Detached
• Holy Smoke
• Message Boy
• Hypnotised
• Late In Rome
• Straight Talk
• Hollow Victory
• Evelyn
• Best Friend
• Creature Comforts
• Remember When

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Serena dials in from Sydney to revel amongst the merits of Time On Earth era Crowded House. We apply our ears to a spirited performance from that time; Saratoga, 29 August 2007. Performances include There Goes God, Silent House, You're The One To Make Me Cry, Nails In My Feet, Pinapple Head, People Are Like Suns, She Called Up
Four Seasons In One Day (partial; PA got shut down!)

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Roll up, roll up! The ENZ TO END boys Dave, Chris & Adam take Split Enz's 1977's DIZRYTHMIA to task. Scores given for each and every song; we're still friends but we're still fighting about how it all went.

Dizrythmia tracklist for reference:
1 Bold as Brass
2 My Mistake
3 Parrot Fashion Love
4 Sugar and Spice
5 Without a Doubt
6 Crosswords
7 Charlie
8 Nice to Know
9 Jamboree

Cowboy Dan bandcamp:
https://cowboydanmusic.bandcamp.com/

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Chris crosses the Tasman into the mighty city of Melbourne for multiple nights of Crowded House at the Palais Theatre. Melbourne local Darryl put his audiance mics to work at the show and a few weeks later we put our heads together to listen back to first night (29/10/25). Lots of new material to digest!

Performances include: Too Good For This World, In My Own Shell, It Was A Small Detail, At The Station, Pearly Shells, The Howl, New York Mining Disaster, Sweet Dreams, Last Summer. Plus a bonus performance of Dusty from night 2, 30/10/25.

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Greg Cooper joins us from Melbourne to reconnect with the Try Whistling This era and to go deep diving with Neil Finn & his band live at Festival Hall Dec 12 1998. Performances include: King Tide, Sinner Faster Than Light, Four Seasons In One Day, Fingers of Love, Loose Tounge, Try Whistling This Astro, When You Come, Suffer Never.

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Time to drop your lovers noose and swing! The next episode in the ENZ TO END series is upon us. The mighty Second Thoughts from 1976 is up for discussion. Dave, Chris & Adam give you all their thoughts on the album including a rating for every song. Hopefully all this enthusiasm and excitement spurs you on to go buy the remixed/remastered boxset of Mental Notes/Second Thoughts/Beginning Of The Enz out Nov 14th.

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Darryl returns to finish the job in the second part of Crowded House in Melbourne 2 December 2008. Performances include: Lucky Lola, Cars Collide, Private Universe, Throw Your Arms Around Me.

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Darryl dials in from Melbourne to discuss his #1 Crowded House show; 2 December 2008 at The Forum in Melbourne. The audio is stellar from this show, in part due to Darryl's labour of love remastering a bunch of underappreciated Finn shows. This episode is part 1 of 2. Performances include World where you live, Isolation, Pineapple head, Amsterdam, Bernards magic shop & Chocolate cake.

Your humble host's band Cowboy Dan also just dropped their debut album Dreams That Feel Like Falling last week. Streaming on the usual platforms or available to purchase on vinyl or digital over here:

https://cowboydanmusic.bandcamp.com/album/dreams-that-feel-like-falling

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Amongst word of the Split Enz 2026 reunion excitement, Chris revisits the most recent Enz appearance, Sound Relief Melbourne 14 March 2009. Performances include Shark Attack, Message To My Girl, Dirty Creature, Pioneer/Six Months In A Leaky Boat, History Never Repeats, I See Red.

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