Split Enz' classic music video for 'Six Months In A Leaky Boat' off their 1982 album 'Time And Tide'. Listen to more Split Enz at WMA.lnk.to/SplitEnz #SplitEnz #SixMonthsInALeakyBoat
These days no-one wants to acknowledge the extraordinary feats of ordinary men. Sir this and that, Lord this and that wouldn't have got past the gate of their own farm without the endless slog of men who's names we'll never know.
54 here. Everything you said. I remember my father bitching about it in 83. He complained the lyrics didn't make sense to him. Yeah, but Ooby Dooby did.
The reason why I moved here over 20 years ago. 🥝 "Aotearoa Rugged individual Glisten like a pearl At the bottom of the world The tyranny of distance Didn't stop the cavalier So why should it stop me I'll conquer and stay free"
Saw Crowded House live in New Orleans around 86 or so. Tim was with them and the second half a the show was basically a Split Enz show, It was awesome!
When I was a young boy I wanted to sail around the world That's the life for me Living on the sea Spirit of a sailor Circumnavigates the globe The lust of a pioneer Will acknowledge no frontier I remember you by, thunderclap in the sky Lightning flash, tempers flare 'Round the horn if you dare I just spent six months in a leaky boat Lucky just to keep afloat Aotearoa Rugged individual Glisten like a pearl At the bottom of the world The tyranny of distance Didn't stop the cavalier So why should it stop me I'll conquer and stay free Ah, c'mon all you lads Let's forget and forgive There's a world to explore Tales to tell back on shore I just spent six months in a leaky boat Six months in a leaky boat Ship-wrecked love can be cruel Don't be fooled by her kind There's a wind in my sails Will protect and prevail I just spent six months in a leaky boat Nothing to it leaky boat
@@alberta6862 'Technically' it is an adopted word by New Zealander's and was made prominent in the 1920-1930's period. Some say it came from a book written to describe the historical first sighting of the land by the first Maori expedition. And I bet they had a 'leaky boat' also. Not 6 months of travel though, fortunately for them.
The UK banned this song because of the Falkland war and that's why they didn't get the recognition they so fully deserved. It was a rite of passage back then and probably still is, though to a lesser degree, that NZ bands try out Australia before going on to the UK. They thought it would affect the morale of the Navy. I think this song was destined to smash their pop charts. We can thank Margaret Thatcher for that.
I can't stop praising The Enz for the important band that they are. A NZ band but a favourite of Aussies. Quality all over the place and the timelessness of "classic". The ending to this song is a sublime play between piano and percussion. Exquisite!
My brother in law can relate to this gem as he was born in Belfast, grew up in Wolverhampton and at age 13 he migrated to New Zealand settling in Hamilton with his dad, four uncles and five brothers. This was in 1966 and he turns 70 next month. He has lived in the US since 1983. He still has a fairly noticeable West Midlands accent when he speaks.
@@chriscoughlan5221 My brother in law’s second cousin lives in Dudley and his fraternal twin brother lives in Walsall with his Māori wife and their four daughters. His other four brothers live in Canada, Japan, Mexico and Germany respectively.
At 13 his accent was already fixed. Only people speaking with affectations shrug off their accent. Mel Gibson for example. He is basically wearing a mask with his real face still there. Must take a lot of work.
@@KayAteChef He has also dealt with dyslexia, a slight speech impediment due to a botched tonsillectomy when he was nine years old, and 95% hearing loss in his right ear due to an abscess infection on his eardrum.
PLEASE ALL YOU MILLENNIALS STOP SAYING UNDERRATED, WHEN WHAT YOU REALLY MEAN IS YOUR EGO BELIEVES EVERYONE ELSE SHOULD LIKE SOMETHING AS MUCH AS YOU DO.
@@jondunmore4268 millenials??? What parallel universe do you live in? I'm Gen X DH!! You know, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin etc etc. Now stop making assumptions.
Still listening March 2023. Idk what it is, but Split Enz hits a certain chord for me more than most bands. My Dad used to play them all the time when we’d be driving around when I was a kid. I now have his copy of True Colours on vinyl which I cherish. “Nobody Takes Me Seriously” is my favorite, followed by this one. Wish I grew up in this era.
I was born in the 90s but I'm so grateful to my dad for showing me this album when I was a child. I used to think the louder parts of the whistling segment was him harmonizing when I was a kid from the back seat of his Volvo. When I listened as on my iPod and the part was still in the song my mind was blown! Now I'm 28 and this song still hits the spot like no other.
Love this! I’m 34 next month and first discovered Split Enz on an old 80s radio show. Wasn’t this one, it was I Got You, my absolute FAVOURITE 🥰 but this also rocks!
Im 59 and am so enjoying my Split End nostalgia soiree today. This song is haunting, joyful, and beautifully captures centuries of Brits on the high seas - amazingly in a masterful new wave spirit. They were one of my faves in high school and all their songs I loved then, I love just as much now. Brilliant musicians.
Fun Fact Split Enz first sang it in 1982. In 2000 The Wiggles did their own cover with Tim Finn when they released their new video and CD It’s A Wiggly Wiggly World about Captain Feathersword the Friendly Pirate sailing on the SS Feathersword.
I could tell they had something special even as a child of the 70s but the older I get the more I appreciate what a rare gem the talent exhibited by the band that was Spliit Enz, and later perhaps a little more drastically commerce oriented, in Crowded House. But Split Enz, in their eariest incarnation, rated up there with any and all of the world's best prog rock bands and to many they even stood superior with a mastery over the most delightful of melody offered regular as clockwork as proof.
The piano, percussion and (the unknown) instrument that gives off the “whirl”(?) sound one hears produces the sublime . I heard this recording in the 90’s and I been a fan since.
and Noel Crombie, this is an exquisite piece of drumming at the end. To me, it's emotionally connected the theme of the song. Since the first time I heard it, I wished that the last movement of this song would go longer.
After Mal Green left the band Noel was unsure if he was the right man to play drums as he really was not a proper drummer. His background was percussion. Spoons were his specialty. The boys had to talk him into it. He exceeded all expectations. Fantastic work indeed.
Split Enz were such a great band. The entire Time and Tide album was superb ... Dirty Creature, this song, so many interesting and well crafted songs ...
Yes, I had the album. I was drawn to buy it after seeing them on MTV. As an American southerner, we never heard music from New Zealand. I just love the intro, Pioneer, to this song. The whole piece is so dramatic. When listening, I can just imagine being on the high seas going around the uncharted world. Dirty Creature and Never Ceases to Amaze Me were my favorites too. Even today after 40 years, I sing Never Ceases to Amaze me when I see something that amazes me, haha.
Yeah , this song is so well - constructed it's almost unbelievable. Brings back allot. Splt Enz ( and Crowded House didda lot, for my life. Adios, Crosby. I will miss you, also. Hastias.
A real radio edit in the early 80's, there was nothing quite like it and to this day now its still really out there! It's a story of song about stories that relate to a story...Nothing quite like this forever! Unique as.
I absolutely love everything about NZ. I have been there four times over four decades and it's just brilliant and the Finn brothers encapsulate all of those decades in their music.
STILL love this song in 2023 - Split Enz were one of my favorite through my teens/80s. So thankful now for streaming music so I can listen to my old vinyl on these playlists. I LOVE RU-vid for that purpose.
Deano's quest for divinity no one noticed this either john but can sugar mamma celebrate by sticking it to me? Moog changes alpha 🎉 heyyy I have no control over my life now you know why blokes are rebels too coz there's tough times for everybody
Ì first heard this tune way back in 1984 I was listening to Gary Davies lunchtime show on Radio 1 and he was hosting a daily quiz and he had a contestant from New Zealand who played the piano and he picked this tune as one of his favourites. This song is one of my favourite from that summer.
I started keeping personal charts when I was a kid from 1980-88. This was my #1 song from all of 1982 (6 wks at #1)...and I was living in the SE coastal US where radio airplay was scarce. I did get Billboard magazine, which showed me the international charts, and caused me to buy "Time & Tide".
I live in Texas, and a few years back I heard an instrumental version of this song waiting to talk to someone at AT&T. That's when I knew I was getting old.
Had to post again this 90 sec dramatic evocative intro was the spark that directed me to pursuing theatrical composition at age 19 being commissioned to compose for a major piece it’s not a boast it’s an acknowledgement how impactful this piece and others Spit Enz songs created were so inspirational to me.
Quando ouvi essa canção pela primeira vez, em 1983, com 4 anos, não entendia nada de inglês e ela me impactou. Quarenta anos e um pouquinho de inglês depois, eis que eu a reencontro e tenho a mesma emoção de quatro décadas atrás. Music is just magic, my friends...
@@princealmighty5391 Dang, I would have been happy to have my uncool teachers get us to sing and dance to that song! Actually, we didn't sing or dance to any song... I'm jealous.
I spent 9 months on deployment with the Navy when this song came out and it was a big hit. I only got to hear it a few times on my return as it had been played so much previously on the airways. I was so disappointed because I loved that song.
That sounds as dumb as Clearchannel prohibiting radio stations from playing certain songs or bands after 9/11. They actually banned anything by the band Explosions In The Sky because of their name! Idiocy.
