Corroboree [Import]

Split Enz | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 28, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Mushroom Records
• ASIN: B0000506QI
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #437,228 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hard Act to Follow

2. One Step Ahead

3. I Don't Wanna Dance

4. Iris

5. Wail

6. Clumsy

7. History Never Repeats

8. Walking Through the Ruins

9. Ships

10. Ghost Girl

11. Albert of India

Editorial Reviews

Waiata is the Maori word for party (the album was given the Aboriginal party title, Corroboree in Australia). Originally released in 1981. 11 tracks. Mushroom Records. 1991.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Forgotten Gem, September 13, 2004

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PJM "PJM" (Knoxville, TN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Corroboree (Audio CD)

Split Enz was faced with following up their most commercially successful release, "True Colors", and, on an artistic level at least, they did not disappoint. "Corroboree" ("Waitia" here in the USA) brims with catchy, hook laden pop dramas that resound in your head long after you put the CD away. It is a pity that it didn't sell as well in the States as "True Colors". This was the album that should have sent Split Enz to superstar status. As things turned out, it stands as a creative peak for an underappreciated group.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Good Sequel to True Colours, January 26, 2002

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Greg Hughes - See all my reviews

This review is from: Corroboree (Audio CD)

Corroboree (as the album is known in Australia) is the followup to Split Enz' triumphant record "True Colours". Like "True Colours", "Corroboree" was produced by David Tickle. Although "True Colours" deliberately had different colour combinations on the cover, Noel Crombie was shocked when America decided to have their own colour combinations for "Corroboree".

Appropriately enough, the opening track for this album is called "Hard Act to Follow". That famous phrase just about sums up the pressure Split Enz were under to produce something that matched the commercial success of "True Colours". To satisfy the record companies, the band were obliged to make History Repeat.

Two songs by Neil Finn, "One Step Ahead" and "History Never Repeats" became the singles, along with Tim Finn's "I Don't Wanna Dance". Although "Corroboree" failed to achieve the same level of success as "True Colours", this is still a good album. (It reached No. 1 in New Zealand.) For me the stand-out song is "History Never Repeats". All the songs are good, really. "Ghost Girl" is kind of sad. The album concludes with a pleasant instrumental by Eddie Rayner called "Albert of India".

If Split Enz were not satisfied with "Corroboree", they would surpass themselves with their next album "Time and Tide".

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Makes me want to dance., November 22, 2006

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MORTEN AASTAD (Oslo Norway) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Corroboree (Reis) (Audio CD)

I won't get into the debth and with of this album, I just have to a write a few lines and say that this, to me, is one of the best albums of its time. I absolutely love Split Enz, the two Finn Brothers and the whole wibe and feel of this band, in it's many incarnations. If you are new to Split Enz, but know of and have heard Crowded House, then this is a very good way to star appreciating Split Enz. The band was going very strong, incorporating more and more the extremly professional pop song sensibility of Neil Finn, merging it with Tim Finn's weary melancholy, and not least both members quirky and at times superbly dark lyrics.

An absolute joy, I can't recommend it enough.