Time and Tide (Split Enz album) explained

Time and Tide
Type:	studio
Artist:	Split Enz
Cover:	Time and Tide.jpg
Released:	April 1982
Recorded:	Sydney December 1981 – February 1982
Genre:	New wave
Length:	41:24
Label:	Mushroom
Producer:	Hugh Padgham, Split Enz
Prev Title:	Waiata (Corroboree)
Prev Year:	1981
Next Title:	Enz of an Era
Next Year:	1982

Time and Tide is the eighth album by the New Zealand new wave band Split Enz, released in April 1982. Recorded in Sydney starting the prior December, it topped the charts in New Zealand and Australia and won Best Australian Album at the Countdown Australian Music Awards.^[1] It was rereleased in 2006 along with every Split Enz studio album.

Track listing

"Dirty Creature" (Neil Finn, Tim Finn & Nigel Griggs) – 4:02
"Giant Heartbeat" (N. Finn & Griggs) – 3:57
"Hello Sandy Allen" (N. Finn) – 3:51
"Never Ceases to Amaze Me" (T. Finn) – 3:06
"Lost for Words" (N. Finn, T. Finn & Griggs) – 3:02
"Small World" (T. Finn) – 3:37
"Take a Walk" (N. Finn) – 3:37
"Pioneer" (Eddie Rayner) – 1:32
"Six Months in a Leaky Boat" (T. Finn & Split Enz) – 4:21
"Haul Away" (T. Finn) – 2:27
"Log Cabin Fever" (N. Finn) – 4:36
"Make Sense of It" (Noel Crombie, T. Finn, N. Finn, Griggs & Rayner) – 3:40

Personnel

Split Enz

Tim Finn – vocals, piano
Neil Finn – vocals, guitar
Noel Crombie – drums, percussion
Nigel Griggs – bass guitar
Eddie Rayner – keyboards, percussion

Technical and art

Produced by Hugh Padgham and Split Enz
Recorded in Sydney, Australia, for Enz Productions
Engineered by Hugh Padgham, assisted by David Price
Mixed by Hugh Padgham and Split Enz
Mastered by Ian Cooper and Howard Grey at Townhouse Studios, UK
Art direction: Jeff Ayeroff
Cover design and photos by Noel Crombie

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1982)!scope="col"
scope="row"
Peak position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)^[2]	1
Canadian Albums (RPM)^[3]	4
UK Albums (OCC)^[4]	71
US Top LPs & Tape (Billboard)^[5]	58

Year-end charts

Chart (1982)!scope="col"
Position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)^[6]	8
Canadian Albums (RPM)^[7]	38
New Zealand Albums (RIANZ)^[8]	3

Notes and References

Web site: Australian Music Awards . Ron Jeff . 16 December 2010 .
Book: Kent, David. Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book. St Ives, NSW. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 288. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA its their own charts in mid-1988.
Web site: RPM Canadian Charts. 10 April 2017.
Web site: Split Enz. The Official UK Charts Company. UK Albums Chart. 10 April 2017.
Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=time-and-tide-r18686/charts-awards|pure_url=yes}} Split Enz - Time and Tide]. AllMusic. 11 November 2010.
Book: Kent, David. Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book. St Ives, NSW. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 434. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created its own charts in mid-1988.
Top 100 Albums '82 . RPM . 25 December 1982 . 10 April 2017.
Web site: The Official New Zealand Music Charts: End of Year Charts – 1982 . 10 April 2017.