Split Enz - Six Months In A Leaky Boat (Official Video)

Split Enz' classic music video for 'Six Months In A Leaky Boat' off their 1982 album 'Time And Tide'.
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[@brianharrigan6913]

I remember seeing the "World Premier" of this video on MTV at age 11 (I'm 53 now). Always loved this song, and kinda surprised it isn't more known.

[@pugetsound1272]

Yes, I remember the world premier too!

[@JupiterSKin]

One of the most beautifully sorrowfull songs ever written. That hook at the end is pure bliss.

[@Blueknight1960]

I've liked this every since I heard it on MTV back in the early 80's.

[@buf2srq2]

My best friend in college *loved* this song. He passed away in February. RIP, JCP. 💔

[@lb6253]

So sorry for the loss of your dear friend.

[@ronmerchantjr1851]

Just discovering this song.wow it's great.and sorry for your loss.take care peace.rock on......😊

[@japa9991]

Lovers? Just asking.

[@BridgeandTunnelScooterClub]

Your friend had great taste in music

[@user-yn6zo4wp5b]

Sorry for your loss. You’ll see them again 😇 . Enjoy the music!❤❤️❤️❤️

[@matthewrogers9750]

This song always fills me with a happy kind of sadness.😭

[@jeremyjames7126]

I was a teenager when this song came out! I'm 58 now lol well done Tim for the memory with Kiwi Music!

[@CailenCambeul]

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.

[@stevewithaphen]

The 80s. We lived in a time when very goid things were happening.

[@29Stumps]

63 here. All good memories. Split Enz at the beginning of the Music Video era. The Finn Bros are amazingly talented and will always be one of my favorites….

[@JupiterSKin]

Same

[@Blinkybills]

six months in a leaky boat was Tim's way of saying he had depression....and had come out of it. Still gives me the chills..

[@pugetsound1272]

Wow, I didn't know that. Thanks, it makes sense

[@jaroflies3700]

When Neil joins in on vocals on the second verse, just feels like the icing on the cake. Great song, great band.

[@gmansi]

Their voices really sound very good together.

[@fivethousandfreds]

Absolutely no sound on earth can compare to the beauty of a family harmonizing.

[@nolagospeltracts8264]

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!

[@gilleous]

wow! How lucky are you?!

[@michaelkiag7176]

Doesn t matter how old this song it, it's brilliant, always turns my mood positive in dark times when I hear this masterpiece

[@gmansi]

[@jaiellis6903]

Yes it does

[@robinwiddrington5765]

Loved this song. Foretold my future. I spent 23 years at sea in the Merchant Marine. Back when music was real.

[@squirrel-1969]

One of my favourite Split Enz songs from the 80's! It was such a great band!

[@TheNavypenguin]

Thank you dad for showing me yet another 80's masterpiece.

[@neil5872]

Saw Neil Finn show in Toronto Waterfront ‘99, fine performance

[@lefkytheshin]

Thank god you kids have cool dads. Well, some of you.

[@StarMelodyEsoteric]

My dad introduced me to this music when I was very young. I remember him playing this in his truck while we drove around.

[@bradthurkle7217]

God it’s so hard to believe that Tim Finn turned 70 this year. Where did the decades go man. This song it’s brilliant.

[@decafjava8565]

Wait what????

[@paulsanders860]

@@decafjava8565 Yeah

[@pixl8me]

Live, love, lament.. 😅

[@bradthurkle7217]

@@decafjava8565 yep!!! 70 man. Dudes old az now lol mind you I’m 52 in a couple of weeks. But not 70 lol 😂

[@benijager1372]

What? he should be executed for critizing Maggie with this sh1tty song!

[@noooohavok]

Song was ahead of its time.

[@stewartmcgill6401]

spot on time

[@markadams228]

Man i am so glad i discovered this tune. I was 10 in 1982 and i absolutely loved this song, but forgot about it until just now. I cant stop listening. What i find odd is I remember back then feeling like Split Enz were so outside of the ordinary and alternative back then. Now its just a good old almost folkish tune with a great hook and melody, and a bunch of young guys having fun making great music. Love it

[@amaru4029]

Certainly one of the best bands out of the eighties.

[@alisonholland7531]

They started and were huge in the mid 70's - the 80's was more Crowded House - first saw them in an open air concert in a park in Nth Sydney in 1975.

[@richardcourchene7477]

This was first popular when I was 17. In 2 years I turn 60.

[@robyngrieve5495]

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.

[@tomsimpson5317]

Makes me sad. I miss the old days when life was good

[@margaretbrown9622]

Can get those good days back ...,. My girls there she was justa walking down her st ..., singing do wah Diddy did E dumb

[@moobutt]

We all do. The world is crap again.

[@davidwright4495]

I know how you feel. I'm 59 and I miss those days too. You never know what you had until it's gone FOREVER."

[@richarddavies8938]

Savour the memories and make more.

[@29Stumps]

Ditto

[@swageryan5798]

For more than 40 years I was searching for this song,thank you KZbin algorithm for finding

[@southcalder]

Love Split Enz. Even today, some of the best moments of a Crowded House gig is when Neil does something from those days.

[@Brissieskater1]

Split Enz music really is a modern day masterpiece. The full sound and brilliant song writing certainly makes good music all round.

[@peterhayden7136]

The intro and outro still still shivers me Timbers , the part in the middle is also excellent 😀

[@Sdragnasty]

Arrggh - no lie, me hearty! 💙⚓💙

[@heavnnnsent]

sounds like you love the WHOLE enchilada!

[@11henger]

Oh arrh me laddie

[@joememphis1571]

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]

Maybe our paths shouldve crossed, I grew up near black country dad was Irish, been to NZ twice, ended up in Santander north Spain.

[@joememphis1571]

@@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.

[@KayAteChef]

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.

[@joememphis1571]

@@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.

[@joememphis1571]

@mommum thank you 😊

[@madronejack2508]

So beautifully relevant in 2022, as it was in 1982, may we all spend 6 months in a leaky boat.

[@dwmfty3111]

no instead Melbourne got 3 years of lockdown🤣🤣🤣

[@anne-louiseluccarini4530]

Yep, 1982. That's when my children and I lived in a leaky boat. Beautiful memories.

[@kevinlutz5994]

Neaxealand

[@djdentertainment7127]

Split Enz were a fun group with some great songs!!❤❤❤

[@gannon3578]

Epic Intro Beautiful Song Haunting Outro Absolute Classic

[@inescollins5176]

Great descriptions.

[@lynneslightom2003]

I forgot how beautiful the piano at the beginning was! Loved this band. ❤️

[@rachelflett6158]

Me too!

[@damianmcwilliams2371]

I'm an Australian and this is New Zealand.... awesome.

[@dwl1117]

This is what perfection sounds like.

[@ThomasJamesYohemas]

The first album I bought when I was 13. Classic 80s!

[@blueshorecreative3146]

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!

[@rubyredjeans]

I don’t think there’s ever been another NZ band that have trumped the ENZ’s success in OZ. Super talented and appreciating them even more now.

[@stevenwebb3634]

@@rubyredjeans maybe Dragon

[@koitorob]

A favourite of Brits too!

[@RPMZ11]

@@koitorob Plus the Great White North🍁

[@tucoselby]

Nope definitely an Aussie band

[@michelwilms6607]

Underrated band. Split Enz made some great albums/songs.

[@yuhgftp7925]

Agreed

[@pizzaman191]

One of Eddie Vedder's favourite bands when he was a kid.....you can hear the melodic influence in some Pearl Jam's more mellow tunes

[@janececelia7448]

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.

[@chantalfinn6173]

@@janececelia7448 yup

[@barbarakirk3064]

@@janececelia7448 Anne Nightingale did play it on her Sunday night show.

[@matthewrogers9750]

Songs been going through my head a lot lately so I thought I'd check it out. The Finn brothers are great. High school memories.

[@ReverendAquaman]

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"

[@hummer2223]

Who else can work Aeotearoa into a song? Brilliant!

[@janececelia7448]

It makes me so homesick I could cry. I am crying.

[@yourshadowself]

Love the Māori language welcome to the song ❤

[@mariacollins3742]

Such a happy song !!! Takes me back to the 80s and happier times! ❤️❤️❤️

[@paleshelter4002]

Agree 👍.. another great happy 80's song is.. In a big country.. Big country

[@caroline3475]

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.

[@RPMZ11]

Lucky us eh? Great having cool by your side.

[@japa9991]

born in the 70's song is awesome regardless of age.

[@MizzSparkle90]

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!

[@LiverpoolRules4Ever]

The most underrated band of the century. Magnificent ballads, melodies, harmonies, instrumentals and lyrics. Phenomenal all round.

[@jondunmore4268]

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.

[@LiverpoolRules4Ever]

@@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.

[@dancingvirgil]

FFS everyone thinks their favourite band is ‘underrated’.

[@zapkvr]

HERE HERE. Pure talent. And not a lot of ego

[@Deadbeatcow]

​@@jondunmore4268Good job Jon, you've described the meaning of the word underrated. A round of applause for the genius over here! 👏👏👏👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉

[@TinaMaxwell-mq4rl]

I actually spent a lot of time in a leaky boat love you Tim and Neil All of the group ❤️😢😮

[@ashleyc698]

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.

[@naturecalling_thatinnerglow]

It really doesn't matter, i grew up in this era, but this song is as good now as it was then.

[@gilleous]

Good instincts. It was an amazing amazing time for music.

[@Tommass79]

Eddie Rainer keys and arrangements contributed elements that helped define Split Enz as much as lyric song and vocals…a magical combination.

[@lyalldavis2405]

100% agree

[@urniurl]

Absolutely

[@keithwhite2815]

Loved their albums, found split enz while working in a record store back in mid 70's mental notes. Still have it.

[@Mr.56Goldtop]

I remember very well MTV advertising this video as one of their WORLD PREMIERE VIDEO!! I watched, and I liked.

[@psullivan9299]

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".

[@gilleous]

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.

[@stevejager8088]

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]

Didn't know what aotearoa was till I looked it up New Zealand in Maori

[@TeutonicTribe]

Something like ‘long white cloud’, if I recall *over decades now* 😘

[@David-yo5ws]

@@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.

[@adamgre6819]

Thank you!

[@2506cristian]

I remember my days of youth 😢…. 40 years ago

[@WhiskeyShred]

What a masterpiece..and that outro!

[@inescollins5176]

What about the intro?

[@Glornt]

@@inescollins5176 Or the entire album?

[@inescollins5176]

@@Glornt I was referring to the beginning/intro of the song "Six Months in a leaky Boat".

[@mikenichols5473]

that outro is quite possibly the best minute of music I have ever heard.

[@spiraljoe1273]

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 KZbin for that purpose.

[@TCFan25]

The last minute has to be the best - so melancholy and reflective!

[@bretthernan7589]

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.

[@TheAxelay]

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.

[@billythekid2281]

I love the last minute of this song. It sounds like a completely different song. I would love to see it extended and made into its own song.

[@julugomamogil7287]

That is nostalgia. The six months are over...

[@proschoolaudio]

Amazing and relative 40 years later! What an amazing band!!

[@geraldspooner8414]

I was lucky enough to see split enz,crowded house and the finn brothers live.

[@richardpeetrinpeetrin9817]

Underrated New Wave band!😊

[@misterdavid5400]

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.

[@bigneiltoo]

Wait, you liked a National lockdown over sniffles, zero tolerance policies and gun grabbing from Jacinda?

[@edwardhirt6347]

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 ...

[@sbstanf16]

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.

[@djjjk]

Ah brilliant, this song brings me right back, played Time and Tide to death back in the 80s.

[@anne-louiseluccarini4530]

My children were teenagers. I was early forties. We were never closer than we were then.

[@shaunnapper9718]

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.

[@Coowallsky]

It's Eddie Rayner playing an arpeggio pattern on the synth.

[@McSherryStudioArt]

Fantastic song. One of my favorites.

[@karanaman68]

That outtro is peerless

[@cascade3769]

Layla's outro is as good.

[@cliveinnofthe7th.]

Imaginative and carefree halcyon days back in the 80's❤

[@juanitaroxy5032]

I grew up with Split Enz as a child.... I adore them

[@ericmixer]

Me too ! God bless us !

[@JustaChokingV]

Same. Still one of my favorite bands.

[@mpersad]

One of the greatest tracks of the 80s. Outstanding then, and now.

[@brentonpickett2371]

A timeless, perfected masterpiece

[@michaelcolello2735]

Loved this since it dropped. Still do. Great art, and a moving testament to New Zealand.

[@elliotwood4972]

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.

[@mrdee3906]

Stone cold Kiwi classic , even back then, those pakeha boys from Te Awamutu had the foresight and paid due respect to Aotearoa , Finn brothers nothing but pure class, Kia Kaha

[@brucev6642]

Haven't though about this song for years. As we depart in December for a 6 month cruise (not in a leaky boat), this is apt!

[@murrayscott9546]

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.

[@murrayscott9546]

For all their wrinkles and scar, they swung for the fences. Like Champs.

[@arthurjohnwilkins8865]

Love the high paced - rollicking tune contrasting with the haunting outro...

[@jackiescanlon]

Absolutely love the instrumental opening.

[@captainswing4487]

Thank you..now I can't stop this tune going around and around my head.

[@ronshaw1955]

Just saw him in concert at the Michael Fowler Centre - he’s still got it!!

[@2bobaf]

The world's greatest sea shanty.

[@wademurphy2321]

Reminds me when me and my buddies started riding our bikes to the beach this song came out at the same time. Great memories

[@noisepollution6761]

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

[@efftee3702]

Brilliant song.

[@blueshorecreative3146]

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.

[@dougmedina4619]

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.

[@thomasschumacher5362]

Worked as a set designer on spicks and specks after this

[@gregfarrugia6684]

I love all of SPLIT ENZ bring back great memories from the 70s and 80s from school days . And I still love there music to this day!

[@punkrockcharts9148]

I only recently heard this song for the first time and can't stop listening. It's a really well put together song and catchy as hell.

[@alanburge2725]

Great happy sounding and seeming so simple as a tune. What a great pop song. Unbelievable !

[@80ssynthfan48]

Tim was suffering bad depression during this period, in total contrast to the upbeat feel of the song.

[@anne-louiseluccarini4530]

They were good years in pop songs.

[@drumphil00]

Gawd I love that outro.

[@davidwright8371]

Forgot how much I dug this tune. Thank God for youtube

[@mikejackson5666]

The most talented songwriters n singers ever

[@serenityjoe86]

Thank you for finally posting this ❤

[@argopunk]

Great song. Takes me back to grade nine when it came out and all the years I've listened to it since. Classics keep getting played in my world.

[@scottdel.8892]

Great musical band, incredible music and awesome lyrical writing.

[@michaeldemarillac9992]

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.

[@MegaBedrock]

Greatest opening ever

[@SuperEdge67]

Best outro as well.

[@rachelflett6158]

This connects me to my pen pal so very deeply 💜🙏🏻💚

[@dietslice]

I Love all their Music, Neil Finn, his Brother, and the Band have rocked for Many years Classic tunes !!

[@paulmanners8736]

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.

[@rf5210]

They simply don't make music like this anymore.. Love the Enz!

[@sellyklater8415]

Yes we use to dance and sing to this at school in New Zealand, our teachers made us 😂

[@birdy3961]

Great memories

[@Bevity]

Very cool, cool teachers.

[@princealmighty5391]

@@Bevity lol no

[@Bevity]

@@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.

[@nomdeguerre7356]

Brings back so many good memories from my childhood ...still love it to this day

[@iran747]

Of the Falklands War.

[@nocomment4848]

@@iran747 The falklands was a mere curiosity to those who aren't British

[@mapper7310]

@@iran747 this song isn't even British

[@joelyisdoingherbest]

I was @12 when this came out and saw their Time and Tide tour. My heart still skips a beat when the Finn brothers belt out “Aotearoa” they were so freaking cute!!

[@alessandrobatista7971]

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...

[@MrPhilGilbert]

each time i listen or hear this song it reminds me of my dad, He use to listen to this song all the time in the car.