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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Though inconsistent, New Zealand's Split Enz were among the finest "alternative pop" groups of the 80's. "True Colours" is their most solid effort, with Tim and Neil Finn's songwriting finding a collective balance. Everyone knows "I Got You", but the album is full of great tunes, including "What's The Matter With You", "Shark Attack", and "I Hope I Never". Originally issued on coloured vinyl, this record should be a part of any great pop collection.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This was far and away the Enz's first proper pop album, with hardly a wrong note or poor song. Their albums prior were slightly crazy, chaotic, albeit with charisma and as yet unharnessed talent. They were the practice sessions and True Colours the debut, proper.
Poor Boy was always my favourite, a song I felt empathy with, back as a teenager. Their biggest hit 'I Got You', getting to no. 4 in the UK charts and was often referred to as 'I Don't Know why I get Frightened', as it's a key line in the song. Particularly memorable to me, True Colours was not only the first ever album I ever bought but in the most formats....cassette, then LP, then a laser-etched LP, then with a alternative colour design sleeve and then, finally, this CD.
It's well cheap now and I still prefer the best of Enz's music to almost anything that the Finn boys did as Crowded House. Rather like the lead singer of A Ha, Tim's soaring voice really suits the semi electric lineup; Eddie Rayner's sizzling and often haunting keyboards superbly enhancing the overall effect. A synthesized trumpet solo on 'Nobody Takes Me Seriously anyway' is just one example. It is a very well recorded album, too, with a clear, open and well balanced sound - and with good bass, too.
I've often cited this album as my all time favourite and playing it again, now, for the hundredth (or so) time, is as fresh and enjoyable as ever.
Poor Boy was always my favourite, a song I felt empathy with, back as a teenager. Their biggest hit 'I Got You', getting to no. 4 in the UK charts and was often referred to as 'I Don't Know why I get Frightened', as it's a key line in the song. Particularly memorable to me, True Colours was not only the first ever album I ever bought but in the most formats....cassette, then LP, then a laser-etched LP, then with a alternative colour design sleeve and then, finally, this CD.
It's well cheap now and I still prefer the best of Enz's music to almost anything that the Finn boys did as Crowded House. Rather like the lead singer of A Ha, Tim's soaring voice really suits the semi electric lineup; Eddie Rayner's sizzling and often haunting keyboards superbly enhancing the overall effect. A synthesized trumpet solo on 'Nobody Takes Me Seriously anyway' is just one example. It is a very well recorded album, too, with a clear, open and well balanced sound - and with good bass, too.
I've often cited this album as my all time favourite and playing it again, now, for the hundredth (or so) time, is as fresh and enjoyable as ever.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Brilliantly colored Split Enz album
2 Oct 2004
Format:Audio CD
"True Colors" was where Split Enz hit both their commerical and creative stride. The follow up "Corroboree (aka "Waiata") was equally strong and but this is where the band began producing their string of masterpieces. Although some of the new wave arrangements don't quite gel now, the overall effect is still pretty powerful.
Opening with the one-two punch of "I Got You" and "Shark Attack" the album never lets up. Neil Finn truly discovers his songwriting voice here and Tim continues to provide some of the richest ballads of his career with "I Hope I Never". Imagine if The Beatles stuck together and embraced new wave and you'll get an idea of this albums sound. Neil combines the melodicism of Paul McCartney with the the lyrical adeptness of Lennon.
I do miss the colored vinyl that this first appeared. A pity they couldn't do something similar with the CD reissue. This album needs to be remastered to capture all the detail in the production.
Opening with the one-two punch of "I Got You" and "Shark Attack" the album never lets up. Neil Finn truly discovers his songwriting voice here and Tim continues to provide some of the richest ballads of his career with "I Hope I Never". Imagine if The Beatles stuck together and embraced new wave and you'll get an idea of this albums sound. Neil combines the melodicism of Paul McCartney with the the lyrical adeptness of Lennon.
I do miss the colored vinyl that this first appeared. A pity they couldn't do something similar with the CD reissue. This album needs to be remastered to capture all the detail in the production.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
The best that Split Enz put out
4 April 2004
Format:Audio CD
If you buy one Split Enz album, this should be it, especially if you are a new wave music fan. I first started listening to it on my Walkman when I was 14 and it was one of the few tapes in my collection that I could play beginning to end without fast forwarding past any of the tracks. I can't say this for the other Split Enz album I owned, Time and Tide, but Dirty Creature and Six Months in a Leaky Boat from that one are both brilliant. As the media changed and I no longer had a turntable or tape player, I bought CD versions of some of the music I had from my teen years, those albums that stood the test of time and on which every song was great. True Colours is one of those.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Great for what it is
20 July 2003
Format:Audio CD
This is a great album of catchy, early new wave pop songs. I had a handful of Split Enz's albums by the mid-1980s, and this was always my favorite. The songs are moody, but also bouncy and fun-loving.
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