Mental Notes (Split Enz album)

Bassist Mike Chunn later complained about the "totally unsympathetic treatment we'd had when we were recording in Australia. The engineer in Sydney thought we couldn't tune our guitars and that we were unprofessional and he just showed total disinterest right through." Much of the material derived from Tim Finn's and Phil Judd's fascination with the work of the renowned English writer and artist Mervyn Peake – notably "Spellbound" the epic track "Stranger Than Fiction" (their concert centrepiece) and "Titus", named after the hero of Peake's Gormenghast trilogy. == Track listing ==

Track notes :Songs marked * were re-recorded for the Second Thoughts album. :This version of "Spellbound" has Phil Judd singing lead vocals. A 1974 demo version, found on The Beginning of the Enz album, has Tim Finn singing lead. == Personnel ==

Split Enz • Tim Finn - vocals, piano • Phil Judd - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin • Eddie Rayner - acoustic and electric piano, mellotron, synthesizer, organ, clavinet • Wally Wilkinson - lead guitar • Mike Chunn - bass, piano on 'Titus' • Emlyn Crowther - drums • Noel Crombie - percussion ==Charts==