Second Thoughts (album)
Second Thoughts is the second studio album by New Zealand art rock band Split Enz. It was recorded in London with Roxy Music's guitarist Phil Manzanera producing the album.
The band's first album Mental Notes had not originally been released outside Australasia, therefore Second Thoughts was the band's first album release in Europe and North America. In both territories, the album was titled Mental Notes and featured a different album cover, which was a reworked version of the original Mental Notes cover. In the reworked cover, Wally Wilkinson's image was replaced with that of Robert Gillies, and some band members are shown with newer haircuts: Phil Judd was now bald, and Tim Finn had his sides shaved.
Track listing
'''Track notes'''Personnel
Split Enz- Tim Finn – vocals, piano on "Stranger Than Fiction"
- Phil Judd – vocals, guitars, mandolin
- Jonathan Michael Chunn – bass, piano on "Titus"
- Noel Crombie – percussion
- Emlyn Crowther – drums
- Robert Gillies – saxophone, trumpet
- Edward Rayner – keyboards
- Miles Golding – violin on "Stranger Than Fiction" and "Matinee Idyll"
- Ian Sharp – cello on "Matinee Idyll"
- Rhett Davies, Guy Bidmead – Recording engineers
- Phil Manzanera – producer
- Rhett Davies – Mixing engineer
- John Prew – Front cover photograph
- Split Enz – Back snaps
- Special Thanks To Dave Russell and Wally Wilkinson