Citizen Band

03-05-10 Citizen Band

Greg Clark, Geoff Chunn, Mike Chunn and Brent Eccles. Some ex-Enz!

7" IN A LIFETIME / GOOD MORNING CITIZEN MANDRILL NZ M 10007

1977 2 TRKS no pic sleeve

7" I FEEL GOOD / GOOD MORNING CITIZEN / MY POHUTAKAWA MANDRILL NZ DRILL 4

1978 3 TRKS with pic sleeve

7" SOMEBODY ELSE / HOLY FULELE MANDRILL NZ DRILL 11

1978 2 TRKS no pic sleeve

LP CITIZEN BAND MANDRILL NZ MAN 2

1978 12 TRKS

LP CITIZEN BAND re-issue CBS NZ CBS 001

1978 12 TRKS CBS re-issue

LP JUST DROVE THRU TOWN CBS NZ SBP 237349

1979 11 TRKS

7" RUST IN MY CAR / DIG THAT TEX CBS NZ BA 222562

1979 2 TRKS no pic sleeve

7" NO STEREO / S.O.S. CBS NZ BA 222596

1979 2 TRKS no pic sleeve

LP PIRATE CBS NZ CSP 129

1979 10 TRKS Live

7" I'M SO UP / I'M SOUPED (Greg Clark & Mike Chunn) CBS NZ BA 222702

1980 2 TRKS with pic sleeve (a Phil Judd song)

7" HOME TONIGHT / PAJAMAS / I WANTED TO BE HAPPY CBS NZ BA 222750

1980 2 TRKS with pic sleeve

7" GREEN ROOM, THE (Greg Clark solo) CBS NZ BA 222837

1981 2 TRKS no pic sleeve

7" WAY IT WILL BE, THE (as "The Sinclair Brothers") CBS NZ BA 223004

1982 2 TRKS no pic sleeve

CD RUST IN MY CAR COLUMBIA AUS 474167.2

1993 16 TRK Collection

I had the good fortune to have seen the original Split Enz at the Golden Bear nightclub in Huntington Beach, CA – at the time of the U.S. issue of “Mental Notes” (known as “Second Thoughts” in Australasia). Mike Chunn was still their bassist at that point.

Took me a few years to get to NZ, but the Citizen Band material was everywhere…in 1980. The debut album is really neat English-language pop music – a bit more polished than some NZ rock music. I was instantly a fan.

But I always got the impression that I had just missed them. They were no longer performing by the time I got to NZ, for example. I think I like the debut album better than the 2^nd album, but that’s my opinion. And I like the “I’m So Up” 45 better than almost anything else they recorded!

Took me a few years to even find out that they had re-formed as The Sinclair Brothers, with a great solitary 45, “That Is The Way It Will Be”. End of story.

The CD age has only brought one Citizen Band CD that I am aware of – a “Best Of” CD 17 years ago. Probably out-of-print. Citizen Band were better than being relegated to being merely a Split Enz footnote. Check out their debut LP – snappy stuff!