Second Thoughts (album)

Second Thoughts
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 1976 (AUS & NZ)
September 1976 (UK)
January 1977 (US)
RecordedApril–May 1976
StudioBasing Street, London
GenreProgressive rock
Length41:48
LabelMushroom Records (AUS/NZ), Chrysalis Records (Rest of world)
ProducerPhil Manzanera
Split Enz chronology
Mental Notes
(1975)
Second Thoughts
(1976)
Dizrythmia
(1977)
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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 (for comparison see original and remake). 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.