![]() ![]() Live version recorded at Festival Hall, Melbourne, November 1984. Released with new artwork to match History Never Repeats. Reissued in 1989 to coincide with the release of greatest hits album History Never Repeats - The Best Of Split Enz. ![]() In the music video, the band members disappear from the performance area at the same moment, leaving only their instruments in place. At the very end of the song, musically, the song silences very suddenly instead of fading out or being ended at the end of a bar, because of the tape running out during recording. The studio is low lit with a white or red spotlight on different members of the band, occasionally lighting up a backdrop completely but predominantly keeping to white and red light. All are wearing grey suits with black markings, white shirts and red ties. ![]() Finn returns to the band and sings the rest of the song with them. The music video for "I See Red" begins with Tim Finn angrily ripping his hair out (the first line of the lyrics indicates "When my baby's walking down the street/I see red, I see red, I see red"). ![]() So, it had acres of legendary pathos and meaning for us to be there." Music video We ended up at Startling Studios, which was John Lennon's house when he and Yoko were doing Imagine and all that. Somebody suggested this young guy ( David Tickle) that they thought would be worth trying. The engineer out there got to know us and liked us and gave us some free time when the studio wasn't being used." Elsewhere, he said, "We were on the bones of our arse. Tim Finn said, "That's a one-off thing we did at Startling Studios which is Ringo Starr's studio - it used to be John Lennon's place. "I See Red" was the second Split Enz song to achieve a top 20 chart position, peaking at #15 in Australia and #43 in the band's native New Zealand. It was released in December 1978 as the lead single from their studio album Frenzy. " I See Red" is a 1978 song by New Zealand art rock group Split Enz. ![]()
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