I Hope I Never

"I Hope I Never"
"I Hope I Never"
Single by Split Enz
from the album True Colours
B-side	"Hypnotised"; "Carried Away";
Released	May 1980
Recorded	Armstrongs, Melbourne, 1979
Genre	Rock
Length	3:56
Label	Mushroom Records
Songwriter(s)	Tim Finn
Producer(s)	David Tickle
Split Enz singles chronology
Alternative covers
	US cover
Alternative cover
	Dutch cover

"I Hope I Never" is a 1980 song by New Zealand art rock group Split Enz. It was released in May 1980 as the second single from their fifth studio album True Colours.

Track listings[]

Australian release[]

Side A

"I Hope I Never" - 3:56 (Tim Finn)

Side B

"Hypnotised" (Tim Finn)
"Carried Away" (Neil Finn)

International release[]

Released in the US and in the Netherlands with the same track listing, but different artwork.

"I Hope I Never" - 3:56 (Tim Finn)
"The Choral Sea" - 4:38 (Eddie Rayner)

Personnel[]

Tim Finn — vocals, piano
Noel Crombie — vocals, percussion
Eddie Rayner — vocals, keyboards
Malcolm Green — vocals, drums
Nigel Griggs — vocals, bass

Charts[]

Chart (1980)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[1]	18
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)^[2]	30
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)^[3]	33

Cover Versions[]

Colleen Hewett from her album, Colleen (1983)
ENZSO (1995), a collaboration between Split Enz's Eddie Rayner and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. The cover featured New Zealand singer Annie Crummer on vocals, changing only the lyrics to refer to herself as an "optimistic woman" rather than a man.
Australia's Tina Arena recorded the song in 2008 with the London Studio Orchestra for her album Songs of Love & Loss 2, and similarly changed the lyrics to reflect her gender.
Lisa Miller covered the song on the 2011 tribute album They Will Have Their Way.

Notes[]

^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. p. 288. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.
^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Split Enz" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
^ "Charts.nz – Split Enz – I Hope I Never". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 15 November 2020.

External resources[]

[1] Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. p. 288. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.

[RMNZ-2] "Nederlandse Top 40 – Split Enz" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 15 November 2020.

[ND-3] "Charts.nz – Split Enz – I Hope I Never". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 15 November 2020.

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