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New Zealand Rock

The contemporary pop music of New Zealand -- a.k.a. "kiwi rock" -- is literate and melodic, often distinguished by jangly guitars and quirky lyrics; key bands of the movement include Split Enz, the Clean, the Bats and the Chills.

New Zealand Rock Album Highlights

History Never Repeats: The Best of Split Enz
Split Enz History Never Repeats: The Best of Split Enz
Recurring Dream: The Very Best of Crowded House
Crowded House Recurring Dream: The Very Best of Crowded House
The Beginning of the Enz
Split Enz The Beginning of the Enz
Woodface
Crowded House Woodface
Temple of Low Men
Crowded House Temple of Low Men
Enz to Enz
Split Enz Enz to Enz
The Very Very Best of Crowded House
Crowded House The Very Very Best of Crowded House
All the Best
Crowded House All the Best
Enz of an Era
Split Enz Enz of an Era
1973-1979: Oddz & Enz
Split Enz 1973-1979: Oddz & Enz
Thousands of Tiny Luminous Spheres
The Bats Thousands of Tiny Luminous Spheres
Kaleidoscope World
The Chills Kaleidoscope World
Bird Dog
The Verlaines Bird Dog
The Collection [UK]
Split Enz The Collection [UK]
True Colours/Corroboree
Split Enz True Colours/Corroboree
Distant Sun
Crowded House Distant Sun
Nick the Stripper
Crowded House Nick the Stripper
Four Seasons in One Day
Crowded House Four Seasons in One Day
Live at CBGB's
Crowded House Live at CBGB's
Detroit Rock City
Crowded House Detroit Rock City
Daddy's Highway
The Bats Daddy's Highway
Anthology
The Clean Anthology
Practical Jokers
Swingers Practical Jokers
You're Just Too Obscure For Me
The Verlaines You're Just Too Obscure For Me
Juvenilia
The Verlaines Juvenilia
White House
The Dead C White House
Tanker
Bailter Space Tanker
The Bats, Vol. 1: Compiletely Bats/Daddy's Highway/The Law of Things
The Bats The Bats, Vol. 1: Compiletely Bats/Daddy's Highway/The Law of Things
Heavenly Pop Hits
The Chills Heavenly Pop Hits
Brave Words
The Chills Brave Words
Submarine Bells
The Chills Submarine Bells
Hail
Straitjacket Fits Hail
Frozen Orange
David Kilgour Frozen Orange
The BBC Sessions
The Chills The BBC Sessions
Snow Bound
The Chills Snow Bound
Scatterbrain
The Chills Scatterbrain
Cuts
Toy Love Cuts
Unravelled: 1981-2002
Tall Dwarfs Unravelled: 1981-2002
Allegory of Hearing
Roy Montgomery Allegory of Hearing
Compilation
The Clean Compilation
Counting the Beat
Swingers Counting the Beat
Snake Eyes on the Paradise: Greatest Hits 1976-1989
Dragon Snake Eyes on the Paradise: Greatest Hits 1976-1989
Tales From Dark Side: Greatest Hits
Dragon Tales From Dark Side: Greatest Hits
Hallelujah All the Way Home
The Verlaines Hallelujah All the Way Home
Some Disenchanted Evening
The Verlaines Some Disenchanted Evening
Harsh 70's Reality
The Dead C Harsh 70's Reality
Tusk
The Dead C Tusk
The Law of Things
The Bats The Law of Things
Fear of God
The Bats Fear of God
Compiletely Bats
The Bats Compiletely Bats
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Cakekitchen The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
At the National Grid
The Bats At the National Grid
Eyes Rind as If Beggars
The Garbage & the Flowers Eyes Rind as If Beggars
The Guilty Office
The Bats The Guilty Office
Rust In My Car
Citizen Band Rust In My Car
Gnaw
S.P.U.D. Gnaw
Free All the Monsters
The Bats Free All the Monsters
The Deep Set
The Bats The Deep Set
Goin' Your Way
Neil Finn / Paul Kelly Goin' Your Way
Foothills
The Bats Foothills
Meat
Chris Knox Meat
M: Darkmotif Dancehall
Roy Montgomery M: Darkmotif Dancehall
H: Bender
Roy Montgomery H: Bender
R M H Q: Headquarters
Roy Montgomery R M H Q: Headquarters
Q: Transient Global Amnesia
Roy Montgomery Q: Transient Global Amnesia
Suffuse
Roy Montgomery Suffuse
Vehicle
The Clean Vehicle
Hellzapoppin'
3Ds Hellzapoppin'
I Like Rain: The Story of the Jean-Paul Sartre Experience
Jean-Paul Sartre Experience I Like Rain: The Story of the Jean-Paul Sartre Experience
Capsul
Bailter Space Capsul
Photon [EP]
Bailter Space Photon [EP]
The Aim
Bailter Space The Aim
Trapdoor Fucking Exit
The Dead C Trapdoor Fucking Exit
Vortura
Bailter Space Vortura
Armed Courage
The Dead C Armed Courage
Trouble
The Dead C Trouble
The Flying Nun Retrospective Compilation: Getting Older 1981-1991
Various Artists The Flying Nun Retrospective Compilation: Getting Older 1981-1991
Retrospective
Pin Group Retrospective
Mirrorwork
Alastair Galbraith Mirrorwork
Metalon
Chug Metalon
Old Enough 2 Know Better: 15 Years of Merge Records
Various Artists Old Enough 2 Know Better: 15 Years of Merge Records

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