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{{Infobox song
| name = Strait Old Line
| cover = Strait_Old_Line.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = [[Split Enz]]
| album = [[Conflicting Emotions]]
| B-side = "Parasite"
| released = October 1983
| format =
| recorded = 1983
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = [[Pop music|Pop]], [[Rock music|rock]]
| length = 4:03
| label = [[Mushroom Records]]
| writer = [[Neil Finn]]
| producer =
| prev_title = [[Next Exit (song)|Next Exit]]
| prev_year = 1983
| next_title = [[Message to My Girl]]
| next_year = 1984
}}
"'''Strait Old Line'''" is a song by [[New Zealand]] group [[Split Enz]], released in October 1983 as the lead single from their album ''[[Conflicting Emotions]]''.

Neil Finn described the song as, "about ambition, temptation, being distracted, following your nose and not letting anything get in your way".<ref>{{cite magazine| magazine= Countdown Magazine | title=Allz Well that Enz Well|author=Stuart Metchett | volume=2|issue=3|date=November 1983}}</ref>

The jazz guitar solo halfway in the song is actually the [[Yamaha DX7]] synthesizer preset: GUITAR 1.

In order to achieve the [[slow motion]] effect in the music video, the band members mimed with their instruments while the song was played back at double speed.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/enzology/audio/2534645/enzology-part-9-conflicting-emotions-1983-1984 |title=Enzology Part 9 - Conflicting Emotions (1983-1984)
|date=2005-02-26 |publisher=[[RNZ]] }}</ref>

==Track listing==
#"Strait Old Line" - 4:03
#"Parasite" - 3:37

==Personnel==
* [[Neil Finn]] - [[Singing|vocals]], [[guitar]], [[piano]]
* [[Tim Finn]] - vocals, guitar, piano, [[Keyboard instrument|keyboards]]
* [[Noel Crombie]] - vocals, [[percussion instrument|percussion]], drums
* [[Nigel Griggs]] - vocals, [[bass guitar|bass]]
* [[Eddie Rayner]] - keyboards and machines

==Charts==
{|class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
!scope="col"| Chart (1983/84)
!scope="col"| Peak<br>position
|-
!scope="row"| Australia ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref>{{cite book|title=[[Kent Music Report|Australian Chart Book 1970–1992]]|last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=[[St Ives, New South Wales|St Ives, NSW]]|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=288}} NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until [[Australian Recording Industry Association|ARIA]] created their own [[ARIA Charts|charts]] in mid-1988.</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"| 42
|-
!scope="row"{{single chart|New Zealand|15|artist=Split Enz|song=Strait Old Line|accessdate=15 November 2020|refname="RMNZ"}}
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Split Enz}}

[[Category:Split Enz songs]]
[[Category:1983 songs]]
[[Category:Songs written by Neil Finn]]
[[Category:Mushroom Records singles]]
[[Category:1983 singles]]

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