Business As Usual

Men at Work - Business As Usual

Business As Usual
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Artist: Men at Work
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-02-11
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  1. Who Can It Be Now?
  2. I Can See It In Your Eyes
  3. Down Under
  4. Underground
  5. Helpless Automaton
  6. People Just Love To Play With Words
  7. Be Good Johnny
  8. Touching The Untouchables
  9. Catch A Star
  10. Down By The Sea
  11. Crazy Non (Bonus Track)
  12. Underground (Live( (Bonus Track)
  13. Who Can It Be Now? (Live)
  14. F-19 (Bonus Track)

Free Music Notes for Business As Usual

Free Music Review: Men At Work's classic debut is still phenomenal over 25 years on
Hit: 5 Stars

Australian new wave rockers Men At Work's debut album entitled Business as Usual was released in April of 1982 here in the US and late in 1981 in the band's native Australia.
The title for Men At Work's debut album said it all: Business as Usual(good straight rock songs with a reggae influence). This album is indeed a classic.
The band (which consisted of Scottish born guitarist/singer/songwriter Colin Hay plus Australians John Rees on bass guitar, Greg Ham on saxophones/flute/keyboards, Ron Strykert on lead guitar and Jerry Speiser on drums) got signed to Columbia Records first in Australia because of the song "Who Can it Be Now". After the song did well in Australia, America's branch of Columbia/CBS signed the group and released this debut in the spring of 1982. How is this album, read ahead and find out (as I did at age 6 when I kept heisting my sister's LP copy and then subsequently got the cassette in March of 1983 and now the remastered CD).
The opening "Who Can it Be Now" kicks off the album and was the song that gave Men at Work its first US Top 10 hit and is a great rocker. Next is "I Can See It In Your Eyes" and is a great rocker with some tasty solos from Strykert. Next is the chart topping "Down Under" and is a great number and a classic flute solo from Ham and popularized the term vegamite in the US which was unknown outside Australia prior to 1982. Next is the rocker "Underground" which is a great rocker. The first half ends with Greg Ham's vocal debut "Helpless Automaton" which is about a robot helplessly in love.
The second half begins with the Strykert penned rocker "People Just Love to Play With Words" which is a great song. Next is Business As Usual's third and final single "Be Good Johnny" which is a superb rocker. We slow down a bit with the mid tempo "Touching the Untouchables" which is a great song. We follow with the reggae-ish sounding rocker "Catch a Star" which would have not sounded out of place on The Police's first three albums. We end with the classic epic "Down By the Sea" which is, hands down, my favorite track on the album.
This album turned out to be a huge success and was #1 on the US album charts for an astounding 15 weeks in late 1982 and early 1983 (only to be KO'd by Michael Jackson's massive seller Thriller).
I really didn't like new wave much (save The Police and The Cars and some Talking Heads) but Men at Work was one band from childhood I did not ever really outgrow because their songs were catchy and quirky and are still good to listen to 25 plus years on.
The album was re-released with remastered sound in 2003 with FIVE BONUS TRACKS including three live versions and two B-sides.
Recommended!

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