Men At Work - C or D

That's a good way to describe Men At Work. Classic Camp.

Had they formed today, their name would've been Men @ Work.

"Overkill" is grebt. Another song with a good sax solo.

The second record reissue, however, is spot on.

Overkill
Overkill
Overkill
Overkill
Overkill
Overkill
Overkill
Overkill
Overkill
Overkill

I heard it in a grocery store a few weeks ago and was like OH MY FUCKING GOD.

I remember being like 12 years old and wondering what that word meant - "overkill".

Think of it as a little echo of Bimble's later goth transgressions.

gorgeous

Lovely!

"Down Under" was a bit too much novelty, but "Cargo" was a great pop album that got way underrated because it wasn't what people expected from them.

Love "It's A Mistake."

The three singles from "Cargo" were all great. "Overkill", "It's a Mistake". And also "Dr Heckyll & Mr. Jive".

I want to feel my heart.

I'm looking for my heart.

Day after day it reappears
night after night, my heartbeat shows the fears
ghosts appear and fade away

I can't get to sleep
I think about the implications
of diving in too deep
I worry over situations that I know will be alright
it's just overkill

Classic for 'Down By The Sea' and 'Dr Heckyll & Mr Jive' which has always reminded me of Max Tundra, why I'm not sure, maybe the chorus.

Whuh?:

Ronald Strykert, 51, one of the founders of the band, was arrested Feb. 13 by Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies on an outstanding bench warrant on a charge of making criminal threats.

Strykert threatened to kill the band's lead singer, Colin Hay, in December 2007 in an incident that was handled by the Sheriff Department's Lost Hills-Malibu station, according Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.

The guitarist skipped out last May on his arraignment on a misdemeanor charge of making criminal threats, Robison said.

i can understand inter-band relations getting a bit heated at times but that's just "Overkill".

And yet the Gallagher brothers are both free.

Would've totally pegged Greg Ham as the MaW member who flipped out.

Overkill is classic. course it's cuz its very topical for me at the moment....

altho I liked the solo Colin Hay version that wound up on that episode of Scrubs better....

Don't mess with the Kookaburra.

"Larrikin claims the flute riff from the 1981 hit is stolen from Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree, written by Marion Sinclair for the Girl Guides in 1934."

also lol @

"Down Under, a number one in Australia, the US and the UK, tells the story of an Australian backpacker touring the world.

It pays tribute to "a land down under where beer does flow and men chunder".

The song also references popular Australian food spread Vegemite.

"I said 'do you speak my language?', he just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich," it says.

That reads like one of those "Unusual details in wikipedia articles"

The line

"I said 'do you speak my language?', he just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich," it says.

makes my head spin.

lol @ the vegemite sandwich line, never heard that. the delivery makes the song, as a wee young boy i'd just sing along while making up gibberish lyrics

xpost - exactly!

xpost well, that's a coincidence (honest)..

This is the thread for unnecessary details in BBC News articles.

underrated movie.

Music company Larrikin has won the first stage of a copyright case over the Men At Work song Down Under.

We used to sing that song when I was at kindy, but I never heard the echoes of it in the Down Under solo until now.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8497433.stm

Yep, the girl guides have won.

Man At Work dies

This band has not had the easiest of afterlifes.

Rather heartening how "Overkill" has become the band's most famous hit in recent years.

That sucks. Business As Usual was the first album I ever bought with my own money. In many ways my first favorite band.

RIP, Greg.

RIP

Rather heartening how "Overkill" has become the band's most famous hit in recent years.

^^^

It's annoying that this guy is just being reported as the flautist, cos he was also the sax player on stuff like Overkill and Who Can It Be Now.

and he wrote and sang "Helpless Automaton", one of my favorite deep cuts from Business As Usual.

yeah i was gonna say, the "Who Can It Be Now" sax is probably as famous as the "Down Under" flute

Aw, fuck no. He was my favorite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m13QMwLpruM

RIP :(

Btw. I consider "Overkill" to be their best song. "Down Under" was fun and all, but maybe too much of a novelty. "Overkill" was an excellent pop song, partly also thanks to the wonderful sax theme by Ham.