MEN AT WORK: DOWN UNDER
Big George was going on about this at 3 in the morning last night (on BBC London radio and if you click, the times are wrong: 2am-6am) and it reminded me how much I like it.
I remember it popping up from nowhere and hitting number one.
And I like the distinctive sound thing intro whatever at the beginning.
I did try and tell the Pandable story but I'm turning into Charles Dickens. Never using one word when 125 will do... so it'll have to wait till tomorrow and the heavily redacted version.
Anyway; the song:
Men at Work article, Wikipedia. Apparently the intro is a flute. Strange kind of flute to me, but there you go. A court case was held over this years later and it was ruled that although the "riff" was lifted from a song called Kookaburra, it wasn't an inherent part of the song and the plaintiffs were thus entitled to only a 5% share of songwriting (which probably adds up to a lot).
On a hippie trail head full of zombie! I met a strange lady, she made me nervous, she took me in and gave me breakfast....
ReplyDeleteHa! This used to be one of the number on songs on the late night video dance party circuit!
Cept' this one time we had an Aussie over and that was SUPER lame ;)
I once reduced a roomful of Aussies to tears of laughter by saying in my poshest voice: "If I don't get some tucker I'll cark it"...
ReplyDeleteAussie's play some crazy ass drinking games, from what I can remember of being 21...
ReplyDeleteI want to say that they were wearing cowboy hats and tight jeans but alas, they were not.
No corks on strings then..??
ReplyDeleteAussies seem to really like hats. I think they need them. That ozone hole is right over Southern Australia...
WTF are corks on strings?
ReplyDeleteAlso, I am not sitting on your blog waiting for responses, just tryin to drain the last 20 min of this work a day world.
Ha Iremember that during my backpacky travels erm . . a long time ago, it was on the English charts. The court case was such a farce, people will do anything for money! And might I say as an officianado of silly hats, this is one Aussie who doesn't own a cork hat (don't drink Fosters either but I lubs me Vegemite)
ReplyDeleteI do like Fosters and have been to Australia. Friendly people.
ReplyDeleteHi Gleds ~~ Single barrelled blogger.
ReplyDeleteThere are some strange songs that do so well and others don't. Down under
has a bright sound to it. Apparently
stolen. I do not live in Melbourne, but at least 2 hours north of it. So
the birds I feed are mostly pigeons,
sparrows and blackbirds. Sometimes,I
get a magpie or two or willy-wagtail.
Take good care of yourself my friend
Best wishes, Merle.
I think the guy in Brussels would rather serve beer and spill it around, lol !
ReplyDeleteI liked Men at Work, too.
ReplyDeleteyou should hear the acoustic version of "land down under" by the original singer collin hay its fantastic, heres the link
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikrmUq1EudE
It's one of those songs that makes me feel nostalgic for the 80s and my youth!
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