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"Down Under" is a song recorded by Australian rock band Men at Work. It was originally self-released in 1980 as the B-side to their first local single, "Keypunch Operator", before the band signed a recording contract with Columbia Records. [8] Both early songs were written by the group's co-founders, Colin Hay and Ron Strykert. [9]
The album has received a score of 74/100 on media aggregate site Metacritic indicating "generally favorable reviews". [8] Simon Price of The Independent called the album "touching, witty, and like everything else the Bostonian ever does, brilliant" [11] Kyle Ryan of The A.V. Club reviewed the album positively, saying "But the album's best moments happen when Palmer settles down and plays by ...
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Lead vocalist Stu Mackenzie said that the song was "probably the most literal song [he's] ever written". [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Oddments consists of outtakes from the band's prior releases, with the album serving as a way to compile the songs without necessarily adhering to a sound or theme as the band had done up until that point; [ 5 ] the oddment ...
The 1980s were a wild time for music. From rock 'n' roll hair bands to the debut of Whitney Houston and the launch of a little-known network named MTV, there was no shortage of history-making ...
Vegemite (/ ˈ v ɛ dʒ i m aɪ t / VEJ ... The Australian rock band Men at Work refer to a "Vegemite sandwich" in the second verse of their 1981 hit song "Down Under
The song was released in March 1982 as a single from True Blue – The Best of John Williamson, but it failed to chart. The lyrics included a reference to Vegemite, a food paste, but that was removed in a later version because Williamson "just didn't want the song to be commercialised". [2] The 1986 version was used for the Australian Made ...
The song is guitar-oriented, like most Status Quo songs. During recording up to three guitar 'layers' were used, though it can be played with two: rhythm guitar and solo guitar. The other instruments are a bass guitar, keyboards and drums. The lyrics are multi-vocal; for instance the 'Whatever you want' part is sung entirely with two voices.