Men at Work

With their good-time syncopation, ringing guitars and tasteful use of saxophone, Australia's
Men at Work were the consummate Eighties roadhouse band, marrying the clean trimness
of corporate New Wave to the tireless punch of crowd pleasers used to playing for drunks.
The reissues of the band's 1981 and 1983 releases are most impressive for their sparkling
production and for the clever way singer and chief songwriter Colin Hay mines... More >

A touch dour, two touches bemused, and probably way too passive, they're so smashingly unambitious that they're forgettable when they don't strike just the right note. But I've always considered democracy more radical than misanthropy. And I appreciate their sniping at the military-industrial establishment. (Grade: B)