I feel like Men At Work stormed onto the scene. It seemed like one day nobody had heard of them and the next we all loved Who Can It Be Now. Of course I could be mistaken and I am willing to be wrong. This was the last of my Christmas albums from my cousin.
Adam and I played this album a lot and we’d be playing their next album Cargo in a few months on Space Mountain so stay tuned.
This is another one of those albums where the “less popular” tracks lace my memory with images of the Dungeons & Dragons Fiend Folio. I seem to have a lot of Dungeons & Dragons moments. It may sound weird but that is what we did back then. We didn’t have Nintendo, Sega, Xbox, Playstation or even Gameboy. Not only did our phones NOT have games but we didn’t have phones to not have games on. Dungeons & Dragons filled the gap left by all that stuff that hadn’t been invented yet kind of like an analog version of World Of Warcraft.
There is something about the song Down Under. It was the favorite for a long time. Maybe it is the flute. Flutes didn’t seem to make into a great deal of the music I listened to. Greg Ham, the man behind the flute and the sax on Who Can It Be Now died in april of this year. When I played Business As Usual today, I found that the less popular songs seemed to hold a little more sentimental feelings for me. When Aric and I moved into The Roach Motel, we spent then entire day moving. The next morning, the very first morning on our new place, I woke up early to get started on the upacking and setting up. I don’t know why but I chose Business As Usual to be the first album played there. Maybe it was a play on the idea of Men At Work. I’m not sure why I remember that. Roach Motel is still 2 years away at this point.
When Down Under was climbing up the charts, I remember there was this fascination with Vegemite. 
Everybody had heard the term in the song but nobody seemed to know what it was. Some claimed it was jelly derived fom seaweed. We didn’t have the internet back then so we couldn’t just go to Bing.com and search like we would today. That notion is rather interesting. How automatic it is to do a web search on anything that jump starts your curiosity. How many microfiche companies have gone out of business> How may librarians have been laid off? Vegemite was a mystery everybody had differing opinions about what it was but everybody agree that it tasted like shit.
Who Can it Be Now?
Down Under
Underground – This one in particular is one of those D&D songs
Helpless Automaton
People Just Love To Play With Words
Touching The Untouchables
Catch A Star
Down By The Sea
It was hard to resist the urge to include all the songs. The only one that I didn’t care to much for on this album was Be Good johnny just never liked it too much.