R.I.P Greg Ham, a Men at Work @ Down Under

[Thenasty]

R.I.P.

http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=722176

[Rando]

RIP indeed!

I loved Men at Work, "Business as Usual" is one of my favorite 80's albums and is played regularly on my new turntable.

FYI, the Colin Hay album "Man at Work" features some really good acoustic versions of some Men at Work songs.

Thank you Greg Ham! 

[drventure]

Men at work. Good stuff.

[ark_ader]

RIP indeed!

I loved Men at Work, "Business as Usual" is one of my favorite 80's albums and is played regularly on my new turntable.

FYI, the Colin Hay album "Man at Work" features some really good acoustic versions of some Men at Work songs.

Thank you Greg Ham! 

Yeah I loved Cargo.  Had a chance to see then in Vegas a while back.

They haven't come out with anything new for so long, oh well....

[Gray_Area]

Yeah I loved Cargo.  Had a chance to see then in Vegas a while back.

They haven't come out with anything new for so long, oh well....

Hay and the guitarist booted out the other guys after Cargo. Their next album was....tired.

[danny_galaga]

They got sued a couple of years ago over a copyright issue. Sad thing is, the copyright owner wouldn't ever had thought about it except it featured as a question in a TV game show. Long bow to draw, but if that question had never been asked, it might not have tipped the scales for him since it was the flute part that was in contention 

[drventure]

I just read up about that. Never even heard it, but there's a comparison of the two riffs on youtube, and it's hard not to think one came from the other.

Still, Kukaburra is from the 30's, so he probably heard it as a kid and just riffed on it.

The royalties ended up being something like 5% of only a small portion of sales AFTER 2002 anyway, from what I read, so, meh.

Grey_area's right, though, that third album, ugh.

[Gray_Area]

I knew it was Kookaburra when it came out, because we sang it in sixth grade. I didn't like the use in Down Under, but I didn't like the song that much. I like it more, now.

Yeah even with a retro revival, 2002 probably wasn't serious returns.

[danny_galaga]

I knew it was Kookaburra when it came out, because we sang it in sixth grade. I didn't like the use in Down Under, but I didn't like the song that much. I like it more, now.

Yeah even with a retro revival, 2002 probably wasn't serious returns.

All the 'golden oldies' radio stations play it pretty much EVERY DAY. Money for jam for the plaintiffs.

PBJ: I'm guessing the rights holder of Happy Birthday don't have any spies Down Under, because I hear it sung at every second restaurant I eat at.

[Vigo]

All the 'golden oldies' radio stations play it pretty much EVERY DAY. Money for jam for the plaintiffs.

I hope they at least put other Men at Work music in rotation as well. In the states, it is sadly about their only song that gets any radio play.

[yotsuya]

"It's A Mistake" was my favorite Men At Work song BITD.

[danny_galaga]

All the 'golden oldies' radio stations play it pretty much EVERY DAY. Money for jam for the plaintiffs.

I hope they at least put other Men at Work music in rotation as well. In the states, it is sadly about their only song that gets any radio play.

Thankfully, some of the others get a bit of play too- Who Could It Be Now, and Be Good Jonny. I never hear It's a Mistake, or Dr Heckel and Mr Jive though...

[Thenasty]

"Underground" was heavy on Radio here in US back then.

[Gray_Area]

I don't remember hearing on the radio more than three songs off either album. Nowadays, they play the same ones, but they also play three or four top Journey songs, etc, etc.... Mix stations, you know.