If you weren't around in the early '80s it's hard to explain the short lived Australian invasion ... well it wasn't so much of an invasion, but people, myself included love hyperbole. BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE! Back in 1981 seemingly out of nowhere Men at Work were suddenly everywhere. A pair of honest to goodness earworms in "Who Can it Be Now?" and "Down Under" propelled the band into the stratosphere. I eagerly bought the album, and remember being profoundly disappointed in the record. Two killers, and filler. It's not an album I've heard in decades. In 1983 the band dropped Cargo and again the band scored big with a couple of tracks: "Overkill" a song that has aged incredibly well, and "It's a Mistake" that was very much part of the early '80s hysteria over nuclear annihilation. Fearing that it was going to be another killer and filler I didn't pick up the album, and sure enough I dismissed the album, and t...
A place where I just blather on about shit that I either miss, or am excited about. Or I could just be deliberately trying to waste your time. I generally really don't know what I'm talking about. Sometimes I do. Sometimes this is like a stream of consciousness brain dump. I like to think of it as a reaction video, without the video ... mostly though it's just me rambling ... it's meanderambling. #oldenoughtoforget