Men At Work – Business As Usual LP Vinyl Record

Men At Work – Business As Usual LP Vinyl Record

Business as Usual is the debut studio album by Australian new wave band Men at Work, which was released in November 1981 in Australia, and April 1982 in the United States. It spent nine weeks at the top of the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart from December 1981 through to March 1982.

Business as Usual was one of the most successful albums internationally by an Australian group. It spent an unprecedented 15 weeks at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 from late 1982 to early 1983; and five weeks at No. 1 in the United Kingdom Albums Chart in early 1983. Business as Usual was also one of the highest selling Australian albums in the early 1980s, with 6 million copies shipped in the US.

Australian musicologist Ian McFarlane described Business as Usual “Aside from the strength of the music, part of the [its] appeal was its economy. The production sound was low-key, but clean and uncluttered. Indeed, the songs stood by themselves with little embellishment save for a bright, melodic, singalong quality”. Gerry Raffaele for The Canberra Times felt “[it] generally stays at a high level, tight and jerky, although I still favour the tracks which have appeared as singles … There is a delicacy about this music – and that is not a thing you can say about too many rock groups”.

Pressed on Classic Black Vinyl.

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