- rock, pop rock, new wave
- 39 min
- 10 tracks
- CBS
Business as Usual is the debut studio album by the Australian new wave band Men at Work. It was released on 9 November 1981 in Australia by CBS Records, and in April 1982 in the United States and Canada by Columbia Records. It spent nine weeks at the top of the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart from December 1981 through to March 1982.
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Character
Spare, classical in form, warm and cool.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- effortlessdemanding
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- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- Christgau's Record GuideB+
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Who Can It Be Now?3:25
- 2I Can See It in Your Eyes3:33
- 3Down Under3:46
- 4Underground3:08
- 5Helpless Automaton3:24
- 6People Just Love to Play With Words3:33
- 7Be Good Johnny3:39
- 8Touching the Untouchables3:42
- 9Catch a Star3:32
- 10Down by the Sea6:54
10 tracks, 39 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Men at Work
- Label
- CBS
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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