Men at Work was an Australian band that that was massively popular for a couple of years in the early 1980s, then broke up. They put out the albums "Business as Usual" in 1981 and "Cargo" in 1983. Two songs from their debut album, "Down Under" and "Who Can It Be Now," hit Number One in the singles chart in the U.S. and many other countries. They had a number of other hits as well, eventually selling about 30 million albums worldwide, mainly from these two albums.
Unfortunately, then the band had a falling out. The drummer and bass player left, apparently mainly over thinking their manager wasn't very good. A third album, "Two Hearts," came out in 1985, but wasn't well received and sold poorly compared to before. They broke up after that. Lead singer Colin Hay went on to a long but much more low key solo career.
Here's their Wikipedia entry, if you want to know more:
This is another case where I found a video of the entire set, then converted it to mp3 files. The lead vocals were a little low in the mix, so I boosted them using UVR5. It's particularly nice to have this because there is no official live album from the band's early 1980's heyday. (There is one from a later reunion in Brazil, with most of the original band members gone.)
This album is an hour and one minute long.
114 I Can See It in Your Eyes (Men at Work)
115 talk (Men at Work)
116 No Restrictions (Men at Work)
117 Mr. Entertainer (Men at Work)
118 The Longest Night (Men at Work)
119 talk (Men at Work)
120 Blue for You (Men at Work)
121 Who Can It Be Now (Men at Work)
122 talk (Men at Work)
123 Helpless Automaton (Men at Work)
124 I Like To (Men at Work)
125 Underground (Men at Work)
126 talk (Men at Work)
127 Overkill (Men at Work)
128 talk (Men at Work)
129 Down Under (Men at Work)
130 talk (Men at Work)
131 It's a Mistake (Men at Work)
132 talk (Men at Work)
133 Be Good Johnny (Men at Work)
https://www.upload.ee/files/17013552/VA-1983USFstvlDay0108MnatWrk_atse.zip.html
alternate link:
https://pixeldrain.com/u/ARASuAPb
The cover photo shows Colin Hay, lead singer of the band, at this exact concert.
Not so interested in the whole concert, but am grabbing this, as my only other live MAW is a Westwood One concert recorded 6 months previous to this, though from the notes was broadcast a couple of months prior on the radio, plus the mentioned Live In Brazil which I allow even if it's basically just Hay and Ham with friends :(
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