The album is a career-retrospective for Hay: he is best known as the lead singer for the 1980s Australian pop band Men at Work, and roughly half of the songs on this album are Hay's solo studio renderings of works from the Men at Work catalog, while several others are remixes or re-recordings of material from his solo albums. Some songs are almost identical to the original recordings (e.g. "Be Good Johnny") while others are complete reinterpretations (e.g. acoustic versions of "Down Under" and "Who Can It Be Now?").
The album concludes with a version of "Down Under" recorded with the group Wild Clams.
The album was re-released on vinyl in 2014 with different tracklisting replacing several tracks with new ones.
AllMusic gave a mostly negative review of the album, saying of the Men at Work covers that "While such acoustic Men at Work tracks as "Overkill" and "Who Can It Be Now?" are quite charming and worth hearing, the pointless re-recordings of "Be Good Johnny" and "It's a Mistake" (which are almost identical to the originals) are pretty darn pointless." They summarized his solo reworkings as "worth hearing, but of course, they're not up to the high Business as Usual standards." They concluded that the album "will only be of interest to the hardest of hardcore Colin Hay fan."[2]
The Associated Press wrote that, "In the best possible sense, Man @ Work is like Colin Hay's cover version of his own greatest hits album."[citation needed]
Track listing
All tracks written by Colin Hay, except where noted.[3]
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This article is about the Colin Hay album For the Australian rock band see Men at Work For other uses see Men at Work disambiguation Man Work is the eighth studio album by Scottish Australian singer Colin Hay released by Compass Records in July 2003 1 Man WorkStudio album by Colin HayReleased22 July 2003GenreRock pop rock acoustic rockLength38 01LabelCompassProducerColin HayColin Hay chronologyCompany of Strangers 2002 Man Work 2003 Are You Lookin at Me 2007 Contents 1 Overview 2 Reception 3 Track listing 4 Personnel 5 Production 6 ReferencesOverview EditThe album is a career retrospective for Hay he is best known as the lead singer for the 1980s Australian pop band Men at Work and roughly half of the songs on this album are Hay s solo studio renderings of works from the Men at Work catalog while several others are remixes or re recordings of material from his solo albums Some songs are almost identical to the original recordings e g Be Good Johnny while others are complete reinterpretations e g acoustic versions of Down Under and Who Can It Be Now The album concludes with a version of Down Under recorded with the group Wild Clams The album was re released on vinyl in 2014 with different tracklisting replacing several tracks with new ones Reception EditProfessional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingAllMusic 2 AllMusic gave a mostly negative review of the album saying of the Men at Work covers that While such acoustic Men at Work tracks as Overkill and Who Can It Be Now are quite charming and worth hearing the pointless re recordings of Be Good Johnny and It s a Mistake which are almost identical to the originals are pretty darn pointless They summarized his solo reworkings as worth hearing but of course they re not up to the high Business as Usual standards They concluded that the album will only be of interest to the hardest of hardcore Colin Hay fan 2 The Associated Press wrote that In the best possible sense Man Work is like Colin Hay s cover version of his own greatest hits album citation needed Track listing EditAll tracks written by Colin Hay except where noted 3 CDNo TitleWriter s Original releaseLength1 Beautiful World alternate mix Company of Strangers3 392 Down Under acoustic version Hay Ron StrykertMen at Work s Business as Usual3 333 Overkill acoustic version Men at Work s Cargo3 474 Storm in My Heart new recording Wayfaring Sons3 095 Looking for Jack new recording Hay Jeremy AlsopLooking for Jack4 076 Don t Be Afraid Previously unreleased2 567 It s a Mistake new recording Cargo4 468 Waiting for My Real Life to Begin re release Hay Thom MooneyGoing Somewhere5 459 To Have and to Hold Previously unreleased3 2910 Who Can It Be Now acoustic version Business as Usual3 2411 Be Good Johnny new recording Hay Greg HamBusiness as Usual3 3512 Love is Innocent Previously unreleased4 4313 Down Under new recording featuring Cecilia Noel amp the Wild Clams Hay StrykertBusiness as Usual4 48 LP Side OneNo TitleWriter s Original releaseLength1 Beautiful World alternate mix Company of Strangers3 392 Down Under acoustic version Hay StrykertBusiness as Usual3 333 Love is Innocent re release Previously unreleased4 434 It s a Mistake acoustic version new recording Cargo4 465 Waiting for My Real Life to Begin re release Hay MooneyGoing Somewhere5 45 Side TwoNo TitleWriter s Original releaseLength6 Who Can It Be Now acoustic version Business as Usual3 247 Overkill acoustic version Cargo3 478 I Can See It in Your Eyes acoustic version new recording Business as Usual4 309 I Just Don t Think I ll Ever Get Over You radio edit Transcendental Highway4 2410 Down by the Sea acoustic version Hay Strykert Ham Jerry SpeiserBusiness as Usual3 35Personnel EditColin Hay acoustic guitar bass guitar keyboards vocals Jeff Babko organ piano keyboards Luis Conte percussion Johnathon Dresel drums Jimmy Earl bass Bill Esparza saxophone Chad Fischer percussion drums recorder background vocals Mario Gonzales trumpet Greg Ham flute Andres Dez Hernandez turntables Eric Jorgensen trombone Cecilia Noel piano background vocals vocal harmony Lee Thornburg trumpet Guillermo Vadala bass Lyle Workman guitar Toshi Yanagi guitarProduction EditProducer Colin Hay Engineers Dave Dale Juan Pablo Fallucca Chad Fischer Colin Hay Edwardo McKinley Mixing Juan Pablo Fallucca Chad Fischer Colin Hay Edwardo McKinley Loops Chad Fischer Drum programming Chad Fischer Design Griffin Norman Photography Gregory Cannon Cecilia Noel Cover painting NorvalReferences Edit Breznican Anthony 4 January 2004 Colin Hay to Play One Man Theater Show Associated Press Retrieved 25 January 2012 a b Prato Greg Man Work at AllMusic Australasian Performing Right Association APRA search engine Australasian Performing Right Association APRA Archived from the original on 17 May 2007 Retrieved 27 January 2012 Note requires user to input song title e g BEAUTIFUL WORLD Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Man Work amp oldid 1097078937, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
