Men At Work:

Business As Usual:(1981)

I consider this a classic album. That said, I didn't pay much attention to it until my Grandfather's neighbor impressed it's value on me. I was fourteen/fifteen, and getting way into music. A new family moved into the house next door to my Grandparents, and I would often hear music blasting from the work shop they had out back. The first time I met Calvin, he invited me to come check out his record collection. There in that metal building of a work shop he had a pool table, and all four walls lined with records. He told me he had been collecting records since 1968, and he told me how he'd made his living for a decade in Chicago as a pool shark. So we played pool, and listened to records. Now, I'd heard the hits of this album on the radio, but always just relegated it out of hand to the bin of cheesy 1980's music, that I (at the time) had no use for. Calvin said, no man You've got to check this out. This guy Colin Hay is a really good songwriter, just listen. So I did. And, right there, that day I became a fan of Men At Work. As I stated, this is a classic album.