Down Under
Song by Men at Work
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Nov 1, 2026
Jon RichardsonHOST
He just heard it this week.
Jon RichardsonHOST
Next week's track is going to be Men at Work and Land Down Under.
Jon RichardsonHOST
Soon.
Jon RichardsonHOST
So you're in Australia.
Jon RichardsonHOST
I hope you enjoyed it.
Jon RichardsonHOST
We'll be back next week with more of the same.
Jon RichardsonHOST
If you want to get in touch with us during the week, the email address is johnrichson.6music at bbc.co.uk. And don't forget to send in your pictures for the Picture Picture Gallery, either men at work or if you happen to be down under or you've been down under, get into your archive, the land down under, and those will be up on the website as soon as we get them.
Jon RichardsonHOST
And the live show will be next Sunday.
Scot TurnerHOST
I skipped over a couple, sorry, just to finish the 80s.
Scot TurnerHOST
I forgot that the first week of November 1981 is when the original release, sorry, this is the release of the new version of Down Under, the one that everybody knows was released in Australia.
Scot TurnerHOST
And well, let's just start with the very, very, Down Under, the song they had done independently the year before 1980.
Scot TurnerHOST
If you have not heard this before, I'll play a little clip of it here.
Scot TurnerHOST
This is how it sounded in the original version of Down Under Men at Work.
Ivar HamiltonHOST
It's kind of cool hearing that again.
Ivar HamiltonHOST
I'd heard that before.
Scot TurnerHOST
And you probably yes, you would have heard it on CFNY because Ivor had a little connection in Australia.
speaker_4UNKNOWN
On a heavy trailhead full of zombies I met a strange lady, she made me nervous She took me in and gave me
speaker_1UNKNOWN
breakfast And she said Do you come from a land down under Where women go and men plunder Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder You better run, you better take cover From a man named Brussels He was six foot four and full of muscle I said, do you speak my language? He just smiled and gave me a bet you might be sandwiched He said, I come from a land of love From Peter's flow and mention of That you here can hear the thunder
speaker_2UNKNOWN
You better take cover With
speaker_1UNKNOWN
a slack jaw, not much to say I said to the man, are you trying to tempt me? Because I come from the land of plenty And he said Let's go.
GeoffHOST
And that was, like I said, Men at Work.
GeoffHOST
And the song was Down Under many years ago.
GeoffHOST
I don't know if they ever actually had any other hits.
GeoffHOST
Australian band.
Emily TaylorGUEST
And that was really important to, I guess, the track that went all the way through and how we did that sort of contemporary version of Australia.
Emily TaylorGUEST
And then at the same time, you know, and it came quite late in the day, but as we were kind of working out what else do we need in this film, actually there's a key moment in the film where we have King Stingray doing a version of Land Down Under, which was just a really beautiful way to take something that means something to all of us, but to reinterpret it in a way.
Emily TaylorGUEST
And of course, King Stingray have done that both in English, but also in language, which was amazing.
Brittany RigbyHOST
Adam, you've said radio is untapped, and you've spoken to the power of audio.
Matt FeuersteinHOST
Yeah, definitely an early 2000s person you see in college.
Matt FeuersteinHOST
But he came out to Party Hard by Andrew WK, and then Dingo came out to Down Under by Men at Work.
Matt FeuersteinHOST
So it's a lot of fun during the entrances I would
Trevor DameHOST
say.
Trevor DameHOST
I mean Dingo – I was just going to say Dingo is Australian.
Trevor DameHOST
I thought that has to be like the most on-the-nose possible thing you could choose as an Australian worker, which is you're basically wrestling – With the most Australian song American fans would know by the most Australian band maybe that American fans would know that is literally saying I come from the down under.
Trevor DameHOST
Like that's not on the nose.
Trevor DameHOST
That's like up the nose.
Mike KennedyHOST
Okay, the first story on Stupid News today made me think of that Men at Work song.
Mike KennedyHOST
You know the song Down Under? We'll go to Australia where a convicted murderer in Australia trying to sue his prison because they denied him Vegemite and a Vegemite sandwich.
Mike KennedyHOST
His lawyer argued that Vegemite was part of his cultural identity as being from Australia and that a life without Vegemite would leave him disconnected and sad.
Mike KennedyHOST
Do we feel sorry for the poor convicted murderer? No, we do not.
Tam McManusPANELIST
And, uh, yeah, and I heard...
Tam McManusPANELIST
Was it the boy Sapsford scored, and I heard, uh, Down Under coming on at men at work.
Peter MartinHOST
Yeah.
Tam McManusPANELIST
So that's, it's good for the, for the players and supporters for a bit of craic.
Kathryn BarnardHOST
What was that song? What was that song about a Vegemite sandwich? Remember that?
Andy BarnardHOST
Oh, you're thinking of Land Down Under.
Andy BarnardHOST
The Land Down Under.
Andy BarnardHOST
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Kathryn BarnardHOST
Who did that song?
Alex BarnardHOST
Vegemite sandwich.
Alex BarnardHOST
That's where we all...
Alex BarnardHOST
I come from the Land Down Under.
Tom TraumaHOST
Anyway, that's my purchases, less than $20.
NeilHOST
Who did Land Down Under? It's on
Tom TraumaHOST
that same album I bought.
Tom TraumaHOST
yeah it's on that same record men at work that man at work men at work it's that same record yeah it's called business as usual it's definitely their biggest hit album maybe 81 82 83 i mean pretty early in the 80s i think right
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