Men At Work - Down Under (Official HD Video) -First Time Reaction

[@steve8510]

This song was so massive you have no idea, along with Paul Hogan's movie Crocodile Dundee Aussies were suddenly the power friend everyone had to have overseas

[@chelz1972]

Ahh the 80's lol... wonderful memories.

[@leonarae8496]

1983 when Australia finally beat the US in the America’s Cup yacht race with the famous winged keel, this song was played Everywhere! EVERYWHERE! It was blasting out of every shop. It was a huge deal, a real David & Goliath battle and this song became iconic. I still love it. Thanks for doing this song Hap, it’s brought back a lot of happy memories for me

[@denikennedy6675]

This is a song that puts one in a good mood., whether you like it or not!! Fun and upbeat! Your reaction was so lighthearted and comical, loved it!! 😅 💜🎵💜🎵 good choice, Jill 👍

[@jillmcilwain2633]

🔥🥳🎶 This was a fun one!! I happened to find myself in Lakeland Florida, and went to a random concert...Men At Work, was the band. I have been a fan ever since! The coffin at the end signifies the death of Aussie cultural identity. I enjoyed you reaction Hap, and the questions that you posed. 🤯. . Peace J ✌ ☮ 💕🦂 Fun fact-Colin Hay has joined the 2023 Ringo Starr-All Star Band tour starting May 19th, in San Diego !!

[@jillmcilwain2633]

@hap3speakz The chorus is really about the selling of Australia in many ways, the overdevelopment of the country. It was a song about the loss of spirit in that country. It's really about the plundering of the country by greedy people. It is ultimately about celebrating the country, but not in a nationalistic way and not in a flag-waving sense. It's really more than that.

[@VUM.M]

@@jillmcilwain2633 , thanks for the background - interesting and HAP's tangents were fantastic as always 😊

[@chrisy8989]

I always enjoyed this one! Thanks for the reaction, Hap. 💕

[@HAP3SPEAKZ]

My pleasure!!

[@bernadettelanders7306]

Some sent to Aus for harsh crimes, but not all *It's estimated that 164,000 convicts were shipped to Australia between 1788 and 1868 under the British government's new Transportation Act - a humane alternative to the death penalty. Approximately 25,000 of these convicts were women, charged with petty crimes such as stealing bread*

[@QuietManUK]

It was actually about getting colonists out there. not the crime.

[@bernadettelanders7306]

@@QuietManUK well we nowadays wouldn’t call what they called crime for many reasons that we would. But it was a dam good excuse to declutter their overcrowding population. As u know many here are proud to have a ‘convict’ in their family history as obviously stealing bread for example to feed their children isn’t the worst thing anyone could do. I don’t have one convict from the UK, though some would call him that now lol. My great grandfather Henry Foster came over with his parents as free settlers and he ended up a politician lol. He was the minister of mines during federation when the Welcome Stranger Nugget was founded, his name, Henry Foster is on the monument. Talking to my sister I asked if his daughter, my grandmother was snobbish as I was young when she passed, that’s my only memory of her. My older sister says she definitely was snobbish as her father was important and definitely no criminal lol. He even had a town named after him. It was originally called Ellesmere, they changed it to Fosterville, where now, the Fosterville mining company is.

[@vickiroman189]

I loved this song and had the album back in the day. I had not seen the video until this. I'm stumped also!

[@LMTino]

MAW still captivate with a sound all their own. Three things to know: Colin Hay, lead singer (Scotsman who went to Australia as a teen) is still his own Man at Work, a singer/songwriter storyteller with fifteen+ solo albums under his belt. AND when he plays some of the MAW hits on acoustic guitar, you hear them all anew! A 2015 documentary on him "Waiting for my Real Life" turned heads. Don't miss him when he tours...a one of a kind wonder and a gent. Nobody does melancholy better.

[@tiffanytosh1569]

I bought this CD when it first came out. My friends and I drove around in my friends ‘73 Bronco jamming to this song! We did a Chinese red light, too!

[@VUM.M]

Yeah, I love this reggae style tune and I know the band but I have never seen this funny video. Random and I think not to be taken too seriously. Though there's certainly a deeper meaning underneath, you're tempted to bob along. HAP, great reaction and I like your tangents 😅☺️. Good choice Jill and another new group for this channel ☺️🙋🏻‍♀️.

[@snjezanasiklic8934]

A blast from the past! It was quite a hit, I remember it very well (although I didn't pay attention to the lyrics before :-) Very catchy, once you hear it that beat will pop up in your head every time somebody mentiones "Down Under" 🙂🎶

[@jameshaberkorn8728]

Remember the first time a heard this. My cousin wanted my dad to hear it in early 80s. Wow flash back. Love the song and video and your reaction.

[@carbine5378]

Correct about the convicts.

[@melissaphillips3088]

Boy does that bring back memories of seeing this video years ago. They were such fun. Thanks Hap for showing this one. 👏🏻

[@richardhargrave6082]

Back in the days before instagram when bands would have fun The sending of convicts was called Transportation, it wasn't cultural back then! Love this song, its Australia's unofficial national anthem

[@Amy_just_loves_music]

I've heard this song many times, but I have never seen the video. Made me smile/laugh....enjoyed the reaction. Didn't understand the ending, either.

[@enchantedwooddesigns3462]

they had to go to court a long time for the flute music they played from a show I think was called Koukoboru.

[@sumerfluffy]

What a fun song! You can be sooo catchy yourself! 🥰 Made me laugh HAP! 🔥🥰🔥

[@jenniferandrews1917]

Great song!

[@mce_AU]

The band is leading the Roadies (stage workers) who are carring equipment.

[@SueProv]

This is a fun video. I'm an 80s girl

[@DrCMac-2025]

It's meant to be silly, funny, random, nonsensical, absurd, humorous, trippy, just like a Monty Python skit. The lead singer of Men at Work is Colin Hay. The song was originally released on Monday, November 9, 1981, shortly after the death of Jamaican Reggae superstar, Bob Marley, who died on Monday, May 11, 1981, and I remember buying heaps/ (loads) of Reggae/Pop fusion records. Vinyl records & cassette tapes back then because this was about four years prior to when CD's started coming out in Australia around 1985/86. There was tons of Reggae/Pop songs coming out at that time. Another great song from that era was "Barbados" by the Australian band,The Models (1985), & "Red, Red, Wine"(1983) by the British Reggae Pop sensational band, UB 40. Both Reggae music & Reggae Pop music was literally "flavour of the month" for the first half of the 1980s, in particular. In the second half of the 1980s, house, rap, hip-hop, garage, acid house & technology music became really mainstream, particularly from 1987/88. I should know this because I was buying heaps of records/CD's at that time.

[@susannewitt6112]

Because Down under is the third inofficial hymn of Australia. Under which rock...lalala

[@davidlaws3582]

Great song. Lead singer Colin Hay is Scottish. The band lost a law suit for ripping off a traditional Aussie folk song called The Kookaburra song - the pipes part although I can't see it myself. Colin is now a very successful solo artist if you ever want to check him out on You Tube.

[@stm1952]

Should be Australia's national anthem.

[@devonvergiels5185]

These guys often included humor, but the main thrust is great musicianship. Always a great band to listen to. And yes, absolutely, Australia began as a penal colony. Luckily they've grown into quite great folks, and have a reputation as tough SOBs.😊😊😊😊

[@truckingjohnno7]

The Idea is they are worried about Losing the spirit and Uniquiness of Australia so in the coffin was the Spirit of Australia as they are worried we are losing that in the modern world

[@johnfarmer7119]

I don't have a clue as to what that song means. I will look up the lyrics. That might help. When it came out it was a very popular song. Like you said, quite catchy. Is there someone out there that can help me understand? A comment would be appreciated. Nice reaction, there, my friend!

[@tangerine4665]

I am not Australian, but from my investigations it references a bunch of Australian cultural themes. Like “head full of zombie” means one is high, or “better run, better take cover” was a warning that Australian troops were coming in the WW2, and so on…

[@johnfarmer7119]

@@tangerine4665 Thanks!

[@steve8510]

It's all good mate, they shipped us to the land of milk and honey, babes and money ;)

[@koletiscott2834]

Just enjoy the song matey!

[@gustavoarias8631]

must react to "cuando la luz oscurece - rata blanca [letra] 🍻🇦🇷🎶

[@dennismccarty7728]

who can it be now another good one.

[@winsomeblandford1076]

Sent to Botany Bay for stealing a loaf of bread!! Australia set up as penal colony. That is the meaning on first verse of I am Australian by the Seekers.

[@evelyntolley6526]

Great song and love your reactions. I want to ask you to go to Neal Diamond who is very famous in America since 1966 to now. He sings beautiful ballads. If you can find him in a concert singing "Sweet Caroline" and videos of him with many many other songs.

[@danielasantarelli6396]

Sorry to spoil your fun, but this song isn't as happy and carefree as it sounds. In reality it is an accusation against the development and destruction of Australian territory in the name of progress (the man with the mustache who is putting the land up for sale) which has led to the loss of Australian values ​​and conviviality (the woman who pays the beer). They go around in search of the true spirit of Australia, but, as they have already said in another comment, in the end they only bring back the memory of it, like a corpse in that sort of coffin carried on the shoulders by the men in black and the pylons of the The high voltage reminds him that the free and wild desert no longer exists.

[@riccardo4285]

3:21 non ho mai capito perché lancia i sandwich come se stesse giocando a volley...😅😅😅😅😅

[@anonhensen]

3:39 That's shuffling, isn't it?

[@HAP3SPEAKZ]

Hmmm

[@ryanje8147]

very catchy song but I didn't understand the video at all!! lol

[@nanner3200]

Hi. Been away from YT for a bit. Trying to catch up. Hopefully get to it all today??? HEY! I know this song! Didn't know the title or who sang it though. Do remember the words (sort of) Like the beard 🧔‍♂ See you on the next one! (Are you aware that when you move your arms a certain way Freddie comes into focus?)

[@kennethfarrand-collins6405]

That blue stuff is not real beer, it's made from parts of the nates. No self respecting Aussie would touch it, let along drink it. Great song should be our unofficial national anthem, good react mate keep it up.

[@kuntumlaleanqueezer]

It’s a mistake, who can it be now….