FIRST TIME HEARING Men At Work - Down Under (Video)

[@Serai3]

This song is full of Australian slang. "Chunder" means to vomit. ("Watch out under!" when you throw up over the balcony.) "A fried-out combie" - a Volkswagen bus with a bad engine. "Zombie" = weed. Vegemite is a yeast extract that's eaten in Australia, very salty and bitter, but good if you use just a little bit. (It's called Marmite in the UK.) The hippie trail was the journey that hippies in the thousands took across the Far East and into the Middle East in the 60's. The Land Down Under is Australia itself, because it's on the lower half of the world map. When they hop away from the camera, they're imitating kangaroos. :)

[@nancyandrews398]

Back in the day we here in the US had NO idea what they were on about, but we loved it anyway, lol.

[@deormanrobey892]

Kangaroo hippity hopping. 😁

[@donaldb1]

I believe Marmite is similar to, but not quite the same as Vegemite.

[@cartercarter645]

Awesome Serai3. I never knew Zombie was weed. Now it makes perfect sense listening to it. Preeeeeesh!!!

[@bluecedar7914]

@@donaldb1 Marmite is the wussie version of Vegemite. 🙂

[@alicecolleenflynn]

Australia is called The Land Down Under. I like your channel, India.

[@SithVicious]

@@GGxKiwi Nobody wants to go that low.

[@bluepepper100]

@@GGxKiwi And Antarctica is down and underest.

[@normandavidtidiman9918]

If you live in the motherland (the UK) Australia is "Down Under"

[@ueks69]

Aussie down under

[@diha2271]

@@bluepepper100 Australia's Australia :)

[@DiscoTimelordASD]

As an Aussie it's fun to hear so much slang in one go. I love this song!🇦🇺

[@G.GordonMidi]

2:46 This is the most appropriate response to hearing "He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich" for the first time

[@megoombah1]

This became the unofficial Australian national anthem in 1983, when Australia won the Americas cup yacht race , ending a 132-year tenure by the New york yacht club.

[@Hi-kq1vi]

Thought Waltzing Matilda was the unofficial anthem & the Aussie cricket team singing Under The Southern Cross I Stand.

[@squiddly-diddly]

They used to belt it out every time they left the dock to go racing.

[@sabiantheomnivore5592]

Sang by a Scot, which sorta dilutes the whole Aussie thing..

[@newmove4378]

I don't do sports but I'll never forget that yacht race, I was so pumped and then the weeks of down under blaring on media across the country. Fun days.

[@liannadunten7326]

At 13 I was an obsessive Men at Work fangirl. "Head full of zombie" was Australian slang for being stoned. "Down under" is Australia.

[@Jack1843]

same age Lianna cool name

[@Rebel-cd6gc]

Hope you comeback soon

[@rambowbizz]

miss your reactions. you are a sweet soul.

[@evaczarnojanczyk1432]

Hooray, Australia’s unofficial National Anthem! ❤️ 🇰🇾

[@dansmith9724]

It would be in competition with cold chisel - Khe Sanh

[@Hi-kq1vi]

That is the John Newcombe rap.

[@dansmith9724]

@@Hi-kq1vi bloody oath

[@luisalonsoecheverria]

Written by a Scotsman.

[@dansmith9724]

@@luisalonsoecheverria Ian Moss?

[@donaldb1]

When the lyrics say that women glow that's just a polite way of saying they sweat. The saying goes that horses sweat, men perspire and women glow.

[@user-ii3vn8tn3q]

I remember my mother saying that to me.

[@Niecy70]

Girl I love you so much! I'm glad you took the time for yourself. Blessings and peace to you❤

[@numbr6]

KZbin copyright strikes are a nightmare. I feel your pain and admire your persistence to create quality content in the face of this resistance! Keep the faith. This is all music playing when I was growing up. Great times!

[@293hi]

80's, music forever.

[@bh8458]

They have a song called “Overkill” that is amazing. Colin Hay (the lead singer) released an acoustic version of it 20 years ago. I highly recommend it.

[@sethmden]

Overkill is such an amazing song. Reminds me of my late grandfather. R.I.P. Old man.

[@robofisk7625]

Down by the sea is awesome as well

[@billholder1330]

@@robofisk7625 I'm also partial to Who Can It Be Now, in a nostalgic way.

[@patrickmcinnis2921]

Thanks for coming back. You are wonderful and beautiful. keep doing what you are doing. thank you!!!

[@wlg2367]

Been watching your reactions for several years now. I love watching you react to music from when I was your age. Keep it up!

[@just4now492]

The song is a anthem for the land down under (Australia). Which is at the bottom of the globe. It’s about a Australian man that is travelling the world and meeting aussies or people who remind him of his home (Australia) wherever he goes.

[@damienkakoschke3099]

I'm glad so many Aussies have already popped on here. Yes, this was Australia's unofficial anthem (mainly because our anthem is lame) at a time that Australia was finding and asserting it's identity on the world stage, politically & culturally. Also the phenomenon that apparently still occurs today, started around this time that Australian travellers were popping up in unexpected places around the world. Local people round the world started to have conversations about their night out, when half way through a mention of Australians turning up, the women being beautiful (the women glow) and the men are heavy drinkers & almost agressively cheerful & chatty (men thunder/chunder - chunder is Aussie slang for vomiting from over drinking), hence the narrator is in Bombay & Brussels, when he meets a man who's 6'4" & full of muscles & offers him a Vegemite sandwich (yeah, Vegemite is a yeast based spread that you put very thinly on bread or toast in Australia, all Australian children are brought up on it, therefore you have to be Australian not to find it utterly disgusting, so, don't feel like you have to try it). Most of us haven't heard it as anything other than in the background music to announce an advert break during the televising of a sports TV telecast for years, and the film clip even longer (in the 80's in Australia, there was a very much homemade and therefore cheap approach, very "can do" attitude to film clips, not so much yet the more polished MTV approach that was happening in America). It was very much a thing of cultural pride for many decades. Unfortunately there's a sad side to the song that came much later, in 2009. The flute tune in the song was deemed too close to the tune of the children's song "Kookaburra", something that the owners of the song hadn't noticed in the intervening decades & a copyright lawsuit ensued, which Men at Work lost. There was an understandable furor among the Australian public that the lawsuit was ridiculous & the untimely death of Men at Work flute player Greg Ham has been suggested to have been caused by the stress of the long lawsuit. - Oh, random side note re: the phenomenon of Aussies turning up in strange places around the world and being heavy drinkers, in the end credits of Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indiana Jones), the man that Marion in her bar in, I think Tibet, wins a drinking match with during her introduction at the beginning of the film, he's listed as Australian Mountain climer. Liking your videos. I found it when I was watching another channel react to Gotye & Kimbra's Someone that I used to know, and after 2 verses they had no idea what the song was about, rather frustrated that the people on this channel apparently listen to songs but don't listen to the lyrics, then saw your reaction video on the youtube list on the side & of course, you got it because your great, so I've watched a few of you reaction videos, keep up the good work. May I suggest give Kate Bush, Bjork, Tori Amos & Sia a look, you'll be pleasantly surprised. :)

[@CptSlow89]

The "Land Down Under" is Australia, where the group is from. The lyrics were written by lead singer Colin Hay, who explained in his Songfacts interview: "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."

[@ronaldobrien6870]

Yes indeed : Colin Hay also said in an interview that the coffin at the end was meant to represent Australia itself.

[@christianmattison6096]

India I have missed you so much. You are, by far, my favorite reactor and always have been. Hope t see you more regular again!

[@davidcruz8667]

No, the land Down Under is Australia. He asks "do you speak-a my language?"... of course he does, it's English, just with a funny accent. "Gave me a Vegemite sandwich..." Vegemite is a popular spread in Australia made of yeast, it's very salty so a little is all you need. Try it on toast and butter. Like Marmite, but better. Those "dance moves" is them imitating kangaroos bounding away, which live in Aussie land. I recommend "Beds Are Burning" by Midnight Oil, another great Australian rock band.

[@NJovceski]

The land down under is Australia. The song is full of Aussie slang and stereotypes. This is a song that unites, everyone sings along too, a classic. Xo

[@sirplus3282]

If your overseas and home sick , this song can almost make you cry lol

[@rajeshroshan2877]

Maybe even if you're not Australian.

[@susanwlasiuk9190]

I miss you India Come back

[@bitspacemusic]

When I got my first LP, my dad bought this one. I think it was in 1981. I was seven.

[@thecarpartsguy8676]

I miss the 80's. Families seemed closer. There was a lot of different music happening. We listened to every genre. Good times. Who is still rocking 80's jams with me?

[@DiscoTimelordASD]

Hell yeah!

[@one-eye1721]

A bunch of years ago a comedy game show on Aussie TV mentioned that the little flute riff after the chorus was taken from the classic folk song 'Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree'. Immediately the rights holder to that song sued Colin Hay and wanted all of the royalties from the song. From what I remember the court awarded them a cut of the profits from the date they filed the lawsuit which got them only a couple hundred grand. But Colin Hay said he had to spend five million dollars in court defending it..

[@wannabewest2010]

Yes i was waiting for you to connect the dots. Yes Australia and watch it again

[@docbearmb]

The land down under is Australia. Many allusions are made throughout to things native to Australia. The lyric is “head full of zombies”. Zombie is an alcoholic drink that’s rum and brandy based. The grind has paid off. You’ve become one of the best, most enjoyable reactors. But everybody is entitled to rest now and then.

[@NyMyers64]

My favorite song from this band has always been "It's a Mistake" from their 2nd album Cargo.

[@caityl.charnoski7774]

Me too that song has one of the most underrated guitar solos of the 80’s

[@scooby1992]

Whenever you hear them on the radio now ( which isnt very often ) they always play Down Under ( which is a great song ) , but I prefer Overkill .

[@roxee57]

We Australians don’t take too many things seriously, so don’t read too much into it.

[@chrisalldis3375]

Well said Roxee, too true

[@pauleenwardale6425]

I agree, all about the fun

[@chadjcrase]

except the thunder

[@jt2090]

India I dont know if you' will see this but Cyndi Lauper just mentioned you on her facebook page today

[@numberonesongs4444]

An interesting bit of information about this song. The part in the song and video were the big guy offers him a Vegemite sandwich and it is a real sandwich in Australia. The company that owns the name Vegemite heard that the band had incorporated their sandwich into the song. They came to the band and ask if the band would want to promote the sandwich. The band surprisingly declined the offer.

[@crimsonclover8314]

This song like totally makes me go back to the 80's for a bit 😉

[@garydietrich9532]

Down under= Australia. Love your reactions, India.

[@queenjenna2696]

I luv that u done this... Since I remember back ago u mentioned u have Native American in u.... I wanted to suggest to u something I believe u would enjoy it and would most likely add it to a personal playlist for days to come... The song is called Return to Innocence by Enigma.... As it's a bit relaxing song I listen to to help me find a but a peace .... Hope ur doing well dear u and ur family. Blessings to you and your family 🖤

[@leoraeina5148]

Yooza from Melbourne, Australia. Australia all the way!

[@brendanjeffreys7056]

It's one of our Australian Anthems... Just shows our sense of humour, we don't take ourselves serious ... Listen to this Aussie Group called- Icehouse Great Southern Land this is another one of our Anthems.. Stay safe and God Bless 🇦🇺🙏🇦🇺

[@lisadavie5819]

Great southern land is amazing.. I'm Scottish so proud that Colin Hays Scottish also. x

[@lisadavie5819]

Another great song is Mental as anything live it up. From crocodile Dundee.

[@tomlafleche332]

Down Under is a slang reference for the country of Australia you know as in there under the equator....

[@pointedspider]

One of my favorite songs ever

[@RTDavis0503]

I used to love this song in the eighties

[@scott3605]

Hey my beautiful india's back ❤️ australia the land down under. Haven't heard this tune in ages. But love it.

[@sixpakshaker88]

We miss you on this channel.

[@danielguerrero1176]

proud of our country, back then

[@blakesliberator3197]

This was a great Australian hit back in 1983. Still popular.

[@mycatz2fatgaming]

It's good to see you're back India feeling better and sporting that patented smile and laugh.

[@tinotime6991]

Mucho love 4 u India👍

[@williammarquez2552]

You came back more beautiful than ever😉😍

[@shawnjames9256]

Never heard the joke "What is an Australian kiss? (answer) It's like a French Kiss, only down under."

[@sixpakshaker88]

"Overkill" is their best song.

[@JoseGomez-ks8sk]

I miss your reaction videos India.I miss you beautiful soul. Grace us with your appearance once more 🥰 love you

[@kathalinehansen7078]

The band Men at Work came from Australia. Vegemite is explained below.

[@kesleycottrell1416]

This band had their own unique sound. Completely original.

[@consciousbeing1188]

MTV came out in 1981 and helped make this song huge in the US... without MTV I doubt it would've been as big but the timing was fortuitous.

[@dansmith9724]

Timing with the americas cup in 1982 not long after MTV released the video helped make the song famous😉👍

[@consciousbeing1188]

@L M Unfortunately the Aussie music industry is a shadow of it's former self... When I was a young fella it was phenomenal... the 70s and 80s were an amazing time to be alive. The music defined a generation... mere words don't do it justice.

[@j-me6317]

Yep, Men at Work were on MTV a lot. “Who Can It Be Now” and “It’s a Mistake” were on a lot too.

[@starlaminde8436]

It’s a special talent and music you just have to get it…and I do. Love this whole album!!

[@jacket5456]

There was a trail that many hippies of the 50s-70s travelled. It went through Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal. On this journey, Weed and Opium as well as good ole' Heroin were available. But, some people had a big issue with the hippies. There was even a Serial Killer that murdered over 50 people he picked up on the trail.

[@benjaminrupe5930]

Yes! Love Men At Work. The first two albums are a brilliant, irreverent mix of pop, jazz and reggae that are well worth the time to absorb. Plus, they're just fun.

[@sherigilmore9141]

So good to see you back. Yes this was in the 80's not hippie generation. This was a big song for Men at Work.

[@jimmyTimtam]

This song is seen as the Australian Anthem

[@Michelle-kg9zz]

Men at work takes me bk to the AWESOME decade of the 80s I was in high school when this song came Love it😎🤘 Love you and your video's 🤘

[@sean4339]

80s music forever 👍👍👍😍🥰

[@joanneharper9090]

This song was so big in the 80s. I remember hearing it on the radio when I lived in Italy.

[@johnperepchuk4483]

There is a really incredible singer that you don't hear from much Morgana King she is incredible well worth your listening to

[@DylansPen]

This song, along with Crocodile Dundee, had Americans all about the Australia in the 80's.

[@paulstanley2825]

Great to see you back. I can't believe you haven't reacted to this already. Another Aussie group I highly recommend are Hunters And Collectors. Too many great songs to mention but Blind Eye is one of my favourites by them.

[@i-still-cruz2430]

I remember this song hitting the charts back in the day. It was one of those songs that just stayed in your head. Lol Check out the group Devo. 👍

[@PhalseProfit13]

Thank you for doing this Australian classic

[@terereynolds698]

The land of from under is Australia. This is a happy upbeat song.

[@Rushyrl]

It's an Australian Classic song. Gives the same sorta vibes as Red Hot Chili Peppers but years before that.

[@poolhall9632]

Fun Fact: the flute part was lifted from "Kookaburra [sits in the old gum tree]", a well-known children's song written in 1932 by Marion Sinclair The band didn’t have the rights - so they got sued.

[@dawnrobbins5877]

It was not intentionally stolen and only about four notes. George Harrison had the same trouble with My Sweet Lord being copied from He's So Fine.

[@darkgaucho1514]

Another fun fact... the song's original writer "did" give them verbal permission to use the Kookaburra melody in Downunder, but when she died, the rights to the tune passed to her descendants, who saw a goldmine. The descendants sued the band and won, which is why the band only had to pay royalties from the time the descendants gained ownership of the tune, and not the years prior to that.

[@orbuckeye896]

It was the 80s, you can't over think it.

[@cheryla7480]

Worldwide the term “the land down under” refers to Australia. The band is Australian, they are singing of Australian things….like a Vegemite sandwich, a popular spread there.

[@MusicLover-dt7ic]

Check out Who Can It Be Now, another great tune by them. Thanks.

[@edwardkramer9092]

The group is from Australia.. Australia is known as the country down under

[@davidbrandenburg8029]

I love their work

[@davidgamache3035]

Australian you wonderful Lady ^_^ Love your Reaction Videos BTW!

[@jefffowler2587]

LMFAO the land down under dear is Australia, too cute

[@leewalsh2428]

I doubt Colin Hay can still do those crazy dance moves, I loved his appearance on Scrubs performing Overkill.

[@angelapetersson]

India, i love you. You do such good input and comments on different musik. I would love to hear your input on Bob Marley and The Wailers. Often when a song is good, you need to "wait for it". Then it can floor you. Also a very good group is Boney M. Tragic history, althoug i've always loved the ladys in this group. If you find them, look at the apperance of the females. When in sweden, they had a good time, Germany not so good. Please try to give input on one of this. Lots of love and hug your kids as well. HAPPY DAYS

[@billpemberton4981]

I watched your reaction to Bobby Caldwell……Lmfao,best reaction I ever seen.

[@luisalonsoecheverria]

Please react to "Overkill", "Who Can It Be Now?", "It's A Mistake", and "I Can See It In Your Eyes",

[@ownyourcrazy8734]

Australian Music videos were always more about personality than image.

[@catherinehammond1519]

Men At Work were sued by the writer of Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree,written by Marion Sinclair in 1934,the flute section sounds very much the same.

[@juanplazas4593]

where are you??? We miss you!

[@brendaotoole4012]

Wait you’re missing again? R u ok?

[@rhiahlMT]

Those aren't dance moves, they are kangaroo hops.

[@gregorybrewster8836]

India I like your reactions to the music videos. They are a classic. :)

[@bradydasportsguy4825]

Only a Woman Like You by Michael Bolton is such a great song. Hward this one for the first time a few days ago

[@timnoyes9892]

The land down under, Australia.

[@chadjcrase]

It's funny how our reactions are always - whatever, we don't take ourselves too seriously. I know it's true, but it's still really funny, especially if a young person wanted to sing about their country today.

[@Pattyboybx]

I went through your videos. You react to a unique variety of music. I’m into hard rock mainly buy almost everything you react to is something I’ve enjoyed listening to growing up. I guess it’s nostalgic for me. Great music choice and also very different from other channels. I love how you don’t have the fake theatrical reactions like some of the other channels have. Wish you luck and hope your brand grows. Peace.

[@darkomtobia]

"It's A Mistake" by them is good.

[@coachtomas]

Dearest India. I love your videos. You have this engaging aura about you, whichever song you listen to. That smile and fun side is so beautiful and when the song is sad you feel it in your heart. I hope all is well with you. I hope we can see new videos soon. Much love.

[@aaronbarlow4376]

India trying to explain what she thought 'down under' meant made me laugh. Then halfway through she must have Googled 'down under' because she started talking about the 'Australian spirit' lol.

[@zaratee6887]

Love this song!!!!

[@shawnk7832]

I love your energy.

[@lisadavie5819]

The singer is Scottish Colin Hay.

[@garywoolf2596]

They are from Australia.... I got to see them live and wasn't that thrilled about going. They turned out to be awesome live!

[@davidbrandenburg8029]

the land down under is Australia! and they have some really bad assed storms!.

[@kathleencooper2153]

we are so proud to be aussies....

[@OldiesMomma]

Have you ever done anything on the solo music of stevie wright . he was a great performer lost to early❤❤🎉