realsleep wrote: 
Indeed, it's awful.

 Sloggydog wrote: 
Apparently, not "a lot". Well, depends upon our interpretation of "a lot". The court wanted up to 60% of the royalties, which would have been nuts. A judge decided it would be 5% dating back to 2002 and any future royalties. Still, a chunk of money for anyone. All for the silly riff of the flute. Weird.

He lost a lot of money for being called on sampling Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree in this song and I feel for the guy.  As an Aussie ex-pat I stand by this ultimate piece of jingoistic Aussie cheese.  I freakin love it.

PS Don't bring up the inferior Marmite in the presence of Australians who know the wonders of Vegemite

I'm missing those high notes alot that he used to do!!!! 

I like this stripped down version.  Colin Hay's live version of this is even more bare, and I like it even more!

Please, though, can we just change the cover-art image?  I can't look at it anymore.

I like the original version better. The understated treatment in this version doesn't suit the material.

Terrible album cover; great album!

good

Loved the original Men At Work version and this one is a new take on an old song. Like it. A Lot!

*love*

can't wait to see him do his live acoustic set when he comes to Raleigh in March— 

 fredriley wrote: 
Oh dear, and reading your song comments I thought your taste was pretty good. It seems I was mistaken. I'm not sure you deserve to live so close to the holy city of Burton-on-Trent. All hail to the King of Savoury Spreads!

Last week I saw an amazing band called the McLovins at the Gathering of the Vibes.  They encored with this...

http://www.archive.org/download/mclovins2010-07-31.mclovins2010-07-31.octava-sbd-mix.flac16/mclovins2010-07-31d1t10.mp3

Wow, he very nearly makes this in to a good song!

That's another 5% for these gold-diggers...

 handyrae wrote: 
Agreed. nice rhythm.

 DaveInVA wrote: 
He's older now, give him a break....

NYC, Canal Room, Colin Hay, 2 by ~severfire
©2007-2010 ~severfire

Remeber Men at Work?

 SparkyMarky wrote: 
Speak for yourself, mate! Even the smell of the stuff makes me retch. I remember being at school at the tender age of 6 and the teachers insisted that we eat Marmite, and when I point-blank refused they threatened me with no jam until I ate my Marmite. As a result I spent a year without jam, and pretty damn hungry too. They assumed it was just obstinacy, and they were so wrong.

Can you have a childhood trauma caused by a bread spread? In my case you can :(

This is a joke, right?

This version is great. I'm enjoying the more laid back vibe.

To slow for me, like the original much better

i just had vegemite for the first time last week... i liked it. it tasted like 'Better Than Boullion'.  of course.. i wouldn't really eat it straight, but i'd make a soup base with it

What's up with his eyes?

One of my favorite 80's songs of all time... the original of course.

Nice but it's hard to beat the original.

 Poacher wrote: 
After exhaustive testing, I think Vegemite is better than Marmite, and I'm afraid Tim Tams outscore Penguins < aet >

Kraft bought Vegemite and launched a new variant product which is 50% salt and 50% dreck: read more here 

What can you expect from a country where Oreos are the number one biscuit? 

 SparkyMarky wrote: 
that sounds very british, like vegemite sounds very australian(ish) ? (I am from Germany, where is no ...mite)!

Judging from the negative comments on here, these folks have never had a head full of zombie.