Men at Work-Down by the Sea

[Baritone45]

What's a yonnie?

[1968mjh]

@Baritone45 someone once told me it's an australian aborigine word for rock...which explains nothing...

[Aengus42]

@1968mjh A Yonnie is a small stone especially one you throw into the sea. Us poms have our uses!

[TheNavrat]

@Aengus42 well done man!

[hannacalamity]

beautiful.

[EandWEEZY]

I wish I was down by the sea..............

[GeoOneloveHipHop]

Ohhh wow! Great song to play while camping!

[skynf1]

best bass track ever

[cloudbuster66]

great band,brings back memories,

[DreamSports]

Sooooooooooooo Underrated !!

[TheStonedBitch]

This is even better than Kraft Dinner!

[jfones49]

Always loved this tune. Reminds me of Happy times at the coast; even in my mid-twenties. OOPS, gave awawy my age.LOL!

[8675309cabana]

One of my faves growing up,luv it now that I'm older!

[vlmerriott]

Laying on the beach in Kona in the 80's listened to these guys all them time!!

[marleySux]

crazy how it reminds me of plAYING LEGGOS as a kid, which is what i did while listening to this tape

[Papierkopf]

my favorite men at work song

[walaron1]

Fantastic song......very atmospheric.....like to get Gassed whilst listening to this one.......Oh Luvly!

[gtee0411]

My all time fave men at work song! Takes me back to childhood school hols fishing and exploring beach.

[gerryffox1]

Really like this... Takes me back to a place and time when things seemed less complicated

[adultdatingsite452]

Great Clip

[RevelationXD45]

Stumbled on a few Men at Work tunes and now I'm choked up. I'm 40 and I guess the ol memories are rollin back in. Amazing band.

[TheHumanBallsack]

@RevelationXD45 Ha, I'm only 25 but all of these tracks make me feel like I'm a kid again, back in the awesome 80s! I'll be listening to this stuff when I'm an old man damnit!

[HandsomeJimK]

this was the 1st album I ever bought...8yr old..$7 bucks in my hand..my 1st great investment

[walaron1]

@HandsomeJimK Alright Man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Merryrobin]

I remember having this cassette tape and playing this last song over and over again.

[politicstop]

one of their best... I still have the original vinyl, a great album well worth a listen

[hmsmagpie]

These guys managed to transport me from the grime and stagnation of East London, to a paradise far far away.

[VictorVimes]

By far their best song. Pity they didn't stick to this sound rather then go down the 80s generic pop direction as they did.

[smashmasterjohn]

One m0:00re time....

[RockManAU]

Silent F ooking Brilliant!

[spartanses]

dom joly brought me here

[richiebear1969]

Business As Usual. Cool album or cassette.

[OzzyCooperManson]

I like to lay in my blacklight room and listen to this song its really relaxing

[Kalashnibud08]

Excellent tune! Played this at night with the lights out and just vegged. Thanks for this trip to my favorite decade.

[flapjack012]

such a good song!! why cant we have music like this now? im 15 this was wayy befor my time and i love all the 80s music...most music sucks now these days!!!

[wild1heart]

the music, the lyrics.. go hand in hand. on of my fav's from the boys Down Under awesome!!!

[manyvideoinerests]

Too bad this song didn't get much radio play even back in the day. Too bad that the group broke up. This definately puts one in a different frame of mind. I listen to this at work, or when I need to relax. Even at work it will take me some place else. If the 80's would just come back one more time!

[gergsllaf]

such a sweet song

[duenasmom]

I never, ever, EVER get tired of this song!!

Oh how this song triggers something in me...

and my memories as a teenager in the 80's come flooding back to me..

[tcoutoadv]

1: %$#¨&!

[scottpc1234]

i dont post but this is special thanks thanks thanks for posting kudos poster :-)

28 outside Brighton beach and im out for a walk! thnx

[Lifeexistance]

Many a night I walked along the sea listening to this on my head phone's! It is like a breath of fresh air.

[indyclone25]

men at works first album was the best , everysong was great,

[duenasmom]

@indyclone25 Yyyeessss!! I so agree with you..EVERY song on their first album was GREAT!!

[saltcitysuesey]

I feel so lucky. I live down by the sea, where mountains and cliffs and beaches and the sea and I meet, frequently. This song takes me away from all of my life's troubles any time I hear it.

[blackmona10]

this is great111111111111

[cevynmorse]

Perfect as a Lullaby it put my three siblings to sleep

[macsnafu]

Great moody song - my favorite from Men At Work.

[luv2tha69s]

this song is tha shit



[nosleep62]

sweet, haunting-thanks for posting!

[speak132]

brings back great memories of when I was young

[DannyPhantom3599]

Oh my...I had th LP with this song on it (when I actually had a record player!) and I thought it was lost forever once record players went out of fashion!!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!!!!

~LauraG.~ (born 1971--my best years were in the 80's!)

[hawl7154]

ignore the bollox. this is timeless, absolute class

[lsnows]

Aaaaaah... reminds me of when I was only fourteen years old back in Brazil... and I'd daydream about Elle MacPherson. What a beautiful song. It evokes memories so hauntingly. Thanks for the post.

[7milkduds]

Saw Colin Hay in concert a couple weeks ago and he played this. Said the band had wrote the song while smoking at little weed. Joked that the original version was over 4 hours long.. LOL!!

[djdonovan26]

@7milkduds Beautiful song. They should smoke some more weed.:)

[redflow274]

@7milkduds yeah i know saw him two days ago he said the exact same thing

[urguelfa]

I remember a 90's TV ad with this song (young boy+girl trying to get a photo of themselves by the seaside with a beer in their hand but an animal passing by ruins it all)...can anybody help me? thanx!

[lee32uk]

One of the great albums of the 80's. I remember owning this on tape ;)

[ojs100]

Nice song 4ever de las mías puex.

[UkePunk]

Great song, brings back great memories :)

[320263]

@UkePunk thats true, great memories that will never be forgotten, this song is top´s

[skyboom64]

turn it up. play it loud. a truly great song. thanks for posting.

[GreenChilliD]

Man I used to play this over and over and over......

[awtube869]

great song ... a hidden gem for me, as I never knew the song even existed up until about a year ago ...never thought they were a great band, but that has changed for me now ....

[taffydavenport1965]

so good

[88mpny]

WHAT A GREAT SONG.

[Jezer1990]

Can anyone tell me which movie this song appears in, I watched it recently but cannot remember which it was, I think it played during the end credits.

Many Thanks

[PPellor]

@Jezer1990 Trigger Happy TV, it's on the soundtrack CD for it so they played it somewhere

[LesHemmings]

Yonnies = small stones

[nighthawksace]

Its too bad people only know the hits from this band. Both Business as usual And Cargo are packed with great songs.

[Triewer]

My favorite song by these guys. Most people don't realize the untapped talent these guys had.

[Eatherbreather]

I so love this tune - On "Business as usual" I hear many references to the sea and ships. Is/was Colin Hayes a yactchy/ship enthusiast? I have "Business as usual" on vinyl and despite the sligtly silly sound to the vocals this track actually sounds o.k. when played at 45rpm!

[titoburrito777]

Their very best.

[primus628]

I always told everybody in junior high that this was their best tune, but they only listened to the singles. Pity that mate

[dmgcat]

Definately the best track.

[cassidybridie]

One of the finest songs ever, most people i know only know Men at Work because of Land down under and i have to tell them that they have a lot of much better songs. This track has to be in my top 5 all time fav' songs. From the first note to the last this is first class,.... i'm a poet and didnt even know it :)

[emiliozapata55]

their best track

[vanseventy]

thanks for posting this song! memories galore! miss this time period in life bad!! cheers!

[TheKanaraja]

This brings back great memories!! Brunei this is for you...and all we had to go through!

[TheAnandaXX]

Driftin' off with a weee dram of Arbeg and the bliss of Sir hAY

[www1234a]

Another GREAT song that was totally underplayed (pun!).....This whole album brings me back to 1983....the smell and feel of it......incredible how some things just transport you...... " Cold and windy weather"......

[metalcruzer]

Just you and me, we overdosed on pleasure!!

[LittleHarriet]

Aww maan! Disappointed there was no vid to this. Men At Work are Aussie band, but Colin Hay is a Geordie {from the North East of England}. This track is my very favorite!

[320263]

this track, the composition of this song is just simply great, too bad no video on it, but it´s o.k., you can´t get always what you wanted

[Detroit1967]

one of the best Rock songs ever written.

[DarkBlue101]

It's quiet when the tides low........

[gothos1000]

One of my teenage happy place songs..

[enjoiskaterguy]

@gothos1000

this is a current college happy place song for me

[DiamondPlatedJim]

@gothos1000 me too...grew up in Maui and use to put this tape in on the way to Honolua Bay for a session. MAGIC!

[redfishradical]

Brilliant! This & No Signs of Yesterday were both fantastic, serious pieces that naturally got no airplay, at least in the Pac. Northwest. But they were not only my 2 fave MAW tunes but two of my all time favorites.

Saw Colin at The Tractor, a small club in Seattle quite a few years ago before I moved, he just blew the club away! Great entertainer as well as songwriter!

[sarahlafish]

Was Heaven being able to play this on the Eastern Seaboard on WMVY.... alot.

Good 80's Memories.

[El135o]

That acoustic guitar riff is brilliant. So lazy but right on the money.

[TheKanaraja]

@El135o

[TheKanaraja]

...this song is like the ocean breeze...reminds me of rooftops and hidden treasures that someday we all seem to dig up eventually...relax...rock on "jay-jay" this song is for u!

[wildjohn]

PS- not "Yanni" but yonnie- Aust. slang for small stones- or in this case maybe sand: "yonnies in the wind"- have you ever been on a beach in winter when the wind blows so hard that it picks up small pebbles?

[El135o]

I thought "yonnies" meant , uh, one's butt (or underwear), so an Aussie girl told me LOL

[wildjohn]

Saw Colin Hay about 2 months ago- going in, I said to my buddy, "I hope he plays 'Downby the Sea'"- but I didn't think he would. He opened with it. Absolutely hypnotic- very faithful to the original, just no sax.

I highly recommend seeing him, the old MaW stuff is as good as ever and the new stuff is great. He has not lost a bit of his voice.

[Thadesgal]

Everything about this song is perfect. The percussion, guitars, voice, words. Yanni's in the wind... Haha. Has he been around that long? This is 1 of my favorite cuts from the Business As Usual album.