Colin Hay has managed that rare pivot, segueing nearly seamlessly from 1980s New Wave One-Hit-Wonder status (though admittedly, Men at Work had several hits) to being a prolific solo artist, writing some of the best songs of his career decades later.
In 2003, he put out Man @ Work, a career retrospective of both his time as frontman of Men At Work as well as his solo catalog up to that date. The record eschewed the predictable ‘best of’ route – simply re-releasing his old music in new packaging. Instead, while some of those songs were the same, he reworked many of the classic songs acoustically, completely reinventing many of them, as well as offering remixed and revised versions of other songs.

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