"Down Under" - Men at Work
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Topic: "Down Under" - Men at Work
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Subject: "Down Under" - Men at Work
Date Posted: 09 August 2008 at 10:33am
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The actual commercial 45 run time of Men at Work's "Down Under" is 3:40. (Run time info courtesy once again of our good friend abagon. The stated time on the record label is 3:41.) The only reason I post this info is because database CD appearances of this song run from 3:35-3:43.
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Posted By: Indy500
Date Posted: 20 September 2014 at 5:13pm
The 12" extended mix is available on "Pure... 80's remixes." A four CD set
from Sony music.
Wikipedia lists the first appearance of this mix as occurring in 1986. Anyone
hear this back in 82/83?
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Posted By: crapfromthepast
Date Posted: 20 September 2014 at 7:13pm
Ugh - the 12" mix is awful. I first found it on the
Australian Men At Work collection '81-'85, which
was released in 1986. I highly doubt that it was released
when the song was a hit; I've never seen any '82/'83
releases anywhere having that 12" mix.
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Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 20 September 2014 at 7:33pm
Our station got excellent promo 12" single service from Columbia in late
1982, and we never got one in for "Down Under" when it was a current.
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Posted By: Indy500
Date Posted: 26 September 2014 at 3:55pm
Thanks for the info. I was in college in Western Oklahoma in 1983 so I wasn't
hearing the special promos playing on KROQ or in the dance clubs of NYC.
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Posted By: mjb50
Date Posted: 10 September 2021 at 7:40pm
As far as I know, the non-extended version is the same everywhere. The end of the song has a lot of repetition and vocal ad-libs, and a very long, gentle fade, starting at about 3:10 and continuing until a hair past 3:41. I doubt any commercial radio station ever played the whole thing!
On CD, it is often mastered with a fair amount of silence on each end, so you will see reported durations from 3:42 to 3:46. On occasion, it will be faded early, like at 3:35.
As mastered on the circa 1984 Business As Usual CD (CK 37978) and the 1989 mini CD single Who Can It Be Now? / Down Under (13K 68654), the song runs about 3:41 on the nose. On the Like, Omigod! The '80s Pop Culture Box (Totally) box, it reaches zero about a quarter of a second sooner, but it's otherwise the same.
So I am wondering about the 3:40 duration reported for the 45. I assume it's slightly fast or just a very slightly early fade. I'm curious to know exactly which, though.
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