Cargo is the second album by Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n band Men at Work

Men at Work

Men at Work are an Australian rock band who achieved international success in the 1980s. They are the only Australian artists to have a simultaneous #1 album and #1 single in the United States . They achieved the same distinction of a simultaneous #1 album and #1 single in the United Kingdom...

, released in 1983. (see 1983 in music

1983 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1983.-January-April:*January – ZTT Records is founded.*January 8 – The UK singles chart is tabulated from this week forward by The Gallup Organization...

). Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

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magazine noted that while it lacked a blockbuster hit, "song for song, it is a stronger overall effort than Business as Usual."

Track listing

The live tracks on the 2003 Remastered edition are from a concert recorded July 28, 1983 at Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD (13, 14) and from a 1983 concert in San Francisco, CA (15).

Personnel

• Greg Ham
  Greg Ham
  Greg Ham is an Australian songwriter, actor and saxophone player known for playing multiple instruments in 1980s pop-reggae band Men at Work when he replaced Greg Sneddon, where he played flute, organ, piano and the synthesiser in addition to the saxophone.As an actor, Ham was a regular cast...
  
   - flute
  Flute
  The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
  
  , keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  , saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
  , background vocals, lead vocals on track 9
• Colin Hay
  Colin Hay
  Colin James Hay is a Scottish-Australian musician, who made his mark during the 1980s as lead vocalist of the Australian band Men at Work, and later as a solo artist.- Early life and Men at Work :...
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , lead vocals & Synclavier
  Synclavier
  The Synclavier System was an early digital synthesizer, polyphonic digital sampling system, and music workstation, manufactured by New England Digital Corporation, Norwich, VT. The original design and development of the Synclavier prototype occurred at Dartmouth College with the collaboration of...
  
  
• Johnathan Rees - bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , background vocals
• Jerry Speiser
  Jerry Speiser
  Jerry Harold Speiser is an Australian drummer and sometime guitarist. He was a founding member of 1980s pop music group Men at Work; which had Australian, United States and United Kingdom hits with their singles, "Who Can It Be Now?" and "Down Under" and their albums, Business as Usual and Cargo...
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  , background vocals
• Ron Strykert
  Ron Strykert
  Ronald "Ron" Graham Strykert is an Australian guitarist, known for playing lead guitar for the reggae inspired 1980s band, Men at Work....
  
   - guitar, background vocals, lead vocals on track 3
• Nathan D. Brenner - Co-Manager

Production

• Producer: Peter McIan
• Engineers: Peter McIan, Paul Ray
• Assistant Engineer: David Price
• Photography: Greg Noakes
• Artwork: Ron Strykert

Charts

Album - Billboard (United States)

Year	Chart	Position
1983	Top LPs & Tapes Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	3

Album - ARIA Charts

ARIA Charts

The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...

 (Australia)

Year	Chart	Position
1983	Australian Kent Music Report Kent Music Report The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to 1998...  Albums Chart	1

Singles - Billboard (United States)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1983	"Overkill"	Adult Contemporary	6
1983	"Overkill"	Mainstream Rock	3
1983	"Overkill"	Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	3
1983	"It's a Mistake"	Adult Contemporary	10
1983	"It's A Mistake"	Mainstream Rock	27
1983	"It's A Mistake"	Billboard Hot 100	6
1983	"Dr. Heckyll & Mr. Jive"	Mainstream Rock	12
1983	"Dr. Heckyll & Mr. Jive"	Billboard Hot 100	28
1983	"High Wire"	Mainstream Rock	23