Both of these bands hail from Australia (Split Enz via New Zealand), and both have released best-selling albums in that country. Stylistically, however, they have very little in common.

Ever since their bizarre early-Seventies beginnings, Split Enz have taken the high pop-art road. Their specialty is decorating fetching, slyly Beatlesque hooks with the sweeping futuristic flash of the early Roxy...

It's not easy to take Men At Work seriously. Their hit singles, though pleasant, are lightweight and derivative, and their live shows have more in common with Monty Python than, say, the Police. Colin Hay and Greg Ham, the band's self-deprecating frontmen, don't like that. Two Hearts, their third album, and the first in two years, is a blatant attempt by the band to reconcile itself with the...

In the midst of the most fractious year in recent rock & toll annals, Men at Work burst onto the 1982 music scene like a squadron of Australian Philip Habibs. Everybody liked them. Album-oriented-radio adherents appreciated the guitar-based sound of Business as Usual, young MTV watchers got off on their endearingly zany video personae, and critics cited their reggae-flecked, Police-as-a-five-piece...