COLIN HAY
I JUST DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF
COMPASS RECORDS
★★★
“I just don’t know what to do with myself,” sings Men At Work’s frontman Colin Hay, so he’s done what most veterans do at this point in their career: made a covers album. His choices are effective but certainly not radical: here’s a hoarse, semi-acoustic Waterloo Sunset, a smooth Wichita Lineman, an Ooh La La faithful to The Faces, and there’s only a paper’s width between his and Del Amitri’s Driving With The Brakes On. The Beatles bring out his best – twice – with Norwegian Wood and Across The Universe.