Work for All

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Work For All
Studio album by Juluka
Released	1983
Length	39'28
Juluka chronology
Scatterlings (1982) Work For All 1983 The International Tracks (1984)

Work For All is a studio album from Juluka, a South African band led by Johnny Clegg and Sipho Mchunu. It was first released in 1983 and rapidly achieved major success in South Africa where it is now remembered as a classic album in the history of South African musuc.

While Clegg is known for the sociopolitical bent of his lyrics, he perhaps reaches his most scathing and critical on Work for All. In "Bullets for Bafazane", he sings of the commonplace township violence in his country: "Shadow men from the outland come to town / Looking for Bafazane, they want to gun him down". There is a notable use of a mild profanity, uncommon in Juluka lyrics, in "Gunship Ghetto", where Clegg sings in obvious frustration, "Crazy boy, your sister's crying / Tell me, where the hell have you been?"

Unfortunately, Work for All would be the last conventional studio album released by the '80s incarnation of Juluka. They would release a collection of singles and dance mixes, The International Tracks, for audiences outside of South Africa more interested in the Africanized pop side of the band than their social and political commentary.

[edit] Track listing

1. "December African Rain" – 4:20
2. "Bullets for Bafazane" – 3:53
3. "Mana Lapho" – 3:52
4. "Baba Nango" – 3:46
5. "Walima 'Mabele" – 4:17
6. "Work For All" – 3:56
7. "Gunship Ghetto" – 3:42
8. "Woza Moya" – 3:34
9. "Mdantsane (Mud Coloured Dusty Blood)" – 3:56
10. "Mantombana" – 3:40

Total: 39:28

[edit] External links

• Work For All - on the Juluka website