Hunters & Collectors's Human Frailty

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Released in 1986, Hunters and Collectors album Human Frailty is one of the most important Australian albums of the last two decades of the twentieth century. It was pivotal in the groups career and marked the groups move into pub rock. It is unashamedly concerned with love and desire. The album challenged traditional understandings of Australian masculinity while playing music to predominantly male audiences. No other Australian group would have dared, or indeed been able, to get their audience to roar You dont make me feel like a woman anymore, the culminating line off Hunan Frailtys first track, and the first single taken from the album, Say Goodbye. The second track on the album, Throw Your Arms Around Me has become an Australian standard, an anthem sung drunkenly more by women than men, in pubs, at weddings and similar occasions. Human Frailty is an album that transcended the critical categories of its time.

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Jon Stratton is Adjunct Professor in UniSA Creative at the University of South Australia and a member of the universitys Creative People, Products and Places Research Centre. Jon has worked at universities in the UK and Australia and held a Rockefeller Fellowship at the University of Iowa in 1998. His areas of interest include Popular Music, Cultural Studies, Australian Studies, Jewish Cultural Studies and Media Studies. He is the sole author of 12 books and has co-edited four. In 2002 he published Australian Rock: Essays on Popular Music. His most recent books include Black Popular Music in Britain since 1945 (edited with Nabeel Zuberi, 2014), When Music Migrates: Crossing British and European Racial Faultlines 1945-2010 (2014) and An Anthology of Australian Albums: Critical Engagements (edited with Jon Dale and Tony Mitchell, 2020).