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Mental As Anything are an Australian new wave/pop/rock band formed at an art school in Sydney in 1976. Its most popular line-up (which lasted from 1977-1999) was Martin Plaza (birth name Martin Murphy) on vocals and guitar; Reg Mombassa (birth name Chris O'Doherty) on lead guitar and vocals; his brother Peter "Yoga Dog" O'Doherty on bass guitar and vocals; Wayne "Bird" Delisle (birth name David Twohill) on drums; and Andrew "Greedy" Smith on vocals, keyboards and harmonica.〔〔〔 Their original hit songs were generated by Mombassa, O'Doherty, Plaza and Smith, either individually or collectively;〔 they also hit the Australian charts with covers of songs by Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry. Their top ten Australian singles are "If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too?" and "Too Many Times" (both from 1981), "Live It Up" (1985) and "Rock and Roll Music" (1988).〔 NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mental As Anything discography )〕 Internationally, "Too Many Times" made the Canadian top 40 in 1982, and "Live It Up" peaked at No. 3 in UK, No. 4 in Norway,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mental As Anything discography )〕 and No. 6 in Germany,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mental As Anything – Live It Up )〕 after it featured in the 1986 Australian film ''"Crocodile" Dundee''.〔 All of the early members are visual artists and have had combined studio displays,〔 some have had solo studio displays with Mombassa's artwork also used as designs by the Mambo clothing company.〔 The majority of the group's record covers, posters and video clips have been designed and created by themselves or their art school contemporaries.〔 On 27 August 2009, Mental As Anything was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame alongside Kev Carmody, The Dingoes, Little Pattie and John Paul Young. ==Style== Mental As Anything's music is characterised by poppy, accessible and well-crafted melodies and lyrics, and their work showcases an ironic, satirical and self-deprecating sense of humour.〔〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=99/111/1 Performance costume, suit, cotton, used by Martin Plaza of Mental as Anything, Mambo, Australia, 1986 )〕 They are a typically "Australian" rock group, with their music and their satirical, good-time image deeply rooted in the milieu of Australian suburbia,〔〔 despite the fact that two key members (the O'Doherty brothers) were in fact immigrants from New Zealand.〔 The group's art school background and visual design skills also made them pioneers of the music video form in Australia in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and their videos rank as some of the funniest and most imaginative produced in Australia at that time.〔 Mental As Anything is arguably comparable with contemporaneous British acts Madness, Squeeze, XTC and Nick Lowe in that their classic pop meets new wave music is typically delivered with a quirky, ironic sense of humour and a decidedly local flavour. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mental As Anything」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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