After the personal reflections of 1986’s more pop-oriented Human Frailty, Hunters & Collectors shifted their gaze outward on 1987’s socially conscious fifth album What’s A Few Men? The title, taken from memoirist Albert Facey’s quotation of a ruthless WWI English colonel in Gallipoli, is heavy in meaning (so much so that the Melbourne band’s American label, I.R.S., changed the album’s name in the U.S. to the more innocuous Fate) and the songs within bring the weight in a blaze of stadium glory. The band tightens up their freewheeling pub-rock roots, but with no less boisterousness. Stabbing keys, intoxicating horns and wailing harmonica underline the muscular rhythm section. Meanwhile, frontman Mark Seymour exhibits all his usual blustery sway on swaggering rock triumphs like “Faraway Man” and “So Long Ago” and call-to-arms anthems like “What Are You Waiting For?” and “Breakneck Road”. “I see the truth come clean. I see the world go on forever,” he hollers with conviction on the latter as the band responds with stomping, horn-shrieking urgency. Every song here hits hard, most notably the title track, a wartime requiem that speaks to the most savage side of humanity.