"All Torn Down" is a song by Australian punk rock band The Living End.
It spent 18 weeks in the Australian ARIA Singles Chart and peaked at No. 12.
The song title and lyrics refer to the rapid development of Melbourne in the late 1990s, with major projects such as CityLink and Melbourne Docklands in progress and being constructed with little regard to whether it was development on parks or historic sites.
The cover art depicts a redscale Melway map of the Melbourne CBD and Southbank area..I was still living at home in Wheeler’s Hill when that came out.
It was about me being into old-fashioned cars, music and fashion; why can’t things just stay the way they are?