"Shark Fin Blues" is a double A-side single taken from Australian rockers the Drones' second studio album, Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By (April 2005).

[4] The song, whose lyrics were written over "Same Old Man" by Karen Dalton, was composed after the passing of Liddiard's mother[2][3] and has been described as "an anthem of sorts for the disenfranchised and melancholic".

[4] The song was originally received favorably, with Brandon Stosuy of Pitchfork calling it "one of the best rockers of the year, a seemingly endless path of riffs and dynamics and a good introduction to Liddiard's nihilistic subject matter".

[12] On 7 July 2014, Australian artist Missy Higgins released "Shark Fin Blues" as the first single from her fourth studio album, Oz (September 2014).

[14] In an album review, Helena Ho from Renowned for Sound said the song "begins with simple piano chords so that the bare beauty of Higgins' vocals are highlighted.