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- Date Released: January 1, 1983
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Label: Hoodoo Gurus Pty / Virtual
Eleven wallops of gloriously tuneful, exuberantly played and balefully witty power pop.
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We Say...
Had Hoodoo Gurus emerged from some fashionable American college town rather than from Perth via Sydney, their 1984 debut album "Stoneage Romeos" would today be at least as widely and unquestioningly revered as The Flamin' Groovies' Shake Some Action or Big Star's #1 Record. "Stoneage Romeos" is eleven wallops of gloriously tuneful, exuberantly played and balefully witty power pop. Though highlighting individual cuts feels a grave disservice to an utterly flawless album, "I Want You Back" and "Tojo" trump anything recorded by The dBs or The Fleshtones; the surf-rock epic "Leilani" remains a thunderous soundtrack for an unmade b-movie, and "I Was A Kamikaze Pilot," a keening confessional nonetheless startlingly poignant for the self-evident absurdity of its premise.
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They Say...
"Shake some action/Psychotic reaction/No satisfaction/Sky pilot, Sky Saxon/That's what I like/Blitzkrieg bop/To the jailhouse rock/Stop stop, at the hop/Do the bluejean bop/That's what I like!" In the first verse of "(Let's All) Turn On," Hoodoo Guru's frontman Dave Faulkner summed up the band's aesthetic so well that elaborating almost seems pointless, but while it's obvious that Faulkner and his friends had a healthy appreciation of rock & roll's past, one listen to their debut album, Stoneage Romeos, made clear they thought music was having a pretty good present, too. The Hoodoo Gurus played power pop with the force and enthusiasm of a full-bore rock band, and while they loved '60s garage rock (as if "(Let's All) Turn On" and "In the Echo Chamber" would permit any doubt on the subject), there was a lot more going on than that -- check out the pop rock of "I Want You Back," the neo-exotica of "Zanzibar," the psychobilly of "Dig It Up," the heartbroken lament of "My Girl," and the straight-ahead rock of "I Was a Kamikaze Pilot." Faulkner, guitarist Brad Shepherd, bassist Clyde Bramley, and drummer James Baker loaded their songs with catchy melodies and killer pop hooks and played 'em with the sweaty enthusiasm of a crack rock & roll band that knew the value of a great tune. And Stoneage Romeos is funny as hell without sounding like the work of a joke band; the Gurus loved a good laugh, but they loved a good tune even more. Stoneage Romeos ranks with the most solid debut albums of the 1980s, and if you don't like the Hoodoo Gurus, I suspect you don't like rock & roll very much.
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| 01. |  |
(Let's All) Turn On |
3:04 |
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| 02. | |
I Want You Back |
3:12 |
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| 03. | |
Arthur |
3:10 |
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| 04. | |
Death Ship |
2:37 |
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| 05. | |
Dig It Up |
3:36 |
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| 06. | |
My Girl |
2:40 |
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| 07. | |
Zanzibar |
3:25 |
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| 08. | |
Leilani |
5:36 |
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| 09. | |
Tojo |
3:23 |
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| 10. | |
In The Echo Chamber |
3:44 |
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| 11. | |
I Was A Kamikaze Pilot |
3:12 |
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| 12. | |
Leilani Pt. 2 |
3:58 |
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| 13. | |
Be My Guru |
2:40 |
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| 14. | |
Hoodoo You Love (Live) |
2:07 |
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14 Total Tracks, 46:24 Total Length
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Credits
- Hoodoo Gurus - Main Performer // Johnny Guarnieri - ? // James Baker - Drums // Clyde Bramley - Bass // Clyde Bramley - Vocals // David Faulkner - Guitar // David Faulkner - Keyboards // David Faulkner - Vocals // Mike Reese - Digital Remastering // Brad Shepherd - Guitar // Brad Shepherd - Harmonica // Brad Shepherd - Percussion // Brad Shepherd - Vocals // Alan Thorne - Producer // Alan Thorne - Engineer // Donald Krieger - Art Direction // Donald Krieger - Design // Michael Farmer - Percussion
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