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Armchair Gurus
''Armchair Gurus'' is a compilation album by Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus. It was originally released as a 2-CD set with ''Electric Chair''. The album features seventeen Hoodoo Gurus' ballads and slower songs. The album peaked at number 33 on the ARIA charts and was certified gold. Track listing # "I'm Doing Fine" - 3:31 # " My Girl" - 2:39 # "Death Defying" - 3:24 # "Come On" - 2:43 # "Shadow Me" - 3:39 # "1000 Miles Away "1000 Miles Away" is a song by Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus. It was released in May 1991 as the second single from the group's fifth studio album, '' Kinky''. "1000 Miles Away" peaked at number 37 on the Australian singles chart. In June 2 ..." - 4:27 # "Fading Slow" - 4:16 # "Night Must Fall" - 4:07 # "Judgement Day" - 3:12 # "My Caravan" - 4:15 # "Nobody" - 4:23 # "Lover for a Friend" - 3:37 # "Waking Up Tired" - 2:54 # "Zanzibar" - 3:25 # "Show Some Emotion" - 2:58 # "I Was The One" - 4:10 # "Castles in the Air" - 4:06 Charts Certificati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoodoo Gurus
Hoodoo Gurus are an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1981, by the mainstay Dave Faulkner (songwriter, lead singer and guitarist) and later joined by Richard Grossman (bass), Mark Kingsmill (drums), and Brad Shepherd (guitar, vocals, harmonica). Their popularity peaked in the mid- to late 1980s with albums ''Mars Needs Guitars!'', ''Blow Your Cool!'' and ''Magnum Cum Louder''. Hoodoo Gurus had a string of pop-rock singles including " Leilani" (1982), " Tojo" (1983), " My Girl" (1983), "I Want You Back" (1984), " Bittersweet", "Like Wow – Wipeout", and " What's My Scene?". After touring the United States from 1984 onward they gained popularity on the U.S. college rock circuit with the singles "Come Anytime" (1989) reaching no. 1 and "Miss Freelove '69" (1991) reaching No. 3 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. The Hoodoo Gurus' biggest Australian single was their 1987 top-3 song "What's My Scene?". The song was parodied for the National Rugby League 2000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock (music)
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom.W. E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan, ''The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from its Beginnings to the mid-1970s'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 1999), p.xi It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the blues and rhythm and blues genres of African-American music and from country music. Rock also drew strongly from a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical, and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a time signature using a verse–chorus form, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festival Mushroom Records
A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival constitutes typical cases of glocalization, as well as the high culture-low culture interrelationship. Next to religion and folklore, a significant origin is agricultural. Food is such a vital resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn, such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern. Festivals often serve to fulfill specific communal purposes, especially in regard to commemoration or thanking to the gods, goddesses or saints: they are called patronal festivals. They may also provide entertainment, which was particularly important to local communities before the advent of mass-produced ent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shock Records
Shock Records (now part of Shock Entertainment) is an Australian independent record label. History The three founding members had all previously worked in music retail or distribution: Williams for a Melbourne distribution company called "Musicland", Falvo for Exposure Records and McGee for Greville Records. Other ventures Shock also started the company CDFA, an entertainment distribution and fulfilment company, which also engages in music publishing. Recent developments include the launch of Ragged Company Touring and Kimchi Creative Services. See also * List of record labels * :Shock Records albums References External links * {{Authority control Record labels established in 1988 1988 establishments in Australia Australian independent record labels Heavy metal record labels Record labels based in Melbourne Alternative rock record labels Hardcore record labels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electric Chair (album)
''Electric Chair'' is a compilation album by Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus. It was originally released as a 2-CD set with ''Armchair Gurus ''Armchair Gurus'' is a compilation album by Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus. It was originally released as a 2-CD set with ''Electric Chair''. The album features seventeen Hoodoo Gurus' ballads and slower songs. The album peaked at number 33 ...'' in October 1997. The album features seventeen Hoodoo Gurus' rock/party tracks while ''Armchair Gurus'' contains seventeen ballads and slower songs. The album peaked at number 33 on the ARIA charts and was certified gold. Track listing # "The Real Deal" - 4:44 # "God-Fearing Family Man" - 4:54 # "Quicksand" - 3:32 # "Down on Me" - 3:24 # "Be My Guru" - 2:38 # "Death Ship" - 2:35 # "Hypocrite Blues" - 3:00 # "Glamourpuss" - 2:35 # "Where's the Action" - 3:40 # "Brainscan" - 3:19 # "I Think You Know" - 3:32 # "I Was a Kamikaze Pilot" - 3:09 # " Axegrinder" - 3:24 # "Gene Hackman" - 2:26 # " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bite The Bullet (Hoodoo Gurus Album)
''Bite the Bullet'' is a compilation album by Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus, released in July 1998. Mushroom also released it as a three-CD limited edition set, ''Bite the Bullet – Director's Cut'', consisting of ''Bite the Bullet (Live)'' (a live farewell tour set), ''Doppelgänger: Live-to-Air Broadcasts '83 – '96'' (Triple J Live at the Wireless performances) and ''Bubble & Squeak: Outtakes and Oddities'' (a rarities collection). The single CD was re-released in July 2000 by Brazilian record label, Tronador. The 3-CD set was also re-released in June 2003 by Shock Records and Limburger Records. ''Bite the Bullet (Live)'' ''Bite the Bullet (Live)'' was recorded on the Hoodoo Gurus' 1997 52-date Australian farewell tour, and includes classics such as "What's My Scene?" " Tojo," and " Like Wow – Wipeout!" together with previously unreleased songs like "Doctor Rock" and back catalogue cuts. ''Doppelgänger: Live-to-Air Broadcasts '83 – '96'' ''Doppelgänger'' co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom.W. E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan, ''The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from its Beginnings to the mid-1970s'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 1999), p.xi It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the blues and rhythm and blues genres of African-American music and from country music. Rock also drew strongly from a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical, and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a time signature using a verse–chorus form, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Rock Database
The Australian Rock Database was a website with a searchable online database that listed details of Australian rock music artists, albums, bands, producers and record labels. It was established in 2000 by Swedish national Magnus Holmgren, who had developed an interest in Australian music when visiting as an exchange student. Information for the database entries was initially gleaned from Chris Spencer, Zbig Nowara and Paul McHenry's ''Who's Who of Australian Rock'' (3rd ed, 1993) and Ian McFarlane's ''Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop'' (1999). Australian Government The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government, is the national government of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Like other Westminster-style systems of government, the Australian Government i ...'s former website on Culture and Recreation listed Australian Rock Database as a resource for Australian rock music. References ;General * * NOTE: Online copy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Girl (Hoodoo Gurus Song)
"My Girl" is a song by Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus. It was released in October 1983 as the third single from the group's debut studio album, ''Stoneage Romeos'' and peaked at #35 on the Australian charts. It was written by Dave Faulkner The song was also subsequently released in the United Kingdom in 1985 by Demon Records with a different cover sleeve and a different B-side, " Leilani". Details The quirky video for the song was shown on Australian Broadcasting Corporation's popular TV series ''Countdown'' and is based around a dog trainer and his former champion greyhound: as suggested by former member Kimble Rendall, who had left Gurus to return to film-making. "To this day people insist the song was 'written about a dog'. Oh, well. The truth is, it was meant to be part of a never-made home movie, a tribute to 60's beach movies entitled 'Gidget Goes Ape'." - Dave Faulkner."It was a love song ''about'' love songs, a tribute to all the ‘60s boy-girl love songs, and I fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death Defying
"Death Defying" is a song by Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus. It was written by Dave Faulkner. and released in February 1986 as the third single from the group's second studio album, ''Mars Needs Guitars!''. The song peaked at No. 43 on the Australian charts. Faulkner has said the song was written to address the HIV/AIDS crisis that was robbing him of friends in the mid-1980s. In June 2000, Dave Faulkner said "One of my favourite songs I've written... I have vivid memories of shooting the video in Kakadu National Park after having awoken to see the news footage of the Challenger Space Shuttle exploding during take-off." Track listing ; 7" single (BTS 1692) # "Death Defying" — 3:19 # "Turkey Dinner" — 4:14 Personnel * James Baker — drums * Clyde Bramley — bass, backing vocals * Dave Faulkner — lead vocals, guitar * Mark Kingsmill — drums, cymbals * Brad Shepherd Bradley Mark Shepherd (born 1 February 1961) is an Australian rock musician. Shepherd is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1000 Miles Away
"1000 Miles Away" is a song by Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus. It was released in May 1991 as the second single from the group's fifth studio album, '' Kinky''. "1000 Miles Away" peaked at number 37 on the Australian singles chart. In June 2000, Dave Faulkner said, "Many people have told me '1000 Miles Away' is their favourite Gurus song and it's also among my top ten. There are references to airports and flying but I was writing about emotional distance rather than physical travel." The crew of Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS ''Canberra'' had an association with the song after they adopted it as their 'anthem'. Hoodoo Gurus played a concert including the Replenishment At Sea song "1000 Miles Away" on-board during their last voyage out of Fremantle to Fleet Base West, prior to its decommissioning in 2005. Track listing ; 7" single (RCA 105212) # "1000 Miles Away" — 4:34 # "I Think You Know" — 3:30 ; CD single (CCD 026) # "1000 Miles Away" — 4:34 # "I Think You Kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
