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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] |
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] |
Mushroom Records
Mushroom Records was an Australian flagship record label, founded in 1972 in Melbourne. It published and distributed many successful Australian artists and expanded internationally, until it was merged with Festival Records in 1998. Festival Mushroom Records was later acquired by Warner Bros. Records, which operated the label from 2005 to 2010 until it folded to Warner Bros. Records. Founder Michael Gudinski went on to become the leader of the Mushroom Group, the largest independent music and entertainment company in Australia, with divisions such as Frontier Touring. History Mushroom Records was an Australian record label formed by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in Melbourne in 1972. After its sale in 1998 along with Mushroom Distribution Services, they merged into Festival Mushroom Records. From 2005 to 2009, it was operated by Warner Bros. Records. Gudinski subsequently expanded a pre-existing label, Liberation Music, to release material by former Mushroom artists.McFarlane ... [...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] |
Hoodoo Voodoo
''Hoodoo Voodoo'' is an EP by Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus and was released by Mushroom Records in February 1997. This EP includes several tracks from the band's seventh studio album '' Blue Cave'' including "Down on Me", "Son of a Gun", and "Mind the Spider". Also includes extended remixes of "Son of a Gun" and "Down on Me" as well as an additional track "Whoopee Cushion". Track listing All tracks written by Dave Faulkner. # "Down on Me" — 2:56 # "Son of a Gun" — 3:57 # "Mind the Spider" — 6:30 # "Whoopee Cushion" - 4:54 # "Son of a Gun" (Attractive Head Inc remix) — 7:59 # "Down on Me" (Attractive Head Inc remix) — 6:45 Personnel * Dave Faulkner * Mark Kingsmill * Brad Shepherd * Richard Grossman *Producers — Charles Fisher, Hoodoo Gurus, Attractive Head Inc (additional production) *Engineers — Ben Suthers (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6), Scott Rashleigh (tracks 3, 4) *Remixers — Attractive Head Inc (tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 6), Mr & Mrs Chill (aka Stuart McCarthy and M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
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] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...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] |
Australian Recording Industry Association
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade association representing the Australian recording industry which was established in the 1970s by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers (AARM) which was formed in 1956. It oversees the collection, administration and distribution of music licenses and royalties. The association has more than 100 members, including small labels typically run by one to five people, medium size organisations and very large companies with international affiliates. ARIA is administered by a Board of Directors comprising senior executives from record companies, both large and small. History In 1956, the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers (AARM) was formed by Australia's major record companies. It was replaced in the 1970s by the Australian Recording Industry Association, which was established by the six major record companies operati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axegrinder
"Axegrinder" is a song by Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus. It was released on RCA Records in July 1989 as the second single from their fourth studio album ''Magnum Cum Louder''. The song peaked at number 58 on the ARIA charts. In June 2000, Dave Faulkner said "I often describe 'Axegrinder' as the song that 'killed' ''Magnum Cum Louder''. We had enjoyed considerable airplay for 'Come Anytime' but 'Axegrinder' stopped everything cold. Funnily enough, it became one of our biggest showstoppers in concert within 12 months.". Track listing ; 7" single (RCA Victor 105 071) # "Axegrinder" — 3:27 # "Spaghetti Western" — 3:23 Personnel Credits: * Richard Grossman — bass, backing vocals * Dave Faulkner — lead vocals, guitar, keyboards * Mark Kingsmill — drums, vocals (grunts) * Brad Shepherd Bradley Mark Shepherd (born 1 February 1961) is an Australian rock musician. Shepherd is a guitarist, singer-songwriter and harmonica player; he has performed with several bands, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
