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Blow Your Cool

Hoodoo Gurus

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Album Review

For the Hoodoo Gurus' third album, the group's American record label was hoping the band could come up with something a bit easier to market than the witty, '60s-obsessed pop/rock of Stoneage Romeos and Mars Needs Guitars, so they paired the group up with producer Mark Opitz, who had previously twisted the knobs for AC/DC, INXS, and the Divinyls. Opitz gave the band a smoother, slicker surface and a cracking, radio-friendly drum sound; he also weeded out the band's wackier material (nothing like "Dig It Up" or "Hayride to Hell" this time out) in favor of mega-hooky pop ("Out That Door" and "Good Times," the latter featuring the Bangles on backing vocals) and straight-ahead rock & roll ("Where Nowhere Is" and "Party Machine"). As a result, Blow Your Cool! is the least idiosyncratic album in the Hoodoo Gurus' catalog and doesn't reflect the sneaky wit or goofy charm that won them many of their early fans. But it also makes them sound like the great rock & roll band they always were and leaves little doubt that these guys didn't need to be funny to get over; Dave Faulkner even seems to enjoy having the opportunity to play it straight on the politically slanted "In the Middle of the Land," and the band rarely rocked as hard as they did on the tunes here where they throw the engine into fifth gear. Blow Your Cool! is in some respects a compromised Hoodoo Gurus album, but it's strong enough to prove that these guys could make a worthwhile album even while playing by someone else's rules.

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Excellent, straight-ahead rock!

As the iTunes reviewer said, this album sounds restrained and more mainstream than earlier Hoodoo Gurus' efforts, but still feels genuine to the bands sound. More importantly it flat out rocks with zero dead spots, which is a rare achievement. It switches nicely between darker and brighter moods and faster and slower tempos, but it maintains a high energy level throughout. The writing is catchy and hooky in the best sense of the terms, and the musical performances are solid at worst and smiling-grooving-head-bobbing-inducing at best. And more frequently the later.

Gurus in my car.

I bought this albumn twice in the late 80's. On cassette. Don't laugh. I wore out the first one. Then in the late 90's when my computer could handle it, I converted that old cassette to mp3. It sounded horrible but I was glad I could have it backed up before cassette players disapeared all together. I had this playing in my car for over 5 years. I'm just glad there are places like iTunes where I can get them whenever I want them. Love da Gurus.

Biography

Formed: 1981 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australi

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

Like most bands, Australia's Hoodoo Gurus were largely the product of their influences; unlike most bands, however, the Hoodoos channeled their inspiration from the vast entirety of the American pop cultural landscape, drawing on such disparate sources as B-movies, bad sitcoms, and junk food — in tandem with the usual suspects like garage rock, power pop, and surf — to create a distinctly kitschy and catchy sound. Formed in Sydney in 1981, Le Hoodoo Gurus (as they were originally dubbed)...
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