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Released
  
March 1994

Crank (1994)
  
Blue Cave (1996)

Release date
  
13 September 1994

Label
  
PIAS Recordings

Length
  
37:23

Artist
  
Hoodoo Gurus

Producer
  
Ed Stasium

Genre
  
Rock music

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Crank is iconic Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus' sixth studio album, released in early March 1994. The album was produced by Ed Stasium (Ramones, Living Colour, The Smithereens), who had mixed Hoodoo Gurus previous studio album, Kinky in 1991. It was the band's first release on Zoo Records.

Contents

The first single from the album, "The Right Time", released in November 1993, reached No. 41 on the ARIA Singles Chart with the second single, "You Open My Eyes", released in February 1994, reaching No. 43 and the third single, "Less Than a Feeling", released May 1994, peaking at No. 6.

EMI re-released the album on 6 February 2005 with an additional nine bonus tracks, a fold out poster and liner notes by Andy Strachan (The Living End). One of the bonus tracks is "Television Addict" which was originally performed by Perth punk band The Victims in 1977 with Gurus' Dave Faulkner known as Dave Flick. "Turn Up Your Radio" originally by Australian band The Masters Apprentices was released in 1995 as a single credited to The Masters Apprentices with Hoodoo Gurus.

Track listing

All tracks written by Dave Faulkner unless otherwise indicated.

Original release

  1. "The Right Time" — 3:54
  2. "Crossed Wires" — 3:06
  3. "Quo Vadis" — 4:08
  4. "Nobody" — 4:24
  5. "Form a Circle" (Brad Shepherd) — 3:40
  6. "Fading Slow" (Shepherd) - 4:18
  7. "Gospel Train" — 2:58
  8. "Less than a Feeling" - 3:34
  9. "You Open my Eyes" (Shepherd) — 3:17
  10. "Hypocrite Blues" — 3:02
  11. "I See You" — 1:59
  12. "Judgement Day" (Faulkner, Shepherd) — 3:12
  13. "The Mountain" — 4:38

2005 re-release

Songwriters same as above, with additional tracks by Faulkner unless otherwise indicated.

  1. "The Right Time" — 3:54
  2. "Crossed Wires" — 3:06
  3. "Quo Vadis" — 4:08
  4. "Nobody" — 4:24
  5. "Form a Circle" — 3:40
  6. "Fading Slow" — 4:18
  7. "Gospel Train" — 2:58
  8. "Less than a Feeling" — 3:34
  9. "You Open my Eyes" — 3:17
  10. "Hypocrite Blues" — 3:02
  11. "I See You" — 1:59
  12. "Judgement Day" — 3:12
  13. "The Mountain" — 4:38
  14. "Road Hog" (Shepherd)
  15. "Wait for the Sun"
  16. "End of the Line"
  17. "Television Addict" (James Baker, Faulkner)
  18. "Something I Forgot to Say"
  19. "Deform a Circle" (Shepherd)
  20. "Wimp" (Javier Escovedo)
  21. "I Heard Her Call My Name" (Lou Reed)
  22. "Turn up Your Radio ('95)" (Jim Keays, Doug Ford)

Personnel

Credited to:

Hoodoo Gurus

  • Dave Faulkner — guitar, keyboards, vocals
  • Rick Grossman — bass
  • Mark Kingsmill — drums, rataplan
  • Brad Shepherd — guitar, vocals

    • Additional musicians

  • Vicki Peterson (The Bangles) — background vocals (tracks 9 & 10)
  • Wendy Wild — background vocals (track 13)
  • Steven MacDonald — role of The Disciple (lead vocals) (one verse of track 10)

    • Additional credits

  • Cover — Paul McNeill
  • Editors — Dave Collins, Pat Sullivan (assistant)
  • Engineer — Paul Hamingson
  • Mastering — Greg Calbi
  • Mixer (assistant) — John Aguto
  • Producer — Ed Stasium
  • Photo (band) — Andrej Ligur
  • Photography — Adrienna Overall
  • Recorder (assistant) — Matt Westfield

    • Songs

    1The Right Time3:55
    2Crossed Wires3:07
    3Quo Vadis4:09

    References

    Crank (Hoodoo Gurus album) Wikipedia
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