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Length
  
40:12

Magnum Cum Louder (1989)
  
Kinky (1991)

Release date
  
28 June 1989

Genre
  
Rock music

Producer
  
Hoodoo Gurus

Artist
  
Hoodoo Gurus

Label
  
RCA Records

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Released
  
28 June 1989 7 February 2005

Similar
  
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Magnum Cum Louder is Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus' fourth album, the first with their new label, RCA Records having been dropped by Elektra Records following disappointing sales in the United States. The album was produced by the group, and was released in Australia on 28 June 1989.

Contents

Details

The album reached No. 101 on the American Billboard 200 album charts in 1989, with the single "Come Anytime" reaching No. 27 on the ARIA Singles Charts and No. 1 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in 1989. Other singles from the album were "Axegrinder" (August 1989) and "Another World" (October 1989). The album's title is a pun on the Latin honours phrase magna cum laude or 'with great honours' which is awarded to outstanding University graduates.

Faulkner later said, "We produced the record ourselves for our own morale, if nothing else. We had been through a very rough period with six months of inactivity from a lawsuit to get free of our old contract. Rather than even telling the record company what we were recording we let them hear it after it was all finished, and luckily they liked it! We would have been in deep trouble otherwise."

The album was re-released by EMI on 7 February 2005 with three bonus tracks, "Spaghetti Western", "Lover for a Friend", and "Cajun Country", a fold out poster and liner notes by Steve MacDonald (Redd Kross).

The lead track "Come Anytime" was the theme song of Australian television series Thank God You're Here in 2006 and the American series in 2007.

Track listing

All tracks by Dave Faulkner unless otherwise indicated.

Original release

  1. "Come Anytime" — 3:20
  2. "Another World" — 3:16
  3. "Axegrinder" (Faulkner, Brad Shepherd, Richard Grossman, Mark Kingsmill) — 3:27
  4. "Shadow Me" — 3:41
  5. "Glamourpuss" — 2:26
  6. "Hallucination" — 5:05
  7. "All the Way" — 3:11
  8. "Baby Can Dance (Parts 2-4)" (Shepherd, Faulkner) — 3:17
  9. "I Don't Know Anything" — 4:07
  10. "Where's That Hit?" — 3:56
  11. "Death in the Afternoon" — 4:08

2005 re-release

Songwriters same as above, with additional tracks by Faulkner.

  1. "Come Anytime" — 3:20
  2. "Another World" — 3:16
  3. "Axegrinder" — 3:27
  4. "Shadow Me" — 3:41
  5. "Glamourpuss" — 2:26
  6. "Hallucination" — 5:05
  7. "Spaghetti Western" — 3:33
  8. "All the Way" — 3:11
  9. "Baby Can Dance (Parts 2-4)" — 3:17
  10. "Lover for a Friend" — 3:39
  11. "I Don't Know Anything" — 4:07
  12. "Where's That Hit?" — 3:56
  13. "Cajun Country" — 3:57
  14. "Death in the Afternoon" — 4:08

Personnel

Credited to:

  • Dave Faulkner — Lead vocals, guitar, keyboards
  • Richard Grossman — Bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Mark Kingsmill — Drums, backing vocals (grunts)
  • Brad Shepherd — Guitar, harmonica, backing vocals
  • Stephanie Faulkner — Backing vocals (track 11)
  • Engineer — Alan Thorne
  • Mixer — David Thoener
  • Producer — Hoodoo Gurus

    • Songs

    1Come Anytime3:19
    2Another World3:17
    3Axegrinder3:27

    References

    Magnum Cum Louder Wikipedia
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