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Stoneage Romeos

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Recorded
  
Trafalgar Studio, 1983

Producer
  
Alan Thorne

Release date
  
1984

Genre
  
Rock music

Length
  
37:23

Artist
  
Hoodoo Gurus

Label
  
A&M Records

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Released
  
March 1984 1984 1 October 2002 24 October 2005

Stoneage Romeos (1984)
  
Mars Needs Guitars! (1985)

Similar
  
Hoodoo Gurus albums, Rock music albums

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Stoneage Romeos is Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus' first album (released 1984) and saw them receive record sales to complement their already strong reputation for live performances. The album name is from a Three Stooges short film. With radio and television support for their third single "My Girl" (1983) (complete with a film clip about a greyhound of the same name), the band's following grew. The album's other singles were - "Leilani" (1982), "Tojo" (1983), and "I Want You Back" (1984). Later in July 1985 they took the honours in the 'Best Debut Album' category at the 1984 Countdown Awards.

Contents

The Australian LP sported a cartoonish nod to the 1966 caveman flick One Million Years B.C., all menacing dinosaurs and Day-Glo colors (designed by Yanni Stumbles); whilst in America, consumers got a stylized sleeve featuring arty renditions of the giant reptiles.

'Bad coffeetable art, very anonymous and boring. On the U.S. tour fans are bringing up the Australian copies for us to sign—they were all getting them on import! Yet at the end of the tour, A&M says to us, ‘Oh well, we don’t really think the cover will affect sales at all.’ Like, when they’re right, they’re right, and when they’re wrong, they’re still right.' - Dave Faulkner

The album was re-released by Arcadia Records on 1 October 2002, with two additional tracks, "Hoodoo You Love" and "Be My Guru". EMI also re-released the album on 24 October 2005 with three bonus tracks, "Leilani Pt. 2", "Be My Guru" and "Hoodoo You Love", a fold-out poster and liner notes by Lindsay 'The Doctor' Mc Dougall (Frenzal Rhomb). In October 2010, the album was listed in the top 30 in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums.

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Track listing

All tracks written by Dave Faulkner unless otherwise indicated.

Side A

  1. "(Let's All) Turn On" (James Baker, Darcy Condon, Faulkner, Roddy Radalj) - 3:04
  2. "I Want You Back" - 3:12
  3. "Arthur" (Faulkner, Radalj) - 3:10
  4. "Death Ship" (Faulkner, Radalj, Alan Sharples) - 2:37
  5. "Dig It Up" - 3:36
  6. "My Girl" - 2:40

Side B

  1. "Zanzibar" - 3:25
  2. "Leilani" (Faulkner, Baker, Radalj, Kimble Rendall) - 5:36
  3. "Tojo" - 3:23
  4. "In the Echo Chamber" - 3:44
  5. "I Was a Kamikaze Pilot" - 3:12

Side A

  1. "I Want You Back" - 3:12
  2. "Tojo" - 3:23
  3. "Leilani" (Faulkner, James Baker, Roddy Radalj, Kimble Rendall) - 5:36
  4. "Arthur" (Faulkner, Radalj) - 3:10
  5. "Dig It Up" - 3:36

Side B

  1. "(Let's All) Turn On" (Baker, Darcy Condon, Faulkner, Radalj) - 3:04
  2. "Death Ship" (Faulkner, Radalj, Alan Sharples) - 2:37
  3. "In The Echo Chamber" - 3:44
  4. "Zanzibar" - 3:25
  5. "I Was A Kamikaze Pilot" - 3:12
  6. "My Girl" - 2:40

2002 re-release

Songwriters same as above unless indicated.

  1. "(Let's All) Turn On" (James Baker, Darcy Condon, Faulkner, Roddy Radalj) - 3:04
  2. "I Want You Back" - 3:12
  3. "Arthur" (Faulkner, Radalj) - 3:10
  4. "Death Ship" (Faulkner, Radalj, Alan Sharples) - 2:37
  5. "Dig It Up" - 3:36
  6. "My Girl" - 2:40
  7. "Zanzibar" - 3:25
  8. "Leilani" (Faulkner, Baker, Radalj, Kimble Rendall) - 5:36
  9. "Tojo" - 3:23
  10. "In the Echo Chamber" - 3:44
  11. "I Was a Kamikaze Pilot" - 3:12
  12. "Hoodoo You Love" aka "Who Do You Love"(Ellas McDaniel) - 2:09
  13. "Be My Guru" (Baker, Faulkner) - 2:40

2005 re-release

Songwriters same as above unless indicated.

  1. "(Let's All) Turn On" (James Baker, Darcy Condon, Faulkner, Roddy Radalj) - 3:04
  2. "I Want You Back" - 3:12
  3. "Arthur" (Faulkner, Radalj) - 3:10
  4. "Death Ship" (Faulkner, Radalj, Alan Sharples) - 2:37
  5. "Dig It Up" - 3:36
  6. "My Girl" - 2:40
  7. "Zanzibar" - 3:25
  8. "Leilani" (Faulkner, Baker, Radalj, Kimble Rendall) - 5:36
  9. "Tojo" - 3:23
  10. "In The Echo Chamber" - 3:44
  11. "I Was A Kamikaze Pilot" - 3:12
  12. "Leilani, Pt. 2" - 3:58
  13. "Be My Guru" (Baker, Faulkner) - 2:40
  14. "Hoodoo You Love" (Baker, Faulkner) - 2:07 (recorded live by Triple J at the Trade Union Club in Sydney in 1983)

Personnel

Credited to:

  • James Baker — drums
  • Clyde Bramley — bass, vocals
  • Dave Faulkner — guitar, lead vocals, keyboards
  • Brad Shepherd — lead guitar, vocals, harmonica, percussion
  • Michael Farmer — additional percussion
  • Producer, Engineer — Alan Thorne
  • Mastering — Bob, Carbone, Frank DeLuna
  • Artwork (cover concept and design) — Yanni Stumbles
  • Photography (pics) — Tom Takacs
  • Other (the boss) — Stuart Thorne

    • Stoneage Cameos

    In 2005, a tribute album was released by Shock Records named Stoneage Cameos, which included covers by major Australian rock artists. The concept was put together by Jason 'Evo' Evans and Wally 'Meanie' Kempton (Even/The Meanies). The project was more to heritage list the Gurus and to stamp this great album into history: performances of Hoodoo Gurus' songs by current Australian artists on this tribute album were cited at their 2007 ARIA Hall of Fame induction.

    All the songs were recorded at Sing Sing Studios in Melbourne between March and June 2005, with the exception of "Tojo" and "I Was A Kamikaze Pilot", which were recorded at Big Jesus Burger Studios in Sydney in June 2005 and ""Be My Guru", which was recorded by Persian Rugs (containing three Gurus: Faulkner, Brad Shepherd and Mark Kingsmill; with bassist Kendall James) at the Milk Bar Studios in Sydney in November 2004. The album was produced by Andy Baldwin.

    The CD was launched at the Meadows Greyhound Race Track in Broadmeadows, Victoria. The feature race of the night (race 6) was called 'The Stoneage Cameo Plate'.

    The track list is as follows:

    1. "(Let's All) Turn On" (The Wrights) - 3:16
    2. "I Want You Back" (The Spazzys) - 3:17
    3. "Arthur" (Even) - 3:18
    4. "Death Ship" (Dan Kelly) - 4:40
    5. "Dig It Up" (Dallas Crane) - 3:06
    6. "My Girl" (Spiderbait) - 2:28
    7. "Zanzibar" (The Blackeyed Susans) - 4:02
    8. "Leilani" (The Living End) - 4:21
    9. "Tojo" (You Am I) - 3:44
    10. "In The Echo Chamber" (Rocket Science) - 3:32
    11. "I Was A Kamikaze Pilot" (Grinspoon) - 3:16
    12. "Leilani Part 2" (The Sailors) - 3:23
    13. "Be My Guru" (Persian Rugs) - 2:52
    14. "Hoodoo You Love" (The Drones) - 2:47
    15. "My Girl Part 2" (Spiderbait) - 3:07

    Songs

    1I Want You Back3:12
    2Tojo3:23
    3Leilani5:37

    References

    Stoneage Romeos Wikipedia
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