Electric Soup (album)

Electric Soup
Compilation album by Hoodoo Gurus
Released September, 1992
Genre Rock
Length 68:26
Label BMG
Producer Hoodoo Gurus
Hoodoo Gurus chronology

Kinky
(1991)
Electric Soup
(1992)
Crank
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]

Electric Soup a.k.a. Electric Soup: The Singles Collection is the first compilation album by iconic[2][3][4] Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus and contained all their Australian singles to date (September, 1992). It was also released as a 2-CD set with Gorilla Biscuit, a collection of their b-sides and rarities.[4] The album went triple platinum. At the ARIA Awards Electric Soup was noted as BMG's biggest selling domestic album of the year. The 1993 ARIA Award for 'Best Cover Art' was awarded to Paul McNeil & Richard All for Electric Soup / Gorilla Biscuit[5]

The album was re-released by Mushroom Records in 1999.

Track listing

  1. "What's My Scene?"
  2. "Bittersweet"
  3. "Come Anytime"
  4. "My Girl"
  5. "1000 Miles Away"
  6. "I Want You Back"
  7. "Axegrinder"
  8. "The Generation Gap"
  9. "Death Defying"
  10. "A Place in the Sun"
  11. "Tojo"
  12. "In the Middle of the Land"
  13. "Good Times"
  14. "Castles in the Air"
  15. "Leilani"
  16. "Poison Pen"
  17. "Another World"
  18. "Like Wow - Wipeout!"
  19. "Miss Freelove '69"

References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. "ARIA Awards 2007: About Hall of Fame". ARIA Awards. Retrieved 2007-11-20.
  3. Pope, Mark (2007-05-07). (PDF) "ARIA presents the 2007 ARIA Hall of Fame". Retrieved 2008-01-22.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Holmgren, Magnus; Georgieff, Didier; Hartung, Stephan. "Hoodoo Gurus". Passagen.se. Australian Rock Database (Magnus Holmgren). Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
  5. "1993: 7th Annual ARIA Awards". ARIA. Retrieved 2007-12-05.