Like Wow – Wipeout

"Like Wow – Wipeout"
Single by Hoodoo Gurus
from the album Mars Needs Guitars!
A-side "Like Wow – Wipeout!"
B-side "Bring the Hoodoo Down"
Released October, 1985 (Australia)
Format 7" vinyl
Genre Rock
Length 3:09
Label Big Time (Australia)
Writer(s) Dave Faulkner
Producer(s) Charles Fisher
Hoodoo Gurus singles chronology
"Bittersweet"
(1985)		 "Like Wow – Wipeout!"
(1985)		 "Death Defying"
(1986)

"Like Wow – Wipeout" is a song written by Dave Faulkner[1] and recorded by Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus for their album Mars Needs Guitars!. As a single, it was released on Big Time Records in October 1985 and reached #28 on the Melbourne record chart.[2]

The B side of the single, "Bring the Hoodoo Down", was also written by Faulkner.[1] It had already been released as a B side on the United Kingdom 12" single for "Bittersweet".

"... was only recorded as a b-side but producer Charles Fisher thought it "had something" and should be included on the album. No-one was more surprised than us when it became the second single and our biggest hit at the time. We just liked it because it was noisy." - Dave Faulkner.[3]

Track listing

  1. "Like Wow – Wipeout!" (Dave Faulkner) — 3:09
  2. "Bring the Hoodoo Down" (Dave Faulkner) — 3:01

Personnel

Credited[4] to:

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Australasian Performing Right Association". APRA. Retrieved 2007-12-18.
  2. ↑ Guest, Thomas J. (1991). Thirty Years of Hits. Collingwood, Melbourne: M. J. Maloney. ISBN 0-646-04633-0.
  3. ↑ Faulkner, Dave (June 2000). "Pop and punishment". juliat. Archived from the original on 2007-08-08. Retrieved 2007-12-18.
  4. ↑ "Discogs entry on Mars Needs Guitars!". Retrieved 2007-12-18.