Blow Your Cool!

Blow Your Cool!
Studio album by Hoodoo Gurus
Released May 1987 (1987-05)
Recorded January, 1987
Genre Rock
Length 42:48
Label Big Time (Australia)
Elektra/BMG (U.S.)
Chrysalis (UK)
EMI (Australia)
Producer Mark Opitz; Hoodoo Gurus
Hoodoo Gurus chronology
Mars Needs Guitars!
(1985)Mars Needs Guitars!1985		 Blow Your Cool!
(1987)		 Magnum Cum Louder
(1989)Magnum Cum Louder1989
Singles from Blow Your Cool!
  1. "What's My Scene?"
    Released: May, 1987
  2. "Good Times"
    Released: August, 1987
  3. "In the Middle of the Land"
    Released: December, 1987
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Rolling Stone[2]

Blow Your Cool! is Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus' third album,[3] released in May 1987 and contains their hit single "What's My Scene?". The single reached #3 on the Australian Music Charts.[4] The band's American label, Elektra Records, was hoping that they could come up with something a bit easier to market than the witty, 1960s-obsessed pop/rock of Stoneage Romeos and Mars Needs Guitars!, so they paired the group with producer Mark Opitz, who had previously produced records for AC/DC, INXS, and the Divinyls.[3] Background vocals on two tracks were supplied by The Bangles.[5] It was recorded both in Sydney and LA.[5] The album reached No. 120 on the Billboard 200 album charts in 1987.

"When the Blow Your Cool! touring was over Clyde retired from the road and the band. At this point we persuaded Rick Grossman to join, contributing his tremendous bass skills to the band, and so we had reached what was to be our ultimate line-up. After that we only changed our haircuts (and underwear)." - Dave Faulkner.[6]

EMI re-released the album on February 6, 2005[7] with four additional tracks, a fold out poster and liner notes by Vicki Peterson (The Bangles). One of the additional tracks, "The Generation Gap" was their first recording with Grossman, and had been released as a single-only in 1988; it was their cover of Jeannie C. Riley's 1970 country song.[6]

Track listing

All tracks written by Dave Faulkner, except where noted[8].

No.TitleLength
1."Out That Door"4:14
2."What's My Scene"3:50
3."Good Times"3:02
4."I Was the One"4:10
5."Hell for Leather"3:28
6."Where Nowhere Is"4:00
7."In the Middle of the Land"4:34
8."Come On"2:43
9."Heart of Darkness" (Song is not included on the original LP release.)3:04
10."My Caravan"4:15
11."On My Street"3:16
12."Party Machine"5:10

Personnel

Credited to:[3][5]

Hoodoo Gurus

Additional musicians

Production details

Release history

Region Date Label
Australia May 1987 Big Time
February 26, 2005 EMI
Europe July 7, 1987 Chrysalis
United States Elektra/BMG

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Rolling Stone review
  3. 1 2 3 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.
  4. ↑ "Best of 1987". Oz Net Music Chart. Archived from the original on 2008-04-17. Retrieved 2007-12-18.
  5. 1 2 3 Murr, Kater. "Hoodoo Gurus - Blow Your Cool!". Discogs. Retrieved 2007-11-25.
  6. 1 2 Faulkner, Dave (June 2000). "Pop and punishment". juliat. Archived from the original on 2007-08-08. Retrieved 2008-01-27.
  7. ↑ EMI Records
  8. ↑ "Australasian Performing Right Association". APRA. Archived from the original on 2007-12-05. Retrieved 2007-11-25.
  9. ↑ "Music Collections SJLibrary.org". San José Public Library and San José State University Library. Archived from the original on May 19, 2006. Retrieved 2007-11-25.
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