THE HOODOO GURUS - ELECTRIC SOUP
The Hoodoo Gurus have really pissed me off. They were cool and the songs are great but they became a band who broke up, made a big song and dance of a farewell tour and then came back a few years later. WTF is with that? Why don’t you just not make an album for five years and go on holiday? Why get folks all nostalgic so they rush along to the nearest farewell gig and buy up your crappy inventory of merchandise. MONEY is why people do this. MONEY and the inability to do anything else when 4 years later they find themselves bored and at a loose end. Musicians aren’t exactly know for their succession planning. They don’t think these things out.
Electric Soup is a collection of singles spanning their original career from 1981 to the mid 90’s. Its easy to forget the impact of some artists, the Guru’s had countless hits on radio making most of their back catalogue instantly recognisable. Despite their no so retiring retirement, the songs still stand up 20 years later.
Miss Free Love reminds me of starting high school. I got a TV for Christmas that year and my dedication to reading imported trashy teen gossip magazines meant I was ahead of the game on ‘Beverly Hills 90210’. Before the other girls at school had any idea who Jason Priestly was, I had decided that David Silver (Brian Austin Green) was accessible and geeky enough to become obsessed with. It never would have worked between me and Luke Perry - too much of a bad boy.
Turns out I was onto something because Brian Austin Green is stands to be the hottest of the bunch and he’s married to Megan Fox. I rest my case. Buoyed by a fuzzy soundtrack of Hoodoo Guru’s and some Vanilla Ice I meticulously cut the best pictures out of my magazines, pasted them onto my school folders and shrink wrapped them in clear contact. After 5 folders you develop a airtight process and as I recall I had a few requests from fiends to do the same for them. I should have really charged them.
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