The Hoodoo Gurus

 

(Let's All) Turn on - The Hoodoo Gurus

 

This was around in my first year at university. It speaks about a certain aesthetic, a certain kind of taste, not all of which I'd developed at that point.

 

'Shake Some Action, Psychotic Reaction
No Satisfaction, Sky Pilot, Sky Saxon
That's what I like, that's what I like

Blitzkrieg Bop to the Jailhouse Rock
Stop, Stop, Stop, At The Hop do the Blue-jean Bop
That's what I like, that's what I like, that's what I like

Baby, get off my cloud 'cos two's a crowd
Hey baby, get off the phone, there's nobody home
I'm gonna work it on out, I'm gonna Twist And Shout
I'm gonna Ride A White Swan and Get It On
Let's all turn on

Born To Lose those Summertime Blues
In Blue Suede Shoes, Le Hoodoo Gurus
That's what I like, that's what I like

Waiting for My Man, baby, Can The Can
I Wanna Hold Your Hand, remember Sam The Sham?
That's what I like, that's what I like, that's what I like

Baby, get off my cloud 'cos two's a crowd
Baby, get off the phone, there's nobody home
I'm gonna work it on out, I'm gonna Twist And Shout
I'm gonna Ride A White Swan and Get It On
Let's all turn on

Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh

When You Walk in The Room, Sunny Afternoon
A-Wop-Bop A-Loo-Bop, A-Lop-Bam-Boom
That's what I like, that's what I like

Sugar, Sugar, Talk, Talk, Money, Honey, Boardwalk
Who wears Short Shorts? We wear short shorts
That's what I like, that's what I like, that's what I like

Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh'

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Songwriters
BAKER, JAMES / CONDON, DARCY / RADALJ, RODNEY / FAULKNER, DAVE

I have a very specific memory of the blokes who lived in the corridor of halls that I lived on and I harmonising to the next track one afternoon in Spring 1986. It's probably the best song on the record and was almost a breakout single but it has an absolutely ridiculous, naïve, euphoric chorus, which was so over the top that it was also lacking in the kind of cool you're looking for at that age. I'm sure neither of them have quite forgotten it either.  A strange capsule from youth which I'll always recall. Here's to Ben and James (and Rod the other guy in the corridor who was somehow, inexplicably absent that afternoon) and particularly at this moment to James as he's just become a father for the second time. Mud in your eye James!