Mars Needs Guitars [Import]

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Australian exclusive reissue of the Aussie bands 1985 album, with 5 bonus tracks 'Bring The Hoodoo Down', 'Turkey Dinner', 'Death Ship', 'In The Wild' & 'Teenage Head'. Includes fold out poster. EMI. 2005.

Tracks:

Bittersweet
Poison Pen
In The Wild
Death Defying
Like Wow-Wipeout
Hayride To Hell
Show Some Emotion
The Other Side Of Paradise
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Customer Reviews:

This album rocks........2005-11-01

A unique sound. Sort of hippy/grungy with a cool rock backbone.
Bittersweet is up there with any song by any band.

Solid songwriting.......2004-02-20

Great record. Some beautiful tunes.
I read somewhere that they have a new record coming out this year. (*2004?)

One of their finest.......2002-08-27

The Hoodoo Gurus put out a lot of good music during their time and Mars Needs Guitars is one of their best efforts. If you have never heard the Hoodoo Gurus, you couldn't go wrong with this CD or 'Blow Your Cool'. Both are core Hoodoo Gurus material.

The party standard of Cedar County in 1985.......2002-01-07

This album is one of those rare beauties that gets better everytime you hear it. I know for a fact that this thing was probably played a half million times in Cedar County, NE over the course of 1985-1988. "The Other Side of Paradise" is one of the most underrated love songs of the 1990's. The remainder of the album is anything but shabby. There was the beautiful"Show Me Some Emotion", the rollicking "Like Wow Wipeout" and the guitar friendly "Bittersweet". How did Poison get to be rich and famous when bands like this were struggling? It's a damn shame, because the Gurus were way beyond cool and possessed a very knowledgeable memory of the American pop lexicon. They were what a lot of bands could only hope to be. Buy this and you'll be a happy music camper. I remember some crazy makeout sessions while listening to this album. All sexual nostalgia aside, it's still a great album.

Great album by one of the original alternative bands.......2001-01-22

Mars needs guitars was one of my favorite albums when I was in high school. I wore out the tape playing it in my car. It is a classic for fans of alternative bands from the eighties.

The best two tracks on the album are "Bittersweet" and "Wipeout". The rest of the material on this album is also strong, and lets the band display a wider array of musical talent than their first album (Stoneage Romeos). I saw the gurs live when they toured for this album (they actually opened for the Bangles, and I think I was one of three guru fans in the crowd), and all the songs sounded great live and loud. With that in mind, I recommend listening to this album on a loud stereo, preferably with the volume high, to get the full effect. It just doesn't sound the same on a walkman.

I highly recommend this album to any Hoodoo Guru fan if you don't already own it. For anyone not familiar with the band, they have a very guitar based garage band sound (similar to the Replacements). So, if you like the Replacements, the Alarm, REM, or the BoDeans, you will most likely also enjoy this band. Enjoy.

Mars Needs Guitars!
Average customer rating:

A Hidden Gem

Mars Needs Guitars!
Hoodoo Gurus
Manufacturer: Acadia Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000EZ8SF0
Release Date: 2006-04-10