Electric Soup (album)
Electric Soup | ||||
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Released | August 1992 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 68:26 | |||
Label | BMG | |||
Producer | Hoodoo Gurus | |||
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Electric Soup a.k.a. Electric Soup: The Singles Collection is the first compilation album by Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus and released in August 1992. The album peaked at No. 3 on the ARIA Charts,[1] and was certified triple platinum.[2] For the Electric Soup Tour in November of that year, Hoodoo Gurus were supported by Died Pretty and the Welcome Mat.[3]
At the ARIA Music Awards of 1993, the Best Cover Art category was awarded to Paul McNeil and Richard All for Electric Soup / Gorilla Biscuit.[4] At the ARIA Music Awards Electric Soup was noted as BMG's biggest selling domestic album of the year.
The album was re-released by Mushroom Records in 1999.
Reception
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Source | Rating |
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Chris Woodstra of AllMusic rated Electric Soup at four-and-a-half stars and opined that it "shows the band in the best light, with their catchiest and best-loved songs. An excellent distillation and the best introduction to this sorely underrated brand of Aussie-pop."[5] The Times (Victor Harbor) reviewer felt it was "Over 70 minutes of great melodies wrapped around the throbbing beat of Dave Faulkner's best songs cover a decade which forms the basis of the Hoodoo's singles collection."[6]
Track listing
[edit]- "What's My Scene?"
- "Bittersweet"
- "Come Anytime"
- "My Girl"
- "1000 Miles Away"
- "I Want You Back"
- "Axegrinder"
- "The Generation Gap"
- "Death Defying"
- "A Place in the Sun"
- "Tojo"
- "In the Middle of the Land"
- "Good Times"
- "Castles in the Air"
- "Leilani"
- "Poison Pen"
- "Another World"
- "Like Wow - Wipeout!"
- "Miss Freelove '69"
Charts
[edit]Weekly charts
[edit]Chart (1992/93) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums (ARIA)[7] | 3 |
Year end charts
[edit]Chart (1992) | Peak position |
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Australian (ARIA Charts)[8] | 64 |
Certifications
[edit]Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA)[9] | 3× Platinum | 210,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
References
[edit]- ^ Hung, Steffen. "Discography Hoodoo Gurus". Australian Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung). Archived from the original on 31 January 2016. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
- ^ McFarlane, Ian (1999). "Encyclopedia entry for 'Hoodoo Gurus'". Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86448-768-2. Archived from the original on 6 June 2004. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Hoodoo Gurus Electric Soup Tour '92". The Canberra Times. National Library of Australia. 1 October 1992. p. 15. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
- ^ "Winners by Year 1993". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 14 December 2007. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
- ^ a b Woodstra, Chris. "Electric Soup: The Singles Collection – Hoodoo Gurus". AllMusic. All Media Guide. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
- ^ "CD Review". The Times. Victor Harbor, SA: National Library of Australia. 18 December 1992. p. 9. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
- ^ "Australiancharts.com – Hoodoo Gurus – Electric Soup". Hung Medien. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
- ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 131.}
- ^ McMartin, Michael. "Hoodoo Gurus" (Press release). The Harbour Agency. Archived from the original (DOC) on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2016.