Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. VI--Hoodoo Gurus: Bittersweet

When you name a band Hoodoo Gurus, entitle an album Mars Needs Guitars!, and write a song about the, um, bittersweet nature of seeing an old love, it only stands to reason that said song should be, oh, stupendous.

Hoodoo Gurus lived to tell the tale.

To call the Gurus a one hit wonder would be incorrect--while they enjoyed a modicum of success on U.S. college charts, they never had a top 100 single or album here (they did enjoy a great amount of success in their native Australia, where they were inducted into Australia's rock and roll hall of fame).  Still, "Bittersweet," released in 1985, is a hell of a song which I discovered on MTV back in the days when MTV still stood for Music Television instead of Moronic Television.

Featuring what an old co-worker called "jangly" guitars, a driving rhythm, and plaintive vocals about a love gone wrong, the song is one of those that even thirty years later has not lost any of the thrill of the first time I heard it.

Cut and bleed, indeed.

Enjoy:

Peace,
emaycee