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Hoodoo Gurus, Beating the Trodden Path

Clinton Walker, The Age, 8 June 1984

THE HOODOO Gurus don't beat around the bush. Right from the very outset, with the first track on their debut album, Stoneage Romeos, they stake out their territory: "Shake Some Action, Psychotic Reaction, No Satisfaction/That's what I like, that's what I like/Blitzkreig Bop, do the Jailhouse Rock, stop stop/At The Hop, do the Bluejean Bop/That's what I like, that's what I like... Let's all turn on... "

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