Mach Schau (Hoodoo Gurus album)

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Mach Schau
Mach Schau cover
Studio album by Hoodoo Gurus
Released March 15, 2004
Recorded November / December 2003
Genre Rock
Length 46:11
Label Acadia/Evangeline (UK)
EMI/Capitol Records (Australia)
Producer Hoodoo Gurus, Kim Salmon
Professional reviews
Hoodoo Gurus chronology
Ampology
(2000)
Mach Schau
(2004)
Singles from Mach Schau
  1. "Nothing's Changing My Life"
    Released: February 16, 2004 (Australia)
  2. "When You Get to California"
    Released: April 27, 2004 (U.S.)

Mach Schau is iconic[1][2] Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus' eighth studio album. It was recorded eight years after their last studio album, Blue Cave, and released six years after the band had officially split in January 1988.

Their Australian single from the album, "Nothing's Changing My Life" was released a month earlier, while the U.S. single "When You Get to California" was released in April.[3] For its release outside Australia, under the EMI/Capitol Records label, Mach Schau was given new cover art (see below), and a revised sequence, with tracks "Isolation" and "Penelope's Lullaby" removed, and "White Night," "Monkey's Wedding" and "Song of the Year" added. The album's title is a reference to the German phrase, "make show", which The Beatles were told to do on each night's performance during their stay in Hamburg, Germany.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by Dave Faulkner unless otherwise indicated.[4]

[edit] Australian (domestic) release

  1. "Chop" — 4:02
  2. "Soul Grapes" — 2:54
  3. "Nothing's Changing My Life" — 3:06
  4. "#17" — 2:54
  5. "Domino" — 3:34
  6. "When You Get to California" — 3:30
  7. "This One's for the Ladies" (Brad Shepherd)[4] — 4:13
  8. "Girls on Top" — 2:19
  9. "Dead Sea" — 3:56
  10. "Isolation" — 3:23
  11. "The Mighty Have Fallen" — 3:08
  12. "Good Son" — 3:34
  13. "Penelope's Lullaby" (Shepherd)[4] — 5:45

[edit] International release

Cover of Mach SchauInternational release
Cover of Mach Schau
International release

Songwriters same as above unless otherwise indicated.[4]

  1. "Soul Grapes" — 2:54
  2. "Domino" — 3:34
  3. "Nothing's Changing My Life" — 3:06
  4. "The Good Son" — 3:34
  5. "When You Get to California" — 3:30
  6. "This One Is for the Ladies" — 4:13
  7. "Girls on Top" — 2:19
  8. "Dead Sea" — 3:56
  9. "Monkey's Wedding" — 3:08
  10. "#17" — 2:54
  11. "White Night" (Rico Conning)[4] — 3:32
  12. "Song of the Year" (Shepherd)[4] — 2:21
  13. "The Mighty Have Fallen" — 3:08
  14. "Chop" — 4:02

[edit] Personnel

Credited to:[5][6]

[edit] Hoodoo Gurus

[edit] Additional musicians

Track information relates to Australian release order.

  • Stuart McCarthy — synthesizer technician (track 1)
  • Renée Geyer — backing vocals (track 3)
  • Vanetta Fields — backing vocals (track 3)
  • Steve Fitzmaurice — saxophone (baritone) (track 5)
  • Vicki Peterson — backing vocals (track 6)
  • Stewart Kirwan — trumpet (tracks 6 & 7)
  • Andrew Bickers — saxophone (track 7)
  • Anthony Kable — trombone (track 7)

[edit] Additional credits

  • Engineer — Paul McKercher
  • Engineer assistants — Justin Sinclair, Mark Bassett, Peter Jones
  • Mastering — Don Bartley
  • Mixers — Phillip McKeller (track 6, 8, 10, 12), Tim Whitten (tracks 1 to 5, 7, 9, 11,13)
  • Producers — Hoodoo Gurus, Kim Salmon
  • Photography — Sophie Howarth
  • Recorded by — Charles Fisher (Vicki Peterson's backing vocals track 6)

[edit] References