Crank by Hoodoo Gurus

Crank, Hoodoo Gurus' sixth studio album, came out in 1994 as the Sydney band's first release on Zoo, and it went all the way to number 2 on the ARIA charts. Ed Stasium, whose credits run from the Ramones to Living Colour and the Smithereens, produced it after mixing their previous studio album, Kinky, in 1991, and he gives the Gurus a bigger, harder, meaner crunch than ever.

Dave Faulkner's songs still come stuffed with vintage garage punk and power pop hooks, but here they're cranked, as advertised, into full-on hard rock, guitars snarling and drums landing like hammers. When EMI reissued it in 2005, the package grew to include a pull-out poster, liner notes from Andy Strachan of the Living End and nine extra songs. Among the extras is "Television Addict", a 1977 song by the Perth punk band the Victims, who counted Faulkner, then going by Dave Flick, in their ranks.

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