Kinky by Hoodoo Gurus

Kinky, the fifth studio album from Sydney's Hoodoo Gurus, landed on RCA on 9 April 1991, with the band coming off the mid-to-late '80s run of Mars Needs Guitars!, Blow Your Cool! and Magnum Cum Louder. Dave Faulkner, who founded the group and writes, sings and plays guitar, still treats rock and roll like a trash-culture treasure hunt, raiding '60s power pop and garage punk and dressing it up in hard-rock muscle and a little psychedelic kitsch.

The swaggering "Miss Freelove '69" was the one that crossed the Pacific, climbing to No. 3 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart and keeping the Gurus fed on the American college circuit, while "1000 Miles Away" found its way onto the countdowns years later. At home it reached number 4. EMI dusted it off on 7 February 2005, padding it out with four extra tracks, a poster that folds out, and a set of notes penned by Dave Gray of Rocket Science.

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