“1000 Miles Away” by Hoodoo Gurus

"1000 Miles Away" hit the shops in May 1991, the second single lifted off Kinky, the fifth album by Australia's Hoodoo Gurus, and it peaked at number 37 on the Australian Singles Chart. Dave Faulkner wrote it alone, and though it's dotted with airports and flights, he later said it was really about the distance between two people, not the miles. He also counted it among his own favourites, and so did a lot of fans.

Ed Stasium mixed it, and it has that clean, chiming punch the Gurus do so well: a big, rueful chorus on a bed of bright guitars. It found some unlikely loyalists, too. The crew of the navy frigate HMAS Canberra took it as their anthem, and the band played it on board during the ship's last voyage out of Fremantle before it was decommissioned in 2005.

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