“Like Wow-Wipeout” by Hoodoo Gurus

"Like Wow-Wipeout" was only ever meant to be a B-side. Dave Faulkner wrote it and sings it, and the Hoodoo Gurus, the Australian rock group, recorded it with that in mind, until producer Charles Fisher decided it had something and belonged on Mars Needs Guitars!, their second studio album. It went out as the album's second single in October 1985 and got to 16 on the Australian charts.

Nobody was more surprised than the band, Faulkner said years later: it became their biggest hit up to that point, and they had only liked it because it was noisy. Clyde Bramley plays bass and Mark Kingsmill drums, Fisher produced, John Bee engineered, and Big Time Records put it out.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.