- I Want You Back (Hoodoo Gurus song)
Infobox Single
Name = I Want You Back
Cover size =
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Artist =The Hoodoo Gurus
Album =Stoneage Romeos
A-side = "I Want You Back"
B-side = "Who Do You Love?"
Released = flagicon|Australia March, 1984
flagicon|UK 1984
Format = 7" vinyl
Recorded = Trafalgar Studios
Genre = Rock
Length = 2:45
Label = flagicon|Australia Big Time
flagicon|UKDemon Records
Writer = Dave Faulkner
Producer = Alan Thorne
Reviews =
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Last single = "My Girl"
(1983)
This single = "I Want You Back"
(1984)
Next single = "Bittersweet
(1985)
Misc ="I Want You Back" was the fourth single released by iconiccite web |url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/about-hall-of-fame.php |title=ARIA Awards 2007: About Hall of Fame |publisher=
ARIA Awards |accessdate=2007-11-20 ] cite web |title="ARIA presents the 2007 ARIA Hall of Fame" |last=Pope |first=Mark |url=http://www.amcos.com.au/news/industry/news/070507_ARIA-HallofFame.pdf (PDF) |date=2007-05-07 |accessdate=2008-01-22 ]Australia n rock groupHoodoo Gurus from their debut album "Stoneage Romeos ". It was released on Big Time Records (distributed byEMI ) in March, 1984 (at same time as the album). "I Want You Back" was written by Dave Faulkner.cite web |url=http://www.apra.com.au/cms/worksearch/worksearch.srvlt?action=workSearch&switchDet=Y |title=Australasian Performing Right Association |publisher=APRA |accessdate=2007-12-21] The B-Side "Who Do You Love?" (aka "Hoodoo You Love?") was recorded live by 2JJJ. The single was released in the United Kingdom in 1984 byDemon Records , but with an alternative B-Side, "Be My Guru". [cite web |url=http://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/hoodoo_gurus/i_want_you_back___be_my_guru__gbr_/ |title=Rate Your Music - "I Want You Back (GBR)"|accessdate=2007-12-21 ]" "I Want You Back" was one of the few songs of mine to ever be covered by another artist, a fellow mysteriously named Simon F, produced by
Billy Idol 's then-guitaristSteve Stevens (do you miss the 80's?). Some writers refer to their creations as their 'children', well this felt more akin to having your child grow up to be a serial killer. Their (per)version was not a hit, but then neither was ours." Dave Faulkner.cite web |year=2000 |month=June |last=Faulkner |first=Dave |url=http://www-personal.umich.edu/~juliat/hg/popandpunishment.html |publisher=juliat |title="Pop and punishment" |accessdate=2008-01-09 ]In 1985 Simon F. (aka Simon Fellowes (UK Band
Intaferon )) released a version of the song. [cite web |url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/Simon+Fellowes?anv=Simon+F. |title=Discogs entry on Simon F. |accessdate=2008-01-09 ] "I Want You Back" was also performed byThe Spazzys on the 2005 tribute album "Stoneage Cameos" (see "Stoneage Romeos "), with "Hoodoo You Love?" performed byThe Drones .In an interview with Harp Magazine in 2007, Faulkner revealed that the song was written not about a former lover but actually about former co-founder of the Hoodoo Gurus,
Roddy Radalj . Quote|"Basically, when Rod Radalj left the Gurus he was very dismissive of us, trying to move on and kind of burn everything behind him: ‘Oh, it’s not worth staying in that band. They’re terrible!’ So I basically turned that emotion around: ‘Here’s this guy who ditched us and he’s acting like the spurned lover!’ It was me saying, ‘You’ll regret it.’"...
"Well, yeah, I just turned all that stuff into a relationship song.” Faulkner says. “I don’t know why people don’t realize that it’s an anger song. You’re right, they think it’s a longing song. But it’s not a song about ‘I wish you’d come back,’ but — ‘You’ll wish you were back!’" cite web |url=http://harpmagazine.com/articles/detail.cfm?article_id=5095 |title="Hoodoo Gurus: By My Guru" |publisher="Harp Magazine" |last=Mills |first=Fred |year=2007 |month= January |accessdate=2008-02-13]Track listing
# "I Want You Back" (Dave Faulkner) — 2:45
# "Who Do You Love?" (Ellas McDaniel akaBo Diddley ) ] — 2:05Personnel
Credited to: [cite web |url=http://www.discogs.com/release/600937 |title=Discogs entry on "I Want You Back" |accessdate=2008-01-09 ]
* James Baker — drums
* Clyde Bramley — bass, vocals
* Dave Faulkner — vocals, guitar
*Brad Shepherd — guitar, vocals* Producer, Engineer — Alan Thorne
* Mixed — Alan Thorne (track 2)
* Recorded — Peter Watts (track 2)Reviews
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