Hunters And Collectors - Where Do You Go.-Mushroom. -CDS- (c) 1991 Mu
Artist....: Hunters And Collectors
Album.....: Where Do You Go.-Mushroom.
Type......: Single
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: 04
Genre.....: Indie
Rel.Date..: N/A
Label.....: Mushroom/ White Label
Catalogue#: D10493
Encoder...: Lame 3.97
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
Tracklist:
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01 Where Do You Go 04:06
02 When The River Runs Dry-Live Myer Music Bowl Nov '90 05:07
03 Love All Over Again-Live Myer Music Bowl Nov '90 04:08
04 Do You See What I See-Live Myer Music Bowl Nov '90 05:04
Total:24,3 MBB / 18:25 min
Release Notes:
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Ending up with the intensity and passion of a U2, Hunters And
Collectors carved a unique path and place for themselves in Australian
rock culture. The group was originally formed in post-punk 1981 in
Melbourne as a collective rather than a band, an excursion into
funk-rock rhythms and industrial Krautrock. They named themselves after
a song by Can.
The group's early performances are remembered as chaotic, with audience
members encouraged to join in on the banging rubbish bin lids or fire
extinguishers. The extended line-up included a massed horn section
known as the Horns of Contempt. Inside all this was singer Mark
Seymour, with an ear for a melody and a taste for lyrical poetry.
Illustrating the dichotomy at work "Talking to a Stranger" the band's
first single in July 1982 featured a concise edited version of the song
on one side and a full-length seven-minute version on the other side.
The single's theme of alienation and aguish is one the band would
return to, but for the moment the group's emphasis was the free-form
side of their work. The Hunters' reputation spread to Europe where a
stripped-back band spent six months in 1983, recording a second album
The Fireman's Curse in Germany with producer Conny Plank (Can,
Kraftwerk). Pruned back to its essentials the band recorded another
album with Plank, The Jaws of Life and a single-only song "Throw Your
Arms Around Me" in the ""Talking to a Stranger" mould. Hunters And
Collectors was at a crossroads.
After a live album came Human Frailty where singer Mark Seymour's deep
songs about alienation and sexual politics came to the fore. The band
had discovered how to tap the unique vein they had unearthered in the
audience, where in a sweat-dripping venue packed to the rafters with a
beer swilling macho rock audience, that audience would at the top of
their voices sing the song chorus "you don't make me feel like a woman
anymore". A newly recorded "Throw Your Arms Around Me" became one of
the undisputed classic songs of Australian rock, and from now until
their end Hunters And Collectors would remain one of Australian rock's
favourite live attractions. While successive studio albums did their
best to explore new themes and new sounds to varying degrees of success
it was the live performances fans were waiting for, and with each new
album it was the older material radio wanted to play. In the end
Hunters And Collectors was strangled by their own legend.
In 1998 the band announced they were recording their final album,
Juggernaut, and supported it with a farewell tour. Mark Seymour
released a solo album King Without A Clue, continuing his relentless
search for meaning through song. When one Sunday in Mebourne sound man
John Archer auctioned off the personally-designed PA which had been
carried by the band for almost twenty years it signalled not just the
end of Hunters And Collectors but the end also of Australian music's
post punk era.