Blue Cave (album) explained

In Blue Cave
Type:	Album
Artist:	Hoodoo Gurus
Cover:	Blue Cave (Hoodoo Gurus album - cover art).jpg
Genre:	Rock
Length:	44:56
Label:	Mushroom
Producer:	Charles Fisher, Hoodoo Gurus
Prev Title:	Crank
Prev Year:	1994
Next Title:	Hoodoo Voodoo
Next Year:	1997

Blue Cave or In Blue Cave^[1] is the seventh studio album by Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus.^[2] The album was released in May 1996 and peaked at number 18 on the ARIA charts.

At the ARIA Music Awards of 1996, the album was nominated for Best Pop Release.^[3]

EMI re-released the album on 6 February 2005^[4] with six additional tracks, a fold out poster and liner notes by Charles Fisher, the record producer.

The album title Blue Cave originates from a brothel named "Gruta Azul" that they visited when touring in Porto Alegre, Brazil.^[5] The brothel which inspired the title is still open until the present date.^[6]

Personnel

Credits:

• Dave Faulkner – lead vocals (except track 9), guitar, keyboards
• Richard Grossman – bass guitar, backing vocals
• Mark Kingsmill – drums
• Brad Shepherd – guitar, harmonica, backing vocals, lead vocals (track 9)
• Engineer – Paul McKercher
• Assistant engineer – Robin Gist
• Mastering – Bob Ludwig
• Mixer – Kevin Shirley
• Assistant mixer – Louis Mitchell
• Producers – Charles Fisher, Hoodoo Gurus

Certifications

More Electric Soup video

"More Electric Soup" was a VHS video that accompanied a limited release of "Blue Cave" in a unique gatefold picture box. It included the eight music videos that had been made by the band since the 1992 video compilation, Electric Soup, excluding "Turn Up Your Radio" with Masters Apprentices. "Spahn Ranch" was the only inclusion not to be released as a single. "Down on Me" was the only Blue Cave single not to appear on the compilation, as it was released the following year.

1. "Waking Up Tired" (music video directed by John Whitteron)
2. "If Only" (music video directed by John Whitteron)
3. "Big Deal" (music video directed by John Whitteron)
4. "The Right Time" (music video directed by Jonathan Ogilvie)
5. "You Open My Eyes" (music video directed by Kimble Rendall)
6. "Less Than A Feeling" (music video directed by John Whitteron)
7. "Nobody" (music video directed by Jonathan Ogilvie)
8. "Spahn Ranch" (music video directed by John Whitteron)

Notes and References

1. Web site: June 2000 . Faulkner . Dave . Pop and punishment . juliat . 5 December 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070808085453/http://www-personal.umich.edu/~juliat/hg/popandpunishment.html . 8 August 2007 . dead.
2. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20131022063218/http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/h/hoodoogurus.html . Hoodoo Gurus . Passagen.se . Australian Rock Database (Magnus Holmgren) . Holmgren . Magnus . Didier . Georgieff . Stephan . Hartung . 22 October 2013 . 25 March 2014 .
3. Web site: ARIA Awards . . 5 December 2007 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070926235501/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-artist.php?letter=H&artist=Hoodoo%20Gurus . 26 September 2007.
4. http://www.musichead.com.au/site/artistProduct.asp?actID=21123&catalogNo=8637552 EMI Records
5. Web site: The Making of 'In Blue Cave' . Facebook . Hoodoo Gurus . 21 October 2023.
6. Web site: Gruta Azul . Google Maps . 21 October 2023.