39. What’s My Scene – Hoodoo Gurus

I know it’s got something to do with the footy at home, but since I haven’t lived there for 20 years it hasn’t touched me, leaving me with pure memories of shouting this out in pubs when life was simpler.

Dave Faulkner was a classicist among songwriters, even if they wanted to grungy alternative rockers (Le Hoodoos, indeed), and it’s not really a surprise that they became as big as they did: Bittersweet, My Girl, 1000 Miles Away, Like Wow Wipeout, all genre classics, but this one was on Blow Your Cool, and hearing this in Mickey’s place back in LA gave me my first twinge of homesickness among the excitement of travelling the world for myself for the first time.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugA5bLqivkY