Hoodoo Gurus – Mars Needs Guitars! (VG+/E) – LP, AU 1985

Mars Needs Guitars! is an LP by Hoodoo Gurus from 1985 released on the Big Time label.

About this album

Mars Needs Guitars! is the album that turned Hoodoo Gurus into one of Australia’s defining rock bands. Released in 1985, it sharpened their garage-rock edge into a run of big hooks, sly humour and punchy guitar interplay, balancing brash energy with memorable melody. The record includes some of the band’s best-known songs, among them Death Defying, Like Wow-Wipeout and Bittersweet, which helped cement their reputation beyond the pub-rock circuit. Built on the band’s knack for tuneful, off-kilter rock, the album became a key release in Australian alternative rock and remains one of their most admired records.