H is for Hoodoo Gurus. I could pick any of a half-dozen songs from their debut album Stoneage Romeos, but this is one of the Gurus' most "Australian" tracks.
According to the wiki, "Tojo" was an answer song to "Santa Never Made It To Darwin", Bill & Boyd's 1975 hit about the cyclone that hit northern Australia on Christmas Eve 1974.
Tojo's Japanese army made it as far as New Guinea during WWII, but never hit the Australian mainland. There's another WWII song on Stoneage Romeos called "I Was A Kamikaze Pilot", which I still think is one of the funniest song titles ever.
1 comment:
"Tojo" is even funnier when you think about how "Tojo never made it to Darwin" is what the singer's girlfriend is telling him. I mean, every guy wants to get to Darwin with his girlfriend.
You can't beat those first two Hoodoo Gurus albums. It's garage rock nirvana.
Post a Comment