Mach Schau is iconic Australia

Australia

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n rock

Rock music

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 group Hoodoo Gurus

Hoodoo Gurus

Hoodoo Gurus are an Australian rock band, formed in Sydney in 1981, by the mainstay Dave Faulkner and later joined by Richard Grossman , Mark Kingsmill , and Brad Shepherd...

' eighth studio album. It was recorded eight years after their last studio album, Blue Cave

Blue Cave (Hoodoo Gurus album)

Blue Cave or In Blue Cave was Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus' seventh studio album. The album was nominated for 'Best Pop Release' at the 1996 ARIA Awards...

, and released six years after the band had officially split in January 1998.

Their Australian single from the album, "Nothing's Changing My Life" was released a month earlier, while the U.S. single "When You Get to California" was released in April. For its release outside Australia, under the EMI

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/Capitol Records

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 label, Mach Schau was given new cover art (see below), and a revised sequence, with tracks "Isolation" and "Penelope's Lullaby" removed, and "White Night," "Monkey's Wedding" and "Song of the Year" added. The album's title is a reference to the German phrase, "make show", which The Beatles

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 were told to do on each night's performance during their stay in Hamburg

Hamburg

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, Germany

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.

Track listing

All tracks written by Dave Faulkner

Dave Faulkner (musician)

Dave Faulkner is an Australian rock musician who also performed as Dave Flick. Faulkner is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist; he has performed with several bands, but is best known as a member of Hoodoo Gurus...

 unless otherwise indicated.

Australian (domestic) release

1. "Chop" — 4:02
2. "Sour Grapes" — 2:54
3. "Nothing's Changing My Life" — 3:06
4. "#17" — 2:54
5. "Domino" — 3:34
6. "When You Get to California" — 3:30
7. "This One's for the Ladies" (Brad Shepherd
   Brad Shepherd
   Brad Shepherd is an Australian rock musician. Shepherd is a guitarist, singer-songwriter and harmonica player; he has performed with several bands, especially the Hoodoo Gurus...
   
   ) — 4:13
8. "Girls on Top" — 2:19
9. "Dead Sea" — 3:56
10. "Isolation" — 3:23
11. "The Mighty Have Fallen" — 3:08
12. "Good Son" — 3:34
13. "Penelope's Lullaby" (Shepherd) — 5:45

International release

Songwriters same as above unless otherwise indicated.

1. "Sour Grapes" — 2:54
2. "Domino" — 3:34
3. "Nothing's Changing My Life" — 3:06
4. "The Good Son" — 3:34
5. "When You Get to California" — 3:30
6. "This One Is for the Ladies" — 4:13
7. "Girls on Top" — 2:19
8. "Dead Sea" — 3:56
9. "Monkey's Wedding" — 3:08
10. "#17" — 2:54
11. "White Night" (Rico Conning) — 3:32
12. "Song of the Year" (Shepherd) — 2:21
13. "The Mighty Have Fallen" — 3:08
14. "Chop" — 4:02

Hoodoo Gurus

• Dave Faulkner
  Dave Faulkner (musician)
  Dave Faulkner is an Australian rock musician who also performed as Dave Flick. Faulkner is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist; he has performed with several bands, but is best known as a member of Hoodoo Gurus...
  
   — lead vocals, guitar
• Rick Grossman
  Richard Grossman (musician)
  Richard Grossman is an Australian rock musician who has played bass guitar for two iconic bands Divinyls and Hoodoo Gurus. Hoodoo Gurus iconic status on the Australian rock scene was acknowledged when they were inducted into the 2007 ARIA Hall of Fame. For Grossman, this was his second Hall of Fame...
  
   — bass
• Mark Kingsmill — drums
• Brad Shepherd
  Brad Shepherd
  Brad Shepherd is an Australian rock musician. Shepherd is a guitarist, singer-songwriter and harmonica player; he has performed with several bands, especially the Hoodoo Gurus...
  
   — guitar, vocals

Additional musicians

Track information relates to Australian release order.

• Stuart McCarthy — synthesizer technician (track 1)
• Renée Geyer
  Renée Geyer
  Renée Rebecca Geyer is an Australian singer who has long been regarded as one of the finest exponents of jazz, soul and R&B idioms. She had commercial success as a solo artist in Australia, with "It's a Man's Man's World", "Heading in the Right Direction" and "Stares and Whispers" in the 1970s and...
  
   — backing vocals (track 3)
• Vanetta Fields — backing vocals (track 3)
• Steve Fitzmaurice — saxophone (baritone) (track 5)
• Vicki Peterson
  Vicki Peterson
  Vicki Peterson is an American rock musician ....
  
   — backing vocals (track 6)
• Stewart Kirwan — trumpet (tracks 6 & 7)
• Andrew Bickers — saxophone (track 7)
• Anthony Kable — trombone (track 7)

Additional credits

• Engineer — Paul McKercher
• Engineer assistants — Justin Sinclair, Mark Bassett, Peter Jones
• Mastering — Don Bartley
• Mixers — Phillip McKeller (track 6, 8, 10, 12), Tim Whitten (tracks 1 to 5, 7, 9, 11,13)
• Producers — Hoodoo Gurus, Kim Salmon
  Kim Salmon
  Kim Leith Salmon is an Australian indie rock musician and songwriter, who attained fame in June 2004, when he was inducted into the West Australian Music Industry Association Hall of Fame....
  
  
• Photography — Sophie Howarth
• Recorded by — Charles Fisher (Vicki Peterson's backing vocals track 6)