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...Hoodoo Gurus...
...HOODOO GURUS FINALLY TAKE their tongues out of their cheeks on Blow Your Cool. It's not that Australia's wryest band is selling out now that the Gurus are achieving major-label success. If anything, the band seems angrier than ever before...
...group delivers these songs with a fury that matches the tone of the lyrics. The twanging guitars of Faulkner and Brad Shepherd scream like fighting cats over the thundering rhythms of bassist Clyde Bramley and drummer Mark Kingsmill. Faulkner shout-sings over the whole squall. Perhaps deliberately, the Gurus' and Mark Opitz's production further intensifies the wall of noise effect by muddying...
McDonald's corporate structure has become a model often cited by management gurus. The company's highly decentralized management runs its franchises with an unusual mixture of strict regimentation and entrepreneurial freedom, a style handed down by the late company founder, Ray Kroc. On one hand, McDonald's is a stickler for uniformity, indoctrinating its future managers at Hamburger University, where they learn that a 5-gal. pickle pail must contain at least 3,000 slices. On the other hand, McDonald's realizes that corporate headquarters is not always the best place to come up with market-sensitive ideas...
...original purveyors of Ugly Rock, a combination of squealing guitars, intentional feedback, and strange vocal harmonies, were such now-famous British and Irish ugly rockers as Them, the Kinks, and the Yardbirds. Like fellow Aussies the Hoodoo Gurus, the Huxtons (why isn't their nickname "The Creepers"?) more or less follow this British model, though with some American-style modifications like vocal harmonies and guitars of the chiming, trebly sort associated with such bands as the Byrds...