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Funniest of all is Blackstone, who always shines, whether aping Ellard's childlike movement and speech, inventing a gobbledygook foreign language, pretending to hoodoo Owen, or simply staring forward with his forlorn puppy eyes in feigned ignorance or injury. The Foreigner is essentially Blackstone's show, and he carries it off triumphantly. He and the rest of the cast really make the Shue...
...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...
Faulkner seems to have custom-penned this piece of blithe, bopping banality for the California girl-group; he should have donated it to them outright. His shouting vocals don't belong on the same song as their syrupy harmonies, and the Bangles certainly don't belong on the Hoodoo Gurus' album...
Nevertheless, the Hoodoo Gurus still blow most other pop groups out of the water. As diminished as their anarchic tendencies may be on Blow Your Cool, their playing is still more intense than that of any synth band covering similar pop territory. It just seems that the Hoodoo Gurus aren't having as much fun as they used...