Good Times (Hoodoo Gurus song)
{{Infobox song
| name = Good Times
| cover = GoodTimesFrontHG.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Hoodoo Gurus
| album = Blow Your Cool!
| A-side = "Good Times"
| B-side = "Hell for Leather" (live)
| released = 13 July 1987
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Pop rock{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1-pH4i3jXvAC&q=hoodoo+gurus+good+times+power+pop&pg=PA537 |title=All Music Guide to Rock: The Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul |last1=Bogdanov|first1= Vladimir|last2= Woodstra|first2= Chris|last3= Erlewine|first3=Stephen Thomas|publisher=AllMusic |date=2004-04-01|isbn=9780879306533 |access-date=2020-02-27}}
| length = 3:02
| label = EMI
| writer = Dave Faulkner
| producer = Mark Opitz
| prev_title = What's My Scene?
| prev_year = 1987
| next_title = In the Middle of the Land
| next_year = 1987
}}
"Good Times" is a song by Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus. It was written by Dave Faulkner{{cite web|url=http://www.apra.com.au/cms/worksearch/worksearch.srvlt?action=workSearch&switchDet=Y |title=Australasian Performing Right Association |publisher=APRA |accessdate=2008-01-30 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080505235657/http://www.apra.com.au/cms/worksearch/worksearch.srvlt?action=workSearch&switchDet=Y |archivedate=2008-05-05 }} and released in July 1987 as the second single from the group's third studio album, Blow Your Cool!. The song peaked at number 36 on the Australian charts.
In June 2000, Dave Faulkner said "Brad was off gallivanting in Los Angeles to supervise the recording of the Bangles harmonies on 'Good Times'. We had toured with them the previous year promoting Mars Needs Guitars! and we watched then go to No. 1 with "Manic Monday" as the tour began. Oh well, so much for the co-headline. That tour and its sequel two years later were some of the most fun we ever had on the road."{{cite web |date=June 2000 |last=Faulkner |first=Dave |url=http://www-personal.umich.edu/~juliat/hg/popandpunishment.html |publisher=juliat |title=Pop and punishment |accessdate=2008-01-30 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070808085453/http://www-personal.umich.edu/~juliat/hg/popandpunishment.html |archivedate = 2007-08-08}}
Track listing
7" version (BTS8)
- "Good Times" (Dave Faulkner) — 3:02
- "Hell for Leather" (live) (Faulkner) — 3:12
Personnel
- Dave Faulkner – lead vocals, guitar, keyboards
- Brad Shepherd – guitar, harmonica
- Mark Kingsmill – drums
- Clyde Bramley – bass
- The Bangles (Susanna Hoffs, Debbi Peterson, Vicki Peterson, Michael Steele) – background vocals
- Richard Allan – Art Direction, Cover Design
- Allan Wright – Engineer
- Heidi Cannavo, Kathy Nauton, Paula Jones, Tchad Blake — Assistant Engineers
- Mark Opitz – Producer
- Barry Diament – Mastering
Charts
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!Chart (1987) !Peak |
Australia (Kent Music Report){{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=141}}
|align="center"|36 |
References
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