Stoneage Romeos

Stoneage Romeos is the debut album by Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus. Released in March 1984 by Big Time Records in Australia, the album's release saw them receive record sales to complement their already strong reputation for live performances. With radio and television support for their third single "My Girl" (1983), complete with a film clip about a greyhound of the same name, the band's following grew. The album's other singles were "Leilani", "Tojo" and "I Want You Back". The album peaked at number 29 on the Australian charts.

The band won "Best Debut Album" at the 1984 Countdown Awards.

A&M Records released the album in the United States on 7 September 1984.

Stoneage Romeos was re-released by Arcadia Records on 1 October 2002, with two additional tracks, "Hoodoo You Love" and "Be My Guru". EMI also re-released the album on 24 October 2005 with three bonus tracks, "Leilani Pt. 2", "Be My Guru" and "Hoodoo You Love", a fold-out poster and liner notes by Lindsay "The Doctor" McDougall of Frenzal Rhomb.

In October 2010, the album was listed in the top 30 in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums.

Release
The title Stoneage Romeos is taken from a Three Stooges short film. The Australian LP, designed by Yanni Stumbles, sported a cartoonish nod to the 1966 caveman flick One Million Years B.C., all menacing dinosaurs and Day-Glo colors, whilst in America, consumers got a stylized sleeve featuring arty renditions of the giant reptiles. On the change of covers, the band's frontman Dave Faulkner would later recall:

"Bad coffeetable art, very anonymous and boring. On the U.S. tour fans are bringing up the Australian copies for us to sign—they were all getting them on import! Yet at the end of the tour, A&M says to us, ‘Oh well, we don't really think the cover will affect sales at all.’ Like, when they’re right, they’re right, and when they’re wrong, they’re still right."

Personnel
Credited to:


 * James Baker – drums
 * Clyde Bramley – bass, vocals
 * Dave Faulkner – guitar, lead vocals, keyboards
 * Brad Shepherd – lead guitar, vocals, harmonica, percussion
 * Michael Farmer – additional percussion
 * Alan Thorne – producer and engineer
 * Bob Carbone – mastering
 * Frank DeLuna – mastering
 * Yanni Stumbles – artwork (cover concept and design)
 * Tom Takacs – photography
 * Stuart Thorne – other ("the boss")