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    Rel.Date: 07/22/2006         Genre.....: Electronic
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   Ending up with the intensity and passion of a U2, Hunters And
   Collectors carved a unique path and place for themselves in
   Australian rock culture. The group was originally formed in
   post-punk 1981 in Melbourne as a collective rather than a band, an
   excursion into funk-rock rhythms and industrial Kraut-rock. They
   named themselves after a song by Can.

   The group's early performances are remembered as chaotic, with
   audience members encouraged to join in on the banging rubbish bin
   lids or fire extinguishers. The extended line-up included a massed
   horn section known as the Horns of Contempt. Inside all this was
   singer Mark Seymour, with an ear for a melody and a taste for
   lyrical poetry.

   Illustrating the dichotomy at work "Talking To A Stranger" the
   band's first single in July 1982 featured a concise edited version
   of the song on one side and a full length seven minute version on
   the other side. The single's theme of alienation and aguish is one
   the band would return to, but for the moment the group's emphasis
   was the free-form side of their work.

   The Hunters' reputation spread to Europe where a stripped-back band
   spent six months in 1983, recording a second album The Fireman's
   Curse in Germany with producer Conny Plank (Can, Kraftwerk). Pruned
   back to its essentials the band recorded another album with Plank,
   The Jaws Of Life and a single-only song "Throw Your Arms Around Me"
   in the ""Talking To A Stranger" mould. Hunters And Collectors was at
   a crossroads.

   After a live album came Human Frailty where singer Mark Seymour's
   deep songs about alienation and sexual politics came to the fore.
   The band had discovered how to tap the unique vein they had
   unearthered in the audience, where in a sweat-dripping venue packed
   to the rafters with a beer swilling macho rock audience, that
   audience would at the top of their voices sing the song chorus "you
   don't make me feel like a woman anymore". A newly recorded "Throw
   Your Arms Around Me" became one of the undisputed classic songs of
   Australian rock, and from now until their end Hunters And Collectors
   would remain one of Australian rock's favourite live attractions.

   While successive studio albums did their best to explore new themes
   and new sounds to varying degrees of success it was the live
   performances fans were waiting for, and with each new album it was
   the older material radio wanted to play. In the end Hunters And
   Collectors was strangled by their own legend.

   In 1998 the band announced they were recording their final album,
   Juggernaut, and supported it with a farewell tour.

   Mark Seymour released a solo album King Without A Clue, continuing
   his relentless search for meaning through song. When one Sunday in
   Mebourne sound man John Archer auctioned off the personally-designed
   PA which had been carried by the band for almost twenty years it
   signalled not just the end of Hunters And Collectors but the end
   also of Australian music's post punk era.

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   01 Talking To A Stranger (Live)                                 04:58
   02 Talking To A Stranger (Original)                             03:54
   03 Talking To A Stranger (Filthy Lucre Mix)                     05:20
   04 Talking To A Stranger (Filthy Pub Dub)                       05:19
   05 Talking To A Stranger (Temple Mix)                           05:11
   06 Talking To A Stranger (Club Mix)                             06:34
   07 Talking To A Stranger (Dance Mix)                            06:33

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