Stoneage Romeos
by Hoodoo Gurus

Album
Stoneage Romeos by Hoodoo Gurus
Year: 1984
Release date: 1984-00-00
Overall rank: 4,282nd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 76 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1984 (65th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (621st)
Award Best albums of all time (4,282nd)

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Stoneage Romeos is ranked as the best album by Hoodoo Gurus.

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Stoneage Romeos track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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1.
(Let's All) Turn On
Average Rating: 76 (10 votes)Comments: View 0
2.
I Want You Back
Average Rating: 82 (12 votes)Comments: View 0
3.
Arthur
Average Rating: 77 (10 votes)Comments: View 0
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Death Ship
Average Rating: 78 (8 votes)Comments: View 0
5.
Dig It Up
Average Rating: 76 (8 votes)Comments: View 0
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My Girl
Average Rating: 76 (10 votes)Comments: View 0
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Zanzibar
Average Rating: 77 (8 votes)Comments: View 0
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Leilani
Average Rating: 77 (9 votes)Comments: View 0
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Tojo
Average Rating: 76 (7 votes)Comments: View 0
10.
In The Echo Chamber
Average Rating: 76 (7 votes)Comments: View 0
11.
I Was A Kamikaze Pilot
Average Rating: 74 (7 votes)Comments: View 0

Stoneage Romeos rankings

Stoneage Romeos rankings summary
Overall rank: 4,282nd | 1980s rank: 621st | 1984 rank: 65th  Overall chart history
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 !		02/21/2026 22:00 cicadelic  Ratings distribution  14,06473/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 21% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.8/100, a mean average of 72.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.0.


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From 04/29/2019 13:05 | #235634 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
My introduction to the retro sounds of The Hoodoo Gurus - and I will forever feel blessed. A combination of Beatlesque chiming guitars, tribal drumming, and Cramps-like cemetery humor, "Stoneage Romeos" plays it hard and fast, and gives notice that this group from down under would be around for a while. Not a bad song among them. "My Girl" demonstrated lead singer/lyricist, Dave Faulkner's sensitive side, while "I Was A Kamikaze Pilot" showed their sense of humor. Add in the trippy "Let's All Turn On" and "Zanzibar", the deep sea adventure "Death Ship", and highlighted by the album's most excellent desert island soap opera "Leilani" this album is a WINNER. Take some advice paraphrased from HG

Leilani don't go to the volcano -
Go to your local music store
And buy "Stoneage Romeos"
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From 08/30/2017 05:13 | #196935 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Absolute classic & soundtrack to my youth . Listening to this album never gets tiresome and some how still sounds fresh after all these years . I actually think Blow Your Cool is the better album but Stoneage Romeos will forever hold a special place in my heart .
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65/100
From 03/16/2013 11:49 | #68558
"I Was A KamikazeeBonus Tracks"??? Anyway, good record, but not great.
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