Come Anytime

"Come Anytime"
Single by Hoodoo Gurus
from the album Magnum Cum Louder
B-side
  • "Cajun Country"
  • "Hallucination"
ReleasedMay 1989
Length3:18
LabelRCA
SongwriterDave Faulkner
ProducerHoodoo Gurus
Hoodoo Gurus singles chronology
"The Generation Gap"
(1987)		 "Come Anytime"
(1989)		 "Axegrinder"
(1989)
Alternative cover
7-inch picture disc artwork

"Come Anytime" is a song by Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus. It was released in May 1989 as the lead single from the group's fourth studio album, Magnum Cum Louder (1989). "Come Anytime" peaked at number 27 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart and at number one on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. The song is featured as the theme for the Australian television programme Thank God You're Here. In June 2000, vocalist and guitarist Dave Faulkner said that "'Come Anytime' [...] best described as a romantic song about an unromantic subject but you can reverse the adjectives and the statement would be equally correct."

Composition

Faulkner said, "The closest I came to trying to copy something I'd already done, really, was writing "Come Anytime", where I was kind of writing something in a similar energy and effervescence as "What's My Scene?". But it didn’t come out like "What's My Scene?", you know? It was its own thing."

Track listings

Australian 7-inch and cassette single

  1. "Come Anytime" – 3:18
  2. "Cajun Country" – 4:03

Australian CD single

  1. "Come Anytime"
  2. "Cajun Country"
  3. "Hallucination"

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1989) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)27
US Modern Rock Tracks (Billboard) 1

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Australasian Performing Right Association". APRA. Archived from the original on 5 May 2008. Retrieved 23 December 2007.
  2. ↑ Faulkner, Dave (June 2000). "Pop and punishment". juliat. Archived from the original on 8 August 2007. Retrieved 23 December 2007.
  3. ↑ Bryget Chrisfield. "'People Say We're a Great Singles Band!': Dave Faulkner Takes Us Through 45 Years of Hoodoo Gurus". Rolling Stone Australia.
  4. ↑ Hoodoo Gurus (1989). Come Anytime (Australian 7-inch single vinyl disc). RCA Records. 105062.
  5. ↑ Hoodoo Gurus (1989). Come Anytime (Australian cassette single sleeve). RCA Records. CS 5062.
  6. ↑ Hoodoo Gurus (1989). Come Anytime (Australian CD single liner notes). RCA Records. CCD005.
  7. ↑ "Hoodoo Gurus – Come Anytime". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
  8. ↑ "Alternative Airplay". Billboard. 26 August 1989. Retrieved 10 October 2023.