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"Joker & the Thief" is a song by Australian rock band Wolfmother. The song serves as the sixth track and sixth single from the band's eponymous debut studio album . It was released in Australia on 28 October 2006 and in the United Kingdom on 20 November 2006. [ 2 ]
The Joker & The Thief are a band from London signed to Mess Around Productions. [1] They are strongly associated with Strummerville , [ 2 ] The Joe Strummer Foundation for New Music, and feature on Island /Communion's "Flowerpot Collaborations" album. [ 3 ]
For Stubbs, the song "features a stand-off between the 'joker' and the 'thief', with the joker complaining of businessmen who drink his wine, feeding off him but refusing to give him his due". [26] Authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon suggest that Dylan is the joker and his manager Albert Grossman is the thief. [11]
Wolfmother was first issued in Australia on 30 October 2005 through Modular Recordings. [5] Prior to its release it was played on high rotation on radio station Triple J, and as a result was the featured album of the week starting 28 October, [6] won both the inaugural J Award [7] and the listener's choice Album of the Year. [5]
Media response to Please Experience Wolfmother Live was mixed. Writing for The Sunday Times online publication PerthNow, Polly Coufos awarded the album three and a half stars out of five, proposing that "[Wolfmother's] brutal sound invokes the gods of metal past, with just enough tongue-in-cheek humour to keep outsiders interested too", praising "Joker & the Thief" as the highlight. [4]
On 24 October 2020, Stockdale performed "Joker & the Thief" at the 2020 AFL Grand Final. The band's next self-produced album, Rock Out, was released in November of 2021. On 11 January 2023, Stockdale performed under the name Wolfmother with Dutch band Paceshifters as his backing band in Paradiso, Amsterdam. [106]
The discography of Australian hard rock band Wolfmother consists of six studio albums, four extended play (EPs), 18 singles, 14 music videos and one video album.The band have also contributed to two soundtracks and one tribute album.
The music video for "Dimension" was directed by The Malloys, who had previously collaborated with the band on the video for "Mind's Eye", and would later return to direct "Joker & the Thief". [11] Steven Gottlieb of VideoStatic described it as a "no-frills video" which "uses a mix of grainy [black and white] and color film to capture an outdoor ...