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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. [ 1 ]
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]
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 ]
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]
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 ...
The DMA's performed their Like a Version cover of Cher's "Believe" and their song "Criminals", Wolfmother's Andrew Stockdale performed Joker & the Thief, and Mike Brady performed "Up There Cazaly" from the MCG. [16] Tim McCallum 2021
The music video for "Love Train" was directed by Jay Martin, who described it as a combination of "band portraits and epic, heroic performance." [ 5 ] The CD single featured a live version of hit single " Woman " recorded at radio station Triple J , as well as the music video; [ 2 ] a 12" picture disc version of the single was later released in ...
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 ]