Bruno Mars – Doo-Wops & Hooligans (LP) – Yellow Vinyl

Album Info Hide Show Artist: Bruno Mars Album: Doo-Wops & Hooligans Released: Europe, 2020 Tracklist: A1 Grenade 3:42 A2 Just the Way You Are 3:40 A3 Our First Time 4:03 A4 Runaway Baby 2:27 A5 The Lazy Song 3:15 B1 Marry You 3:50 B2 Talking to the Moon 3:37 B3 Liquor Store Blues (ft. Damian Marley) 3:49 B4 Count On Me 3:17 B5 The Other Side (ft. CeeLo Green & B.o.B. 3:47 Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . We ship Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 for standard shipping or $15 for express post. Free Shipping for orders $150 and over. You can also pick up your order in store, just select Local Pickup at the checkout. We also ship internationally – prices vary depending on weight and location. 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If you change your mind you have 30 days to return your record but you must cover the cost of returning it to the store. You can contact our Melbourne record shop at (03) 9939 3807 or at [email protected] Happy Listening! Description Hide Show A debut album that spawns multiple global hits can sometimes feel like a singles dump, but Doo-Wops & Hooligans holds together with the easy confidence of an artist who already knows his lane. Released in October 2010, Bruno Mars first LP put the Smeezingtons production team front and centre and established a bright, melodic signature built on classic pop, R&B and a splash of island sway. It is a short record that wastes no time, rolling from one earworm to the next with the sort of craft you usually hear from veterans. The run of singles still hits hard. Just the Way You Are is the obvious calling card, a simple, sincere ballad that topped the Billboard Hot 100 and the ARIA Singles Chart, and later won a Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. The songs piano hook and synth shimmer are plain as day, but Mars sells it with a vocal that never feels showy. Grenade flips the sentiment, all high drama and thudding heartbeat drums, and it also climbed to number one in the US. It is the better vocal performance, full of grit and breathy tension, and you can hear the band push behind him. The Lazy Song lightens the mood with a lilting reggae bounce that still sneaks in neat harmonic turns. Even the album cuts feel sharp. Runaway Baby races through a hip-shaking, retro rave-up with clipped guitars and a rap-sung cadence. Count on Me strips things right back to campfire chords and soft harmonies, a reminder that Mars can get out of the way of a tune when he needs to. Doo-Wops & Hooligans also benefits from smart collaborations and colour. Liquor Store Blues brings in Damian Marley, and the track settles into a smoky, dubby pocket that nods to reggae lineage without slipping into pastiche. Marry You, never a traditional lead single in every market, became one of those songs that seemed to exist everywhere at once. The chime of those opening bells, the tempo sitting just right for a sway, the way the chorus blooms. It is pure pop engineering. Part of the story here is how quickly Mars translated studio magic to big stages. At the 2011 Grammys he performed in a medley with B.o.B. and Janelle Mone, flipping Grenade into a throwback soul arrangement that underlined what the album title hints at. The doo-wop influence is not about imitation so much as a feel for tight harmony, concise hooks and romance-forward storytelling. The Smeezingtons production keeps the palette clean and punchy. Drums pop. Bass lines walk rather than wander. Keys do a lot of the heavy lifting, sometimes dressed up as vinyl crackle and sometimes gleaming, always glued to that voice. If you are crate-digging, Doo-Wops & Hooligans vinyl is a fun way to hear how these songs breathe. The low end on Grenade thumps with more air around it, and Just the Way You Are opens out so the backing vocals feel less boxed in. It is one of the easier Bruno Mars albums on vinyl to recommend to newer collectors too, because the track list is tight and the sequencing flows. If you like a quick side-one hit parade, this delivers. You could walk into a Melbourne record store and be home again with it by afternoon tea, but it is just as easy to buy Bruno Mars records online if you live out bush and rely on the postie for your fixes. For anyone hunting vinyl records Australia wide, this album is the kind of pop staple that earns its shelf space. Awards chatter mattered for this record as well. Beyond that early Grammy win, the album era picked up major nominations, with Grenade in the mix for Record and Song of the Year. It is worth remembering how rare that kind of run is for a first LP. The songs landed with radio, with streaming later, and with live crowds who wanted something they could sing without squinting at the screen for lyrics. What keeps me coming back is the balance. Mars is unabashedly sentimental, but he keeps the edges tidy. He is playful, but not flippant. You can drop the needle on side two and get Talking to the Moon, all moonlit melodrama, and then pivot to the sunny shrug of The Lazy Song without feeling whiplash. That takes discipline and good ears. In 2010 he arrived as a fully formed pop writer with a band that could swing, and Doo-Wops & Hooligans still plays like proof. If you are exploring Bruno Mars vinyl for the first time, start here, and let the hits do their work. Product Reviews Hide Show Write a Review