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Wall of Voodoo
Call of the West
BMG/Restless
(1999)
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| Tomorrow,
Lost Weekend, Factory, Look at Their Way, Hands of Love, Mexican
Radio, Spy World, They Don't Want Me, On Interstate 15, Call
of the West |
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this mythically-themed 1981 release dealing with the spirits
of the Old West mingling mirage-like with the new, a more literate,
and more carefully calibrated delivery began to emerge. Contains
two bona fide classics in the driving and demented "Mexican
Radio" (for which a video was filmed). "..wish I was in Tijuana
/ eating BBQed iguana.." and the immeasurably haunting Carver-esque
"Lost Weekend", still considered to be one of Ridgway's greatest
songs and a foreshadowing of even greater things to come. Ridgway
hits his stride and critics and audiences loved it, making the
band an MTV favorite. Also contains a classic Ridgway lyrical
"knot" in the blue-collar nightmare "Factory".."I like to know
what I'm doin' when I do it and I do what I'm doing 'cause I
don't know what to do when I'm not doin' it..." A seriously
chilling listen.
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