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Wall of Voodoo

Wall of Voodoo was an American new wave group from Los Angeles best known for the 1983 hit "Mexican Radio". The band had a sound that was a fusion of synthesizer-based new wave music with the spaghetti western soundtrack style of Ennio Morricone.

Formation

Wall of Voodoo had its roots in Acme Soundtracks, a film score business started by Stan Ridgway, later the vocalist and harmonica player for Wall of Voodoo. Acme Soundtracks' office was across the street from the Hollywood punk club The Masque and Ridgway was soon drawn into the emerging punk/new wave scene. Marc Moreland, guitarist for The Skulls, began jamming with Ridgway at the Acme Soundtracks office and the soundtrack company morphed into a new wave band. In 1977, with the addition of Skulls members Bruce Moreland (Marc Moreland's brother) as bassist and Chas T. Gray as keyboardist, along with Joe Nanini, who had been the drummer for Black Randy and the Metrosquad, the first lineup of Wall of Voodoo was born.

The band was named Wall of Voodoo before their first gig in reference to a comment made by Joe Berardi, a friend of Ridgway's and member of The Fibonaccis. Berardi was listening to some of the Acme Soundtracks music Ridgway and Moreland had created in their studio. When Ridgway jokingly compared the multiple-drum-machine- and Farfisa-organ-laden recordings to Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, Berardi commented it sounded more like a "wall of voodoo" and the name stuck.

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Wall of Voodoo (EP)

Wall of Voodoo (EP) is an EP released by Wall of Voodoo in 1980. In 1991, it was re-released on CD under the title, The Index Masters, with live bonus tracks. It contains one of Wall of Voodoo's best-known songs, "Ring of Fire", which is a cover of the Johnny Cash song featuring moody guitars and synthesizers. The second half of "Ring of Fire" features a dissonant guitar solo covering the theme to the 1966 film Our Man Flint.

Track listing

Vinyl

"Longarm" – 3:44

"The Passenger" – 4:07

"Can't Make Love" – 3:47

"Struggle" - 2:14

"Ring of Fire" – 4:59

"Granma's House" - 0:55

CD

"Longarm"

"The Passenger"

"Can't Make Love"

"Struggle"

"Ring of Fire"

"Granma's House"

References

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Podcasts:

Wall of Voodoo

ALBUMS

Lost Weekend, the Best of Wall of Voodoo (The I.R.S. Years) released: 2011
Dark Continent / Call of the West released: 2009
Dark & Crazy: A Retrospective released: 1992
1983-06-02: Dance of Death, El Mocambo, Toronto, ON, Canada released: 1992
Dark Continent released: 1992
The Index Masters released: 1991
Call of the West released: 1990
Seven Days in Sammystown released: 1989
The Ugly Americans in Australia (and Bullhead City, AZ) released: 1988
Happy Planet released: 1987
Granma's House: A Collection of Songs by Wall of Voodoo released: 1984
1983-05-28: US Festival 1983: Devore, CA, USA released: 1983
Live At LA Valley College released: 1982
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Americans (Live and More) released:
Take Me to Your Leader released:
Heaven or Anaheim released:

Lost Weekend, the Best of Wall of Voodoo (The I.R.S. Years)

Released 2011

Red Light
Back in Flesh
Tsetse Fly
Crack the Bell
Lost Weekend
Factory
Mexican Radio (single version)
On Interstate 15
Call of the West
Far Side of Crazy
Big City
Dark as a Dungeon
Do It Again
Country of Man
Elvis Bought Dora a Cadillac
The Heart Never Can Tell (live)
Ring of Fire (live)

Dark Continent / Call of the West

Released 2009

Red Light
Two Minutes Till Lunch
Animal Day
Full of Tension
Me and My Dad
Back in Flesh
Tsetse Fly
Call Box (1-2-3)
This Way Out
Good Times
Crack the Bell
Tomorrow
Lost Weekend
Factory
Look at Their Way
Hands of Love
Mexican Radio
Spy Wolrld
They Don't Want Me
On Interstate 15
Call of the West

Dark & Crazy: A Retrospective

Released 1992

Longarm
The Passenger
Can't Make Love
Gramma's House
Ring of Fire
Red Light
Me and My Dad
Crack the Bell
Hands of Love
Tomorrow
Lost Weekend
Factory
Mexican Radio (12" mix)
Far Side of Crazy
This Business of Love
Dark as a Dungeon
Do It Again
Elvis Bought Dora a Cadillac
The Grass Is Greener
Mexican Radio (live in Australia)

1983-06-02: Dance of Death, El Mocambo, Toronto, ON, Canada

Released 1992

Call Box (1-2-3)
Animal Day
Lost Weekend
Call of the West
Factory
On Interstate 15
Can't Make Love
Tomorrow
The Passenger
Long Arm
Ring of Fire
Mexican Radio
Back in Flesh

Dark Continent

Released 1992

Red Light
Two Minutes Till Lunch
Animal Day
Full of Tension
Me and My Dad
Back in Flesh
Tse Tse Fly
Call Box (1-2-3)
This Way Out
Good Times
Crack the Bell

The Index Masters

Released 1991

Longarm
The Passenger
Can’t Make Love
Struggle
Ring of Fire
Granma’s House
End of an Era (live)
Tomorrow (live)
Animal Day (live)
Longarm (live)
Invisible Man (live)
Red Light (live)
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly / Hang ’Em High (live)
Back in Flesh (live)
Call Box (live)
The Passenger (live)

Call of the West

Released 1990

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

Seven Days in Sammystown

Released 1989

Far Side of Crazy
This Business of Love
Faded Love
Mona
Room With a View
Blackboard Sky
Big City
Dark as a Dungeon
Museums
Tragic Vaudeville
(Don’t Spill My) Courage

The Ugly Americans in Australia (and Bullhead City, AZ)

Released 1988

Red Light
Crazy, Crazy Melbourne
Wrong Way to Hollywood
Living in the Red
Blackboard Sky
Pretty Boy Floyd
The Heart Never Can Tell
Far Side of Crazy
Ring of Fire
Mexican Radio
The Grass Is Greener (Pop's Drunken Confession)

Happy Planet

Released 1987

Do It Again
Hollywood the Second Time
Empty Room
Chains of Luck
Back in the Laundromat
When the Lights Go Out
Country of Man
Joanne
Elvis Bought Dora a Cadillac
The Grass Is Greener
Ain't My Day

Granma's House: A Collection of Songs by Wall of Voodoo

Released 1984

Ring of Fire
Long Arm
The Passenger
Can't Make Love
On Interstate 15
Lost Weekend
Mexican Radio
Call Box
Red Light
Tomorrow
Crack the Bell
Call of the West
Granma's House

1983-05-28: US Festival 1983: Devore, CA, USA

Released 1983

Ring of Fire
Call Box (1-2-3)
Animal Day
Lost Weekend
Back in Flesh
Funzone
Mexican Radio
Tomorrow
Call of the West

Live At LA Valley College

Released 1982

Instrumental
Ring of Fire
Can't Make Love
Animal Day
Good Times
The Big Heat
Invisible Man
Me & My Dad
Back in Flesh
Morricone Themes
Red Light
The Passenger
Crack the Bell
Call Box (1-2-3)

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Americans (Live and More)

Mexican Radio (non album version)
Tomorrow (live)
Call of the West (live)
Granma's House (live)
Exercise
Dance of Death (live)
Ring of Fire (12" version)
Funzone (live)
Back in Flesh (Urgh! A Music War version)
Big Heat (live)
There's Nothing on This Side
Shouldn't Have Given Him a Gun for Xmas
Send in the Drugs
Room With a View (demo)
Robbing Her Own Room
Deep in the Jungle (demo 2)
Mexican Radio (live metal version)
Maybe That's Not Her Head
Lights Go Out (Piano demo)
Big Rock Finish

Take Me to Your Leader

Take Me to Your Leader
Do the Doink
Wargasm
Test Tube Baby
Invisible Man
Question Marks
Take Me Yo Your Leader
The Passenger
You Do Anything You Want
Invisible Man
Ring of Fire

Heaven or Anaheim

When the Lights Go Out
Wrong Way to Hollywood
Heaven or Anaheim
Manic Machine
Send in the Drugs
Build a Better Garden
The Better Life
I Gave You My Hair Doo
Tomorrow Wendy
I Take the Money and Run
Fighting for the Wheel

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Empty Room

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Spy world

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Hollywood The Second Time

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Lost Weekend: The Best of Wall of Voodoo

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Back in flesh

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Back In The Laundromat

by Wall Of Voodoo
Joanne

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Love Is A Happy Thing

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Elvis Bought Dora A Cadillac

by Wall Of Voodoo
Me and my dad

by Wall Of Voodoo
Big City

by Wall Of Voodoo
Blackboard Sky

by Wall Of Voodoo
Call box (1-2-3)

by Wall Of Voodoo
Do It Again

by Wall Of Voodoo
(don't Spill My)courage

by Wall Of Voodoo
Can't Make Love

by Wall Of Voodoo
Dark As A Dungeon

by Wall Of Voodoo
Mexican Radio

by Wall Of Voodoo
Far Side Of Crazy

by Wall Of Voodoo
A'int My Day

by Wall Of Voodoo
Longarm

by Wall Of Voodoo
Longarm (Live)

by Wall Of Voodoo
The Chains Of Luck

by Wall Of Voodoo
The Ugly Americans In Australia

by Wall Of Voodoo
Good Times

by Wall Of Voodoo
Country Of Man

by Wall Of Voodoo
Ring Of Fire

by Wall Of Voodoo
Room With A View

by Wall Of Voodoo
Hands of love

by Wall Of Voodoo
Full of tension

by Wall Of Voodoo
Factory

by Wall Of Voodoo
Crack the bell

by Wall Of Voodoo
When The Lights Go Out

by Wall Of Voodoo
This way out

by Wall Of Voodoo
Wall Of Voodoo

by Wall Of Voodoo
The Index Masters

by Wall Of Voodoo
Invisible Man

by Wall Of Voodoo
Happy Planet

by Wall Of Voodoo
Tragic Vaudeville

by Wall Of Voodoo
Look at their way

by Wall Of Voodoo
This Business Of Love

by Wall Of Voodoo
Seven Days In Sammystown

by Wall Of Voodoo
Lost Weekend

by Wall Of Voodoo
Tomorrow

by Wall Of Voodoo
End Of An Era

by Wall Of Voodoo
Museums

by Wall Of Voodoo
Two minutes till lunch

by Wall Of Voodoo
The Passenger

by Wall Of Voodoo
Red Light

by Wall Of Voodoo

Empty Room

by: Wall Of Voodoo

it's the human thing to do
On this life-like stage,
we act a play,
well that's so human too
Why don't you drink
from my ruby red glass?
Why don't you drink
from my ruby glass?
An unlit corner
in the world alone...
what shall we do?
Now I'm thinking less
of pain and lies
and I'm thinking more of you...
And I'm thinking more of you...
The empty room-
upon a black floor
come on and fill this glass.
Forget this life
and lock the door.
Give me violets
and vine tonight.
From this night on
we'll be alright
'til empty falls the ruby glass
I'm thinking less,
but I'm thinking more of you
thinking more of you,
thinking more of you.
Life is short,
and you're the sort that
turns a night into a year...
Silently call me close,
say it's the same for you
Why don't you drink
from my ruby red glass?
Why don't you drink
from my ruby glass?
The empty room-
upon a black floor
Give me violets
and vine tonight.
From this night on
we'll be alright
'til empty falls
the ruby glass
I'm thinking less,
but I'm thinking more of you
thinking more of you,