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WALL OF VOODOO
Indie / Big Beat / Experimental

"" You'll hear the drums and the brush of steel..""

Los Angeles,
United States

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Member Since10/25/2005
Band MembersWall Of Voodoo "Mexican Radio" / Stan Ridgway vcs / Marc Moreland guitar / Chas T. Gray keys / Joe Nanini / perc. and drums / dir. by Francis Delia and Wall Of Voodoo 1982
InfluencesEnnio Morricone, Kraftwerk, Twilight Zone TV from the 60's, Outer Limits TV, Henry Miller, Howlin' Wolf, Van Der Graff Generator etc.

Sounds Like"Call Of The West" / 688 Club / 1982

"It's been 25 years since L.A.'s seminal Wall of Voodoo released Call of the West, and that calls for a drink. The album's dusty, Barstow-to-Bakersfield, Ross Macdonald-meets-Edward G. Ulmer in a Death Valley Detour to nowheresville title track and grimly optimistic film noir narratives still reverberate across the musical Route 66 Voodoo frontman Stan Ridgway paved, roadkill and all. It's the closest musical approximation yet of that hardscrabble, postwar, westward wanderlust to rush headlong into the unknown, "And above all to get a fair shake, to get a piece of the rock, a slice of the pie, to spit out the window of your car and not have the wind blow it back in your face ... ." Ridgway's post-Wall of Voodoo output has, if anything, cemented his neo-noir rep as one of American music's great storytellers, the wild and wily Steinbeck of sad whiskey railroads and rusted, ramshackle American dreams." - Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle

"Factory" - 688 Club - Atlanta GA - 1983

Though they found their fortunes intertwined in a punk/new wave/MTV marketing sensibility that typically confused style with substance, L.A.'s Wall of Voodoo was musically rooted in a distinctly different, often more compelling late '70s art rock ethos. Anchored by the stark, angular rhythms of the late Marc Moreland's guitar and singer/chief songwriter Stan Ridgway's sly sideshow barker vocal antics, this re-release of the band's debut 1980 EP (supplemented with raw, exemplary live tracks recorded at UC Riverside in '79) now seems more prophetic industrial music template than quirky new wave tract. If legend says their ominous, synth-drone take on Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" may have originally been intended elsewhere (WOV began as low-budget soundtrack collective), tracks like "Longarm" and "Can't Make Love" crackle with anxious energy and wit; small wonder Ridgway occasionally revisits them with success in his contemporary incarnation as acoustic singer/songwriter. The live tracks further showcase the band's cinematic bent via a medley of Morricone's main title for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Frontiere's Hang 'Em High theme, as well as offering up early versions of songs from Dark Continent and their 1982 classic, Call of the West. - Jerry McCully_ Amazon.com

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Type of LabelIndie




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"Call Of The West" - Wall Of Voodoo

Wall of Voodoo's second full-length album, Call of the West, was a noticeably more approachable work than their debut, Dark Continent, and it even scored a fluke hit single, "Mexican Radio," a loopy little number about puzzled American tourists that's easily the catchiest thing on the album. But while Wall of Voodoo's textures had gotten a bit less abrasive with time, the band's oddball minor-key approach was still a long way from synth pop, and the band's and frontman Stan Ridgway's songs were Americana at its darkest and least forgiving, full of tales of ordinary folks with little in the way of hopes or dreams, getting by on illusions that seem more like a willful denial of the truth the closer you get to them. There's a quiet tragedy in the ruined suburbanites of "Lost Weekend" and the emotionally stranded working stiff of "Factory," and the title song, which follows some Middle American sad sack as he chases a vague and hopeless dream in California, is as close as pop music has gotten to capturing the bitter chaos of the final chapter of Nathaniel West's The Day of the Locust. In other words, anyone who bought Call of the West figuring it would feature another nine off-kilter pop tunes like "Mexican Radio" probably recoiled in horror by the time they got to the end of side two. But there's an intelligence and wounded compassion in the album's gallery of lost souls, and there's enough bite in the music that it remains satisfying two decades on. Call of the West is that rare example of a new wave band scoring a fluke success with what was also their most satisfying album. - Mark Deming, All Music Guide


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Jun 25 2008 8:44 PM

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Jun 25 2008 9:07 PM

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Jun 26 2008 11:18 AM

Bat-Cave U for adding... :) Amazing unique sounds... I have to get more Wall of Voodoo's music! Cheers from Bat-Cave. pl webzine Staff...
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Jun 25 2008 3:06 AM

Hello guys
really great sounds
love all
All the best and much love
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Jun 25 2008 3:38 AM

thanks so much for the add (and for inspiration).
take care.
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Jun 17 2008 7:43 PM

Just stopping by to say Hi I Hope that all is well with you and everything's going great..
Stay positive, productive & purpose driven.

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Jun 18 2008 9:48 AM

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Jun 19 2008 4:09 AM

Cheers for the add. Your music sounds brilliant! Love WOV in all it's incarnations. All the best to Stan, Andy, RM and the boys. My best to you all!
Don't forget to drop by for a listen.

Take care.
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Jun 19 2008 6:50 AM

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Jun 21 2008 11:10 PM

HEY!!!HAVE A ROCKIN WEEK!!!PEACE LOVE & RESPECT:):):)80s-ROCK=)
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Jun 22 2008 8:51 AM

Hi Guys,
Just picked up the Index Masters. Wow it brings back so many great memories of seeing you play all over LA in 1980- 82. I saw you when ever I could.
Thanks for everything!!
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Jun 23 2008 5:11 AM

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Release: June 16th, 2008

'Another Deal' is the first single from the forthcoming Palace Of Pleasure album, scheduled for release in August/September 2008.

The single will be available as download only (iTunes etc.), but you can download it for free for a limited period at:
www. myspace. com/palaceofpleasure

Yes, I managed to miss the release of the first PoP single since I joined the band (and my first single release ever!), but that's what happens when you're in the middle of the north Atlantic, running around in viking clothes. Anyway, I hope you'll follow my belated advice and check out our new tune. Download it for free and start dancing! :D

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Jun 23 2008 8:23 AM

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Jun 24 2008 5:23 AM

thanks for the add! So glad you're still out there and making music xx
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Jun 17 2008 3:49 AM

Hi to all the WOV's

I have always been a BIG fan of all your music!

Cheers for the add.

Don't forget to drop by for a listen.

Take care.
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Apr 22 2008 5:39 PM

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