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Combining Film Scores And Pop Rock, Wall Of Voodoo Was Not Just A One-Hit Wonder
NPR ^ | April 9, 2020

Posted on 04/10/2020 11:24:04 AM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 04/10/2020 11:24:04 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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"Mexican Radio" is one of those ear-worm songs that are hard to get out of your head.

I wish I was in Tia-juana
Eating barbequed iguana

Great lyrics!

2 posted on 04/10/2020 11:31:42 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (A New Yorker died every 1.8 minutes of Chinese Virus over the past 24 hours)
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The entire album Call of the West is really good. Also other stuff he did solo very good as well. Music was so much better then.


3 posted on 04/10/2020 11:35:01 AM PDT by PlateOfShrimp (c)
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Beat me to it. I always remember that lyric, and the singer’s head emerging from the bowl of beans in the video.

No comprendo, just what does he say?


4 posted on 04/10/2020 11:35:52 AM PDT by VA_Gentleman ("Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very internet you invented." -Jon Stewart)
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Camouflage is a great song.

He also worked with Stewart Copeland on some tracks.


5 posted on 04/10/2020 11:36:31 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Social Distortion did the best cover of “Ring of Fire”, ever.


6 posted on 04/10/2020 11:37:50 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Camouflage and Don’t Fence Me In were awesome!


7 posted on 04/10/2020 11:40:29 AM PDT by PlateOfShrimp (c)
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Sorry, all the songs they mentioned are OK, but the undiscovered masterpiece is “Don’t Spill My Courage.”

“prove to your viewers what a man can lose,
you got the wrath of God and reason confused


8 posted on 04/10/2020 11:42:41 AM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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Drive, She Said, is another great song.

I thought of him kind of as a new wave Harry Chapin.


9 posted on 04/10/2020 11:43:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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ridgeway (wall of voodoo), elfman, (oingo boingo) and mothersbaugh (devo)


10 posted on 04/10/2020 11:43:31 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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especially when you are in the desert listening to it on real mexican radio!


11 posted on 04/10/2020 11:45:31 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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WoV was a fantastic band. They were even good after Stan left. And Stan has remained brilliant throughout. Great music. Nice guy too. Likes to hang out after his shows.


12 posted on 04/10/2020 11:45:44 AM PDT by discostu (I know that's a bummer baby, but it's got precious little to do with me)
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Love social D


13 posted on 04/10/2020 11:46:44 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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Stan Ridgeway--The Big Heat

"You gotta watch the ones who always keep their hands clean..."

14 posted on 04/10/2020 11:51:21 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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from the rock world, very haunting film score..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM3Vw0-I0BA&feature=emb_logo


15 posted on 04/10/2020 11:52:03 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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Also not one hit wonders:

Wang Chung
Kajagoogoo
Thomas Dolby
Modern English
Musical Youth
Flock of Seagulls
A-ha
Naked Eyes
and ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ


16 posted on 04/10/2020 12:04:15 PM PDT by cdcdawg ("Americanism, not Globalism, will be our credo." DJT 2016)
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The Big Heat is one of my go-to favorite long drive albums


17 posted on 04/10/2020 12:05:45 PM PDT by AzSteven ("War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." Jean Dutourd)
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Seven Days in Sammystown beats seven weeks in quarantine, anyone who says otherwise is on the far side of crazy...


18 posted on 04/10/2020 12:08:30 PM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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Just don’t eat those pop rocks with Coke or you’ll explode.

[saw wall of voodoo back in 1980. They opened for either Adam and the Ants or Gang of Four, can’t remember which. I Had their first ep - the one with Ring of Fire.]


19 posted on 04/10/2020 12:11:53 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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"...Wall of Voodoo back in 1980. They opened for either Adam and the Ants or Gang of Four..."

Man, there were so many good bands doing original, totally different stuff back then - it was like the wild west of music

20 posted on 04/10/2020 12:18:57 PM PDT by Psalm 73
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