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WALL OF VOODOO

Best known for their alternative radio classic "Mexican Radio," Wall of Voodoo formed 

in Los Angeles in 1977, originally as a soundtrack company. Led by singer/songwriter 

Stan Ridgway and rounded out by guitarist Marc Moreland, bassist/keyboardist Bruce Moreland, 

keyboardist Chas Gray, and drummer Joe Nanini, the group issued its self-titled debut EP 

in 1980. With the additions of bassist Bruce Moreland and his brother Marc on guitar 

(replacing Noland), the band's sound crystallized on 1981's full-length Dark Continent, 

which couched Ridgway's highly stylized and cinematic narratives -- heavily influenced 

by Westerns and film noir, and sung in the vocalist's distinctively droll, narcoleptic manner, 

in atonal, electronically based settings. In 1982, following the exit of Bruce Moreland, 

Wall of Voodoo released Call of the West, which featured "Mexican Radio," 

their biggest hit. After an appearance at the 1983 US Festival, 

Ridgway left the group for a solo career

"CALL OF THE WEST"

1982    LP     I.R.S. RECORDS    SP 07026  

PRINTED IN U.S.A.    ORIGINAL PRESSING

SINGLE COVER + INNER SLEEVE

HEAVY CARDBOARD COVER

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL: I.R.S. - GRAY (SILVER) LABEL* w/LOGO on BOTTOM - PURPLE & BLACK TEXT

*Label variant with different design exist

Catalog on cover: (spine) SP-70026    (rear) SP 70026

Catalog on labels: sp-70026 (0-70026-a) (b) / sp-70026 (0-70026-b) (b)

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): AM1R SP 070026-A ES2• • ? II  II (TODAY HAS BEEN A LONESOME DAY)

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): AM1R SP0-70026-B II ES2 EMW

On labels: all songs by wall of voodoo

published by big talk music (bmi)

produced by richard mazda

engineered by jess sutcliffe

? 1982 irs records, inc.

Manufactured and distributed by A&M Records, Inc.

On Back Cover: ©1982 International Record Syndicate, Inc.

Manufactured and distributed by A&M Records.....

tracklisting

Side A: TOMORROW - LOST WEEKEND

FACTORY - LOOK AT THEIR WAY - HANDS OF LOVE

Side B: MEXICAN RADIO - SPY WORLD - THEY DON'T WANT ME

ON INTERSTATE 15 - CALL OF THE WEST

  grading

RECORD NEAR EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)

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 frontman Stan Ridgway's songs 

were Americana at it's 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...(AllMusic)