Always loved Stan Ridgway and Wall of Voodoo. Here is one of my favorites:
I also always loved this one:
And, of course, there is the quintessential Wall of Voodoo song:
I have a very eclectic taste in music, I know, but I have spent many hundreds of hours listening to Ridgway.
taylormattd
Youtube is the best thing that ever happened to drinking.
Joel
Reading the thread about the middle east was giving me a headache.
+4
Alison
I’ve got an ad on this page for chocolate Frosted Flakes cereal.
Jesus crap. Why don’t you just have a stent put in leading directly to your aorta and pour in some rubber cement. Ugh.
AnotherBruce
I’m kind of partial to Ridgway myself. “Southbound” is another good one.
JCT
Mexican Radio!
And I am drunk too – one too many margaritas tonight. Good lord the chair of my dept pours a mean drink.
Maude
@Joel:
It started going in circles. Put one hand on the wall and the opposite foot on the floor. The room should stop spinning or you’ll throw up.
RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist
Saw WoV in East Lansing at Dooleys (horrid college beerhole for those of you unfamiliar) back in the ’80s. They were great.
RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist
I can’t sleep. Insomnia blows. Don’t know whether to lie down or play more records so I’m harassing old friends on FB as a compromise. Maybe I should break out the Johnnie Walker & see if that works but that seems so degenerate.
RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist
Since it’s 3:00 am here, a very weird hour, here’s a respected English folk rocker doing an acoustic version of Oops I Did it Again.
It rocks.
jon
I’m still amazed I haven’t seen this movie, though I loved this song from the first few notes.
Eric the Infrequent
Well Cole, I owe you a beer for that Ring of Fire rendition, even if the video posted shit itself at about two and a half minutes on both my devices. Weird that despite loving Mexican Radio when it played on a radio station from my days of yore, I never thought of exploring further into Wall of Voodoo in this day and age.
platosearwax
I saw Ridgway just last spring in Norway, where I live. It was the fourth time I have seen him live and he was as good as ever.
Dennis SGMM
Trying to decide whether or not to pay the, to me, insanely high price of a ticket to see Peter Gabriel at the Hollywood Bowl on October 6th.
max
I’ll throwback Ridgway’s ‘Can’t Complain’, particularly since Southbound already got mentioned.
max
[‘That’s *my* favorite Ridgway record.’]
Billy
Huge Ridgway fan. Call of the West is a fantastic recording from a largely unappreciated band (Wall of Voodoo).
This is a fairly recent song from Stan sort of an abbreviated autobiography of Wall of Voodoo, it’s brilliant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUEzHQhydpo
Jack Canuck
Stan Ridgway is fantastic. I’d have to go for Overlords as my favourite track.
Antonius
“Mosquitoes” is still my favorite album, with “Mission in Life” my favorite track. I saw him live in North Hampton MA, years ago, and when we were talking afterward he was in a mood to sign things. Since I didn’t happen to have a CD with me, he snatched my take-out paper dinner bag from hands and signed it. I cut out the square of paper and keep it in the CD case.
Davebo
Face it John (and others) you’re just really freaking old.
And when a 48 year old married for 23 years calls you old. You’re really really freaking old.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that…. Is there a Law and Order rerun on? Oh well, I have all seven seasons of The West Wing on DVD so I have that going for me.
thalarctos
One of my Ridgway faves is him performing Cannon Song from “Threepenny Opera.”
RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist
@Davebo:
Face it? I embrace that, and I’m 5 years older than you. I have records that I bought new in the sixties and CDs of new bands that came in the mail last week. A broad range of music appreciations means you’re not stuck with what happens to be popular at the moment.
The Red Pen
I also really liked Ridgeway’s Southbound.
Tom The First
@jon
I was going to post that. The Rumble Fish soundtrack is one of my favorites.
Tom The First
P.S. The movie is great. Young Diane Lane. Plus Mickey Rourke, Dennis Hopper and Nick Cage… must have had some interesting cast parties.
RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist
@Tom The First:
I had forgotten about Rumble Fish until I read Stewart Copeland’s book last summer. Tom Waits was in that as well. Don’t Box Me In got decent play on college radio back in ’83.
Ivan X
I never got to see WoV with Ridgway, but I was a fan, and I’m one of the few who also liked the Andy Prieboy albums, and saw that configuration perform once (they were awesome).
I finally got to see Ridgway perform a couple of years ago here in NY and he was amazing and moving and exciting. There is something just so evocative about WoV’s music — Call of the West, Back in Flesh, Can’t Make Love all, in words and music, speak so poetically to the alienation lurking behind the American dream (and I think that they unexpectedly managed to continue that spirit on the post-Ridgway records too).
I never got into the Ridgway solo albums as much — I still think he’s a hell of a songwriter but the music wasn’t as sonically and rhythmically compelling to me.
Also, if you haven’t seen it, get Urgh! A Music War for a great performance of Back in Flesh along with others from countless essential bands from 79-82. You can buy it from WB Archive’s web site as a DVD-R, well worth it.
Bob In Portland
Andy Prieboy, “Take Her Where The Boys Are”. I woke up in my old black t-shirt.
biggles
I liked this one when I was more childlike.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bhAHKKLbwQ
PoliticalHack
This is great fodder for a Youtube Rabbit Hole trip. You know, where you watch a video, then watch one of the related videos, then another related video, then another…..
Three hours later, you emerge and wonder where you’ve been.
kindness
I looked at this and thought ‘Oh shit! John is drinking EARLY!’. But no, it looks like you were just still up last night. You go John!
pawprint
So, Cole. If you don’t already know it, check out Stan Ridgeway’s version of Brecht & Weil’s “Cannon Song.” It’s on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcmMmHQU8cg