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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. 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 /TiVo
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Paul McKenna, Producer - Wall Of Voodoo, Producer, MainArtist - Stanard Q. Ridgway, ComposerLyricist - Jim Hill, Producer
℗ 1981 A&M Records
Richard Mazda, Producer - Wall Of Voodoo, MainArtist - Stanard Q. Ridgway, ComposerLyricist - Chas T. Gray, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1982 A&M Records
Richard Mazda, Producer - Wall Of Voodoo, MainArtist - Stan Ridgway, ComposerLyricist - Marc Moreland, ComposerLyricist - Chas T. Gray, ComposerLyricist - Oliver Joe Nanini Jr, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1982 A&M Records
Richard Mazda, Producer - Wall Of Voodoo, MainArtist - Stan Ridgway, ComposerLyricist - Marc Moreland, ComposerLyricist - Chas T. Gray, ComposerLyricist - Oliver Joe Nanini Jr, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1982 A&M Records
Richard Mazda, Producer - Wall Of Voodoo, MainArtist - Stan Ridgway, ComposerLyricist - Marc Moreland, ComposerLyricist - Chas T. Gray, ComposerLyricist - Oliver Joe Nanini Jr, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1982 A&M Records
Richard Mazda, Producer - Wall Of Voodoo, MainArtist - Marc Moreland, ComposerLyricist - Stanard Q. Ridgway, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1982 A&M Records
Richard Mazda, Producer - Wall Of Voodoo, MainArtist - Stan Ridgway, ComposerLyricist - Marc Moreland, ComposerLyricist - Chas T. Gray, ComposerLyricist - Oliver Joe Nanini Jr, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1982 A&M Records
Richard Mazda, Producer - Wall Of Voodoo, MainArtist - Stan Ridgway, ComposerLyricist - Marc Moreland, ComposerLyricist - Chas T. Gray, ComposerLyricist - Oliver Joe Nanini Jr, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1982 A&M Records
Richard Mazda, Producer - Wall Of Voodoo, MainArtist - Stanard Q. Ridgway, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1982 A&M Records
Bruce Moreland, ComposerLyricist - Richard Mazda, Producer - Wall Of Voodoo, MainArtist - Stanard Q. Ridgway, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1982 A&M Records
Presentación del Álbum
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. 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 /TiVo
Acerca del álbum
- 1 disco(s) - 10 pista(s)
- Duración total: 00:40:46
- Artistas principales: Wall Of Voodoo
- Compositor: Various Composers
- Sello: A&M
- Género Pop/Rock Rock
© 1982 International Records Syndicate Inc. ℗ 1982 International Records Syndicate Inc.
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