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WALL OF VOODOO – CALL OF THE WEST”” –
ORIGINAL 10-TRACK LP  COMES WITH ORIGINAL INNER PICTURE / LYRIC SLEEVE.

Call of the West is a 1983 album by Los Angeles New Wave band Wall of Voodoo. “”Mexican Radio”” was released as a single (as well as a video that received moderate airplay on MTV), and is the group most well-known song.

All music composed by Wall of Voodoo.

Stan Ridgway – lead vocals, harmonica, keyboards
Marc Moreland – 6- and 12-string guitars
Joe Nanini – drums, percussion, spoken voice
Chas T. Gray – synthesizer, bass, melodica, backing vocals
with:
Richard Mazda – bass
Louis Rivera – percussion

Label: Illegal Records ‎ I.R.S. Records ‎– ILP 25167, I.R.S. Records ‎– 25167, Illegal Records– ILP 25167
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:  Europe
Released: 1982
Genre: Rock
Tracklist
A1 Tomorrow 3:03
A2 Lost Weekend 5:00
A3 Factory 5:15
A4 Look At Their Way 3:18
A5 Hands Of Love 3:53
B1 Mexican Radio 4:09
B2 Spy World 2:40
B3 They Don’t Want Me 4:31
B4 On Interstate 15 2:43
B5 Call Of The West 6:00

Bass, Backing Vocals, Synthesizer – Chas T. Gray
Drums, Percussion, Vocals – Joe Nanini
Guitar [6 And 12 String] – Marc Moreland
Harmonica, Keyboards, Vocals – Stanard Ridgway*
Percussion [Additional] – Louie Rivera
Producer, Bass [Additional], Drum Programming [Additional Rhythm Machine] – Richard Mazda
Written-By – Wall Of Voodoo

Recorded June 1982 at Hit City, Los Angeles, Calif.

Printed inner sleeve with lyrics and notes.

On labels:
℗ 1982 I.R.S., Inc.
MADE IN HOLLAND

On back sleeve:
Printed in Holland
(P)(C) 1982 I.R.S. Records, Inc. / Distributed by CBS Records / Printed in Holland.

Cat# appears as ILLEGAL RECORDS ILP 25167 on spine and labels and as 25167 on back cover and inner sleeve.

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“Mexican Radio” is a song written and performed by the band Wall of Voodoo, and produced by Richard Mazda. Was on their 1982 album Call of the West, and was released as a single in early 1983. In their native US, the song wasn’t much of a success, peaking at no. 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.  It did better in other parts of the world, peaking at no. 18 in Canada, no. 21 in New Zealand and no. 33 in Australia, no. 64 in the UK.
Background:
Wall of Voodoo lead singer and player of organ, synthesizer and harmonica, Stan Ridgway and guitarist Marc Moreland traced the inspiration for the song to listening to high-wattage unregulated AM Mexican radio stations (among them XERF, XEG, and XERB).
Moreland was the first to begin writing the song, which in a recorded interview in the 1990s he stated, “It was basically just me singing ‘I’m on a Mexican radio’ over and over again”. Moreland stated when he played it for his mother she hated it because of his repetitious lyrics. Ridgway co-wrote with Moreland to finish the song, and added all the verse’s lyrics to Moreland’s chorus and guitar lick as well as the “mariachi” harmonica melody in the song’s middle breakdown. When performing live with Wall of Voodoo, Ridgway usually played the mariachi melody via an organ/synthesizer and Bill Noland used a synthesizer to play the melody when performing with Wall of Voodoo in the 1982–1983 years.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Music from a scary desert.,
The band that should have been the biggest thing ever.
Amazing song writing, musically, ordered chaos, but done so skilfully it sounded perfect.
Listen to this and find where the eighties could have gone so much better, no twee-ness, no gloss, no right on politics.
My own perfect personal musical moment came when listening to this on a hot dusty road in Spain one night while scorpions scuttled across.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Most interesting ‘indie’ record of the 80s,
Much of what came out of the 80 now sounds tired and dated, especially the synth burblings of Yazoo, Howard Jones and their ilk, glam pop and most of all, ‘indie’. A few recordings have made it through the decades and still sound fresh, largely because they were pretty off-kilter and out of vogue in the first place. Along with the Associates and Its Immaterial WoV were the most interesting and unusual by a long chalk. ‘Call of the West’ is a a terrific mutation of ‘Twin Peaks’/’6 foot under’/’Paris Texas’ weird-out Americana with twangy guitars, spooky harmonica, programmed drum beats, keyboard driven melodies and Stan Ridgeway twisted vocals. Highlights are ‘Mexican Radio’ – the best ‘indie’ single of the 80, ‘They don’t want me’ and ‘On Interstate 15’.
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5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful,
THIS IS ACTUALLY ONE OF TWO ALBUMS FEATURING STAN RIDGWAY, AND IS BRILLIANT FROM START TO FINISH.CERTAINLY ONE OF THE BEST BANDS EVER,AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN MASSIVE.

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