Headed back the eighties, to a scrappy little band from L.A. Mixing noirish subject matter and twangy snappish new wave mannerisms. Lead singer nasal, like a henchman with a musical career. It's a quirky early MTV favorite. All you probably remember is the face coming out the beans. Fair enough.

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You could have pretty boy keyboard bands, your big time Madonnas and Michael Jacksons, but the foundation of MTV was one off, quirk-tastic bands with a unique you gotta see this thing video and at least one really really stuck in your membrane for days kinda song. And that was Wall Of Voodoo. Radio-oh. radio-oh.

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Cheap suits. Lead singer Stan singing out the side of his mouth. Grainy footage and roadside iguanas. Ya gotta love the level of grime and grit the video wears. Even weirder coming out of your television in the middle of the afternoon after school. Ah, MTV, you were a weird window on a bizarre world. 1983 the year for this one, charting only at 58 in the U.S. but a bigger hit elsewhere in the world. The song inspired by listening to the "border blasters" stations blasting at unregulated, ridiculous wattages out of Mexico, a place where going out to the transmitter meant possible run-ins with banditos and various unsavory types. Stions like XERF and XERB.

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The band in this configuration didn't last long, members Stan Ridgeway and Marc Moreland going on to under the radar, equally quirky singer/songwriter careers, especially Ridgeway, whose album "Mosquitos" I would run away from home with if it were a woman. A dark, seedy, fatalistically ruined disaster of a women.  Viva Ridgeway. And that is enough for us to crown this your-

  -K-101.7 Song Of The Day.

P.S: Ridgeway worked with Stewart Copeland on music for the movie Rumblefish. Therefore let us learn more about the Police right HERE!

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