It's sorta amazing that no one's thought to post this out of print monster somewhere in the music blogosphere before, but then Wall Of Voodoo have always been a pathetically misunderstood and underrated band, whose early MTV-generated fame gave the impression of a new wave novelty act, which completely belies their origins, their intent and their absolute musical singularity (Ennio Morricone meets Kraftwerk after a trawl through the bowels of L.A.'s synth punk underground).
Few realize that before MTV, Ridgeway and co. were a fixture of L.A. art punk fringe, frequently gigging and jamming together with synth punk titans Nervous Gender, and that their monster ace-in-the-hole percussionist Joe Nanini had previously been a member of Black Randy's Metrosquad.
This debut EP captures them at a screaming peak of originality, never more so than on their bleak, severe and searing cover of Johnny Cash's Ring Of Fire.
Ring Of Fire is surely great yet songs like the passenger and longarm are great too. whole LP GREAT! It WILL LIVE ON!
a classic.
The six songs included were "Longarm", "The Passenger", "Can't Make Love", "Struggle", "Ring Of Fire" and "Granma's House".
get it.(the fileshare may be busy so just come back after a while and try again)
via mutant sounds
Also; WALL OF VOODOO-RING OF FIRE (REMIX)/THE MORRICONE THEMES (LIVE), 12", 1982 (RECORDED: 1980) + TWO SONGS BY WALL OF VOODOO, 12", 1982, USA
_the+morricone+themes+(live)-12inch-rear+copy.JPG.jpeg)
More info and get here.
It's sorta amazing that no one's thought to post this out of print monster somewhere in the music blogosphere before, but then Wall Of Voodoo have always been a pathetically misunderstood and underrated band, whose early MTV-generated fame gave the impression of a new wave novelty act, which completely belies their origins, their intent and their absolute musical singularity (Ennio Morricone meets Kraftwerk after a trawl through the bowels of L.A.'s synth punk underground).
Few realize that before MTV, Ridgeway and co. were a fixture of L.A. art punk fringe, frequently gigging and jamming together with synth punk titans Nervous Gender, and that their monster ace-in-the-hole percussionist Joe Nanini had previously been a member of Black Randy's Metrosquad.
This debut EP captures them at a screaming peak of originality, never more so than on their bleak, severe and searing cover of Johnny Cash's Ring Of Fire.
Ring Of Fire is surely great yet songs like the passenger and longarm are great too. whole LP GREAT! It WILL LIVE ON!
a classic.
The six songs included were "Longarm", "The Passenger", "Can't Make Love", "Struggle", "Ring Of Fire" and "Granma's House".
get it.(the fileshare may be busy so just come back after a while and try again)
via mutant sounds
Also; WALL OF VOODOO-RING OF FIRE (REMIX)/THE MORRICONE THEMES (LIVE), 12", 1982 (RECORDED: 1980) + TWO SONGS BY WALL OF VOODOO, 12", 1982, USA
_the+morricone+themes+(live)-12inch-rear+copy.JPG.jpeg)
More info and get here.
