Album Info

Call of the West

By Wall of Voodoo

Rock - 1982

Wall of Voodoo's second album, Call of the West, will forever be linked with its hit single "Mexican Radio": a... more

Tracklist

1

Tomorrow

3:03 min
2

Lost Weekend

4:58 min
3

Factory

5:33 min
4

Look At Their Way

3:18 min
5

Hands of Love

3:52 min
6

Mexican Radio

--:-- min
7

Spy World

2:40 min
8

They Don't Want Me

4:31 min
9

On Interstate 15

2:44 min
10

Call of the West

5:59 min

About Call of the West

Wall of Voodoo's second album, Call of the West, will forever be linked with its hit single "Mexican Radio": a winningly woozy trip south of the border and one of the new wave era's defining tunes. But there's a lot more to this record. The moody "Lost Weekend" feels as much like an Elmore Leonard story as a pop song, and if David Lynch ever directed a western, the title track could be its theme. And while there's an abundance of synth riffs and drum machines (it was the '80s, after all), guitarist Marc Moreland's desert-dry licks lend the whole thing an Ennio Morricone–style spaghetti western edge that helped set the band apart from the synth-pop pack.