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Spending my middle school years listening to 96.7 WLUV "THE HEAT" FM was often a mistake. Particularly during the weekdays. But on Friday and Saturday nights, for an hour or two, semi-amateur DJ Mark Snodgrass came on, somehow having the only live, locally-broadcast show on this satellite radio network. And from what I recall, he often opened with a quirky, 80s synth-heavy (but not in the overproduced Duran Duran way) track called "Mexican Radio". After some time, in early high school years, I played with one of those computers at Best Buy, plugged the track name in, and found out it came from Wall of Voodoo - Call of the West -- which, surprisingly, Best Buy had a copy of in stock. So, this is another album that takes me back to my high school years, an album that came into existence the same time as the last band you forced me to listen to was just getting their start. Outside of the "hit" mentioned above, the rest of the album takes a moody and dated feel. Not that being dated makes it bad -- just that you immediately realize it was recorded in the early 80s. Maybe I didn't listen to a lot of this kind of music, but it certainly seems to me that this album is one of the greats in its style. The spaghetti western tendencies in tracks like "Spy World" and "Look At Their Way" is very interesting, and songs like "Factory" and "Lost Weekend" have not left my head in the decade or more since I first heard them. And, of course, "Mexican Radio" is a fucking classic.
As always, if you decide to download the record from the link above, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.
As always, if you decide to download the record from the link above, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.