Wall Of Voodoo - Mexican Radio

[@dons123111]

We in small towns across America couldn't get rock and roll stations during the day. At night Mexican radio stations blasted 50,000 watts towards us and that's how we got our rock and roll. So when this was released in 83 with New Wave it was an instant hit to millions of 20 something year olds who lived by Mexican Radio.

[@patwaters3486]

I heard it on the X.

[@auerstadt06]

Border blasters

[@rickr949]

I actually lived in Mexico in the state of Aguascalientes in the 80s and would listen to American radio stations late at night.

[@klimtklavier]

Add ZZ Top's "I Heard It On The X" to the story of Mexican radio stations that played a lot of blues and no programming.

[@familyofficebookclub4741]

What a great story! I lived in Milwaukee so was too far out of range for that.

[@Ben-ql1hf]

Loved this tune when I was 13...still love it at 54.

[@EGYPTIANQUEEN-p5b]

Same

[@robertvose7310]

me too- now 58

[@shane.jestin7292]

I still love it at 70

[@oliverheidelberg]

The 80’s had a great variety of music. These guys were talented!

[@Patrick-t6f]

Man I love ...Don't Box Me In.....motorcycle boy lives!

[@michaelt.wardlespider2496]

Songs like this were why I loved what MTV started out as... None of my local stations played such eclectic music. "Wish I was in Tijuana eating barbecued iguana." What a line.

[@at1970]

Compare this or say a ZZ Top video with the crap on MTV now. Pathetic.

[@SpecialOrder935]

Mini warriors cover is better

[@maskcollector6949]

@@SpecialOrder935 That's why it's not even uploaded on youtube xD lmao

[@SpecialOrder935]

@@maskcollector6949 Lol yeah it is asshole you just don’t know the name of the band LMAO

[@ketcherinthery5079]

Authority Zero cover is better@@SpecialOrder935

[@java8368]

Love it. I met my husband when this came out. We're old now. Our son is a grown man, and we all love rock n roll.

[@JohnPatterson-kz8jr]

Put Another Dime in The Jukebox Baby!!😢😮😅😊

[@STARMAN-OK]

this is not rock n roll, this is 80s pop

[@FrankBarnwell-xi8my]

Screw old

[@FrankBarnwell-xi8my]

​@@STARMAN-OKit rock, it rolls. It has iguana

[@JasonCoker-k4o]

❤

[@maxxlindley9425]

its 2023 , i'm 67 and this song has still got it

[@felixluisocasio8948]

I'm 56, hear it in Night Tracks at night thru WTBS Atlanta!

[@kylepowell_sbs1653]

I'm 21 and love this got any other goodies

[@kelinbbadmoss]

Hmmm

[@scotthartley5386]

71 and still loving it

[@GCanCV]

I'm just about 69, and totally agree

[@JDGothard]

What a fun video to work on! I was in my early 20's and we shot some of this video out of the back of my Volvo stationwagon. We really had fun in Tijuana...what a blast. These guys were terrific to work with, and their music is still fun TODAY. Love to show these old 80's MTV videos to my kids (now they know why I am crazy)

[@treygreen7302]

Great job with this! THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK!

[@MajorChernobaev-w9i]

Did you eat BBQ-ed iguana? :)

[@that_renegade_screenwriter]

Ok, boomer LOL. JK my dude. I'm amazed how this song is considered a one hit wonder. Must have been a cool experience working on the music video.

[@johnnygnoneeded]

Cool beans!! Great video and a great tune!

[@Tangento]

Dude, you are my new friggin hero lol. Following Marc Moreland's death (which followed that of Joe Nanini) back in around 2003, I resurrected the Dog's Life Wall of Voodoo Fan Club, simply because these fans are a special breed, and this band has never been properly appreciated. Well, after we made to well over 100 members and had some real momentum going, Rock.com went belly up, and as their server crashed, our entire database and address book was wiped out. I literally had no way to contact anyone, and... such is the tragedy of both life and Wall of Voodoo. FWIW, we are still slowly rebuilding Dog's Life, and the (outdated, in need of attention) page can be found: www.tangento.net/GrampasHouse.html If enough people show up again, I'll fix it up all nice & modern :) I suppose I ought to post most of this in its own, if I want any action lol.

[@SteveSteeleSoundSymphony]

I’ve never tired of this song. It’s so catchy. Wall of Voodoo and Adam Ant are great.

[@kantstenchonthemel5641]

That's some good taste you have here!

[@billheiland7618]

Adam ant was crazy fun as well! Thanks for the reminder!

[@jimross2101]

In Puerto Vallarta right now listening to Mexican Radio.

[@evelynbeverley2277]

My favourite winter destination. Summer here and wish I could be there, despite the heat.

[@marioerueda-almonte7938]

Watch for Iguanas there.... plenty of them down there

[@redskies4530]

Hi I want to recommend a song called 'LifeChanges' By Robert Nix

[@j.robertsergertson4513]

How's the BB-Q iguana?

[@johnhareiel5118]

That is Cool! I'm in South US. I see all the boats coming from yalls area

[@lefthandrightmind2359]

In my teens I couldn't wait for Dr. Demento to come on late night radio, so I could hear this song. Absolutely love it. Good times!

[@captmack007]

Sunday night 9:00 pm KMET Los Angeles! Bilbo, bilbo baggins only three feet tall!

[@lilorbielilorbie2496]

@@captmack007 As they used to say on The Mighty Met KMET WWWWWWHHHHHOOOOYYYYAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For me real rock and roll radio stations died on Feb.14,1987 R.I.P. KMET.

[@CarsandCats]

I never missed it!

[@cheese9580]

@@TD75 that's the year I was born.

[@ayebee1207]

Flying Purple People Eater.

[@troyott2334]

The good old days, they opened for DEVO back in the day, wonderful

[@patricklink8527]

What a perfect early 80s Show. At that time who better to open for Devo. Wall of voodoo of course.

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

Bill should have been flipped.

[@bigmazinthedesert]

@@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qenow that’s just silly

[@kevinsaxon1367]

London calling

[@incognitotorpedo42]

@@bigmazinthedesert Well, they are both great bands, but Devo was bigger at the time. I would have loved that show whatever order they were in.

[@brianklebig8803]

I grew up listening to KSJO in San Jose. At midnight one night, with literally no warning or announcement, they played this song and then the station went entirely to Spanish Radio. Craziest thing. RIP KSJO.

[@keirfarnum6811]

That’s crazy!

[@Spyderman500]

RIP, KSAN, KOME, and KFOG. Bay Area radio was great. Corruptions kill them with their greed.

[@edlaw51501]

KSJO, and KOME were the best ROCK stations in the Bay Area in the 80s, and KSJO was the only Rock station in the Bay Area in the for a time in the 90s, then we got THE BONE, KVHS, KRQR all gone. Never forgot the tag line for KOME " Don't touch that dial there's Kome on it " that used to crack me up, great times back then.

[@shiroibasketshoes]

@@edlaw51501 Thanks for your remembrances. I was in the KRQR ("Rock Of The Bay" / "The Rocker") master studio when it ended with Led Zeppelin's "Thank You" in 1996.

[@edlaw51501]

@@shiroibasketshoes I was glad that Steven Seaweed got to finish out his time in the Bay Area at the Bone, 80's Rock radio in the Bay Area was really good ! Can't say it was the best as L.A. had or has KMET, and another popular Rock station whose call letters escape me, I had a friend that was friends with someone at KRQR, and used to go in and watch Steven Seaweeds show and even got some Disk Jockey Trading cards of Steven, not sure if you had or saw those ?

[@howardbeale661]

Brings me back to the few years when MTV was the single coolest channel on cable.

[@davidpacholski7144]

How bout' it

[@CLUB-th7pp]

Howard Beale partied with these cats in Arlington TX 1983 them and BOW WOW WOW Anna an I hit it off Lol senior trip damn they played at SIXFLAGS what a blast I sure miss the 80s celebrities were APPROACHABLE 👋👍👍👊👊KEEPONKEEPINON

[@drboneman]

Gus “I’ve seen 5 rap music videos from 10 years ago and am assuming all rap is like that” Goose

[@DilfTheVampire]

I blame the real world

[@swaybelly3212]

And yet you have absolutely nothing to prove him wrong.....

[@yyz4761]

Back in the early 2000s a hard rock station was sold to a hispaniccmusic network. This was the last song that they ever played.

[@DanielA-kv2tk]

That’s actually really cool and sad

[@vladvampirelord8910]

Rock is dead. Undead. Undead...

[@jacquelineiona1996]

Whatta way cool way to say goodbye! Meanwhile in Philadelphia, there was I92 ...a much too short lived Alternative Music station ....no goodbyes...in the early 80s ....was my only station and then GONE...only Country music ever since ...I cried!!!! That station is where I discovered British Post Punk bands! Thank God I did 🙂😁 nothing against Country but I92 didn't last long enough!!!

[@yyz4761]

We had a very good college radio station that played alternative music. Listening to that channel really expanded my musical horizons. It got bought out by Clear Channel in 2000. They even kept the call sign and tried pretending to be alternative, but it’s been all corporate ever since. When the takeover happened, they announced that the most requested song of all time was “Jerry Was A Race Car Driver” by Primus and that they would never play that song again.

[@yyz4761]

It’s amazing how much music I love was introduced to me by this radio station. So much music that I never would of heard of let alone become a big fan of if it hadn’t been for this radio station.

[@dansweda712]

The variety of music in the 80's is hands down unmatched by any other decade

[@dansweda712]

@@balladofathinman not much quality you say? You're obviously forgetting Dolly Parton's 9-5 Motley Crue Smoking in the Boy's Room and Packman Fever, okay, okay, okay, I'm just kidding, LoL. I'll just mention the song, you'll surely know the artist Jack & Diane, Africa, Chariots of Fire, Spirits in the Material World, Don't you forget about Me, Billy Gene, Mad World ( Tears for Fears ) Innocent Man, ldk, sounds like quality to me, and I could just keep going and going. With that being said, the 70's may have the edge on quality, but the 80's surely is not lacking in it

[@musicandpoetry_8]

There was something in the water in the 80s

[@jimmoseley5813]

Except the sixties

[@dansweda712]

@@jimmoseley5813 the sixties didn't have heavy metal or rap music

[@redskies4530]

Hi I recommend a song that is called 'The bond villain' by Robert Nix

[@oneidad.salinas1450]

Grew up with this song.. I remember it was one of the first videos in MTV!! Now I'm 49... Wow!! Time flew by!! And still one of my favorites!!

[@samuelhollowell4484]

I'm 60 years old, remember when this came out! Loved it then, still lovin' it!

[@kevinkiker1379]

yep me too

[@michaelstellar7968]

I’m 60 too and remember when it came out too.

[@redskies4530]

Hi I want to recommend a song called 'LifeChanges' By Robert Nix

[@Ron-j3t]

Yea me too I was a dishwasher at a restaurant about 14 years old this was when Michael Jackson was popular on the radio, loved this. 57 now still hate Michael Jackson, love this song

[@davidbee3704]

"I wish I was in Tijuana, Eating BBQed iguana. " That line has stuck with me since my youth when I first heard this song when it came out. What a line!

[@jennyisle6646]

Me too. Some years later I went to Tijuana. No iguana, but very interesting place!

[@hueroski]

CLASSIC

[@mauricenielsen803]

I wish I was in Tijuana taking drug's and smoking marijuana

[@bonniebickett4520]

Kinda like Pop Music ..,.,,boogie with a suitcase? Lol

[@toddschendel4999]

@@mauricenielsen803 😁

[@Dana-wq5tp]

Stan Ridgway singing out of the side of his mouth while his face convulses in a nervous twitch never gets old.

[@MegaJustGeorge]

Dana, I rather like that - thanks for mentioning this.

[@jackaction7077]

Me too..never gets old

[@slyasleep]

surely the twitchiest face in a music video ever.

[@kameronnaeole7680]

I'm on a Mexicannnn woah radiooo

[@izzimichaels2892]

i always liked the song, but his facial expressions (for me) are a bit much

[@bryonslatten3147]

40 years ago. How time flies.

[@google_is_a_criminal]

It went by in the blink of an eye, didn't it ?

[@bernardadams5862]

Right?

[@r.s.334]

No kidding.

[@JayYoung-ro3vu]

Were we having fun in those years? 🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@gordocarbo]

Never thought I would make it through the 80s alive Talk about living fast....

[@Ginger-n2o]

I was 23 and we went crazy for this song when it came out. Dancing and sweating to the best music we had in the 70s and early 80s!

[@RevDodd]

I've gotta share: Today I was shopping at our local IGA (small-town grocery for folks who don't know) and that familiar opening gallop came over the PA system. I thought, "Nawwww .... can't be!" Then that unmistakable chord progression." I was hooting down the frozen food aisle. I was tempted to ask the guy in the bakery where the barbecued iguana was. What a blast!

[@shannonmcgovern2542]

Read this comment literally right as the iguana came up, im dead lmao

[@NormAppleton]

Next to the rotisserie chickens

[@jmilic1]

Lol😂

[@seththomas9105]

Remeber 40 years ago when the music in the grocery store was Mitch Miller and elevator music? We are now old. :(

[@Neilcampbell-gu7uz]

That bloke Stan Ridgway is a ripper. Being able to sing sideways with his face drooping in the microphone, with that twitch & Wink. What a great line of "I wish I was in Tijuana, Eating BBQed Iguana!!"

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

Have to go to glitterati restaurants in Austin for that now.

[@nodarkthings]

Here in Britain we know him for his big hit Camouflage!

[@incognitotorpedo42]

@@nodarkthings Stan was great for story songs. I remember Camouflage. Saw him do it live in San Francisco.

[@nodarkthings]

@@incognitotorpedo42 very cool. Bet it was great live.

[@jeffreyraia5804]

This song aged well because here we are, 40 years later and it still sounds like something that the young people of today would like.

[@devolve42]

"the young people of today" -- have some casserole, honey

[@voiceofexperience]

@@devolve42 As long as there's nothing hard in it.

[@freedomfan2295]

71 & still lovin' it! 🤗

[@r4b1d_r0b0t]

I'm 18 and I like this!

[@robbesworkshop]

i thought it was at its earliest a 2000s but no! 1982 i believe? thats crazy! very ahead of its time

[@kevinmcgiffin10]

This is why i watched SO MUCH MTV . You just didnt know what band they were gonna play next. So diverse TGANK YOU MTV !!! MARTHA QUINN AND ALL THE REST OF THE SUPER MTV HOSTS❤

[@truthreignsforever9286]

don’t forget about Kurt Loder? Downtown Julie Brown too ☝️😎

[@CDavis-jt5fh]

Mark, Allan, and of course JJ will always be the first VJs ever.

[@gordocarbo]

Only saw 1 or 2 mtv vids...wasnt allowed to watch tv..knew every metal/new wave song by heart though

[@chaney1]

nearly 40 years later and still discovering great stuff from the 80's which says something about that period of music and both the quality and quantity👍

[@louiesimon5292]

Check out the little-known Ohio band, Proof of Utah.

[@midwestlakelife]

It was the golden age.

[@michaelgraf7475]

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[@thehellyousay]

Check 70s music. Most of it was crazy. The 80s was when the corporation's started taking over. Took em a couple of decades, but autotune rules the mainstream now. There is growing pushback, tho'.

[@someperson8151]

​@@louiesimon5292ehh. Listened to Proof of Utah, Happy To Be Here album. They have a twang in their music that's not my thing.

[@jmadd1000]

This shit never gets old.

[@ViolettaD1485]

No. But we did.

[@armorer94]

@@ViolettaD1485 🤣🤣🤣🍑👍

[@jamesmurray3082]

Kramer from srinfeld

[@douglastull3908]

Never.

[@stu3775]

It has comedic medication implanted.

[@johnallenismynameandmusici2796]

Great song. I used to live in Tucson and there were 1 or 2 AM stations in Mexico that you could hear all the way up to Chicago. If you were driving across country you had 2 choices: religious programming or AM. There was no FM at that time. Man, they played some of the best music I've ever heard in my life. They'd play blues or jazz or rock, anything, but sometimes it was staticky. The Mexican people are very savvy to what's going on in the music world and they can rock out. Mariachi is good, too. I always had a ball in Mexico and I love the people there, so friendly.

[@PatricksBreastplate]

I have a similar experience when travelling in Europe (i.e. outside of the UK). Radio is less commercial, more interested in music across the decades and various genres.

[@FuckSlowShit]

Those days are long gone good old 20th century. 21st Ruin everything!

[@darkmadder9897]

The way you experienced/described this makes me glad you were there for it.

[@iDONTdoFacebook]

I lived in Tucson for 20 years. I left there to come back home to Arkansas about 15 years ago. When in Tucson, I rented an old farmhouse out on Tangerine Rd near Marana (it was actually a Marana address). We were there about 4 years then bought a home in the big neighborhood northeast of the Ina Rd / La Cholla Blvd intersection in Northwest Tucson.

[@HandleGF]

Evocative

[@Harvey_Pekar]

Dude, you're 19, living in San Diego, working the nightshift in a bulletproof booth. You listen to Mexican radio on a nightly basis, just to break the monotony. This song incapsulated the moment perfectly, when you turned the knob back to the regular rock station - and THIS was the first time you heard this song - at 3:15 in the morning - heavy fog. It was transcendent, baby. BTW, It was a Mexican-owned gas station. I was the only white dude, and they all thought the song was FAF. People were a lot more "easy-going" back then, for the most part.

[@Harvey_Pekar]

By 5:00 AM, you hit the intercom button and talk to the fog. You say, "Hello, fog.", then you flip the switch over to "LISTEN". This little bit of terror keeps you awake.

[@leonadams1942]

Man who remembers when MTV aired nothing but music videos on TV and not the crap that is on now?

[@brandonpage7087]

I do! They might as well call themselves RTV nowadays, as reality shows is basically all they air!!

[@marthaperdew]

I miss MTV when it is awesome

[@dragondancer1814]

Leon Adams Like TLC-that used to stand for The Learning Channel, and now it should mean Totally Lousy Content! Both stations have totally sold out to the lowest bidder and are no longer worth watching. Sad and disgusting!

[@leegreer9582]

I do I miss headbanger ball sat night we'd stay home just for it!

[@leegreer9582]

Cancel band practice just for headbanger ball

[@RobertABooey75]

For those that don't know, a lot of San Diego radio stations have their antenna placed in Tijuana so they can have a stronger signal than what is allowed in the U.S. Am 690 was one. You could hear that station at night in Denver, Arizona, and even up to Western Canada. The agreement they have with Mexico is that the American station would have to have some programming in Spanish, like 1 hr a week.

[@pctshooter]

I grew up in San Diego. I used to listen to 92.5 XHRM. They transmitted from Tijuana. I remember the Mexican National Anthem being played at midnight. 😂

[@RobertABooey75]

@@pctshooter every night!!!!

[@rager-69]

The Mighty 690. We listened to that in Orange County cuz car radios only had AM, at least the cars that my family and my friends' families would buy. Oh, and the clock radios from the 60s we all seemed to inherit.

[@RobertABooey75]

@@rager-69 I grew up in Mission. Listened to 690 when it was music as a kid then as a teenager when they went all sports talk. Rome at night and on Saturday

[@PorNada96]

I grew up with amazing music from Mexico radio stations I always travelled across borders and states and used to play the dial on the radio. MX Radio was a song I always found to tune into

[@mordaciousfilms]

Definitely one of the top most unique bands of the 80s. So underrated.

[@glennhfriedman4571]

Not so.. maybe under played but not inderrated by all of us

[@gordocarbo]

@@glennhfriedman4571 Mordacious doesnt understand English too well. Says top most unique bands and underrsted in the same sentence Thanks Obummer

[@Golf4-65]

I was 11 years old in 83, and this song still hits just as hard as it did in 83

[@NormAppleton]

Did the face out of the beans freak you out?

[@CrystalClearWith8BE]

This is one of the most underrated songs of 1983.

[@Sadler2010]

One of the most underrated songs EVER!!

[@emmerfarro]

Not if you actually lived in 1983.......

[@michaelharris9675]

Totally Agree !!!!!!

[@davsny5]

1983 had great songs, Making Love Out of Nothing at All, Always Something There to Remind Me, Total Eclipse of the Heart, Africa, Mexican Radio, Saved by Zero, Every Breathe You Take, Billie Jean, and some great movies Wargames, Sleepaway Camp, Christine, The Dead Zone, Sudden Impact, The Twilight Zone Movie, Psycho 2, Risky Business, Scarface, The Outsiders, Blue Thunder, Mr. Mom, Easy Money, great shows, Dallas, Different Strokes, The A-Team, Mash, Dynasty to name a few, good times and I was only 3-years-young.

[@chrisnewman7281]

It was actually 1982

[@williamhulser7354]

Music is the closest thing we have to a time machine.

[@verga8550]

Art and video works too

[@MegaJustGeorge]

William, your observation is astute and precise, to the point of social commentary. I thank you.

[@spikespa5208]

And old movies.

[@velveetaslingshot]

Wow well said. I never looked at it that way.

[@paultreadaway102]

You Tube is advance version of a Video well on those paths couldn't quite get into DVD tho this is the best greatest thing we have now to research only good thing and thanks to You Tube and our Comments included on some a World History engine

[@markdavid4897]

This is perhaps the greatest song ever written.

[@dcfire2222]

You bet! I am 66 and love it!

[@chadkline4268]

🍺😆👍

[@chadkline4268]

Haha .. I understand just a little, no comprende, it's a riddle 🤠

[@redskies4530]

Hi I recommend a song called 'The Bond Villain' By Robert Nix

[@MrChazz965]

@@chadkline4268 best line!

[@pathslesstrampled9906]

I’m in Mexico right now listening to Mexican Radio

[@NormAppleton]

Can you understand just what he says?

[@ChristineKikiMac]

This is my Freshman year of high school and I love it

[@douglasstrother6584]

@@ChristineKikiMac My Freshman year in college, back in the 20th Century!

[@patrickmcgoldrick8234]

How ironic?

[@spiffypreston3176]

Phucking Awesome ……!!!!

[@anxietea4799]

I’m 18 y/o and tbh from a music theory standpoint, this song is pretty revolutionary, even for today. Never heard a song not end in the “home” chord, gave a weird feeling that the song wasn’t over. Glad my dad showed me this.

[@JDGothard]

Dads! Show your kids weird old videos, it will complete their lives.

[@borisCHoppz]

Celtic Frost is the only band that i think ever covered this.This has always been my favorite one hit wonder song, the intricate percs, and the looping arp that sounds random, but really isnt are the standouts to me. Fading out on the bridge is pretty clever, im surprised that the video stands the test of time, it could have been made last week.

[@anticensorshipsociety1063]

Thanks for your input, I hadn't considered that.

[@anticensorshipsociety1063]

@@borisCHoppz This video would be nixed in the present. It wouldn't be approved by any label. Not under today's intersectional indoctrination. Censorship is alive and well and it's worse than it was in the 80's, which is saying something.

[@gordocarbo]

@@anticensorshipsociety1063 Yup...the same internet goobs that love to call everyone toxic and pick them apart would do the same with our music. Nothings ever good with those people yet they wonder why they are depressed haha

[@michelesivrais2215]

Every time I hear this song, it's stuck in my head for hours! Walking around doing my chores saying radio, radio, radio lol! I still dig it!

[@ionizem3571]

Yep. Eating barbecued iguana. 😊

[@leevonmanstein7459]

me too!

[@richardmiller4367]

Me too my kids love watching me get a little real with my younger self they roll over just laughing

[@karendicostanzo6102]

Same!😄

[@barbarahecht4617]

Stan's head coming from the bean pot is a great shot, and he was a good sport to do it

[@carolynrogers5762]

This song is more relevant today than it was in the 80's

[@JesusFlores-uy6mb]

Wow

[@jahsoniclark9844]

Back then it was just annoying

[@jahsoniclark9844]

MEL yep

[@dylpkl3652]

Actually it was way more relevant back then because un the 80s there were radio stations just south of the border with crazy strong antennas, so you could listen to them from the states and that is what he’s talking about

[@clockorc8576]

Mind clarifying how its more relevant now. I'm confused

[@advancetotabletop5328]

Love this song. Also, one of the few music videos that aged, pretty well. Nobody had a budget for music videos, and too many of them had too much tryhard.

[@AmericanWithTheTruth]

80's were so much fun!

[@rickedwards5309]

+Tom Brooks Too fun Tom...right??

[@marlenedietrich1371]

Actually the 2000s introduced depression you moron.

[@user-gu5hj4oi7p]

I have to agree. The 2000s did introduce depression, mainly due to 9/11.

[@ripperduck]

Was in college at the time and I got laid so damn much....

[@KentuckyWallChicken]

I'm sad I didn't get to live the 80's. So much stuff I love comes from the 80's.

[@jthuerta9923]

My uncle died a couple weeks ago and this was his favorite song Rest in peace Uncle Chris

[@thezhtube5895]

May he rest in Heaven

[@jonjon4321]

Rip for your uncle. He had good taste in music.

[@jonjon4321]

Was your uncle in Vietnam?

[@LitRandomness]

May he rest in peace

[@riggaxmorris]

Rip uncle chris

[@crystalp7242]

Two of the members of this lineup have passed away: Joe Nanini (drums) died in 2000 of a brain hemorrhage, and Marc Moreland (guitar) died in 2002 of renal (kidney) failure following a liver transplant. The two members of this lineup that are still alive as of 2020 are Stan Ridgway (lead vocals) and Chas T. Grey (keyboards in this video, but he also played bass).

[@allanhernandez2508]

I'm saddened by that.

[@tycarter3123]

The 2 remaining live in mexico?

[@crystalp7242]

Ty Carter 😂 Good one. Stan Ridgway has remained very active in music since leaving Wall of Voodoo in 1983 (the band continued without him for a few years with a new singer, Andy Prieboy, but it ultimately broke up in 1988), and has released several solo albums. His most recent album was released in 2016. As for Chas T. Grey, I wasn’t able to find much about him post-Wall of Voodoo (although he remained with the band until its breakup), but a Google search for his discography did show that he did some writing and arranging, but there seems to be no new activity from him that I can find. Presumably, he has been retired from the music business since then.

[@garymingy8671]

I can do drum. Ok

[@nevadaracer00V]

@@crystalp7242 : They had a "Where are they now" episode decades ago on MTV and this band came up and the only one I remember them finding was the keyboardist and he was doing music for porno movies and had a motorcycle with a side car. They claimed they couldn't find Ridgway and had no info on him. Maybe someone can find that clip and post it here. Thanks for your efforts too!!!

[@Ivy99999]

The entire band all smushed tightly together like that is so funny lol

[@BlakeGildaphish76]

i haven't heard this in decades. It feels so good to hear it now. i miss good, imaginative and thoughtfully composed music.

[@jeffreygrant45]

I remember this well listening to it wagging school in 1978 to 79

[@redskies4530]

Blake I recommend a song called 'where I come from' by Robert Nix

[@BruceAlarie]

try old thomas dolby

[@BlakeGildaphish76]

@@redskies4530 Oh, thank you! i'm listening now, and it most certainly is imaginative a thoughtfully composed.

[@redskies4530]

@@BlakeGildaphish76 You are indeed welcome.

[@Frankincensedjb123]

I can sit and listen to 80s music all day. Today's music? Give me about ten minutes.

[@whatwouldtarado213]

Frankincensed You were raised right.

[@lucifersam7946]

Tara Murray How?

[@nonpondo_]

If you define today's music just by the water thin surface that is the worst of pop culture, that just shows your lazy and don't actually look for good music made in the present

[@InsertName125]

Non Pondo I'm looking hard. I'm having a hard time finding bands with anything original to say, or any musical ability or talent. Can you point me in the right direction?

[@nonpondo_]

InsertName125 idk, it depends what kind of music you like

[@manchu6005]

Aug 3rd 2024! Just had to listen to this song for some reason. Turned it on the first time back in 1983 when I was in the US Army. Great times! 🇺🇸⚔️🇬🇪

[@JasonGoodner]

Saw Depeche Mode Aug 4 1991, Dodger Stadium

[@chiefpontiac1800]

The music from the early 80's was like listening to the music from the 60's. A lot of different styles and that is what made it so great.

[@surfshack2]

Yes the early 80's music was different than the mid or later 80's. It started becoming definitly more commercialized in 84.

[@frankmelesky2252]

This may well be one of the top 5 greatest songs of all time. The video is clearly one of the top 10 greatest videos of all time. Totally magical.

[@LoneLee2022]

"RADIO, RADIO".....................

[@seandelfin]

wall of voodoo had so many incarnations. this was probably their best single. the best that they had to offer never made the radio though

[@richardwyse7817]

hundreds should squeeze in.....

[@alanstrom2221]

Bought the album in 1982/3. This is an example of eccentric /avant garde / left of centre music that became mainstream and charted successfully. Obviously very clever people. Credit to their record company for supporting them and financing this superb video. MTV was pumpin' in the early 80's. Great time to be in your 20's.

[@redskies4530]

Hi I recommend taking a listen to a song which is called 'where I come from' by Robert Nix

[@amycunningham1732]

Kramer singing this was so spot on. This song is SO Kramer! 😘

[@jonbon7219]

kramer brought me here, i saw him thru the reverse peephole.

[@mikemarcott4888]

I never ever ever ever ever get tired of this tune I love it

[@haroldkeil8582]

Came out my freshman yr 81-82. One of the best songs from the 80's . Class of 85!

[@68rbj]

Harold Keil Class of '86 my brother

[@christinescott5853]

This came out in 81??

[@keirfarnum6811]

You came out in 81-82? How did everyone take it? 😁

[@CowMoobaby]

Anybody here in the month of July 2024? This song came out when I was 15 years old! I still love it to this day.❤

[@NormAppleton]

No Comprende it's a riddle!

[@ScottMabry-v3k]

Yeah, I was a freshman my freshman summer we got cable television, all of the movies for free for 90 fucking days.… Oops

[@agentneptune]

BBQ Iguana right here!

[@fredharvey2720]

Yes me too

[@xtheunknown9351]

August 1st 2024

[@craigsouder9334]

when teens say they like this and wish they had this music i have to smile. we had it so good. mtv was new....we had loverboy, springfield, foreigner and journey etc etc etc while it was fresh.

[@gordocarbo]

I still tune into KLOS 95.5, still the same rock I grew upwith. Nothing modern ever comes on. Not sure what some posters are talking about with recent groups.

[@TheFeralBachelor]

Back around 1982, maybe '83, I saw Wall of Voodoo in a little bar in Corpus Christy, Texas in and stood three fee away from Stan Ridgeway. One of the top 5 concerts I have ever been to.

[@keithbate9405]

Best band I have seen live in 52 years of regular gig going apart from 2020 (Covid !)

[@kevinhutchison4136]

This is absolute brilliance on every level. It's humbling...

[@RocketPunchHero1]

I remember riding a bus in Mexico when I was about five. There was this older man tapping his foot to this song and trying his best to sing along in broken English. It was so damn funny.

[@xleastarx]

They still

[@whackamolechamp]

Was the buses radio tuned in to Eckees Tay Erray Ahh Baja California Mexico?

[@jackaction7077]

I would have been dead😂😂😂

[@McShankos]

That’s a good story

[@enlightenedwarrior7119]

Did eat a iguana ?

[@emberash1943]

Obligatory Statement: Cheers to the good ole days of terrestrial radio✌️ -Gawd do I ever miss old fashioned radio stations 💯 anyone else in 2023/2024?

[@Slo-ryde]

There are still plenty in the greater metropolitan cities.

[@emberash1943]

@@Slo-ryde no ..

[@Nonconformistwilderbeastman]

Can you be more specific gravity 🤗🍺🍻✌️​@@Slo-ryde

[@johnwilkesbo]

@@emberash1943 lol does your car have a radio? There are tons.

[@emberash1943]

@@johnwilkesbo before you respond to someone's comment you should probably familiarize yourself with the terms: terrestrial vs. digital..🙄 we (The US) haven't been on a terrestrial frequency since 2009 genius🥴 NEXT!!!🥱

[@janusstarck7827]

Do you hear such a good music like that today ???! Back to 1982 with this great track !

[@jeanninehickman477]

music today sucks big time I love the 1980s

[@ronniewall1481]

LOOK ON MY PLAYLIST

[@AnAdorableWombat]

I freaking love this song!

[@redskies4530]

Hi I recommend listening to the new alternative album 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix

[@Alan-lv9rw]

Brings me back to my college days, road trips, etc.

[@agentsteel86]

From Lima Peru, listening to Radio Mexican...July 2024

[@chris7brook]

Hi from Nashville, Tennessee!🎸🥓⚔️🦅🇺🇸

[@thankyoudriver4219]

I can never get tired of hearing this. One of my Desert Island discs!

[@richardhughes2786]

I'm 60 now, but I loved this jam back then and I love it just as much now.

[@daviddavis5236]

63 bhah dis shit rocks hard mudda fuggers hahahaha

[@bellavia5]

I'm also 60. Don't know why but this song popped into my head yesterday.

[@retrobebop61]

I’m 58 and still love this song!

[@dwalker399]

I Just turned 67 and I have the CD. MTV ruled back then. There version of Ring of Fire On that CD is great!

[@David-sc2ir]

I'm 60 too.... be glad we had that chance to live in a great time! I feel sorry for today's youth, they don't have any idea of the great times and music we had. I wouldn't want to be a teenager or young adult today for anything.

[@philthomas8351]

Loved this in '83 and still today. Great song and video!

[@MichaelHill-oz3kr]

Going to Mexico to me has been so magical since I was a child. GOD BLESS MEXICO ❤

[@JoM-f7q]

OKAY??????

[@JoM-f7q]

Why not.

[@JoM-f7q]

We used to go to some camping place in Ensenada. Almost was impaled by a bottle rocket on a bamboo pole that ended sticking into a rock wall. I went to bed as it was a bit too much.

[@illiamdeebe7579]

This is timeless music. Stan Ridgeway is a treasure.

[@redskies4530]

Hello I recommend the song 'where I come from' by Robert Nix(right here on youtube)

[@remedy9648]

I have t heard this song since MTV had it in rotation. It comes right back, what an incredible song and video. I love finding songs that bring back the 80’s and putting them on my playlist so they’re never forgotten again. My kids are gonna dig this! 🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿

[@jackleg2007]

One of my favorite videos from the 80's!

[@billm6774]

I'm 73 now and remember when Rumble Fish came out Oct 83 and this was one of the hit's from that film. What ever happened to you Motorcycle boy?

[@MrSpikebender]

This song does nothing but remind me of the good times living in North County. Now I'm starting to tear up, all those friends are gone.

[@betterthantheavgbare]

Thank you MTV for introducing this heavy metal boy to other realities.

[@commandresults1705]

A greatly under-appreciated song. I try to listen to it at least once a day! The beat keeps me going...

[@Truthagainsttheworld8430]

One of the quirkiest, best songs in the last 50 years.... still listenable today. Love that simple heavy bass with the frenetic tempo of the harmonica. hypnotic.... let's go driving in the desert.......Radio ....radio.....radio ....

[@AlexColberg]

2021 and Wall of Voodoo is my favourite band. Above is a great song, but they're a lot more than just that song, for those who don't know. Great music, true originals.

[@grape512]

Thank you for the heads-up! This was one of the few songs I could get into during that era.

[@glennw.2620]

The whole album is great desert music!

[@TeresaGermano-uq5xv]

I like their song "tomorrow". You can see it live. Playing at a huge festival

[@Thunderchild-gz4gc]

​@@TeresaGermano-uq5xvgreat song

[@robertdunkessr2303]

When I was 15 years old I woke up one morning and then I realized everything changed. There was this, MTV and The Young Ones. it was a great time to be a teenager. This was ours, our music and our time.

[@kugmoco1368]

....and when you wake up now-a-days?

[@robertdunkessr2303]

It's the big shitty. You have to block out the scenarios that are playing out globally because it will drive you insane. That's why I watch so much youtube. I have started baking as a hobby. I find 2 bowl hits is just enough to take mind in a more peaceful zone.

[@frankieashworth6942]

fuck off

[@BubbaZen10]

Frankie Ashworth Great comment Frankie!! Hey bud, how did i know exactly what your profile would look like? A big nothing. Keep up the great work sir.

[@frankieashworth6942]

BubbaZen10 i just hate pretentious comments like that

[@francissnowyhill4433]

I'm 28. when I was a young man, I would smoke reefer and watch VH1 Classic on cable late at night. one night my dad walked in and caught me red handed. I was watching this music video and he wasnt even mad. he proceeded to sit down and tell me about how he was always on the cutting edge of music, and how my mother didn't have to know about this.

[@truthreignsforever9286]

good stuff, lol 😂. Kinda reminds me of my father almost catching me in the act as a 13 year old looking at his magazines. He left, then came back and brought 3 more. But I don’t think he wanted to stick around to tell me his military stories before he met my mother

[@jeremyyoung4415]

I'm 60 years old.I still remember when this came out.Tripping on cactus juice.Cactus how funny is that word.

[@gordocarbo]

First time I came home stoned I got my azz kicked bad..they passed be back and forth like a hot potato one holding me while the other went psycho etc.

[@jackietreehorn8527]

I used to spring break to TJ and Ensenada in the early eighties, this is pure perfection, the song and video...

[@richholoch8230]

I think about this song even after all these years. It was really super distinctive and cool and still holds up

[@TheGenericNerd]

This song /video was so weird even back in the 80s that it's almost become timeless.

[@lowsidecarclubsocal..859]

I love this song .. thanks from Mexico 🇲🇽.. viva mexico 🇲🇽 y latinoamerica..

[@paulaward2075]

Hello from Tyler Texas!

[@MikeKollin]

Hola De California!! 🇱🇷 Viva Awesome!!

[@Jobwsright1]

Weda from Arizona in the house. We loved this song!

[@edoardozampetti4601]

Italy the same flag

[@SirTravis-vn6yp]

​@@MikeKollinwrong flag

[@mysterb7600]

Been blasting this tune lately. It’s stuck in my head and I love it! I remember it from the 80’s but I still love it.

[@dr.decker3623]

when i was younger i was like,.. why does this exist? ... now, i'm like, how could the world exist without this!?

[@dkmcbigsley]

Exactly. I didn't get it back the. Now I'm digging into their catalog

[@NitroModelsAndComics]

one thing that you must acknowledge about this song. it is timeless. it has no root in time. it could easily have been recorded and released yesterday and people would accept it. its just one of those tunes.

[@YorksGamingEmporium]

I don't know, I think some people might have questions finding this is 1880, but anything after 1970, sure.

[@NitroModelsAndComics]

@@YorksGamingEmporium I spose....

[@gordocarbo]

No they wouldnt. It would be called racist toxic big fat meanies blah blah

[@marvy3022]

Not really, it sounds really early 80s.

[@Wise-Lady-La-Aura]

Yes! The iguanas are falling out of the trees in Florida right now and I was looking for this old hit. Oh yeah, I found it. So weird, so unique, so cool. MTV played the hell out of this song because back in the early days of MTV, they didn't have many videos to begin with, so Wall of Voodoo benefitted from all that air play they got. " I wish I was in Tijuana, eating barbequed iguana." - It's in the song. Now It's a funny punchline for Florida in January! Thanks, man, Stan, about your voice. There's one think I think you should know if you ever read this. Stan - Lots of people thought you sounded like Jim Morrison from the Doors when you cam out with Mexican Radio. I wanted you to know that. We loved Jim and, well, you brought his style of voice back. I thought you should know that. Thanks, Stan. I mean that.

[@tiffanyshelton7748]

No crap?? Me too for that very reason!

[@campyhub]

We don't have any iguanas (that I have seen, anyway) over here on the Gulf Coast. Evidently they are a danger to pedestrians as they fall out of the trees, as they are somewhat heavy. Tuned into this classic song and video for the exact same reason. Do some places sell barbecued iguana over there in Miami-Dade?

[@Tony-lc5xo]

I use to listen to Mexican radio cause I could pick it up in San antonio! They didn't play thus much.

[@billyfoster3223]

@@tiffanyshelton7748 Yep, me as well.

[@robertchristerson2150]

Should play this to wake them up..

[@jccook5353]

This brings back the 80's, which I called my Lost Decade. And now it's found. Excellent.

[@Knightwing2112]

This song is Legendary!!!!!

[@afterdark6822]

Great memories of growing up watching this obscure video on MTV.

[@dianthis]

My friend has this album and I wanted to hear this song over and over. Drove her crazy. 😬

[@deadeye4520]

Man, the good old days. Early MTV was a blast with so many cool songs and videos.

[@pulcherius]

I used to go a bar where the DJ thought he had everything 80's. He had a game where if you can name a song and band that he didn't have he bought you a drink. This song got me a few drinks.

[@domtron8873]

I never knew this song existed and I call myself an 80s aficionado. Leave it up to my dad who actually grew up in the 80s to tell me about this and continue to challenge my amateur level knowledge of the 80s

[@Firevine]

Weird. This song got TONS of airtime in the Atlanta market well into the 90s.

[@MegaJustGeorge]

@@Firevine Not bad!

[@ladyi7609]

I would own that guy. I love a lot of obscure-ish New Wave artists and would probably name at least twenty songs he didn't have.

[@matttalbott9217]

@@ladyi7609 If he didnt have any Wall of Voodoo I think you could prob stump him all day.

[@mellofello6792]

One of my favorite weirdest songs RIP weeble . Thnx for introducing me to wall of vodoo in the 80's!

[@williamgosse851]

Loved the 80's. Nothing be the same ever. Rubbers, mad dog 20/20, coke, honey tonks & biker bars. Was the best!

[@DanielleScanlon]

This song is such a bop!!

[@Shane661]

So good. I was seeing a woman 15-years my senior, at a point. And I wrote her a little poem based on this. "I feel your hot breath on my shoulder, and the touch of a girl that is older". It ended, but she is the love of my life. For better, or worse. I'm 55; no idea if she is still living.

[@jonbon7219]

worm food

[@memeju1ce]

wow! i’m sorry you don’t know where she is or if she’s still around :(

[@3rdmin1st3r]

One of my favorite songs from this decade

[@zandarx]

as a heavy metaller, i think this is one of the best new wave songs of the 80's.

[@pavelhrumz9810]

Do you remember cover to this song from Celtic Frost?

[@zandarx]

@@pavelhrumz9810 yes classic! always on a playlist!

[@uzochiokeke4328]

I've been looking for this song for 13 years!

[@joemiller9931]

I'm 54. First heard this song when I was13. Trippin' hard! Talk about timeless!