ONE HIT WONDERLAND: “Mexican Radio” by Wall of Voodoo
I wish I was in Tijuana, eating barbecued iguana…
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I wish I was in Tijuana, eating barbecued iguana…
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@Swordopolis
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 am
2:39 would ABSOLUTELY watch an episode about Dog Police
@cassandrapearsall4328
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 am
Fun fact, power metal band Sabaton did a cover of Camouflage
@angelp8900
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 am
"Dark Continet" and "Call of The West" are amazing albums. The Andy Prieboy albums were a little worse, but still had good moments. "Ugly Americans…" it's a good live album. Ridgway solo career it's… well maybe, he have too many albums. Andy Prieboy's "Sins of our fathers" album its prety good and he colaborate in another one hit wonder: Concrete Blonde's "Tomorrow Wendy". Marc Moreland's solo album "Take it to the Spotlight" it's a hidden cult gem.
@Emmathelady
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 am
12:33
This is the best song Stan ever released and is a certified banger!
@bessarion1771
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 am
I came to the US in 1981, and I DEFINITELY heard "The Ring of Fire" by The Walls of Voodoo. On the radio…
@Gammera2000
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 am
4:00 i know it's 10 years late but really? just doing Oingo Boingo dirty like that?
@armron94
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 am
Mexican radio is on the radio Every sunday.
Sunny 101.5 South bend indiana
@discopunk138
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 am
The time is RIPE for that Dog Police video….
@therealpatagonianpancakes
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 am
Kinda late to the party, but I'm surprised he missed the opportunity to use Celtic Frost's cover of the song at the end. I mean, a thrash/black metal version is easily the type of oddball thing he'd usually put in there.
@almishti
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 am
Andy Prieboy had his own solo career, or at least an album. He was notable for writing the song Tomorrow Wendy, a truly haunting song about a woman he knew who was a prostitute, who contracted HIV, then committed S**cide by drug OD. He got Johnette Napolitano from Concrete Blonde, a truly awesome band, to sing it as a duet, and she asked to be able to cover it with her band. Both versions are grim and sad but magnificent.
@TyroKitsune
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 am
I've since checked out Stan Ridgeway's albums since watching this. Honestly, he has a lot of fun, interesting stuff. "Drive She Said" is great and paints a great story. His tribute to Orson Wells "Rebel King" is a great track.
The rest? A mix of stuff he's done with his wife and tracks where Ridgeway seems to be playing with sound to create lurid and odd instrumental tracks.
@1998_MIN
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 am
Todd or anyone reading new comments – for another classic tune that's an ode to border blaster radio stations, dial up ZZ Top – "Heard It On the X", an energetic little banger about discovering great music on pirate radio
@bobthebear1246
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 am
I like it. It's weird but catchy…and funny.
@Nestlequick1000
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 am
can you aknowledge how unsettling it is I have a unconventional music playlst on youtube. this though i love all your videos has nothing to do. fucking ilde. ok /ks godbless
@VihnNem
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 am
tell me more about a cross between Leonard Cohen & Warren Zevon
@galleryofrogues
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 am
These guys had the 90’s, snotty, post-irony vibe down like 10 years early
@tewksbury5817
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 am
Stan Ridgeway appeared on the soundtrack to Rumblefish by Stewart Copeland. I think it's pretty good.
@FLStelth
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 am
Those overpowered Mexican radio stations were called "border blasters". Wolfman Jack worked for one.
@chrisbrowne8645
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 am
Stan and Martin Tielli – separated at birth?
@SaltyBob355
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 am
I don’t think this is was New Wave. This was the 80s alternative rock, that didn’t quite fit into any established genre. This was the Wild West era of gen x music. And it was glorious!
@OPrinceBrendan
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 am
"Don't Box Me in" from the "Rumblefish" soundtrack, an amazing album by Stewart Copeland mainly, features Ridgeway on vocals and it's his most important work post-WOV. Love the chan but you missed on this one.
@princealigorna7468
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 am
Did you know that black metal pioneers Celtic Frost covered this song for their third album Into the Pandemonium?
@notmomoayase
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 am
maybe 2027 we still do a request on dog police by dog police after in a big country by big country
@denistuohy2535
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 am
13:10 sounds a lot like Les Claypool minus the awesome bass and instrumentals
@kelliemayle9701
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 am
15:10 LMAO. Now this version I’m more familiar with. I only ever heard my mom talk about the original just saying that the 80s had some weird songs and listed this as an example when I was like 14 and just getting into music.
@leephillips4402
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 am
Was Future Kick by the same director of Kick Puncher?
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