My dad was a rigid, old school,white button down shirt/pocket protector civil engineer boomer that hardly listened to music. He bought this band’s cassette and loved this tune. He’d listen to it on the way to drop me off at school on his way to work. This brings back childhood memories.
For me the 1980's will always be a special time w////\. I live in a rather small town and these Post Y@Kiddo's need to have everything thing done now when as My Mom would say ....
I remember watching this live and it was more notable for the odd mannerisms and expressions of the singer than for the performance and the song itself, both of which were excellent.
Same 😊 the night before the first day a group of us hiked up to the top of the hill to get a better look and before long we had Security cars driving up, think I remember a helicopter spot light on us 😅😅
Man, it wasn't until college in 1990 that I was exposed to anything other than classic rock. My roommate had this on rotation. Pure fun. Brings back great memories.
Great 90s song . I was on the autobahn for 6 yrs playing live . I heard this song . Quit my band Found new players We did this song. My drummer of 50 years Kevin Stanley turned me on to this band. Pistols. Wendy O
This song was out of the blocks different when it first came out and holds up today. Timeless and this live version tops it off. Cheers from Australia where this song got lots of airplay and charted well. Sorry I missed their tour.
Hahah I’m 21 and I love Stan ridgeway. Because when me and dad would go away for rock climbing trips when I was young he had one tape and it was Stan ridgeway. And the drive to the climbs were 7 hours away....
Few bands could provide this level of excellence live. This festival had a bunch! Credit goes out to the bands but damn, roadies and...the sound guy. I am envious at what a good time they are having.
From Wiki: Stan Ridgway claims that the situation around the band was increasingly chaotic during this era, with a great deal of drug use and out-of-control behavior on the part of the band members, as well as shady behavior by the band's management and record label. Wall of Voodoo appeared at the second US Festival on May 28, 1983 (the largest concert the band had performed), immediately after which Ridgway, Nanini, and Noland all left the band.
i wuz readin a manga called badoom and one of the characters wuz singin these lyrics and a wave o' nostalgia hit me so hard i washed up on the beach here. i member when this wuz on the radio. i wuz a junior in highschool, drivin down country roads listening to the pioneer supertuner 2 in my 70 challenger rt and doin roadbong hits with my friends cuz that's all there wuz to do in rural indiana in the summertime in the 80's. sold the car when i joined the army, and my friends all moved away. kinda miss'em. well, the car anyhow, that damn thing's worth almost as much as my house now! lol!
No. If you're out to find racism in the song then you will being it's usually in the eye of the beholder, but I don't think most people find it racist at all
