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  Img Wall of voodoo 16jpg
  Img Capt Wall of Voodoo, 1982 lineup (left to right): Joe Nanini , Chas T Gray, Stan Ridgway , Marc Moreland
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  Background group_or_band
  Origin Los Angeles, California
  Genre New Wave
  Years Active 1977–1988, 2006
  Label IRS Records
  Associated Acts The Skulls , Nervous Gender , Eye Protection
  URL http://wwwwallofvoodoonet
  Past Members Stan Ridgway , Marc Moreland , Bruce Moreland, Chas T Gray, Joe Nanini , Bill Noland, Andy Prieboy , Ned Lukhardt


Wall of Voodoo was a New Wave group from Los Angeles best known for the 1983 hit " Mexican Radio ". The band had a sound that was a fusion of synthesizer-based New Wave Music with the Spaghetti Western soundtrack style of Ennio Morricone .


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Wall of Voodoo had its roots in Acme Soundtracks, an unsuccessful , who had been the drummer for Black Randy and the Metrosquad, the first lineup of Wall of Voodoo was born. {Link without Title}

The band was named Wall of Voodoo before their first gig in reference to a comment made by Joe Berardi, a friend of Ridgway's. Berardi was listening to some of the Acme Soundtracks music Ridgway and Moreland had created in their studio. When Ridgway jokingly compared the multiple-drum-machine- and Farfisa -organ-laden recordings to Phil Spector's Wall Of Sound , Berardi commented it sounded more like a "wall of voodoo", and the name stuck.


1977–1983


  filename WOVRingofFireogg
  title "Ring of Fire"
  description Sample of Wall Of Voodoo "Ring of Fire" from '' Wall Of Voodoo '' EP (1980)


  filename WOVMexicanRadioogg
  title "Mexican Radio"
  description Sample of Wall Of Voodoo " Mexican Radio " from '' Call Of The West '' (1982)


  filename WOVFarSideofCrazyogg
  title "Far Side of Crazy"
  description Sample of Wall Of Voodoo "Far Side of Crazy" from '' Seven Days In Sammystown '' (1985)