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Artist/Band: Stan Ridgeway
Lyrics for Song: Talkin' Wall Of Voodoo Blues Pt.1
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Stan Ridgeway



Didn't want no MTV,

Didn't want no VH-1

Was a time so long ago

Yeah, we had some punk-rock fun

Made a great big noise

For all the girls and boys

It was 1977

Now two are gone to heaven

Yeah, I was in an office space

There across the street

Down an alley, dirty stairs,

And a basement underneath

Brendan ran The Masque

He played drums, we drank a lot

We started playing underground

People started comin' round

Comin' round.

Mark Moreland played his guitar

And I clawed there at the keys

Little brother Bruce showed up one day

And now we're three

I had this rhythm box

That I got from Yogi Bear

And Joe and Chas jumped on to play

And we practiced music night and day

Night and day.

Hey, the scene was growin' out

People everwhere

Old hippies, beatniks, glam-rock kids

Goin' punk rock––cut their hair

One night we played The Whiskey

With Miss Ivy and Mister Lux

Backstage the record man approached

Yeah, we thought we had hit the bucks

Big bucks.

So we put out a record EP

Jim Hill was our engineer

And when it got played on the radio

We could not believe our ears

There it was.

So we went out on the road

Started playin' near and far

Drivin' in that beat-up van

Or two or three old cars

Drivin' everywhere.

Then the sharks showed up and circled

A big manager for Sting

Said sign here, boys, you'll all be stars

We'll go for that brass ring



The contract was like a book

Two hundred pages long

We signed there on that dotted line

Just a dollar for each song

Just a dollar.

Things started gettin' wild

With the band and me and Marc

We did that methedrine a lot

And drank that Cutty Sark

Richard Mazda came from the UK

Helped us to record in a brand new way

One weekend, Marc's song fell out

The single they still talk about

We made a video

With Frank Delia behind the lens

Labor Day in Mexico,

Lots of beans 'n drugs 'n friends

But all was gonna bust

Hey, how are chumps like us to know

We took off on that tour so long

And played and sang our radio song.

Oh-woah.

Now, it seemed like that old voodoo dog we had

Was payin' for its fees

We lost control of our own band

To the record company

Yeah, I guess we blew it big time

Business got us bent

We played a show for fourty grand

And the manager took every cent

Every goddamn cent.

Yeah, things got worse, and pretty soon

It was time for me to go

I did my best to patch it up

But we were all just big assholes

So, if you wanna make a band,

Get ready for a good ride

Don't let weasels, sharks, and fiends, and creeps

Force you to comprimise

Uh-huh.

Didn't want no MTV,

Didn't want no VH-1

Was a time so long ago

Yeah, we had some punk-rock fun

Made a great big noise

For all the girls and boys

It was 1977

Now two are gone to heaven


Album Lyrics: Other Songs - Stan Ridgeway


Stan Ridgeway
"Other Songs - Stan Ridgeway"


1. Afghan/forklift
2. After The Storm
3. Amnesia
4. Animal Day
5. As I Went Out One Morning
6. Back In Flesh
7. Back Towards Diamond Bar
8. Bad News At The Dynamite Ranch
9. Beloved Movie Star Redux
10. Big American Problem
11. Big Dumb Town
12. Bing Can't Walk
13. Brand New Special And Unique
14. Call Box
15. Call Of The West
16. Calling Out To Carol
17. Camouflage
18. Can't Make Love
19. Can't Stop The Show
20. Cannon Song (aka Army Song)
21. Classic Hollywood Ending
22. Crack The Bell
23. Crow Hollow Blues
24. Crystal Palace
25. Deep Inside We're Blue
26. Dogs
27. Don't Box Me In
28. Don't Drop The Soap
29. Drive, She Said
30. End Of An Era
31. Factory
33. Foggy River
34. Free Of It All
35. Full Of Tension
36. Funzone
37. Garage Band '69
38. God Sleeps In A Caboose
39. Goin' Southbound
40. Gone The Distance
41. Good Times
42. Hands Of Love
43. Harry Truman
44. Hear That Bird
45. Heat Takes A Walk
46. Hell In A Handbasket
47. Highway Song
48. I Wanna Be A Boss
49. Into The Sun
50. Invisible Man
51. Jack Talked (Like A Man On Fire)
52. King For A Day
53. Knife & Fork
54. Lonely Town
55. Longarm
56. Look At Their Way
57. Lost Weekend
58. Luther Played Guitar
59. Mama Had A Stove
60. Man Of Stone
61. Me & My Dad
62. Mexican Radio
63. Mickey The Priest
64. Mission Bell
65. Monsters Of The Id
66. Mr. Smith
67. Murray's Steakhouse Story
68. My Exclusive Sex Club
69. My Own Universe
70. My Rose Marie (a Soldier's Tale)
71. Nadine
72. New Blue Mercedes
73. Newspapers
74. O.K.?
75. Old Bent Coin
76. On Interstate 15
77. Only A Hobo
78. Operator Help Me
79. Our Manhattan Moment
80. Overlords
81. Picasso's Tear
82. Pick It Up
83. Pile Driver
84. Pink Parakeet
85. Red Light
86. Right Through You
87. Ring Of Fire
88. Rio Greyhound
89. Running With The Carnival
90. Salesman
91. Sixteen Tons
92. Snaketrain
93. Spy World
94. Stormy Side Of Town
95. Stranded
96. Susie Before Sunrise
97. Sweet Pig Alley
98. Talk Hard
99. Talkin' Wall Of Voodoo Blues Pt.1
100. That Big 5-0
101. The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly / Hang 'em High
102. The Last Honest Man
103. The Man In The Long Black Coat
104. The Passenger
105. The Roadblock
106. This Way Out
107. Throw It Away
108. Time Wave Zero
109. Tomorrow
110. Train Of Thought
111. Triangle Head
112. Tse Tse Fly
113. Twisted
114. Two Minutes Till Lunch
115. Uba's House Of Fashions
116. Underneath The Big Green Tree
117. Valerie Is Sleeping
118. Venus Is Hell
119. Wake Up Sally
120. Watch Your Step
121. Whatever Happened To You?
122. Whistle For Louise
123. Wild Bill Donovan
124. Your Rockin'chair