How perfect! I did an exchange year to California when I was 15, 'I am European) and I also travelled a bit around Utah, Colorado etc. I still carry the desert within me, and this song encapsulates its essence perfectly.
"There's a conflict, " he said. "There's a conflict between land and people. The people have to go. They've come all the way out here to make mining claims, to do automobile body work, to gamble. To take pictures, to not have to do laundry, to own a mini-bike, to have their own CB radios and air conditioning, good plumbing for sure, and to sell time life books and to work in a deli, to have some chili every morning and maybe, maybe to own their own gas stations again and to take drugs and have some crazy sex, but above all, above all to have a fair shake, to get a piece of the rock and a slice of the pie and to spit out the window of your car and not have the wind blow it back in your face." Only a sage of the everyman could have written something this profoundly universal.
I agree wholeheartedly w/ all 4 of the comments below... WOV was one of the greatest to ever lace em' up ! I grew up w/ these Cats & there's absolutely no one like em' ! Stan' s the man ! Thanks so much for sharing this ! 👣
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2023 y aún los sigo escuchando. ¡Genios!.
Was listening to this while heading to California from Denver on a Greyhound bus.....yippee yah ay.....
How perfect! I did an exchange year to California when I was 15, 'I am European) and I also travelled a bit around Utah, Colorado etc. I still carry the desert within me, and this song encapsulates its essence perfectly.
"There's a conflict, " he said. "There's a conflict between land and people. The people have to go. They've come all the way out here to make mining claims, to do automobile body work, to gamble. To take pictures, to not have to do laundry, to own a mini-bike, to have their own CB radios and air conditioning, good plumbing for sure, and to sell time life books and to work in a deli, to have some chili every morning and maybe, maybe to own their own gas stations again and to take drugs and have some crazy sex, but above all, above all to have a fair shake, to get a piece of the rock and a slice of the pie and to spit out the window of your car and not have the wind blow it back in your face."
Only a sage of the everyman could have written something this profoundly universal.
To this day when the guitar starts in it still gives me goose bumps love this song!!!!!
Well here it is 2021 and it's up!!!
I agree wholeheartedly w/ all 4 of the comments below... WOV was one of the greatest to ever lace em' up ! I grew up w/ these Cats & there's absolutely no one like em' ! Stan' s the man ! Thanks so much for sharing this ! 👣
another great track from WOV ! thanks for uploading
Stan Ridgway is genius !!!
And he was so cute too, I had such a crush on him!
Wall Of Voodoo"Call Of the West"
Son, this aint no western movie matinee...you're a long way off from Yippee I Aye!