In Collection
#523
Rating:
7
#523
Rating:
7
| 01 | Tomorrow | 03:04 | ||||||
| 02 | Lost Weekend | 04:59 | ||||||
| 03 | Factory | 05:33 | ||||||
| 04 | Look At Their Way | 03:18 | ||||||
| 05 | Hands Of Love | 03:54 | ||||||
| 06 | Mexican Radio | 04:11 | ||||||
| 07 | Spy World | 02:40 | ||||||
| 08 | They Don't Want Me | 04:31 | ||||||
| 09 | On Interstate 15 | 02:45 | ||||||
| 10 | Call Of The West | 05:59 | ||||||
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Notes
On this mythically-themed 1981 release dealing with the spirits of the Old West mingling mirage-like with the new, a more literate, and more carefully calibrated delivery began to emerge. Contains two bona fide classics in the driving and demented "Mexican Radio" (for which a video was filmed). "..wish I was in Tijuana / eating BBQed iguana.." and the immeasurably haunting Carver-esque "Lost Weekend", still considered to be one of Ridgway's greatest songs and a foreshadowing of even greater things to come. Ridgway hits his stride and critics and audiences loved it, making the band an MTV favorite. Also contains a classic Ridgway lyrical "knot" in the blue-collar nightmare "Factory".."I like to know what I'm doin' when I do it and I do what I'm doing 'cause I don't know what to do when I'm not doin' it..." A seriously chilling listen.