Wall of VooDoo - Mexican Radio (Ross Remix)

Wall of Voodoo was an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. Though largely an underground act for the majority of its existence, the band came to prominence when its 1982 single "Mexican Radio" became a hit on MTV and alternative radio. The band was known for surrealist lyrics drawing on iconography of the American southwest. "Mexican Radio" is a track that was initially released on their second studio album Call of the West (1982). The video for the single was regularly featured on MTV in the United States, contributing to the song's popularity. The song peaked in the US at No. 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It also reached No. 18 in Canada, No. 21 in New Zealand, No.33 in Australia and No. 64 in the UK. The song's lyrics describe listening to the broadcasts of high-wattage unregulated Mexican radio stations, known as border blasters, whose AM broadcasts are strong enough to be picked up by radio receivers in the US. The song was inspired by car trips taken by Wall of Voodoo frontman Stan Ridgway and guitarist Marc Moreland on their way to rehearsals, when they would listen to Mexican broadcasts, preferring their programming to mainstream Los Angeles radio. During one of the band's sessions, Moreland played them a demo tape that he had recorded of himself repeatedly singing the line "I'm on a Mexican radio" over a guitar riff and that sound clip became the starting point of the single.