THE BIG HEAT - STAN RIDGWAY
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- čas přidán 2. 08. 2024
- Stan Ridgway just writes great songs. His first video from his solo record on his own after Wall of Voodoo. Music and film noir at its best. This song still sits in my ipod - always. Like a great movie you never saw. Or maybe did. Stan is a genius.
www.stanridgway.com Bandcamp: stanridgway1.bandcamp.com/music - Hudba
God I wish I had a time machine. Sometimes the melancholy is overwhelming.
Still the best writer of the short & bitter sweet vignette type of song nobody does .
Hell, is there anything better than getting wasted alone at home and watching Stan Ridgway and Wall of Voodoo videos. And, by the way, has anyone seen an awfully big marine...
Absolute fact.
@Baron von Frankenstein This album's my personal favorite and it's not on apple music for some reason. As to Camouflage,, he sure was an awfully strange marine.
Agreed
Good news everyone, it's back up there!
I used to listen to this song when driving to Vegas, or from Oklahoma City to California, and it never failed to lift my spirits. That weird spooky song, when you drive in the dark is wild...
I didn't know anyone else equated certain songs with driving at night! I definitely agree with you Jonathan Brooks. You should also listen to Music for Chameleons by Gary Numan. That song also has a very "nighttime drive" feel
I definitely equate it with the night.
I love how the 80s songs and videos had so much Film Noir elements to them. I didn't think that back then when listening/watching to them.
This song is disgustingly good and so artistic. Genius.
The keyboards really help make a nice spooky vibe.
They don't write songs like this anymore.
I've always liked this track!
When our favourite lead singers leave their bands ( Ridgeway, gabriel, Sting, etc.) it just makes for MORE of the music we love. The old band plus the single artist keep cranking things out, doubling the pleasure.
Stan the MAN! This NEVER gets old....
'Drive She Said' is my favorite song by Stan Ridgway. I've been a fan since his work with Wall of Voodoo, and was impressed with 'Ring of Fire'. When he went solo I immediately bought all his albums on release. 'The Big Heat', 'Camouflage', 'It's a Lonely Town', 'Can't Stop the Show', 'Walking Home Alone', and on and on. I can't get enough!
Personally think partyball was an amazing album by Stan.
Also stan is still going today, cheers to him. Still dropping songs after 40 years
Yes, alot of B-movies around 1986-88 used Stan Ridgway/Wall Of Voodoo-related music. In "Cutting Class", there are a couple songs by one of the guys from WOV, and well as CHUD II: Chud The Bud, which includes the same songs. "Night Of The Creeps" is a great movie, by the way!
....so much talent....so very much talent....
Stan Ridgway is one of my the best ever!
gotta love Stan
I just love all of the songs from the two first albums he made!
“Has anyone seen an awfully big marine” I love Stan’s funny little speaking sections he does so much
He's never been as good as in his vintage years. His first solo album is still the best.
Stan Ridgway is a BRILLIANT writer.
the last three seconds "has anyone seen an awfully big marine". Camofluage
He'd be happy to know, despite wherever he is, that people are still diggin his sound. Thanks Luke !! I will be on the lookout...!
Stan used to have an audience member play the slide whistle for this in concert. Great talent.
Still holds up and its way past "1992". Post -Snowden now and "someone following you " gets some added resonance. a great sci-fi movie-song, warning of the coming surveillance state - it was released in 1986. I wonder if Stan and Pietra watched Jean-Luc Godard's Alpha Ville?
A favourite of mine for well over 20 years...
This is brilliant. I love this track.
love it when he mentions Tucson
Ridgway had his own "sound", and style. I like the way he narrates the lyrics in his customary dark mode.
When I first heard this, 1992 seemed so far off in the future...
Same here, now time goes by too fast.
Me too! And then one day I got old...
Surely one of the best music videos I've ever seen. A brilliantly conceived and filmed tribute to film noir. Which is quite fitting, since the song itself is a tribute to film noir.
A rare case of a music video that actually fits the song it's done for, and not a bad shot in the whole production. Moody, evocative, intense, and thoroughly endearing.
Who directed this masterpiece?
The Chorus is awesome ❤️ I Love that Song, such a good tune
Love this song
I adore this man.
mee toooooo.
i saw stannard ridgeway perform in sydney 1987!! it was a fantastic concert
Stan Rigdway, Wall of Voodoo... marvellous, unique, outstanding, unforgetable...
What is it 40 years now..geez time just flew LOL. Nothing like the big heat man.
Great 80's! Possibly the only "noir" video of that time.
I foist hoid 'dis song on WXYC, UNC student radio, back in 'da 80's. Sounded cool back 'den and it has held up 'tru 'da years. Stan is 'da man!
Stan was a crazy guy in the 80s.
Blade Runner vibe.
I had this album on cassette back when it came out and remember playing the hell out of it on my boombox and in my car stereo. Great tunes.
Stan where are you?!
Got Wall of Voodoo best of LP for £5 recently, delighted. “Don’t box me in” and Coppola’s “Rumblefish” are absolutely outstanding. Both unforgettable. Craig Anderson Aberdeen Scotland
@UncleBoogieRF
My words. I'm just glad I discovered Stan Ridgway and.. I saw him live in 1986. Stan could have been much more successful if he really liked but he's a way too intelligent and stubborn. I like him for that and his wonderful music
This song rocks
Noiry cool! My favourite of his. Thanks for uploading!
loooooooooooooooove
The chorus owns.
"...And everybody wants another piece of pie today."
Sounds like Special Agent Dale Cooper's type of song.
Stan's the man.
love the drumming in this. great stuff.
Wish there was a more HD version of this video on here, but still glad to have it at all
I love the sound from 2:10 to 2;21.I cannot remember hearing this in 1987.
The used to invest a lot of money in videoclips! This is a movie! Amazing Stan Ridgway!
First heard this in Benidorm 28 years ago...along with some very early Simple Minds, never went back to that bar sadly, loved it.
"I hate Barstow..."
California's armpit! He haw!
Always loved this song, from 9 years old to the present, but have always been puzzled by the "1992" reference? Does anyone have an explanation, or are we all of a mind that the cadence, and the illiteration of the nines, sounded, and fitted, better for the song?
it's the beast... the beast.. the beast...
THIS is a tune. I was always looking for this track, but all I knew was it was the one after camoflage...BUT...now I know its this one.Thanks poster...youve scratched a 20 odd year itch :)
Man, missed your reply 4 months back. Only hit he ever really had in the UK was Camouflage. That kinda tarnished him really sadly as most folk didn't take him seriously. My next encounter was "Bing Can't Walk" on the movie "Slam Dance". Then two songs from Mosquitos got heavy playback on a local radio station and that was that. Hooked for life:) Mosquitos was one of the best albums of the last 20 years.
Every Ridgway song I have is on my iPod, and will remain so.
Yeah this was a good song
We miss Stan out here in The Old Pueblo.
This album was on Spotify but it disappeared! Wtf!
I am always surprised by how much Barstow comes up in cult favorite music.
Emocionante
Prophecy at it's best!
its the big heat...
Trop bien le son de l'harmonica derrière ! j'aime beaucoup ce titre ! quand je pense à la musique de Stan c'est The Big Heat qui me vient à l'esprit en premier et le reste de son oeuvre suit ! trop bon ! Stan pour Toujours !
This tune is a blast from the past, and it still roxx your fucking boxxorzz
It's the Big Heap
Aw, Gawd, The album was taken off of Spotify! *AAAAGGGGGHHHH!!*
some weeks ago.. well.. maybe five?
That makes 3!!!
Rad!!!
xoxo The Clarences
KDOC used to play all of Stan's videos back in the day. then Wally George. great stuff.
Ironically, I first heard this song in the year 1992.
A block away he wondered if he'd left behind a clue
The front page of the paper dated 1992
He remembered when he used to be the chairman of the board
But that was when the world was young and long before the war
And everybody wants another piece of the pie today, he said
You gotta watch the ones who keep their hands clean
Sweet! I never knew this had a promo video.
@UndeadLucas You're a Genius........I agree!!! I always said Stan was Underrated....
KrazyKat: "Music and film noir at its best. This song still sits in my ipod - always. Like a great movie you never saw. Or maybe did. Stan is a genius."
Your description of Stan is perfect. No other song writer crams as much story into 3-4 minutes of music. I've tried to convert people over the years, but his music is an acquired taste. And clearly the people I've tried to convert are idiots.:)
Never seen this video before. Great stuff!
Go chrismac94! I was lucky enough to see Stan Ridgway do an "in-store" performance at Gaslight Record Shop in Melbourne Australia in 86 or 87 - he can cut it live, as well as on record - keep searching out the good stuff - have you found Tom Waits' "Small Change" CD?
The decades of the 50's to 70's formed the best generation this planet has seem. OUR generation. 80's were cool, no?
Klingt gut :)
Where is Stan these days ? Doubt he'd be in Barstow, unless he stopped off on his way to Vegas
Compare the most adventurous of rap artist to this , no comparison , it just pales to the depth and wit and sarcasm mister Ridgway showcases here , dont box me in and back in flesh are other STANdouts
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WHile I love the B52's this music is less dance oriented and has all kinds of timeing/mood changes in it. More adventerious...
great art direction....stans the man, check out the drywall project
Hahaha dude, I'm a huge fan of that movie too.
this kinda reminds me of the b 52s
If Mickey Spillane wrote songs, he would've been Stan Ridgeway.
Damn. As good as this is (not one of my faves, though), I thought it was going to be a different one. Just remembered the one I'm looking for is called "Heat Takes A Walk" and it's off his Mosquitos album.
2024
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Stan should have done a duet with k.d. lang,would have been genius.
The front page of the paper dated 1992
I always wondered why nobody ever saw the possibility of taking Stan's songs and turning then into some type of theatrical musical? They all tell such great stories. The man has such an amazing talent.
Well, someone HAD to put an Alien Grey in the start of this video, which begs the question exactly what year did this song get released? This song does have a strong 'X Files' vibe though...
Yeah man that freaked me out.
Wall of Voodoo lost it's soul when Ridgway left.
a great Album, great story, ... too bad, that it is heard not very often at the radio station ....
4 weeks ago.. well.. maybe 5...