ALBUM: The Big Heat (1986)
MVC Rating: 3.5/$$$
This is a little over-dated featuring clunky synthesizer. That means the synth (or organ) fills sometime sound like they stopped the music and banged a couple big wrenches together. CLUNK. Followed by the door of a bank safe slamming shut.. CHUCLUNK.
And speaking of hitting the wall, Ridgway was the lead singer of Wall of Voodoo which scored a hit with ‘Mexican Radio’ in 1983.
Voodoo introduced Ridgway’s distinctive voice and narrative style songwriting. The problem is the song-stories don’t always work. They do on the title song,
‘The Big Heat,’ and on ‘Pick it Up and Put it in Your Pocket’ and ‘Drive, She Said.’