“Red Light” by Wall of Voodoo

"Red Light" turns up on Dark Continent, the 1981 debut album Wall of Voodoo made for I.R.S. Records, and it was a live number for the band too: an early concert version, alongside three other songs from the record, surfaced on the compilation The Index Masters.

The whole group shares the writing credit, and they produced it themselves with engineers Jim Hill and Paul McKenna. Stan Ridgway sings and doubles on harmonica and keyboards, Marc Moreland plays guitar, Bruce Moreland handles bass and keyboards, Chas T. Gray adds more keyboards and synthesizer, and Joe Nanini covers percussion. Three sets of hands on keys plus a harmonica: hardly your standard guitar-band lineup. The album split critics down the middle, from AllMusic calling it the band's best to Classic Rock's complaint that it had aged badly.

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