Wall of Voodoo were one of the most insteresting bands to come out of the Los Angeles punk scene in the 1980s: Enrico Morricone guitar lines, avant-garde percussion, and post-punk synths, backing up one of the most distinctive vocal stylists of recent memory, Stan Ridgeway.

Here they are performing their brilliant version of ‘Ring of Fire’ on a Los Angeles TV station. Not sure of the date. The late Mark Moreland plays a brilliant guitar solo here, shorter than the one on the record, but brilliant nonetheless. If someone can name the song that he’s quoting, please let me know. Moreland and his bandmates had a knack for cramming a remarkable amount of dissonance into their music without completely breaking the conventions of contemporary pop music.

Here’s the video for the big monster hit, ‘Mexican Radio’. I think those are pots and pans the percussionist is playing.

And here they are doing ‘Back in Flesh’ in Urgh… a Music War. This live performance conspicuously avoids the use of a four letter expletive that begins with the letter ‘F’ in the “You can’t tell me what to do” section.