Dark Continent (album)

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Dark Continent
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Studio album by
Wall of Voodoo
ReleasedAugust 18, 1981
Recorded1981
GenreNew wave, post-punk
Length35:50
LabelI.R.S.
ProducerJim Hill, Paul McKenna, Wall of Voodoo
Wall of Voodoo chronology
Wall of Voodoo
(1980) 		Dark Continent
(1981) 		Call of the West
(1982)

Dark Continent is the debut studio album by American new wave band Wall of Voodoo, released in 1981 on I.R.S. Records. It reached number 177 on the Billboard 200 chart.[1]

A music video was produced for the song "Call Box (1-2-3)"[citation needed] and the band performed "Back in Flesh" in the 1981 concert film Urgh! A Music War. Early live versions of four songs ("Red Light", "Animal Day", "Back in Flesh" and "Call Box (1-2-3)") are featured on the compilation The Index Masters.

The album was first issued on CD by A&M Records in 1992.[2] In 2009, Australian label Raven Records reissued Dark Continent and the second Wall of Voodoo album, Call of the West, together on one CD, featuring a full color booklet with liner notes by Ian McFarlane. Both albums were digitally remastered.[3]

Reception[]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic4.5/5 stars[4]
Classic Rock5/10 stars[5]

In a retrospective review, AllMusic declared Dark Continent to be Wall of Voodoo's greatest album, pointing to the uniformly strong songwriting and the intensely original voice and style.[4] On the contrary, Geoff Barton wrote on Classic Rock that the first two Wall of Voodoo albums did not age well; he found Ridgway's singing style "intensely irriating" and the music "too clever-clever for comfort."[5]

Track listing[]

All tracks written by Wall of Voodoo.

Side one
  1. "Red Light" – 3:08
  2. "Two Minutes Till Lunch" – 2:55
  3. "Animal Day" – 3:13
  4. "Full of Tension" – 2:14
  5. "Me and My Dad" – 3:20
  6. "Back in Flesh" – 3:42
Side two
  1. "Tse Tse Fly" – 4:46
  2. "Call Box (1-2-3)" – 2:32
  3. "This Way Out" – 3:56
  4. "Good Times" – 2:29
  5. "Crack the Bell" – 3:33

Personnel[]

Wall of Voodoo
Production
  • Jim Hill, Paul McKenna – producers, engineers
  • Kirk Ferraioli – assistant engineer

References[]

  1. ^ "Billboard 200". Billboard. October 24, 1981. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  2. ^ Dark Continent (Media notes). Wall of Voodoo. A&M Records. 1992. 44797 0022 2.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  3. ^ Dark Continent / Call of the West (Media notes). Wall of Voodoo. Raven Records. 2009. RVCD-309.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Adams, Greg. "Dark Continent – Wall of Voodoo". AllMusic. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Barton, Geoff (March 2010). "Wall of Voodoo - Reissues". Classic Rock. No. 142. p. 95.

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