Stan Ridgway, Barbeque Babylon - 1h 1m 54s

Tracks & Durations

1. Goin' On Down To The BBQ	4:30
2. Fortune Cookies	5:16
3. Somewhere In The Dark	3:08
4. Abandon Ship	2:19
5. Buried The Pope	4:11
6. In Total Focus	3:47
7. The Aarp Is After Me	2:39
8. That BIg Weird Thing	4:33
9. Robbers & Bandits & Bastards & Thieves	2:47
10. Rain On Down	4:40
11. The Alibi Room	3:12
12. Wargasm 2005	3:09
13. Bold Marauder	4:23
14. Land Of Spook	3:53
15. Something's Gonna Blow	3:38
16. Untiltled	5:39

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Review

In the mid '90s, Wall of Voodoo mainstay-turned-solo artist Stan Ridgway bid farewell to the major label treadmill via Drywall's masterfully dark debut and embarked on an indie career as the more historically-rooted, acoustically-centered singer-songwriter found of the compelling Black Diamond, Snakebite and Anatomy albums. The original Drywall concept ("a trilogy of apocalyptic documents") seemed intended to variously antagonize his then-label, subtly evoke his Wall of Voodoo past and offer outlet for his latent "mad scientist" tendencies. But Ridgway has completed that decade-spanning triptych with an album that's closer in tone to his elegiac modern solo work (his main accomplices here are also the same, keyboardist/vocalist Pietra Wextun and guitarist Rick King), if no less thematically provocative than DW's first installment. The infectious, industrialized zydeco of "Goin' On Down to the BBQ" revolves around a typically debauched Ridgway storyline, while elsewhere Stan variously stirs in jazz (the saxed-up "Fortune Cookies"), cinematic cool (the evocative "Somewhere in the Dark" and "Rain On Down") and even folk conceits both nautical ("Abandon Ship," "Robbers & Bandits & Bastards & Thieves") and Celtic (Wexstun's haunting "Bold Marauder"). "The AARP is After Me" and tipsy "Something's Gonna Blow" are filled with typically self-deprecating Ridgway wit, while the electro-edginess of "In Total Focus" and "That Big Weird Thing" contrast sharply with the stark beauty of the morally ambiguous ballad "Buried the Pope." Drywall closes out their first trilogy in rich, expansive style - and ultimately leaves listeners hoping they'll embark on another soon. --Jerry McCulley

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