Jazz for Quirk Daddies

sweet!

 cc_rider wrote: 

91X in San Diego still broadcasts from Mexico.

boy... i haven't heard this song in ages!  awesome!

another cracker

...i'm vegetarian, but it would so almost be worth going to tijuana to eat barbequed iguana - then maybe selma hayek would do a little dance and i'd be attacked by vampires...

xc_para_puravida wrote: Just Drive, She Said...

...eating bar-be-qued i-guan-a...

WonderLizard wrote:
Yea, you know, either one. Mexican is just Spanish without the lisp. :)

bluedot wrote:
Yea, that would make you a bit older than me, but that's okay. :)

Ahnyer_Keester wrote:

Or Spanish.

I LOVE this song. It's just so quirky. 10!

dogdokken wrote:

There were a LOT of high-powered radio stations based in Mexico. ZZ Top's 'Heard It On The X' is about those stations. Some could be heard as far away as Chicago: they pummeled everything on the band with raw power. There is a play about the phenomena called 'Border Radio', one of the stars of which is one of the original radio announcers/pitchmen of the day. His voice is still quite distinctive, pitching everything from hair tonic to secret decoder rings.

There is no racist intent in Mr. Ridgway's song, nor ZZ Top's either. The 'X' stations were quite famous, and broke a lot of top hits that later made it to 'mainstream' radio.

c.

Pinnacle of the 80's pop!

Cool song.

This is such a top station.

Ahnyer_Keester wrote:yeah? that's all cool and true, but the song reminds ME more of WOLFMAN JACK blasting R&B from tijuana all the way to canada, which would make me older than you, i guess. LOL

Skippy wrote:

YOU GOT IT!!!!

Cool band name, cool song.

drtjdel wrote:

LOL, Bill's playlists always seem to have a connection. I usually don't notice them till someone else points them out.

drtjdel wrote:

sad

Was Kristy MacColl playing on that speedboat's radio in Cozumel? Because that would be, like, weird. Wouldn't it?

Some one-hit-wonders merit a GODLIKE 10 rating for the sheer sake of it. This one does.

Awesome! This will always remind me of 91X in SoCal. They're an independent station set up just south of the border and they play great stuff. But every once in a while Mexico requires they broadcast speeches or something and you turn it on expecting alternative rock and you get Mexican. Ha. Those were the days. :)

This song will always be the memory of living in the same house with four of my best friends in the summer of 82'. MTV was the new thing and if you had the killer stereo hook up, you could play the music through your system and watch the video AT THE SAME TIME!

More Stan Ridgway!

Sheer, unadulterated fun.

for one brief moment I was hearing/thinking Zappa.... anyway, good tune!

ya The Big Heat is a fantastic album- Just Drive She Said! This album is really good too. I especially like Lost Weekend and the title track. I've been a WoV fan for years and even saw them live a few times back in the 80s- they used to put on a really amusing frenetic live show and their percussionist/drummer Joe Nanini had this unreal set up, along with the traditional kit he had these racks of strange objects (pots, pans, mailboxes, trash can lids etc) and he played on everything at pretty much the speed of light Good times

oh, love it!! haven't heard it in ages!