Wall Of Voodoo - "Factory"

[chafdanbrown]

Now I know I had something to say but the problem is to say something

Uhh...you gotta say it

And I still don't remember a thing since that funny gas

Came out of that pipe next to me / I guess they didn't ok it

[chainsaw1SG]

I have loved this song since the early 80's. This video is amazing. I had to bookmark it I liked it so much.

[bigharryrabbit]

That was fantastic. Love Wall of Voodoo.

[sheriffofmalibu]

Great video for this song - well done.

[veganswines]

i love this song, great band

[mariarts]

You my man have made alot of people happy incl me great video n song combination

[neosapiensculture]

W of W is one of my essential bands... that i forget from time to time... f*cking Life :-)

[neosapiensculture]

Factory life breeds some stupid behaviors... listen to the lyrics :-)

[Vivzid]

"Quit Your Day Jobs, work on your Art!"- JB

;-)

[StefanoSportelli]

Mi sxatas multege!

[dhille7]

Nice! The song + the video kinda put me in a trance. 

[JohnCKimbrough]

Very interesting video, great song

[5150zombie]

shit, first time I heard this. good song.

[southguy99]

The ultimate Voodoo song may it live on forever

[PWDOUBLEWASP]

After watching this video, I am going back in my hangar to work on my B-29 Superfortress while drinking a Schlitz.............

[markino1963]

fascinating like.....wall of vodoo!

[minniethe3rd]

the vid has no link to the music

[raybradhausen]

A great song about the slow burning madness of an assembly line worker. It easily became my favorite song on the album. Great job on the video. Thank you for recognizing Stan Ridgway and Wall of Voodoo.

[chaosfive55]

One of my favorite songs! To me, it always had a Lovecraftian feel to it--the song of a worker in Dunwich, perhaps...

[commandersprocket]

@chaosfive55 I take it you've never actually worked in a factory job. Lovecraft was just exploiting the collective unconscious of his era to write his stories. The cold sweaty survival-fear people had during (time to be known in the future as) the first great depression. He wrote about a pantheon of humanity-nullifying entities (an analogy to many-headed corporations) and the magical rites and forbidden lore (analogies to the opaque hierarchy of companies (see Enron era 2001)).

[chaosfive55]

@commandersprocket I never indulge in analogy or allegory...to me, the story is all...

[TheStrangeRanger]

WOV is one of the most under rated bands of all time. They were brilliant.

[queen7x7]

@viewingut: you're a very strong person having done that job. best wishes to you!

[BlueKyne]

Very good video, reminds me of the days when you could see better done videos late at night on USA's "Night Flight". Those were the days!

[POOPSCAM666]

wall of voodoo is the best fuckin band that ever existed, and this video rules

[papaclanc]

At 1:34 the dude looks like Michael Richards (Kramer from Seinfeld) dad.

[papaclanc]

Call of the West is an all-timer, no doubt.

[JWMoonlizard]

Both Stan and Andy were fantastic lyricists. Maybe the best.

[CanibalCupcake09]

wow, you did a great job on the video.

Great song.

[Duran09007fan]

the "mexican radio"video was removed knowing Y.T. this will be next. so hurry hurry hurry and download while you still have a chance.JUST LATELY NOW WHEN MY WIFE TALKS BACK TOO ME I SLAP HER AROUND THEN I GO TO THEN I GO TO THEN I GO TO sleep.

[hackman55able]

One of LA's greatest bands. Very very visual in their music. I still draw and paint to their music daily. This is one of their best songs for sure. Extremely dark and yet totally fun.

[TheMrcr3w]

Amazing video. Thank you. Hadn't heard the song in a long while. Your visual text encloses the music and sends it in many directions at once.

[HauntedGhostLady]

My favorite song from the album. If WoV did make a video for it, I think they would have gone the same way you did.

[skullyj2002]

great song - great album

[MOGHARRofValhalla]

God, this song makes me so sad...

[miniredsatan]

cool freakin video dude...i was in 8th grade when this CD came out and this is one of my favorite songs of all time.

[STEEEVVYZ]

then i go to ,,.....then i go to sleep

[viewingut]

I've been working in a hot, shity factory for 39 yrs. Got a new tune to sing in my mind.

[Blokechest]

@viewingut you should also check out At My Job"by Dead Kennedys!

[viewingut]

@Blokechest They hit it right on the head!

[Spartacus217]

Life is routine. Sometimes I drive home a different route just for kicks. Sad, but true.

[themachinegunn]

who doesnt do that

[Spartacus217]

Lots of people do the same thing day in and day out without variation.

[themachinegunn]

i think everyone takes the long way home every now and again just for something different.

[wantwit]

"Well I like to know what Im doing when I do it, and I do what Im doing 'cause I don't know what to do when I'm not doing it" - nice line. This video on the other hand takes the title of the song a little too literally and is very slow paced with no attempt to sync up the action to to the music. Reminds me more of an early REM video than something VooDoo would have done.

[tiredofracists]

REM was more peace, love and shiny happy people... Wall of Voodoo had more of a in your face leftist bent, with a great industrial cow punk sound. One of my favorites! Rebels with something to talk about!

[wantwit]

Try watching the videos for Fall on Me, or Driver 8 for what I'm talking about and there was nothing cow-punk about WoV. They were much more akin to Morricone's spaghetti western music.

[tiredofracists]

I'm old as dirt and you might say I went headlong and hellbent into punk, with more passion and less expertise than many. I loved Wall of Voodoo, The D.K. and X, etc, in part because it made sense to me- as the youngest of five, raised on Hendrix, Joplin, etc. Will check out your suggestions!

[NotOrdinaryInGames]

Made it yourself? AWESOME!

[markonit]

this is way cool ... spot on dude!

[JZJYRWO]

The factory scene in Soylent Green would have been more appropriate

[54spiritedwill54]

Superb video to the context of the song!

[doggzma]

54spiritedwill54, I was thinking the same thing.

Kinda eerie how well it works.

DKSevenAIFL, well done.

[mhap00]

My previous comment is intended for intense4200, as so often happens YT put it in the wrong place on the thread.

[murfdasurfer]

The song is a "classic" and its on Call of the West. One of my all time favorite albums by anyone.

[glassineheart]

my absolute favorite wall of voodoo song ever. what a storyteller, christ.

[FredKakihara]

yeah \m/

[mikebagct]

Best song from their album, I really wish the group had done mor, but Stan Ridgway has had a very remarkable career as a singer/songwriter.

[SZALENIEC1]

very very very very goooooooood song!!!!!!

[kerdubennak]

a cold war atmosphere, can you all comprehend it ?

[Lengsel7]

Cold war? Nah. Not really. It's about living a dreary life as a factory worker. ...back when the US actually had factories, and Americans worked them.

[mhap00]

Dunno why your comment was marked as spam, because you are right.

3:30 - 3:35: "Just lately when my wife talks back to me I slap her around."

Consequence of taking stress home from work, or of having no perspective in life.

I used to listen to this song a lot, I was always struck (no pun intended) by that line.

[stresslie58]

Man, you are so right. What a sad reality check!

[SZALENIEC1]

BRYAN351 - i love this song youre buster!!!

[BRYAN351]

I love Mexican Radio and Ring of Fire, but this song sucks. They must have been high when they wrote this piece of shit.

[glassine]

best WOV song ever. i am still in love with stan.

[vitorisrael]

TY you very much! I love this song!

[Metalloys]

Thanks a million DKSeven ... really gooooood old days ... songs with charm, with depth, with mood, with messages ... can make your tears close ... real close ....

[Gscully2003]

Nice vid, I sure miss WoV, I saw them twice in Colorado and loved the shows. I'm glad I kept all my EP's and albums from then. Finally found Dark Continent on cd a while ago. Got the Index master's cd but it seems to have a lot more Bass then I remember the album having. I used to have an old AMC Hornet and I had silk screened the mascot dog (on the self titles EP) to the back trunk. Ah the good ol days.. lol

[eartant]

I had an opportunity to buy a copy of Dark Continent at a Stan Ridgeway concert a couple years ago, but I was broke from buying WAY too many Whiskey & Cokes! I'm kicking myself now, can I buy a copy online?

[adamhannah1976]

--A great video to an even greater song. Glad to see people are still listening and enjoying WOV. Thanks a bunch.

[christoJihad2]

Fantastic video to a profound song. The depth of sadness in many people's daily lives are masked by sex, drugs, rock and roll and the numbness they bring on. Stan Ridgway and the rest of the Voodoo are so underrated it's disgusting.

[technosis]

Great song...and thanks for the video! You know, I once worked on a bottling line, and the first bit of this song(and the same rhythm throughout) sounds just like that horrible, boring,assembly line. This song portrays that cold mechanical boredom excellently!

[Ikarus65]

I saw Stan Ridgway live yesterday. This song was especially magical. He's still very much on top of his game. If you get a chance, don't miss him!

[DaveLidster]

Superb video to the context of the song!

[kerosineboy]

The album call of the west which this is from is one of those fantastic neglected gems.

Well done for posting this.

[Rawlinson16]

Cut ma thumb off on a broken band saw.

[jontadeu]

"..and everyday at lunch I still look for my lost digit

still got that funny scratch, so maybe when I find it I can itch it"

Pure genius!

[Rawlinson16]

Indeed.

[Mutt1961]

Absolutely K-boy. One of the all-time classic albums, although the dumb-asses at Rolling Stone only gave it, like, one star when it came out. Idiots!

[kerosineboy]

More fool them,at least there are some people out there that know great music when they hear it

[Vlad2072]

The album has a southwestern theme that makes me want to take that road trip it out west... One of these days I'll make it... one of these days...

[BillyDolls]

I always think of this song when I'm in my garage working on something... usually car related stuff. Great tune.

[REEDSBUD]

SWEEEEEET YO!!!!!

[cajohn54]

great vido i luv it

[cajohn54]

something simmy would be thank you led zeppelin with lord of t r vido

[cajohn54]

what does a particle have to do

[stimps]

Wowowow! It's so much the images I think of when I listen to Factory. Thanks for sharing!

[Tangento]

Nice work!

[AnAmericanFan]

I love Wall of Voodoo, so unconventional, yet so accessible. This is a very good video. Thank you! I work in industry, much like what is in this video, updated to the 21st century of course. I'm going to use this at an upcoming industrial sales meeting at one of the breaks!

[DKSevenAIFL]

Cool. Thank you for that honor. :-)

[AnAmericanFan]

Now for a stupid question. On Google Video I could easily download, burn to DVD and play. How to do here to show it offline?

[DKSevenAIFL]

OK. it's a few steps. you need to look for a "YouTube Downloader" site. That will let you download the file in .FLV format. Then you need to convert that using any one of many possible free converters to the format you need it in. Then just burn it. If you need more help try messaging me and I'll try and give better details. I'm using a library computer at my College right now so I'm away from my Bookmarks. I have all my info there.

[AnAmericanFan]

Thanks, I seem to recall this as I have gotten .flv files before...

[freddymachine]

Great Job ! Fits perfect ! Call of the West is a forgotten masterpiece.

[sizemorej]

What ever happend to wall of voodoo. I bought their LP when I was like 16. I look at them as I look at far side in a comic strip sick and twisted and make you think

[tmutazz]

HAHA! Yeah you are right! Dark Continent is like $30-$50 used on amazon. Did you ever think you would see a Wall of Voodoo release for that much?

[DKSevenAIFL]

You wanna know what is really interesting? The releases are only that much for CD's. I'm trying to fill in the gaps in my collection (I'm only 21 so I couldn't buy them when they were new), and I found I can get cassettes for $10 at most and the same for LP, both of which I can convert into mp3 and then into CD. A nice tip for those who can use it.

[tmutazz]

Thanks! I gotta remember that. What's a bitch is I had Call of the West on vinl. I bought it in 6th grade, brand new but someone jacked ALL my vinyl after I left home. What assholes!

[HumGuitar]

Good tip but how do you convert cassette to mp3? (How do you get it from the cassette player into the computer?) I'm not very computer "savvy". I have a lot of cassettes that I can't find on cd.

[DKSevenAIFL]

You basically just need a RCA-to-1/8th inch cable. You hook the RCA to your tape deck and plug the 1/8th inch into the line in on your computer. Then just download some freeware audio editing program like Audacity and you're pretty much ready to go. If you need more details message me and I'll try and go into more details.

[tmutazz]

I'm glad someone else loves this song! I even used a sample of the drums for one of my songs!

Great vid!

[DKSevenAIFL]

Thanks for liking my video! This song was one of my faves instantly, the first time I heard it. It's too bad most of their releases are Out Of Print and hard to find, I'd love to hear more than the few albums I have.

[GUSANO1971]

I made a video to this song too a couple of years back.Check out mine on video google.

[DKSevenAIFL]

I liked yours a lot. I hope you mind, but it sorta of reminded me of Eraserhead in some spots, with the man walking by the factories in B&W. Thanks for your comment!