WALL OF VOODOO - Seven Days In Sammystown

LP I.R.S. Records 1985
CD reissue I.R.S. Records 1989

"Unveiling new singer Andy Prieboy and a new drummer (Joe Nanini had departed in the interim), Wall of Voodoo returned to action with Seven Days in Sammystown, their first new album in three years. [Stan] Ridgway's absence forced a major rethink of the band's sound and purpose; the record is adequate, but somewhat short of character and thus uncompelling. Far Side of Crazy (ostensibly about John Hinckley Jr.) and a dirgey cover of the old mining song Dark as the Dungeon are quite good, but the rest falls short".
(Jon Young & Ira Robbins, Trouser Press)

"If Wall of Voodoo had decided to change their name and reinvent themselves as a "new" band, Seven Days in Sammystown might have been considered their promising, if flawed, debut. Sadly, however, the band decided to stick with the Wall of Voodoo brand name — meaning that Seven Days in Sammystown wound up as merely a minor artefact in the Wall of Voodoo catalog".
(Rudyard Kennedy, All-Music Guide)

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Far Side of Crazy