The Index Masters

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The Index Masters
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Released1991
Recorded1979–1980
VenueThe Barn, University of California, Riverside
StudioWilder Brothers, West Los Angeles
Length56:00
Label Restless Records
Producer Phillip Culp, Wall of Voodoo
Wall of Voodoo chronology
The Ugly Americans in Australia
(1989)
The Index Masters
(1991)
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The Index Masters is a compilation album by American rock band Wall of Voodoo, featuring their original 1980 EP and live recordings from 1979. Originally released in 1991 by Restless Records, it was reissued in 2005 by Rykodisc.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Wall of Voodoo except where noted.

  1. "Longarm" – 3:45
  2. "The Passenger" – 4:06
  3. "Can't Make Love" – 3:46
  4. "Struggle" – 2:14
  5. "Ring of Fire" (June Carter, Merle Kilgore) – 5:02
  6. "Granma's House" – 1:21
  7. "End of an Era" (live) – 4:00
  8. "Tomorrow" (live) – 2:44
  9. "Animal Day" (live) (Stan Ridgway) – 2:45
  10. "Longarm" (live) – 3:17
  11. "Invisible Man" (live) – 2:11
  12. "Red Light" (live) – 3:26
  13. "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly/Hang 'Em High" (live) (Ennio Morricone/Dominic Frontiere) – 2:56
  14. "Back in Flesh" (live) – 3:39
  15. "Call Box" (live) – 2:59
  16. "The Passenger" (live) – 4:02

Notes:

Personnel

Technical

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