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World's End Girlfriend + Halloweenly Sleepers 2007

Posted over 2 years ago
posts #5 and #6 to Halloweenthe category is: Most Halloweenly 2007 Album You've Never Heard (or have heard, for this is mog, after all). my vote goes out to: Hurtbreak Wonderland by World's End Girlfriend, also known as World's End Boyfriend and other such aliases by experimental electro-progger Katsuhiko Maeda. let the music corroborate itself. this song is as creepy as a creepy movie, with or without the visual:my introduction to the Nagasaki-born, Tokyo-based WEG was the 2005 album The Lie Lay Land, which had song titles like Phantasmagoria Moth Gate and Satan Veludo Children. a Noble Records writeup called it "grandeur fiction" and likened it to "the films of Lars von Trier and Gaspar Noe who always sway our emotions with a relentless and extremely demanding story progression". too histrionic a description for me but not untrue, as the video to album track We Are the Massacre should establish:my top 666 of the above category, if you're curious, are:1- World's End Girlfriend - Hurtbreak Wonderland Halloween cred: post-apocalyptic atmospherics.2- The Horrors - Strange House The Cramps, The Stranglers, Birthday Party soaked up on garage punk sunshine in Southend, England. Halloween cred: Evil Dead camp.3- Infected Mushroom - Vicious Delicious angryish goa trance out of Haifa, Israel with much sonic psychedelia and hiphop. Halloween cred: computer game terror.4- John Murphy - 28 Weeks Later brave followup to the music that upped 200% the chilling that was 28 Days Later by Danny Boyle, for its brave 2007 sequel by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Halloween cred: 6 words: In the House - In a Heartbeat.5- Idiot Pilot - Wolves Washington electro-rockers known for song on the Transformers soundtrack and album guesting by Coheed and Cambria drummer. Halloween cred: planetary invasion by machines.6- Hella - There's No 666 In Outer Space Halloween-perfect band name, album name, song titles but unfortunately as scary as any jolly good California math rockers. Halloween cred: teenage scream flicks.

Comments (12)

  1. Marigold says That song was pretty out there. I got kinda scared. Good thing all the lights are on because if it was dark I would have peed myself.
    Permalink posted 10/27/2007
  2. leftoverking says very trippy. i like how the samples chop up on the beat. your post brings back a very old memory of the first song that ever scared me. my sister played the beatles' revolution number nine in the heaphones for me when i was a wee lad. scared the heck out of me. i would have to add throbbing gristle's hamburger lady to this archive of worlds creepiest tunes. have a good weekend poe. :)
    Permalink posted 10/27/2007
  3. dachmo says I'm not big on the Gloom and Doom stuff but I liked the artistry on this track. I'm interested in this Infected Mushroom will have to look them up. Thanks.
    Permalink posted 10/27/2007
  4. walkingthecow says that was scary. i hope i dont get nightmares tonight.
    Permalink posted 10/27/2007
  5. poebegone says Mike, here i was setting myself up for a good scare, dimming the lights and all, but somehow the mention of peeing just killed it for me. Jeff, i dig. what did it for me was the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band movie (which did not have The Beatles in it, as we know), a lot of the drug-addled scenes that i simply did not get as a 3 y.o. ps- i remember Hamburger Lady from a mog post (yours?) and remember it being disturbing. Dave, Infected Mushroom are in MySpace. they are both loved and loathed for the same thing - being kind of purist or humorless about playing goa trance only. funny thing is they ventured outside goa in their latest album, and are being loved and loathed for that. let me know if it's any good. Pat, just so long as you don't go to bed right after a heavy dinner. to be fair to WEG (since David mentioned Gloom and Doom), he does experimental music, and he's in my halloween post because i don't know darkwave or death metal enough. (;
    Permalink posted 10/28/2007
  6. poebegone says this was going to be part of the post but i thought at the time it was too much information. thankfully, this is my mog and i can decide to ramble on about it anyway. my fascination with the phrase "world's end" (as opposed to "end of the world") began with The Sandman: World's End, a story arc in 1994 of my favorite comic book ever. World's End is both the title and the name of an inn in this story arc, which foreshadows the death of The Sandman. combined with the pronounced appearances of William Shakespeare in the series, it sent me searching for related mentions of "world's end" elsewhere. i found that Shakespeare, in Much Ado About Nothing, has Benedick of Padua saying: "Will your grace command me any service to the world's end?" (Gore Verbinski's Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End also makes mention of Shakespeare.) J. R. R. Tolkien, somewhere in The Lord of the Rings, also writes: "This swear we all: Death we will deal him ere day's ending. Woe unto the world's end! Our words hesar thou, Eru Allfather! To the everlasting Darkness doom us if our deed faileth.” no reactions sought. i just needed to get the word out that i am undeniably psychotic. :D
    Permalink posted 10/28/2007
  7. soulrocket says it must be me, but i didnt find "dance for borderline... " too creepy...noisey & psychotic, that i give you. the video was certainly creepy. i like the record covers collage too. good one, poe.
    Permalink posted 10/28/2007
  8. poebegone says Daniel, i'm not surprised you don't find it creepy. yes, psychotic comes to mind, too. btw, you and Dachmo and Scotfree all have nice new avatars. how fun.
    Permalink posted 10/28/2007
  9. soulrocket says my avatar can’t compete with those beautiful eyes of yours, but thanks. ;-) find out the story behind my avatar here http://mog.com/soulrocket/blog_post/70909
    Permalink posted 10/29/2007
  10. snakama says This is really good!! I liked the heavy driving groove, with nice guitar and digital noise.. with a little schizo thrown in the end.. Perfectly fitting after watching a program on the tele @ 1am this morning on Nostradamus, and Edgar Cayce.. -S
    Permalink posted 10/29/2007
  11. FluxCapacitor says I've been dipping in and out of Sandman series lately (have them on electronic download), it took a while to really get going didn't it? I'll look up the World's End arc and have a butchers...
    Permalink posted 10/31/2007
  12. poebegone says Daniel, i must say i don't know Mad Monster Party and, because i am also part monster junkie, i am now dying to see it. (making mental note to self.) snakama, watching Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce sounds like the kind of 1 AM i dig. "a little schizo thrown in the end" - i like that. Flux, it's the third to the last story arc, before The Kindly Ones and The Wake. i suppose i don't know how you feel because i found The Sandman at issue #50 (Ramadan), which remains one of my favorite issues, and worked my way forward and backward from there.
    Permalink posted 11/01/2007

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