Monsieur, Alan Merrill, WOW, Vodka Collins

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jivingjunkosan
September 24, 2006

Group Sounds veterans, the ancient Tokyo band Vodka Collins perform W.O.W. (world of whores) in Tokyo 1997, at Nissan Power Station. A cynical lyric deriding the flesh trade is the theme of this punk rock song, which appeared on the band's Pink Soup album out that year.

You strut it down the street
cruising for some action
you're always dressed to thrill
your victims to extraction
In a world of whores
love is just a vice
In a world of whores
every heart is chrystalized ice
You soak 'em like a sponge
for every penny you can get
and when you drain the blood
you still ain't finished with 'em yet
In a world of whores
love is just a vice
In a world of whores
every heart is chrystalized ice
I wonder how it feels
being so cruel underneath
I watch you kickin up your spike heels
and hissing insults through your teeth
In a world of whores
love is just a vice
In a world of whores
every heart is chrystalized ice
Words & music Alan Merrill 1996.

Vodka Collins started as a band in 1971, and have made 5 albums over 4 decades, with long breaks in between reunions. The band members are Monsieur Kamayatsu, Alan Merrill, Hiroshi Oguchi, and Masayoshi Kabe.

Vodka Collins is a sort of Japanese supergroup.
Merrill is the former lead singer of the Arrows (UK) and has played guitar with the bands Meat Loaf, and Derringer. A foreigner, he started his career in Japan with a group sounds called The Lead in 1968.
Mounsieur Kamayatsu was a founding member of the group sounds sensation The Spiders.
Masayoshi "Mabo" Kabe was with the hit Yokohama based band The Golden Cups.
Hiroshi Oguchi was drummer of the bad boys of the group sounds, The Tempters, who were also enormously popular.

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