NEXT BAND: World Order

[RetroRomper]

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I've needed soft, slow and smooth techno to dull the aching pains that a few stressful situations have caused this past month, and World Order fits the bill. Poppy mod music with a former Japanese Pro Wrestler as the lead singer who excels in live choreographed music, the songs are odd enough to raise eye brows, but fall along lines already traversed by the regular rhythms of pop music.

Worth a watch and a listen for those days when a slight modulation of a tone and a monotone voice with a catchy tune are needed to soothe an over wracked mind.

[Quinn Z. DeAngelo]

World Order fits the bill.

Hey Fella, it's more like New World Disorder and they're sending us the bill. Where are those Japanese Terrorists who shot up Tel Aviv Airport in '72 to shoot up this one when this ersatz bunch of pseudo-talented hacks were allegedly doing something that might vaguely sound like singing and save us from them? Can't depend on anything these days, I guess.

I'll tell ya, that Japanese singing doesn't work with Techno, it's like the cadence is wrong or somethin'. There's something there that misses, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

You get ol' Sukiyaki from the '70s, now, that really worked. Don't get me wrong, I like Techno; I liked "Engulfed Cathedral" from Escape From New York and I loved "Axel F" from Beverly Hills Cop. Of course that might not count, those were both instrumentals. Let me think about voiced ones for a second.

Cher doing "Do you Believe in life after Love" with that thingy that gives her voice that synthesizer effect is really good. There's another one, can't think of it, where they make their words match some of the sound so the music sound makes you think they're singing the words even when they're not, that's also pretty good. Oh yeah, Lipps Inc, "Funkytown."

But this one, it just doesn't seem to work for me.