Monsieur, Alan Merrill, WOW, Vodka Collins video

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. 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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