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Pocket Horror Symphony

by TELEFILME

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Artificial pet- I'm your artificial puppy Artificial pig - I'm your artificial doggy Been created in the coldness Of the laboratory I don't need any affection I'm your perfect company All my teeth have been pulled out So I can even suck your dick if it Makes you happy Artificial pet I'm your artificial puppy Won't complain nor cry you can do what you want to me And if you get tired of me You can throw me to the bin if it makes you happy then I'll be happy I'll make you happy
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Hi-Fi Ghost 05:15
See you in stereo Through my see-through radio You're a binary code A high-fidelity ghost Hi-fi ghost Sugar-coated tnt On the mainstream Electronic fantasy Clockwork dancing Sounds so evil sounds so mean So bombastik Like fuckin' nitroglicerine Hi-fi ghost Clockwork dancing on the mainstream Clockwork dancing so bombastik
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Life's like a big supermarket Everything's at hand you choose Just pay and now it's yours Some sugary love- can't afford it Take a six-pack of hate instead And share it with all your mates You're drunk 'cos you hate being sober You can't beat this prices baby So beat your wife Mirrors don't lie that's your face You're a bug-you look twice your age Shed some tears Go to bed try to sleep
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Da Haus 03:39
Let's play a nightgame Let's choose our own adventures And reinvent ourselves Hey let's go crazy Let's build up new identities And change our names The house is empty We break into the hall of mirrors Just for fun Reality can be distorted As much as we want tonight Into da haus Come into da haus The magic garden Is full of giant-sized rabbits Running after us Don't make a sound The garden is a labyrinth We're safe from harm Into da haus Let's play a night-game Let's lose control The house is empty Don't make a sound
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The night of the very end Life was a birthday party People made human chains And street choreographies But that fateful night Stars were pretty sharp Shinin' like switchblades The night of the very end Life was a happy game Citizens drank champagne And danced to disco classics Then black holes of tears and pain Oh-crashed against the dream Then the lights turned out Meltin' down the smiles Freezin' up the bliss The night of the very end Life was a happy game Oh what a shame Here's the birthday cake But who's gonna blow All the candles?
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Jeremy 01:39
You open the door and scream Cos you can't believe what you see A replica of yourself Is there waiting He says he's a substitute From now on he'll do the things you do So you can go back to bed And stay there lyin' Your limbs are frozen You cannot move Here he comes in wearing your best suit He says it's time for your injection dear
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Ululatin’ sounds invading the room Green smoke and red curtains to conceal you After a blood-curdling scream Your silhouette appears Your mask and your distorted face Looming above me Spread your wings Catastrophe baby Evil weed Cover the earth with a long black veil You say this will end in tears I can only answer please Do you fear the butcher eyes Of the guinea pig? Caterpillar caterpillar Catastrophe baby you're evil Spread your wings Catastrophe baby Why don't we Cover the earth with a long black veil You've got the balloon of the world I've got a knitting needle
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Fahrenheit 03:13
When I was a little child I used to dream Of burning the house down Burning the house down Everytime they scolded me Everytime they hit me Everytime they treated me bad I used to dream Of burning the house down With my parents inside Through the window I watched them burn On their knees Saying please I used to dream Of burning the house down And I still do
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Be the perfect citizen It's the better to obey Submit to the majority There's no other way I'll never raise my voice again That's not for me Won't protest I won't complain Never disagree I'll just follow the leader I'll be a zero I'll disappear I think I'll have my brain removed It's something I don't need I'll replace the empty space With some metal sheets Yes I'll be the perfect citizen A gentle marionette A dilettante dressed in grey With nothing much to say And I'll follow the leader I'll be a zero I'll disappear as a human being
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Doll-House 04:39
Doll-house Gloomy voodoo doll-house Every single room's full of danger Everyone's a stranger Staring into my eye It drives me insane They're doing it all again I'm courting disaster I'm falling downstairs Sinking into quicksands Doll-house Gloomy voodoo doll-house Sick of superstition and black magic The end's gotta be tragic There's no air enough to breathe It drives me insane They're doing it all again I'm sinking and laughin' Laughin' and fallin' Laughin' my head off Doll-house Gloomy voodoo doll-house Faces are distorted and scary You don't have to worry Everything's in control But it drives me insane
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Peter Pain 03:47
Wendy in chains In Neverland She'll neverlearn Here he comes Peter pain Poor valentina Sick Gwendoline She's in a fix He cracks the whip Peter pain Glitter pain Bitter pain
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Close your eyes, you will feel no pain We gotta wash your dirty brain You will be socialized tonight Too many problems- we had enough Your attitude was really bad You will be socialized tonight You will wake up in the hospital It won't be that bad You'll feel alright You will leave in a week or so To meet your new family Your new home You will be socialized tonight

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Here they are at least, the prophets of the Apocalypse,the obscure reporters of a grey, alienating, dehumanized future. The well-praised mini-CD “Catastrophe Baby” was the best call of attention: TELEFILME have come to tell us about our future, and their predictions aren’t very pleasing.

The genius couple crushes us again with an evil noisy CD, with industrial, repetitive rhythms which contrast with the beautiful minimalism of some arrangements, in a new masterplay, even more lucid, if possible, than their previous works. They use influences from easy listening, like the use of the vocals as another instrument, or that colourful, cheesy happiness aesthetics which is alwasy there in their record covers, along with rhythms and sounds which recall the synth-pop classics (OMD and Depeche Mode -don’t let the title of “Da Haus” put you in the wrong- vienen a la mente en más de una ocasión), to create a very personal and distinctive hybrid: only TELEFILME can sound so pop and be so cold and nihilistic at the same time.

On “Hi-fi Ghost”, the childish but evil atmosphere of the song would do an ideal soundtrack for a remake of “Poltergeist”. Other songs, like “Fahrenheit”, are even more frightening, full of psychotic whispers in the dark. The suffocating voodoo of “Doll-house” is pure techno-rock, a technified PJ Harvey, and “Peter Pain” is a mad story about the loss of innocence and the mirage of eternal youth: in a world that’s upside down, Wendy is in chains and gets high on drugs, and Peter hits her with a whip.

TELEFILME can talk about these subjects with sarcasm (as in the chronicle for the end of the world that is “California Punch”), but always leave a restless feeling in the listener: in the political pleading “I Will Follow The Leader”, they go back to the oppressive atmosphere of “Kiss The Robot” (from “Catastrophe Baby”), announcing the despairing future of our society, headed to submission and obedience, to the anonimity of the individual, lost in the shapeless mass of the majority. That who is out of the norm has the risk to be set aside, as we’re told on “Ballad Of The Droog”.

“Pocket Horror Symphony” is a monumental work about the horror of an homogenic and falsely equalizing future, a work of genius both in the lyrics and in the music. Future listening and pop electronics make a big step forward with every new record by TELEFILME. Mouse On Mars are not alone anymore.

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released November 25, 1997

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