Monsters a Go Go

=Lyrics= =Versions= A live recording from Shoot the Monster (20 June 1987 at Yomiuri Hall, Yurakucho), it has an ambient/industrial intro that lasts a minute and a half long intro that plays at the same time as a horror movie chase scene is projected on a spherical balloon on top of a starcase in the centre of the stage; a drum roll comes at the end of the intro and the projection/music end abruptly. Lights come up, a six-piece trumpet section plays a synth horn figure of the song and the rest of the band follows; when the first stanza starts, the balloon pops, revealing Hirasawa from within it. The trumpet section plays all parts in the song that on other versions would be synth horns.
 * Moire Vision, 1987

The guitar is higher on the mix than in any other version.
 * The Physical Atlas of Three Worlds, 1988

An audience recording (30 October 1988 at Shinjuku Loft ), it fades into the outro of "Oh Mama!", which a piano-led transition leads into "Monsters a Go Go". The snare roll that ends the song is different from the previous two iterations.
 * Ashu-on (Sound Subspecies) in the Solar System, 2002

For the 1992 album Long Vacation's Touch vol. 3, Long Vacation recorded "Monsters a Go Go" with new lyrics (by Kera) and a new arrangement. The core melody is played with the same synth horn preset as the Physical Atlas of Three Worlds version, the rest is entirely done with new synth tones and multiple samples (most of them voice clips, like the house music staple "it's the beginning of a new and exciting story"). The bridge is carried by interplay between acoustic guitar (instead of the previous versions' electric) and an Under Techno System, and is followed by a variation on Edvard Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King". Instead on ending on a repeating snare roll, the outro of "Long Long Vacation" is a single word vocal sample. For the 9 June 1995 show of their Last Tour of the 20th Century, where Hirasawa was a guest guitarist, they reverted to the song's original lyrics.
 * "Long Long Vacation"

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