''Addicted to Bad Ideas'' is the fifth album by The World/Inferno Friendship Society, and their second for

Chunksaah Records Chunksaah Records is an Asbury Park, New Jersey, formerly New Brunswick, New Jersey-based independent record label founded in 1993 by The Bouncing Souls. The label started as a means for the band to release their own recordings, but ended up ...

. Subtitled "Peter Lorre's Twentieth Century", the release is a concept album inspired by the life and films of actor

Peter Lorre Peter Lorre (; born László Löwenstein, ; June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964) was a Hungarian and American actor, first in Europe and later in the United States. He began his stage career in Vienna, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, before movin ...

. Lead singer Jack Terricloth described Lorre as "a strangely charismatic, extremely creepy person, which I think most punk rockers can identify with ... It’s the lure of the other. He’s the underdog, the outsider." Many of the album's lyrics are taken directly from movie dialogues, notable Lorre quotes, and from the biography ''The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre'' by Stephen D. Youngkin. The track title, "Everybody Comes to Rick's" is a reference to "Rick's Café Américain" from the film '' Casablanca.'' In addition, the album's cover art is an homage to Lorre's renowned film '' M''. This album was developed into a dramatic multimedia production directed by

Jay Scheib Jay Scheib (born October 6, 1969) is an American stage director, playwright and artist, noted for his contemporary productions of both classical and new plays and operas. Scheib is a Professor for Music and Theater Arts and director of the Progra ...

. In 2009 World Inferno performed this work at festivals such as

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's Live Arts Festival,

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's Peak Performances series, and

South Carolina )'' Animis opibusque parati'' ( for, , Latin, Prepared in mind and resources, links=no) , anthem = " Carolina";" South Carolina On My Mind" , Former = Province of South Carolina , seat = Columbia , LargestCity = Charleston , LargestMetro = ...

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. Jack Terricloth commented, "the producer asked me if we were ever going to pay him back. We said 'No!'"Punknews.org , Jack Terricloth (World/Inferno Friendship Society)
/ref> The songs "Peter Lorre Overture" and "Heart Attack '64" are reworked versions of tracks from '' Just the Best Party'', and "Ich erinnere mich an die Weimarer Republik" is reworked from '' East Coast Super Sound Punk of Today''.

Track listing

Overture – 4:45 # With a Good Criminal Heart – 2:55 # "M" is for Morphine – 3:01 # ...and Embarked on a Life of Poverty and Freedom... – 3:32 # Ich erinnere mich an die

Weimarer Republik The Weimar Republic (german: link=no, Weimarer Republik ), officially named the German Reich, was the government of Germany from 1918 to 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is al ...

– 4:13 # I Just Make Faces – 2:45 # Everybody Comes to Rick's – 2:05 # Cathy Catharine – 2:49 # Thumb Cinema – 3:23 # Addicted to Bad Ideas – 3:14 # Heart Attack '64 – 2:40

References

External links

Chunksaah Records Official Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Addicted To Bad Ideas 2007 albums The World/Inferno Friendship Society albums Albums produced by Don Fury