The World/Inferno Friendship Society

The World/Inferno Friendship Society (also referred to as "World Inferno", "The Wifs" or "Inferno") is a band from Brooklyn, New York. Its style merges punk, soul, klezmer, and jazz, while its collective membership features horns, piano, and guitar.
This musical collective has over 30 members, including a former member of Dexys Midnight Runners. Usually one can expect to see about nine or ten members on-stage when they perform. The group is led by singer Jack Terricloth, who has been the most constant member throughout the group's history. Terricloth is known for his pointed commentary during shows: his monologues have touched on politics, his transformation from the "old school," and baiting of bouncers which usually ends up with the band buying drinks for the whole staff.
Their lyrics often concern historical and/or biographical subjects, such as Weimar-era Germany, Peter Lorre, Jeffrey Lee Pierce of The Gun Club, Paul Robeson, Leni Riefenstahl, Dante Alighieri, Philip K. Dick, and Jonathan Fire*Eater. Other songs deal with the terrifying, exulting, magical, and awful aspects of life that "make it more than waking up and going to work every day". One notable composition is a three-song cycle about love and loss in a temporary autonomous zone which appears on the 2002 album Just the Best Party. The lyric pattern and subject matter of the song cycle are similar to The Wild Party.

(1997.) The World-Inferno Friendship Society - The True Story Of The Bridgewater Astral League



"A Night in the Woods" – 2:53
"The Evil Dance of Nosliw Pilf" – 3:01
"Lucky Interlude" – 0:37
"Incendiarism" – 2:52
"Lust for Timing" – 2:27
"Millicent Didn't Want to Wait for It to Get Better" – 4:12
"One for the Witches!" – 4:10
"Sweetwater Interlude" – 0:19
"Tarot Americaine" – 3:56
"Joe Tennis Redeemed" – 1:41


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(2000.) The World-Inferno Friendship Society - East Coast Super Sound Punk of Today



1.Tattoos Fade (5:12)
2.The Models and the Mannequins (3:09)
3.Glamour Ghouls (3:08)
4.Our Candidate (3:15)
5. All of California and Everyone Who Lives There Stinks (3:34)
6.Jeffrey Lee (2:20)
7.Pumpkin Time (4:28)
8.Ich Errinere Mich an Weimar (3:56)


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(2011.) The World-Inferno Friendship Society - The Anarchy and the Ecstasy



1.I Am Sick of People Being Sick of My Shit
2.The Disarming Smile
3.Canonize Philip K. Dick, Ok
4.Thirteen Years Without Peter King
5.They Talk of Nora's Badness
6.The Politics of Passing Out
7.Jake and Eggars
8.Lean Times for Heroes
9.The Apple Was Eve
10.The Mighty Raritan


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