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After an unpleasant trip to a restaurant and a laundromat, Joel attends a rave with several people also dressed in costumes. He leaves the hospital and wanders around town, getting a tattoo of a Space Invader alien and running into a gang of other ghosts. He is then revived as a ghost, and attempts to pass through the walls but cannot. The video begins with Joel Zimmerman being rushed into a hospital, before dying within minutes of arrival. The unmixed version released on Octoreplaces this version with the original mix, which excludes the vocal sample and the funeral march intro.Ī music video promoting the single was released in August 2009 and was directed by Colin O'Toole. This version of the track also contains a new lead melody which Deadmau5 has said was inspired by the main melody of Stevie Wonder's Superstition. The "hard intro" version of one B-side of the single, "Moar Ghosts 'n' Stuff" (which appears on the mixed version of For Lack of a Better Name) features a new intro containing a vocal sample from the 1957 film The Brain from Planet Arous and a quote of the funeral march by Chopin. Deadmau5 debuted the song to a live audience at the HARD Haunted Mansion 2008 in Los Angeles, California.
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Deadmau5 was a guest on the show along with Steve Angello (the two, with Tong, were playing a live set in Manchester, England on that night). The song was made originally specifically for Pete Tong's BBC Radio 1 Essential Selection show on October 10, 2008. The vocal melodies performed by Swire were inspired by Chris Isaak's song Wicked Game. Zimmerman and Rob Swire had been coincidentally meeting each other backstage at various festivals and agreed to collaborate. The original version of "Ghosts 'n' Stuff" was made in 2004, and Joel Zimmerman has stated that it "ended up going through at least 10 revisions".