Musically a fine garage album with some really good guitars, recorded during a day or so in Stockholm mid-seventies. But the lyrics makes it some of the dirtiest and most appalling stuff ever put on vinyl. At this time funny erotic songs sold well in Sweden, often made with finesse by professional artists. Tom Zacharias (1948-2010) - then actor and singer with his blues/rock group Levende Livet - was asked by some financiers to make a sexy album, sqeezing a few more bucks from the genre. He brought his band to the studio and recorded material for two albums - this being the first. To my ears there's nothing sexy going on here, it's just violent and depressing. They portray a world of heavy BDSM, incest and bodily waste in a way that would make even Lou Reed blush. Every other word is a sexual slur and the atmosphere cruel and dark. Most cuts are in regular form, sung by himself or a female, with long blues/psych guitar parts. There's also four short monologues - three female and one of TZ pleasing himself. With that result no labels or distributors wanted any kind of contact, so it got a private press and sold through porn shops and ads in XXX magazines only. An attempt to hit the American market with lyrics in English - badly translated and slightly softer than the Swedish version - was also cancelled due to lack of distribution. The album had some revival in the nineties Swedish "genital rock" movement and re-issued on CD 2004 together with the follow-up "Belindas Dotter" as "Belindas Sånger" (Subliminal Sounds SUBCD-8), including six tracks from the withdrawn English version. First press had label as shown here and thin glossy cover. (SCÄ*)(FÄV*)(ÖGÄ*)(ÖRJ*) (ÄXÅH*)(CCÖ*)
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