Manfred Mann in Swedish Porn Shock!

**Campag Record** · 29-12-2005, 02:11 PM

This is probably well known to you soundtrack experts but I saw this on ebay last week. Under the title "Swedish Fly Girls". It went for over a $100.

What's the story behind this? Is it some sordid porn soundtrack ala' The Minx (The Crykle) or just Manfred's use of early Hip Hop speak?

Perhaps a shout out to the B Boys and Fly Girls of late 60's Sweden?

**Brainbomb** · 30-12-2005, 08:49 AM

Never heard of - but it seems to be an American-Danish porn shock, though I'm not sure about the porn or the shock either...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125038/

**robinsnest** · 30-12-2005, 09:18 AM

is it anything like the tom zacharias swedish smutty record about cunts and cocks and orgies?

**Brainbomb** · 30-12-2005, 09:24 AM

Originally Posted by robinsnest

is it anything like the tom zacharias swedish smutty record about cunts and cocks and orgies?

Nothing is like that. Sadly.

**teddyrosso** · 30-12-2005, 10:04 AM

Originally Posted by robinsnest

is it anything like the tom zacharias swedish smutty record about cunts and cocks and orgies?

Ahh, the one sermad has devoted his avatar and life to?

**Brainbomb** · 30-12-2005, 10:16 AM

As a sidenote, Tom also released a kiddie album in the late 70s. It's a private press on his Mudist label - which is strange enough for a childrens album, since it some kind of play with the words nudist (which I believe is called the same in English) and Mu (which is the Swedish description of what a cow says).

Musically it's a bit like the Belinda albums but with fewer instrumental passages and acoustic guitar on some tracks, I believe some of the same musicians were used and his singing sounds the same. The lyrics are a schizoid mix between, on one hand socialist messages about the children being the future and they should build a better world with environmentalism and solidarity, and on the other hand toilet humour about pooping on the carpet and blaming it on the dog, wetting your pants in school and going to Africa and eating grass with some kind of poop mixed into it(?!).

Oddity that's pretty scarce, a friend of mine believes only a 1000 or so were pressed but I have no idea. I've found 3 copies in flea markets and interestingly all have been at lease NM which, given how the formula kid+vinyl usually turns out, may indicate the record wasn't very popular with the young ones or their parents or both...

I traded one copy with one of the original Vultures, and gave one to a friend as a thanks for him helping me move to a new apartment a year ago. The other one stays in my shelf, to be taken out and played on joyous occassions.

**teddyrosso** · 30-12-2005, 03:59 PM

I think belinda is up for reissue:

Tom Zacharias was something of a renaissance man: Sweden's first male pin-up, a successful film and television producer, singer and songwriter of a string of well-received LPs, and the mastermind behind Belinda and Belinda's Daughter, to my knowledge the only albums ever to have been conceived and created specifically to be sold from ads in the back of porn magazines. This is the sort of thing that could only have happened in the Sweden of the early 70s, with the sexual revolution in full swing and people waiting in lines around the block for mainstream erotic films like I Am Curious Yellow. In 1973, Zacharias was approached by businessman, inventor and astrologer Stefan Brydolf, who proposed that he write, perform and produce two concept albums of erotic rock, along with an accompanying erotic novel. The novel was written, and the LPs were recorded with the help of Sweden's finest session musicians, and everything sold fairly well. The next logical market was North America, so Zacharias recruited New Yorker Suzy Heine to translate and re-dub the lyrics in English, and ads were placed in US men's magazines like Screw and Hustler. Unfortunately, they never received even one order, and the album was shelved. Now Sweden's Subliminal Sounds have released this collection, which gathers together the never-before-heard English language tracks, together with both of the Swedish LPs. I have rarely heard anything as funny or as shocking as the first six tracks on this disc; funky 70s acid rock with completely over-the-top pornographic lyrics. Starting off with a sleazy fuzz-guitar solo, "Dirty" quickly erupts into alarmingly direct pornographic provocation: "You want to suck a cock and lick a hairy pussy/And wear sexy underwear and paint your face/You want a cock up your ass and rubber ducks in your bath/You'd like to screw every sailor in the place...You want a 10-year old virgin to use and abuse/You'd like your friends to gangbang your mother-in-law/While you watch it all and jerk off on her shoes." Singer Suzy Heine erupts into perverse Karen Finley-style shrieking, detailing every sexual perversion imaginable: S&M, incest, rape fantasies, foot fetishism and homosexuality are all celebrated with equal zeal. What's most amazing is the infectiously funky jamming by the session musicians, which is really quite good, a terrific specimen of mid-70s acid-funk. It's tempting to compare it to porn soundtrack music, but I don't recall any porn soundtracks with music this accomplished. A closer parallel might be Blaxploitation music, an apt comparison, because Zacharias often reminds me of a Swedish Rudy Ray "Dolemite" Moore. For non Swedish-speakers, this disc loses a little bit of momentum after track six, because the remainder of the tracks are from the Swedish-language LPs, but the music is still fun. Belinda is absolutely essential; I don't where else you'd get to hear such languid, trippy rock music accompanying lyrical refrains like: "There's a he-man on the sofa with a hard-on, giving me the go-ahead sign/About four cocks at a time is all I can handle, with someone sucking mine."