Helta Skelta

Infobox Album
Name = Helta Skelta
Type = Album
Artist = Turbonegro


Released = 1993
Recorded = November, 1991-January, 1992
Genre = Glam punk
Length = 68:04
Label = Repulsion Records
Producer = Craig Morris, Audun Strype, Turbonegro, Morten Andersen
Reviews =
Last album = "Hot Cars and Spent Contraceptives"
(1992)
This album = "Helta Skelta"
(1993)
Next album = "(He's a) Grunge Whore"
(1993)

"Helta Skelta" is the 1993 re-release of Hot Cars and Spent Contraceptives (1992), the first album by the Norwegian band Turbonegro. It was released on CD only by Repulsion Records in Germany. Only 1,500 copies were made. It includes five bonus tracks (one of them is the 20+ minute audio-play about a young man being raped by a policeman called "A Career In Indie Rock") but lefts out the song "Prima Moffe". The cover shows a painted portrait of Sirhan Sirhan on the cover, the suspected and sentenced murderer of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 (but several people have mistaken it for Manson). Political assassin references continue on the back that features a photo of John Hinckley - who failed to shoot Ronald Reagan in 1981 - pointing a gun to his head.

Track listing

#"Librium Love" – 5:17
#"Suburban Anti-Christ" (Bonus) – 1:59
#"Armed and Fairly Well Equipped" (Bonus) – 4:04
#"Vaya Con Satan" – 4:02
#"Punk Pals" – 2:32
#"New Wave Song" – 2:40
#"Manimal" – 4:15
#"Nadsat Comes Easy" – 4:31
#"Dark Secret Girl" – 2:00
#"Hot Cars" (Bonus) – 3:34
#"Clenched Teeth" (Bonus) – 2:21
#"Zonked Out (On Hashish)" – 2:03
#"Kiss the Knife (aka "Hand Of Love")" – 1:58
#"I'm In Love With The Destructive Girls" – 2:12
#"A Career In Indierock" – 24:36

Line-up

*Harry Neger (Harold Fossberg) – vocals
*Brune Neger (Rune Grønn) – Guitar
*Max Neger (Pål Bøttger Kjærnes) - Guitar
*Bingo Neger (Bengt Calmeyer) – Bass
*Bongo Neger (Thomas Seltzer) – drums
*Patch Neger (Jonno Howe) - Synthesized guitar
*Wart Neger (Craig Leese) - Triangle

Miscellanea=

*Band name was spelled three different ways: Turboneger (disc), TRBNGR (cover) and Turbonegro (jewel case sticker).
*Bengt "Bingo" Calmeyer on the very disturbing "A Career In Indie Rock": "The whole of this was in its entirety lifted from one of Happy Tom's numerous porn videos. Tom has always been a real conneiseur of porn; in fact he even gets Christmas cards from different mail-order companies. I can't recall the title, but the piano was played by a well-known radio-reporter from the state broadcasting company and singer of lesser-known "Country Faggots". The name says it all."
*Two versions of disc were put out with this release. Some were printed with white text on black while others had black text on bare disc.

Resource: [http://www.turbojugendusa.com/turbo_discography.html Turbojugend USA / Turbonegro Discography]