Hot Cars and Spent Contraceptives

Infobox Album
Name = Hot Cars and Spent Contraceptives
Type = Studio album
Artist = Turbonegro

Released = March, 1992
Recorded = November, 1991-January, 1992
Genre = Heavy Metal, Punk Rock
Length = 41:39 (1992 version)
78:39 (Re-press)
Label = Big Ball Records
Bitzcore Records (Re-press) (Germany)
Get Hip Records (Re-press) (US)
Producer = Craig Morris, Audun Strype, Turbonegro, Morten Andersen
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:rs9ks35qa3mg link]
Last album = "Turboloid (EP)"
(1990)
This album = "Hot Cars and Spent Contraceptives"
(1992)
Next album = "Helta Skelta"
(1993)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternative cover
Type = Studio album


Lower caption = Original 1992 cover

"Hot Cars and Spent Contraceptives" is the first album by the Norwegian band Turbonegro, released in March, 1992 on Big Ball Records. Only 1,000 copies were released originally in Norway. A different version (with 5 extra tracks) of the album was released early 1993 in Germany by Repulsion Records, titled "Helta Skelta" with a painted portrait of Sirhan Sirhan on the cover (but several people have mistaken it for Manson) and a 20+ minute audio-play about a young man being raped by a policeman called "A Career In Indie Rock". This version left out the song "Prima Moffe". Only 1,500 copies were made of this one. When Bitzcore Records started to re-release the earlier Turbonegro-records the album was remastered and came with a new artwork by Dimitri 'from Oslo' Kayiambakis. It was released in June, 2000 titled "Hot Cars and Spent Contraceptives", it contained all the tracks from the original version and had the same bonus tracks as "Helta Skelta".

The sound

The album gives an early introduction to the deathpunk sound - Turbo's self acclaimed very own genre; dark death driven punk rock with occasional excursions into hardcore and metal as well as a certain tendency to disruptive and sarcastic lyrics. Denish Moshable magazine remarked back then: "One great big hunk of an album that simply barfs up the best in Scandinavian punk rock - and then slam it into overdrive. So fucking punk that it will tear you a new asshole - and then some!"

Track listing

#"Librium Love" – 5:17
#"Armed and Fairly Well Equipped" (Bonus) – 4:04
#"Suburban Anti-Christ" (Bonus) – 1:59
#"Punk Pals" – 2:32
#"Kiss the Knife (aka "Hand Of Love")" – 1:58
#"Vaya Con Satan" – 4:02
#"I'm In Love With The Destructive Girls" – 2:12
#"Hot Cars" – 3:34
#"Clenched Teeth" – 2:21
#"Manimal" (Bonus) – 4:15
#"Dark Secret Girl" (Bonus) – 2:00
#"New Wave Song" – 2:40
#"Nadsat Comes Easy" – 4:31
#"Zonked Out (On Hashish)" – 2:03
#"Prima Moffe" – 10:32
#"A Career In Indierock" (Bonus) – 24:36

Line-up

*Harry Neger (Harald Fossberg) – vocals
*Brune Neger (Rune Grønn) – Guitar
*Max Neger (Pål Bottger Kjærnes) - Guitar
*Bingo Neger (Bengt Calmeyer) – Bass
*Bongo Neger (Thomas Seltzer) – drums

Miscellanea

*Happy-Tom played drums on this album. Actually he plays bass guitar with the band.
*Happy-Tom said about the album: "The world will learn to love and respect Hot Cars as THE classic birth-of-deathpunk album!"
*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."
* The album was also released on 12" Vinyl in Germany with green & black splatter and in the US through Get Hip Records and in doing so their editions were almost always different in one way or another, mainly in colored wax. This strictly 'limited American only pressing' for GHR was on golden and black marbled wax.
*The opening phrase "hello sailor" in the song "Kiss the Knife" is said by Peter Sellers from the movie "Casino Royale".

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