Sexual Harrassment – I Need A Freak

waiting for the LP’s Japan esse pressing ressued for concerned ..

Best album you've never heard.

Absolutely amazing minimalist electro funk, with a bizarre, early industrial vibe. The lyrics are amazing, Exercise Your Ass Off is one of the best tracks ever made, with the sample running behind the vocals. If this was released by Cabaret Voltaire or Throbbing Gristle, noobs would lose their minds. This album is a masterpiece of the unexpected, freaky, weird-out funk and will blow your mind as easily as it blows something else.

Just got mine and it sounds great, cut loud, buy with confidence and get freaky.

My copy sounds great, and the gatefold design with the album story is cool. I noticed the labels say 33rpm though it's a 45rpm release. Pleased to have this!

Was super excited to get this reissue of LT's classic electro LP, but was let down by the audio quality. Sounds like a cassette honestly. Muted highs, hollow bass, and pretty narrow and flat overall. You'd think a re-release of this magnitude would be remastered at the very least, but it appears we have no such luck. That said, I'm still happy to own this classic on vinyl, but it won't be getting much rotation outside of drunk vinyl mix sessions ;)

Lynn Tolliver, DJ/Program Director at Cleveland’s WZAK, adopted the pseudonym David Payton in order to keep his musical endeavors separate from his public persona. Sexual Harrassment (misspelled deliberately) was formed as a concept band, with members selected based on appearance and choreographic skill rather than musical ability. Tolliver’s explicit lyrics focused on the central themes of desire and sexual relations. Working at a studio in Akron, he recorded an album of quirky-yet-lurid electro funk, which was released on Heat Records. Tolliver remarks, “I learned as a youngster, sex sells! The things that are rated the worst – violence, horror and sex – are the things people want to see or hear about.” I Need a Freak was a surprise hit, selling over 100,000 copies. While the album’s naughtier moments seem quaint by contemporary standards, the fusion of lo-fi funk and disaffected vocals still stuns today. On the eternal electro-raunch anthem “I Need a Freak”, minimalism serves to highlight the lasciviousness of the deadpan lyrics, which were inspired by Lourdes Figueroa, Tolliver’s girlfriend at the time. Tolliver’s whimsy shines on tracks like “If I Gave You a Party” and “K.I.S.S.I.N.G.”, which contrast nursery rhyme structures with decidedly R-rated lyrics. “Exercise Your Ass Off” lampoons the home exercise craze, but with a more-than-suggestive sexual bent.

How is the sound quality on this? some more words

'We didn't Say It' is an instrumental version of K-I-S-S-I-N-G, with extra mental synths added : )