Sexual Harrassment – I Need A Freak
Tracklist
| A1 | I Need A Freak | 5:47 | |
| A2 | If I Gave You A Party | 5:35 | |
| A3 | You Are My Sexual Connection | 4:47 | |
| B1 | K-I-S-S-I-N-G | 6:14 | |
| B2 | We Didn't Say It | 6:14 | |
| B3 | Exercise Your Ass Off | 5:35 |
Companies, etc.
- Distributed By – Montage Records
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Montage Records, Inc.
- Copyright © – Montage Records, Inc.
- Published By – Ocean To Ocean Music
- Published By – Go Music
- Published By – Jimi Mac Music
- Mastered At – Frankford/Wayne Recording Labs
Credits
- Drums – Christopher Arthur, Clarence Howard, Dale Jackson*
- Engineer – Yorel Canns
- Executive-Producer – Heat Records
- Guitar – Daris Atkins, David Tudor (2)
- Keyboards, Synthesizer – Christopher Arthur, Joe Hunter, Ron Newton
- Mastered By – NS*
- Performer [Sexual Harrassment Is] – Alicia Starr, Charlie Inez, Dale Jackson*, Kelly Albright, Kevin C. (2), Lourdes Figueroa, Lynne Poole
- Producer – Pat Frances
- Vocals [Additional] – Betty Blanc, D. Freeny, Julius Daisy, Marin, Macklin & Moore, Patrice Frances*, Special K (4)
- Written-By – Christopher Arthur (tracks: B1, B2), David Payton, Jimmie Esther (tracks: B1)
Notes
Cat # given as SV 301 on cover, and SV301 on labels.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Rights Society: BMI
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, etched): SV-301-A F/W NS
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, etched): SV-301-B F/W
Other Versions (5 of 8)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I Need A Freak (LP, Album, Promo) | Heat, Heat, Montage | SV 301, SV301 | US | 1983 | |||
Recently Edited | Sexual Harrasment (Cassette, Album, Stereo) | Montage | SV-301-C | US | 1983 | ||
Recently Edited | I Need A Freak (LP, Album) | WMOT Records | 540088 | France | 1984 | ||
| Sexual Harrassment (LP, Unofficial Release) | König Ludwig Entertainment | PROMOTOOL 001 | Germany | 2002 | |||
Recently Edited | I Need A Freak (LP, Album, Unofficial Release) | Not On Label | SEXUAL 1 | 2009 |
Recommendations
Reviews
- 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. 
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.
'We didn't Say It' is an instrumental version of K-I-S-S-I-N-G, with extra mental synths added : )
