''Lust'' is the debut album by
Belgian new beat band
Lords of Acid
Lords of Acid is a Belgian/American electronic dance music (EDM) group led by musician Praga Khan. They are best known for making songs with sexual lyrics and sexually explicit tracks, such as their hit " Pussy".
History
Lords of Acid debu ...
, released in 1991. The band had released several
12-inch single
The twelve-inch single (often written as 12-inch or 12″) is a type of vinyl ( polyvinyl chloride or PVC) gramophone record that has wider groove spacing and shorter playing time with a 'single' or a few related sound tracks on each surfac ...
s prior to their full-length debut, and these songs ("I Sit on Acid" and "Hey Ho!") were already dance club hits.
Continuing with their outrageous sexually-explicit, always
tongue-in-cheek, often humorous lyrical themes, ''Lust'' had earned positive reviews from music critics, both in and out of the dance music community. As the album's title implies, the tracks touch upon various sexually-related topics, including
sadism and masochism ("Rough Sex"),
breast size ("I Must Increase My Bust"), sex with
aliens
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** Enemy alien, the above in times of war
* Extraterrestrial life, life which does not originate from Earth
** Specifically, intelligent extrat ...
("Spacy Bitch") and
oral and
anal sex
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("I Sit on Acid", whose entire lyrical content consists of the chant "I wanna sit on your face").
"The Most Wonderful Girl", an ode to self-love and
masturbation
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, also appeared on the
soundtrack to the film ''
Sliver
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Entertainment
*Sliver (novel), ''Sliver'' (novel), a 1991 novel by Ira Levin
**Sliver (film), ''Sliver'' (film), a 1993 film adaptation of the novel
**Sliver (soundtrack), ''Sliver'' (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the 1993 fi ...
''. The track "Hey Ho!" originally contained a
sample of "
Heigh-Ho" from the 1937 Walt Disney film ''
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', however this sample was removed when the track appeared on this album most likely due to copyright issues.
The song "Let's Get High" features samples from ''
Bill Cosby: Himself''.
''Lust'' has been re-issued twice: in 1996 (three bonus tracks added, "Paris France" and "Wet Dream" and "I Sit on Acid 96 Mix") and in 2001 in a "Stript" version, which presented the entire album with all vocals removed.
Track listing
Personnel
*
Praga Khan: Vocals, Synthesizers,
Programming
*Oliver Adams: Synthesizers, Programming
*Jade 4 U: Vocals, Synthesizers, Programming
Production
*Produced By Jade 4 U, Oliver Adams, Praga Khan, Agaric, Bhab & Jachri Praha
*Mixed By Oliver Adams & Carl S. Johansen
References
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1991 debut albums
Lords of Acid albums
Acid house albums
Caroline Records albums