Get It On (Turbonegro song)
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"Get It On" is a single
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 from the Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 band Turbonegro
Turbonegro
Turbonegro is a Norwegian punk rock band that was initially active from 1989 to 1998, and later reformed in 2002. Their style combines glam rock, punk rock and hard rock into a style the band describes as "deathpunk"....

 from their 1998 album Apocalypse Dudes
Apocalypse Dudes
- Line-up :* Hank Von Helvete - vocals* Euroboy - Lead Guitar* Rune Rebellion - Rhythm guitar* Pål Pot Pamparius - Keyboards and percussion* Happy-Tom - Bass guitar...

 released on 7" Vinyl
Gramophone record
A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...

 in 1998 by Sympathy for the Record Industry
Sympathy for the Record Industry
Sympathy for the Record Industry is a mainly independent garage rock and punk label formed in 1988 by record industry anti-mogul Long Gone John...

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Picture Disc has Euroboy
Euroboy
Knut Schreiner , better known by his stage name Euroboy, plays lead guitar in Turbonegro . Noted internationally for the album Apocalypse Dudes. As Euroboy, Schreiner usually appears on stage in an all black attire, sporting a Schutz-Staffel Totenkopf officer's hat...

 proudly displaying an enlarged, dildo-like zuccini while Rune
Rune Rebellion
Rune Rebellion is the stage name of Rune Grønn, a guitarist from Verdal, Norway, born 1965, he is most famous of being the former rhythm guitarist of the Norwegian band Turbonegro, which he quit in Oct. 26. 2007, and played his last show in Folken in Stavanger the day after. However, he returned in...

 poses with it on the flipside. As Happy-Tom
Happy-Tom
Thomas Seltzer , better known by his stage name Happy-Tom, is the bassist and main songwriter in the band Turbonegro, famous for wearing feminine makeup and a sailor's uniform....

 remarks: "The whole deal with the War Against The Picture Single series was to release the ugliest, most redundant (no 'previously unreleased' marketing schemes here), lamest picture discs ever. And so far we've succeeded." A further one was supposed on Flapping Jet from San Diego but Turbonegro called it quits before the deal was settled.

"That "Clean American Version" - text on the picture disc is Long Gone John
Long Gone John
Long Gone John is an American entrepreneur who is best known for his record label Sympathy for the Record Industry and his vinyl toy company Necessaries Toy Foundation. He lived in Long Beach, California for 30 years, but relocated to Olympia, Washington in 2007.-History:Long Gone John was born...

's little trip, it's a reference to The Mothers of Invention
The Mothers of Invention
The Mothers of Invention were an American band active from 1964 to 1969, and again from 1970 to 1975.They mainly performed works by, and were the original recording group of, US composer and guitarist Frank Zappa , although other members have had the occasional writing credit...

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- Happy-Tom interview by Tony Slug.

The song was also released in July 2003 with "Rock Against Ass" as the B-side on Must Destroy Records from London
London
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as a collectors item. Limited to 1,000 copies on black vinyl.
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