Helta Skelta is the 1993 re-release of Hot Cars and Spent Contraceptives

Hot Cars and Spent Contraceptives

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...

(1992), the first album by the Norwegian

Norway

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 band Turbonegro

Turbonegro

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. It was released on CD only by Repulsion Records in Germany

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. Only 1,500 copies were made. It includes five bonus tracks (including "A Career In Indie Rock", a 20+ minute audio-play about a young man being raped by a policeman) but leaves out the song "Prima Moffe". The cover is a painted portrait of Sirhan Sirhan

Sirhan Sirhan

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, the convicted assassin of Robert F. Kennedy

Robert F. Kennedy

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 in 1968 (which several people have mistaken for a portrait Charles Manson

Charles Manson

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). Political assassin references continue on the back, which features a photo of John Hinckley, who shot Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

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 in 1981, pointing a gun to his own head.

Track listing

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

Line-up

• Harry Neger (Harold Fossberg) – vocals
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• Brune Neger (Rune Grønn
  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...
  
  ) – Guitar
  Guitar
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• Max Neger (Pål Bøttger Kjærnes) - Guitar
• Bingo Neger (Bengt Calmeyer) – Bass
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• Bongo Neger (Thomas Seltzer
  Happy-Tom
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  ) – drums
  Drum kit
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• Patch Neger (Jonno Howe) - Synthesized guitar
• Wart Neger (Craig Leese) - Triangle

Miscellanea

• Band name was spelled three different ways: Turboneger (disc), TRBNGR (cover) and Turbonegro (jewel case sticker).
• Two versions of disc were put out with this release. Some were printed with white text on black while others had black text on bare disc.