HARD N' HORNY

This album was included in the double album compilation which introduced me to the music of WIGWAM, and therefore I probably prefer the band's early material featuring JUKKA GUSTAVSON from their later albums, which were commercially more successful. Non-Finnish speaking audience may find the few songs sung in Finnish irritating, but the instrumental "Pidän sinusta" ("I Like You"), and the English sung material might make this album worth of giving a listen. JIM PEMBROKE's "Henry's..." filling the whole B-side of the LP is very good, and this proto prog epic which resembles PROCOL HARUM's "In Held Twas I" is split to nine separate tracks on the CD.

If you collect vinyl seriously, you may wish to try hunt down the first pressings of "Hard'n'Horny", numbered only in 400 of copies (surviving number may be lesser today?). Their record company Love Records didn't have enough money to press the album jackets, as all their available money went to the underestimated studio recording fees of this album! As the solution, band members had to draw personally all the needed 400 covers on freehand. They are not very neat, but at least each copy unique. It would be a nice a project to make a website, presenting pictures of verified copies of these different covers.