Laika Sex Machine
by Laika & The Cosmonauts
- Type: Album
- Released: 1 January 2000
- Label: Yep Roc Records
- Country: Finland
- Length: 1:14:34
- Community rating: 3.82/5 from 1 rating
Artists on this release: Henry Mancini, Gary Moulton, Miikka Paatelainen, Marcus Behrens, Roy Budd, Laurie Johnson, Bobbie Gentry, Joe Meek, Lalo Schifrin, Lou Josie, Risto Hemmi, Larry Gillette, Doug Ericson, Radio Bremen Absolut Live Team, Bernard Herrmann, Pauli Saastamoinen
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Laika Sex Machine' is the first live album by Finland's Laika & The Cosmonauts, whose lineup had been unchanged since 1987. Its 26 tracks, over 75 minutes with no overdubs, mix originals with covers including 'Telstar' and 'Get Carter'. The band's instrumental surf rock draws on the Finnish rautalanka tradition.
Genres
Descriptors: instrumental, guitars, rhythmic, melodic, live
Tracklist
- The Hypno-Wheel (Live) (4:23)
- Disconnected (Live) (4:14)
- Syncophant (Live) (2:19)
- Tantrum (Live) (2:07)
- Floating (Live) (2:54)
- Turquoise (Live) (2:45)
- Boris the Conductor (Live) (2:15)
- Look! No Head! (Live) (3:09)
- Experiment in Terror (Live) (2:15)
- The Avengers (Live) (1:58)
- Circumstantial Evidence (Live) (4:25)
- Hi & Lo (Live) (3:16)
- Cafe Equator (Live) (1:53)
- Lands End (Live) (2:28)
- Psyko (Themes From Psycho and Vertigo) [Live] (2:24)
- Mission Impossible (Live) (2:00)
- Get Carter (Live) (2:55)
- Global Village (Live) (2:25)
- Enchanted Rock (Live) (3:06)
- C'mon Do the Laika! (Live) (2:01)
- Fugitive (Live) (2:12)
- Ba-Ha-Re-Bah! (Live) (4:12)
- Fadeaway (Live) (3:02)
- Sauna-Soul (Ode to Billy Joe) [Live] (4:05)
- Telstar (Live) (2:46)
- Vendetta (Live) (3:05)
Credits
- Mikko Lankinen - band [laika & the cosmonauts still are], guitar, arranged by, written-by
- Matti Pitsinki - band [laika & the cosmonauts still are], organ, guitar, arranged by, written-by
- Irina Bj枚rklund - model [dancers]
- Peter Franz茅n - model [dancers]
- Mika "Sumppi" Sundstr枚m - other ["thanks!"]
- Alvar Gullichsen - cover [design], artwork
- Pauli Saastamoinen - mastered by
- Risto Hemmi - mixed by
- Kai Sinervo - photography by [band photos]
- Stefan Paavola - photography by [band photos]
- Magnus Scharmanoff - photography by [cover photos]
- Marcus Behrens - recorded by
- Miikka Paatelainen - recorded by
- Radio Bremen Absolut Live Team - recorded by
- Henry Mancini - written-by
- Laurie Johnson - written-by
- Bernard Herrmann - written-by
- Lalo Schifrin - written-by
- Roy Budd - written-by
- Lou Josie - written-by
- Doug Ericson - written-by
- Gary Moulton - written-by
- Larry Gillette - written-by
- Bobbie Gentry - written-by
- Joe Meek - written-by