SoulAlive let me know about this track a while back and i just recently found it on youtube.

Far better than that "we all want to be prince" track that everyone was posting up.

These guys were huge Prince fans Their 1983 debut album sounds alot like Prince's 1980/81 music.It contains the underground club hits "I Need A Freak" and "K-I-S-S-I-N-G".

"We Want Prince" was released as a 12" single in 1985 but as far as I know,they never released a second album.

I'll be back to this thread when I have time. At least now I can find it in the "My Org" section until later.

OK, I'm back. I've been searching for this song for years. I'm glad someone found it on youtube because I couldn't find it. I'll be doing some recording tonight.

vainandy said:

Do you have their debut album? I think you would like it.Alot of dirty lyrics and a Prince-like sound throughout

I've never heard this song.
Interesting song.

Their one and only album,released in 1983.


SIDE ONE--
I Need A Freak
If I Gave You A Party
You Are My Sexual Connection

SIDE TWO--
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
We Didn't Say It
Exercise Your Ass Off

I already had "I Need A Freak" but someone sent me a download of that album and I was disappointed when I opened it and "We Want Prince" wasn't on it.

vainandy said:

You don't like the other songs on the album?

"If I Gave You A Party (Would You Cum)?"

I like all the songs but I was disappointed that "We Want Prince" wasn't on it. I've been looking for that song ever since it was released. A local band called Non-Stop used to perform it sometimes so for years I thought it was their song. I had been looking under the wrong name all these years until you told me it was Sexual Harrassment years later. That's alright though because I'm going to record that motherfucker tonight. Now if I can just get my hands on that "Do It (Let Me See You Shake)" 12 Inch by The Barkays. Somebody needs to either post it on youtube or put a download on one of the blogs.

"We Want Prince" was pretty much ignored when it was released in 1985.I think I heard it on the radio one time

I can hear a sample of "Erotic City" in that song.

Funny thing I met the guy who made that! He runs a small entertainment company in Atlanta. I thought I was the ONLY person who knew about this group lol

DecaturStone said:

Here in the Bay Area,Sexual Harassment were very popular.Their album was an underground sensation in my area."I Need A Freak" was very popular on our local R&B station (KSOL) and in the clubs.

SoulAlive said:

I have this album

bboy87 said:

I have it too

bboy87 said:

What size cup do you wear, C is it?

I so want to hear this.

SoulAlive said:

YEP, YEP! What's up David!

AzhnConnectzhn said:

Hey what's up Paul?! Let's meetup for lunch real soon.

SoulAlive said:

I'm from the bay area, too and I miss KSOL. Yeah "I Nee A Freak" was the jam out here.

Down here in Mississippi, it wasn't underground at all. It was very popular on the radio and in the skating rinks (probably the clubs too if I had been old enough to get into them at the time). I think it was popular everywhere since it has appeared on compilation CDs, it just wasn't one of those worn out songs that has played to death for years.

There's a lot of younger orgers on the org so naturally a lot of them haven't heard "I Need A Freak". We remember the song well because we're some old motherfuckers.

PASSIONFRUIT said:

Do you remember when KSOL used to play entire albums at midnight? If it was an album that I was interested in,I would stay up late and have my tape recorder ready I remember on Thanksgiving night 1982,they played Prince's '1999' album in its entirety.Damn I miss that station!

Wow!!! I finally get to hear this! I remember back in high school listening to this in my friends ride going to school. this was on my list of songs I just couldnt find anywhere! Thanks for posting.

I'm sorry, I love 80s music to death, but that is just really bad music. That "We Want Prince" song is lacking in originality. How they got away with that sample and P not suing them, I'll never know. What label were they on?

scriptgirl said:

This song is so obscure,I don't think that Prince was even aware of it back then It didn't get much radio airplay.

I really enjoyed their debut album.I was hoping they would create another good album but in the end,they were simply a novelty act.In retrospect,they paved the way for all those other Prince soundalike bands (Dreamboy,Ready For The World,etc).

scriptgirl said:

a small independent label known as Heat Records


Sexual Harrassment releases:
1. I Need a Freak EP - Heat Records (Distributed by Montage Records) (1983)
2. I Need A Freak 12" - Heat Records (Distributed by Montage Records) (1983)
3. K.I.S.S.I.N.G 12" - Heat Records (Distributed by Montage Records) (1983)
4. We Want Prince 12" - Heat Records (1985)
5. These Are The Things That I Like 12" - Future Entertainment Records (?)

80s R&B jam of the day: "I NEED A FREAK" by Sexual Harrassment (1983)