Recorded in 2005 and released the same year on the remix compilation CD "Tone of Finland" issued by the Finnish label Crystal Eye.
Written by Elliott Sharp and Anton Nikkilä.
"Contains a spoken word sample from 'Daddy and the Muscle Academy' and interpolations of 'Intro' & 'Lumberjack Boots' by Elliott Sharp."
(from the liner notes of "Tone of Finland")
The documentary film "Tom of Finland – Daddy and the Muscle Academy" was directed by Ilppo Pohjola in 1991.
lyrics
The town homo
ran the drugstore
and he carried
the Athletic Model Guild
I was only 12
so they wouldn't sell something like that to me
- not in 1957
But I stole
that very first issue
that had the Tom of Finland drawing
on the cover
(from the liner notes of the compilation "Tone of Finland")
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