Can you imagine a rock 'n' roll band named Electric Orgasm? Does it sound like a bunch of young, energetic and talented blokes from the '80s? Well, these sexy legends of early '80s punk rock were one of the most important and accomplished rock 'n' roll and punk bands in former Yugoslavia and Serbia.

Naming themselves Electric Orgasm, they started their career in January 1980, first as simply an idea, than as a live band, performing in Belgrade's Mornar restaurant. They played their first gig in June 1980. Every member of the group already had their own punk rock bands, where they played guitars, drums or sang lead vocals.

How I can explain what this band was for ex Yugoslavia? You know what happens after a really good orgasm? Calm, peaceful happiness and pleasure. Well, this was Electric Orgasm for former Yugoslavia and Serbia. Interested in hearing more?

Everything since then has become legend. This band had the rare privilege to grow up in publicity, together with their audience. At first they had been punk band. Then punk became progressive psychedelic electro rock. During the mid-'80s they became part of the new age at the time, progressive punk rock 'n'roll. By the end of the '80s and the beginning of the '90s, Electric Orgasm transformed to classic pop and rock 'n' roll, just like many bands in the USA and the UK at that time. Over the years, they recruited different audiences, not just punk or rock 'n' roll, but gaining also pop electro techno fans in the early '90s.

Their early '80s punk record inspired Kris Bohn, a journalist from UK's New Musical Express Magazine, to call the Serbian band one of the most exciting non-British and non-English bands at the time. Although the album was one of several Electric Orgasm albums being sold in ex Yugoslavia, it was this record which broke the UK market. They were the most promising rock 'n' roll band in former Yugoslavia in the '80s. Electric Orgasm was to former Yugoslavia what the Rolling Stones were for the UK during the '60s and '70s.

Electric Orgasm was the first ex Yu band to progress from punk rock into psychedelic rock in the late '80s, produced in the ex Yu country now known as Slovenia by Tony Jurija. After that, many other bands slowly began to follow a similar progress. This record was called Leaves Cover Lissabon, named ironically after Barbara Cartland's trashy romance novel.

This was true progressive psychedelic rock that predicted the moral, financial and cultural disintegration of former Yugoslavia. One of the songs was a cover of Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weil's song, "Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)," first interpreted by US legends The Doors. In 1983, the band had offered their interpretation of David Bowie's song, "The Man Who Sold The World," T. Rex's "Metal Guru" and The Doors' "When The Music's Over." Their real hit at the time was another song sung on English,"Locomotion." These records sold well in the '80s all over former Yugoslavia. The next record also included a cover of the Rolling Stones song "Out Of Time."