Elio samaga hukapan kariyana turu is the first album by Italian rock band Elio e le Storie Tese. The album title is in Sinhalese language, and it means "Let's cum and fart with Elio". Most of the songs featured in this record were written during the band's early years before the album's release and were often performed during the 1980s. In 2012, the album has been ranked the 15th best Italian album of all time by the magazine Rolling Stone.

Title

During an online interview about vulgar words and swearing in Elio e le Storie Tese's songs, keyboardist Rocco Tanica explained that the title of the album originated with a young Sri Lankan man living in Milan; wanting an incomprehensible title for the band's debut album, Tanica asked the man to say the most vulgar sentence in Sinhalese, and to include the name "Elio" within it. The man found it hard to respond properly due to the gentle and almost poetical nature of his native tongue, but he finally replied with the title sentence, which, according to other Sri Lankan people contacted by Tanica, may also be translated as "Let's cum and fart with Elio" or "Let's blow (air) and piss with Elio". In the same interview, Tanica also explained that a variant of the phrase with "kokapan" instead of "hukapan" exists in Sri Lankan street slang, and the former is perceived as much more vulgar as it refers to homosexual sex between two men.

Track listing

Personnel

Allusions

The album contains several references to popular culture and youth culture from the 1970s and early 1980s, in particular to other music productions.

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