I wanna do that too

I woke up yesterday morning and as I laid there contemplating whether to get up or roll over for another hour I found myself singing Penthouse's "Tongue Kung Fu" to myself. This is a song I don't think I've listened to for about 5 years (when I transferred all my CD singles onto a few MP3 CDs) so when I say I was singing it was pretty rudimentary, couldn't really remember how it went.
So when I did manage to struggle out of bed I was straight onto Youtube to try and find it. Couldn't. Band named Penthouse, not great for a search it turns out.
I had to dig out my MP3 CD to listen to it.
Awesome doesn't begin to describe Penthouse. From my brief searches round the internet I discovered they had three albums between 1996 and 2002 before splitting up, and had to rename themselves 50 Tons of Black Terror in the US because of legal action from Penthouse magazine.
The odd thing is that Penthouse (the band) play really dirty Rock and Roll and it seems like exactly the type of thing Penthouse (the magazine) would have wanted to be associated with. But anyway.
I've only got the one album (Gutter Erotica, though I'm on Ebay when I stop typing this to try and find the others, the second album is on Itunes, but is probably cheaper on Ebay (and more physical, yeah)) and the Voyeur's Blues single, but they're both absolute classics. Proper sleazy rock and roll, exactly what rock and roll should be. I find it shocking (but maybe it's just my search skills) that I could find so little on the internet about them, a bad NME live review (yes, the NME got everything wrong even then) and just the one Youtube video (and that from a search for 50 Tons of Black Terror)



Not sure whether this was the official video, it's just a heart being operated on, if it was it's a pretty great video, which I guess it is anyway...
Gives you a good idea of the band. For all that they just play dirty rock (and the lyrics are all about sex - dirty in every way - ROCK AND ROLL) there are some distant (and brief) echoes of Battles in there ("Lap Dog Shuffle" off Gutter Erotica) and "Tongue Kung Fu" could well have been recorded by Shellac. Not that I want to claim them as some sort of hidden inspiration to the music of "NOW", but they are certainly a band that deserve to be remembered more than they are - if The Mock Turtles deserved their own Best Of, I'm quite certain that Penthouse do as well.
Seeing as I found so little I'll post a couple of tracks up here.
First off "Voyeur's Blues", which I love -

"I wanna do that too, I see the way she sucks on you
I can do that too, I seen the way she gets off on you"

A great couplet to start with, words and guitars clashing to create a laviscious rock classic

Penthouse "Voyeur's Blues"

And Tongue Kung Fu, which for the fourth track of a CD single is an absolute classic, almost wasted there, there's so many tunes if they can afford to hide this one away so. Imagine Shellac singing about, well, Tongue Kung Fu. Genius

Penthouse "Tongue Kung Fu"