Hurra Torpedo

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Hurra Torpedo is Norway's most famous kitchen appliance band, formed in the early nineties. They are a part of the artistic collective Duplex Records, and all members of the band also play in a variety of other bands in Norway. During recent years Hurra Torpedo have had annual split- and reunion tours. The band struck international fame when a television performance of the 1983 Bonnie Tyler power ballad "Total Eclipse of the Heart", using kitchen appliances for percussion, spread as an internet meme. The clip, from a Norwegian Saturday Night Live type show called Lille lørdag ("Little Saturday"), was filmed in 1995. In early 2005 the clip was uploaded to the internet. In the clip, the band, dressed in ill-fitting jogging suits, play on a stage surrounded by various kitchen appliances. Frontman Hegerberg plays guitar and sings in an off-key monotone, Schau "drums" by hitting a stove with a stick and slamming the door of a freezer, while Guttormsgaard adds backing vocals, and at the climax smashes the top of an electrical stove with a large piece of metal on the beat of the song. In October/November 2005 they became part of a viral ad campaign by going on a coast to coast tour in the US that was paid for by Ford in order to promote the Ford Fusion car. As part of the ad campaign, a mockumentary movie called "The Crushing Blow" is being made, directed by the "character" Pip Simon who is played by the actress Tara Copeland. By the end of November 2005 a clip from The Crushing

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Kollossus Of Makedonia

Total eclipse of the heart

World Tour 2010 - Live At Rockefeller Music Hall

Solen over Nannestad - sanger om Dæhlie

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We're not dead (we just smell bad)

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Best Of Duplex Samlekassetter Så Langt Vol. 1

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Duplex Records 25 (Tjuefem Låter, Tjuefem År)

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Duplex Records 25 (Tjuefem låter, Tjuefem år)

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quart 97

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We fuck you with music

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Kollosus of Makedonia

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Den store bulkedagen

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