In 1983 Ministry‘s Al Jourgensen, Front 242‘s Richard 23, and Belgian musician Luc Van Acker got into a bar brawl in Chicago, bar stools flying through the windows and everything, and the bar’s owner, a guy named Dess, shouted at them, “I’m calling the police! You guys are a bunch of revolting cocks!” And suddenly the trio’s side project had a name. (Revco was also the name of a now defunct drugstore chain at the time)

RevCo (as they are also called) had been percolating around for a few years when they put out probably their best album, Beers, Steers + Queers, in 1990. The second track of the album was a cover of Olivia-Newton John’s 1981 smash single “(Let’s Get) Physical,” but ONJ’s attorneys objected, so RevCo re-did it without using the original lyrics.
 

 
If nothing else, listening to RevCo’s cover—with the original lyrics intact—is enough to make one realize how filthy ONJ’s original song actually was. The video, with all the people working out, was pretty much a cover for what is definitely an R-rated song, but people don’t think of it that way, partly because of Newton-John’s own wholesome image. In all honesty I had practically forgotten that that song has verses, but of course they were immediately familiar as soon as I put the song on—check it out: “I took you to an intimate restaurant / Then to a suggestive movie / There’s nothing left to talk about / Unless it’s horizontally.” I got news for you, America: This song is NOT about working out!

The B-side to RevCo’s single is “(Let’s Talk) Physical,” which is simply a single snare hit and a sample of RevCo singer Chris Connell shouting “Talk!” in a loop lasting almost seven minutes.

Here’s some YouTube evidence of all of this. For starters, here’s the original Olivia Newton-John video, just to refresh your memory:
 

 
Here’s the original version of the RevCo cover, the one that Wax Trax Records was forced to suppress:
 

 
Here’s the version RevCo replaced it with: