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How To Blow Your Mind And Have A Freak Out Party

I remember encountering this record at a vintage record shop I worked in back in the '80s. How To Blow Your Mind And Have A Freak Out Party (in that order?) is one of the very first records that I suspect was deliberately targeted towards the "chemically altered". And as you would expect, the stereo left/right panning is used codependently. And to extremes.

Nothing else is known about The Unfolding and it's not clear if they were an actual group or a one-off assembling of studio musicians.

But without the psychoactive drugs, this record doesn't induce much more than a headache. But if you got 'em (or just curious), you can hear it here.

Oneophile Records

If you're a beer guzzler, this probably isn't for you. So go back to your Motley Crue albums. I'll have something for you later on this week.

This one's for the classy people....

If you love wine, fine cuisine and the good life, you'll be happy to know through the miracle of the vinyl LP record, selecting and serving wine has never been easier.

In the late 1960s, a couple albums were released targeting the oneophile or wine connoisseur.  The first is On Wine by Peter Sichel (Columbia Special Products, 1966).

(This is Side One of this album. Side Two, which isn't included had light classical and jazz music. Presumably the stuff that goes good with wine.)

 

Basically, if you're confused on what wine to serve with what food, these records will set you straight. I for one am not a huge wine drinker (more of a beer or bourbon type.) 

 

Tho other is The Joy Of Wine by Alex Lichine (MGM Records, 1967)

 

 

 You can hear the complete double album here. (Thanks to WFMU's Beware of The Blog.)

Tyson Looney Tunes Meals (Early 1990s)

In the early 1990's, Tyson Foods came out with a line of kids meals featuring the popular Warner Brothers Looney Tunes characters.

They were kids meals, but even I loved them in my early 20s. One of these and my afternoon Looney Tunes cartoon fix and I was happy. I still wish I could buy these again....
 

Who'd ever thought Road Runner was a cannibal?

Somehow, hamburger pizza for Wile E. Coyote never seemed as appropriate as a stick of Acme dynamite in a hot dog bun. Or the chicken sandwich, given his taste for poultry.

1950's Spear Phonograph

Spear child's phonograph from the 1950s. These were very common phonographs. As I've mentioned before, this was at the time when the "grown-ups" began switching over to the new 33 and 45 RPM speeds. And most childrens records were still pressed at 78 rpm.

The Spear was interesting in while the turntable itself was electrically powered, the sound itself was acoustically reproduced with no amplification!
It didn't sound too bad either. But the very LAST thing I would play on this is a very rare 5" Little Wonder record from the 1910s as shown here...