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What are your favourite Moog Records, and are they AM, HM, or SM? (All moog , Half Moog or Solo Moog). I like AM the best, when all the instruments are moog. Here are my favourites. "Nashville Moog" AM, "Switched On Bacharach" HM, and "Switched On Rock" HM. Whats in YOUR collexion?

― mike hanle y, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"I'm in the Moog for dancing." HM

― Pete, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

can we fight over the pronunciation again? rhymes with vogue or like a cow's "moo" with a "g" on the end (same as the name of the Willo The Wisp dog)

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

what's there to fight over re: pronunciation? everyone knows it should be pronounced to rhyme with 'vogue', but then it destroys the puns in the title.

Claude Denjean - Moog! (HM)
Walter Carlos - Switched on Bach (AM), The Well-Tempered Synthesizer (AM) - much better than SoB IMO, Sonic Seasonings (not played this one yet)
Perrey and Kingsley - The In Sound From Way Out (HM, i think), Kaleidoscopic Vibrations (HM)
Bruce Haack - The Electric Lucifer (HM)
Enoch Light - Permissive Polyphonics (HM) - bit disappointing to be honest, but has it's moments
Mort Garson - Zodiac Cosmic Sounds (HM) - great! full of trippy astrological narration.

i want the following badly:
Mort Garson - Electric Hair Pieces
Richard Hyman - The Non-stop Electric Latin Love Machine
Killer Watts - The Many Moogs of Killer Watts

― michael, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've not felt the same way about Moogs, since the vogue thing! I think there is a Moog solo on Smart Patrol/Mr DNA by Devo, I like that.

Mike...could you post the link to the internet Moog generator that I think you posted a few months back?

― jel --, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh just remembered the following:
Elektrik Cokernut - Go-Moog! - i wouldn't pay over a pound for this one, kids. actually i have 2 copies (20p each!) so one will go on Ebay soon
Hot Butter - Popcorn 7"
Dick Hyman - Moog: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman - excellent! can totally recommend this one
Tomita - Snowflakes are Dancing (AM) - one of my faves, The Planets - not so nice
Morton Subotnick - The Wild Bull - good stuff, crazy!
Cecil Leuter - Pop Electronique - totally freaked out library tracks recorded by Roger Roger under a false name

and some Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream

― michael, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yo yo yo: check this out.

To get technical (on your ass), some of the above albums don't actually use Moogs: the first album by Perrey & Kingsley is all manipulated electric organ; Subotnick used a Buchla; and I believe Haack used a whole bunch of homemade machines in addition to the Moog. And some of the ones with "Moog" in the title in fact have scant Moog action.

My favorite is probably Hyman's Electric Eclectics. It's been reissued by Varese Sarabande with some additional tracks, including a cover of "Give It Up or Turn It Loose." Very corny, very daring. The Haack one is good, too. Anything by Haack is good, the kids records he did included. His cracked humanism is what makes him utterly lovable.

― Michael Daddino, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

DJ Bongo Boy to thread!

I haf:
Enoch Light - Permissive Polyphonics ("new" pirate vinyl copy I bought last Saturday; I think it's fantastic) HM

Enoch Light - Spaced Out ("pirate" CD mastered from the vinyl; not quite as brill as PP but still great) HM

Dick Hyman - Moog: Eclectic whatevers (Varese Sarabande CD; what Mike said)

Hugo Montenegro - Moog Power (80 per cent excellent) HM

I also downloaded some of The Plastic Cow Goes Moooooog when it was on that incredibly strange music site the other month. Generally I prefer HM it seems.

― Jeff W, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yeah the bonus tracks on the CD reissue of Dick Hyman's 'Moog: The Electric Eclectics' are from his second Moog LP 'The Age of Electronicus'

'Moog Power' is supposed to be one of the best, and better than the other Montenegro albums. i've got the Elton John one 'Rocket Man' and it's as bad as you'd expect an album of synth Elton John covers to be.

get that Claude Denjean 'Moog!' one on Phase 4 though if you can (usually loads of copies on Ebay), his versions of 'Venus' and 'Come Together' are amazing

― michael, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jel- what moog generator? I dont recall that. I also have "Have a Very Merry Electric Christmas" by Doug Leedy. Its fab. AM

― mike hanle y, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I personally found the Hugo Montenegro album a hugo disappointment, very unMoogy, but the title track's pretty good.

― Michael Daddino, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Btw...I've noticed they finally released Haack's never-issued sequel to the Electric Lucifer album. Anybody heard it yet?

― Michael Daddino, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

2 different aussie albums of moog abba covers.

― unknown or illegal user, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like the Star Wars moog album(AM), by The Electric Moog Orchestra??? I don't own it, my brother found the record at a thrift shop. I really like the Max Rebo Band track they played at the bar in Tatooine. I also like BBC Radiophonic Workshop stuff (HM,

― bryan, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I want teh Abba one bad but its always very pricey on ebay. I really want to start a record label re-issuing obscure moog records. But I woudl want to reissue them on vinyl .

― mike hanle y, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the moog abba records still often turn up cheap over here, mike - i could get 1 for you next time i see it. having said that, i will probably never see one again ever...

― unknown or illegal user, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wow - I'm surprised how many of my favourites have already been listed here!

My most favourite would have to be Permissive Polyphonics (I don't know how anyone can describe it as "a bit disappointing"!).

Followed by, in no particular order:

Spaced Out (which requires a new category: MM - minimal Moog)

Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine (by Richard *Hayman* by the way, not Hyman)

Dick Hyman - Electric Eclectics (a classic but doesn't really make for easy re-listening)

Dick Hyman - Age of Electronicus (if you think "Give It Up" was daring you'll want to hear the 8-9 minute version of "Green Onions"!!!)

Killer Watts ("The Persuaders", mmm!)

P&K - Kaleidoscopic Vibrations

Walter Carlos - Switched On Bach (the first Moog LP I remember hearing)

I have lots of others but right now I can't recall how good they are...

Other notes:

There's an interview with Dick Lieb (arranger of Spaced Out and Permissive Polyphonics) and Dick Hyman on my Enoch Light site (see below)

I recently bought a MIDI-CV converter which, in conjunction with my three analogue synths, means that I can download, for example, a MIDI version of the Brandenburg Concertos or Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring from yon internet and (almost) faithfully reproduce Switched On Bach!

Robbie (aka DJ Bongo Boy) http://www.enochlight.com/

― Robbie Baldock, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

did i type Hyman? i meant Hayman of course

as for Permissive Polyphonics being 'disappointing', i still like some of it, but i don't think i've got my head round Enoch Light's production style yet. i've yet to hear much Command/Project 3 stuff, and i'm just not used to that strange clear sound. i do really like his 'Watermelon Man' that i've got on a compilation so maybe there is hope for me yet!

are you still on the Exotica list these days, Robbie?

― michael, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

robbie you should make lots of new "switched on " records then! make a decent peter and the wolf! Wendy's blows. Speaking of MM, The Baker St. Orchestra's "Moog " record is very minimal moog and disapointing

― mike hanle y, Friday, 26 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Another great moment in Moog history is Gershon Perry's "Switched-On Gerschwin", esp. "It Ain't Necessarily So"

― mike hanle y, Saturday, 27 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh yeah that's great!

did anyone mench martin denny's moog alb yet? that's boss.

― unknown or illegal user, Saturday, 27 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd love to get my paws on that . Its always really freakin pricey, as is Moog Indigo, which I find overrated

― mike hanle y, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Denny's 'Exotic Moog'... mmm, been on my want list for ages. turns up on Ebay every now and then, but seemingly always in Australia. there is a CD reissue floating about - probably a bootleg - i think as a twofer with Les Baxter's 'Moog Rock'.

just got the Space 'Magic Fly' album - first track is very groovy and fits in with some of this new-fangled synthpop

― michael, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Aussie records come in a weird thin jacket. I got Switched ON bacharch from Australia . Its floppy. I also go t " in a classical moog"

― mike hanle y, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=864500237

― mike hanle y, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

UK typically records have thin sleeves too - it's only the US that used the chunky grey cardboard as standard. but we had decent quality vinyl inside, whereas the US switched to thin, low grade stuff in the early 70s (under the excuse of the oil crisis).

― michael, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is anyone else surprised at how well this thread has done?

― Pete, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I got this Kinks record taht was freakin floppy as hell. Muswell hillbillies. They said in the sleeve it was a new way that was better than the old way. What does 180 gsm mean anyways?

― mike hanle y, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

very floppy stuff = Dynaflex. never happened over here luckily. 180gm = weight of vinyl used in better quality pressings

― michael, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two months pass...
My favorite moog record? I prefer the ones that showcase cheesy cover songs, so I'll have to go with...

1. Melvoin - Plastic Cow Goes Moooooog 2. Denjean - Moog! 3. Moog Machine - Moog Rock 4. Moog Cookbook (both albums) 5. Scott - Switched-On Bacharach (What's New Pussycat is one of the funniest covers ever done)

― Tim Harris, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Early subotnick albums were done on the very different Buchla system IIRC. My favourite Mood album is w carlos' "Clockwork Orange" soundtrack, though you will have to hunt for the oone that's all-electronic, as the most common copy has mainly orchestral versions & isn't as good.

― Norman Phay goes moooog, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"mood" album....er......

Anyway, Bob Moog has just reclaimed the use of his name to use on his products

http://www.harmony-central.com/News/2002/Moog-Music-Big-Briar.html

so hooray for that. Also, you can buy the new minimoog from him as well (though it's quite expensive)

http://www.harmony-central.com/News/2002/Moog-Music-Big-Briar.html

I would have to say that it looks bloody fantastic though.

― Norman Phay, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

second link shd read:

http://www.harmony-central.com/Newp/2002/Voyager.html

― Norman Phay, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Elektrik Cokernut - Go-Moog! - i wouldn't pay over a pound for this one, kids. actually i have 2 copies (20p each!) so one will go on Ebay soon

I just sold a copy of that for £8 so you should do all right.

― David, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mike do you still need a copy of the moog abba album? i got a spare copy.

― , Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i have this weird record called 'the sounds of love a to z' which im not sure is moog or not, but it has simple synth music with overdubbed mild orgasmic moaning. some songs i think are classical numbers...

― Ron, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)


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