To my great wonderful joy, I was pointed in the direction of a cover band called The Moog Cookbook. These Space Rockers cover classic rock songs and some new (circa 1996) pop stuff.
They reduce Green Day’s “Basketcase” to slinky elevator muzak. Some other AOV favorites are Black Hole Sun and Hotel California (which I would like to add features the Popcorn lick at the end).
I totally dig this stuff, the Nirvana cover had me flailing my arms in an attempt to dance. This was only ever previously achieved by Joy Electric‘s Moogy* antics.Does anybody know of any other Moog rock like this?
* I like saying Moog. Moog.
I have access to the “Switched on Bach albums” – 1974 records where classical hits were played badly on synths. I probably haven’t listened to them since the Clash’s first album.
I nearly bought that… these CookBook characters are carrying on the tradition started (? I don’t know my history) by Switched on Bach. Another album was “Moog does Beatles” or something like that with a bunch of covers too.
any switched on bach fans wondering what happened to moog maestro, walter carlos, might be interested in a great little tune the god of ridicule, momus, wrote about the composer’s sex change.
The records were so big in the early 70’s that the Walter/Wendy thing was actually in the news at the time.
besides the fact that there are several moog cookbook albums (some released only in canada) you may also want to try out a group called “386 dx”:
http://www.epitonic.com/artists/386dx.html
mp3 samples can be found there…
And by the way, it’s pronounced with a long ‘o’ sound, not like the sound a cow makes. Just making sure.
After years of saying “Moog” the way a cow might, I was saddened to read Salon’s article where they point out that “Moog” rhymes with “Vogue”.
I was saying moooog and I was even in a band! Good lord – maybe that’s why they were all laughing.
Can somebody tell me why it should be pronounced Mohg…If it is Moog, its Moooooog. I would punctuate this post properly if I wasnt using an Imac with a french setup.
Because that’s the name of the guy who invented it, and he oughta know how to pronounce his own last name.
hmmm… I used to have a great moog cookbook cover mp3 back in the day… can’t remember what it wasm though.