''The Moog Cookbook'' is the debut record by the American

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duo

the Moog Cookbook The Moog Cookbook was an American Electronic music, electronic duo consisting of Roger Joseph Manning Jr., Meco Eno (Roger Manning) and Brian Kehew, Uli Nomi (Brian Kehew). The project was a parody of and tribute to the novelty Moog records of t ...

, released in 1996. It consists of ten

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s of

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tracks performed using

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s and other

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s. The album was critically acclaimed and became an underground hit. In 1997, it was followed by the similar '' Ye Olde Space Bande''.

Critical reception

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'' praised "the delicious nastiness of ''The Moog Cookbook'', which takes ten sacred-cow songs down a few pegs... Soundgarden's 'Black Hole Sun', for instance, becomes an unholy cross of generic bossa nova and the theme to the old ''Dating Game'' TV show, while the deep brooding of Tom Petty's 'Free Fallin' gets trashed via robot vocals and some Rick Wakemanesque keyboard flourishes."

Track listing

References

1996 debut albums The Moog Cookbook albums Restless Records albums 1990s covers albums {{1990s-electronic-album-stub