As promised last week, here is the second installment in Keith Lo Bue's Phonoanomalies series, 32 MP3 tracks and artwork below, or alternatively a Torrent of the whole thing in FLAC for the real audiophiles. If you don't yet have a Christmas present for your parakeet, THIS IS IT! And no, I am not kidding, we really care about the parakeets of the world here at WFMU, and they should get their presents, too. But humans, canaries, computers, and Zoroastrian physicians will also have fun with this compilation, because it features music by humans, canaries, a computer, and a Zoroastrian physician, the one and only Dr. Adi Tamboli. Of course, there is yodeling, whistling, and prepared pianos, too. And this compilation doesn't shy away from serious issues either, there are two Mike Curb tracks from the soundtrack to the shocking documentary about today's youth, Teenage Rebellion, and a song about the dangers of arcade games. Kids beware, playing Pac-Man, Asteroids, and Galaga will drive you crazy. You should rather listen to these tracks now. Where are they? As always, below the jump.
01 Hartz Mountain Products - Parakeet Training Excerpt #1
02 Bruno Nicolai - De Sade '70
03 Slim Whitman - There's a Rainbow In Every Teardrop
04 Ferrante and Teicher - African Echoes
05 Mike Curb - Teenage Rebellion
06 M.V. Mathews and the IBM 7090 Computer - Bicycle Built For Two
07 The Three Suns - Caravan
08 The Electric Express - I Can't Believe We Did (The Whole Thing)
09 Eddie Safranski - Speedy Gonzales
10 Hartz Mountain Products - Parakeet Training Excerpt #2
11 The 18th Century Concepts - Light My Fire12 Dr. Adi Tamboli - Ghar Aya Mera Pardeshi (Dream Song)...Avara...
13 Wade Denning - Mambo Rooney
14 Ella Fitzgerald - Sunshine Of Your Love
15 Ralph Hermann with Bob Prescott, Sound Effects - The Teddy Bear's Picnic
16 Mike Curb - Make Love Not War
17 Hartz Mountain Products - Parakeet Training Excerpt #3
18 Buckner & Garcia - Pac-Man Fever
19 The Three Suns - Danny's Inferno
20 Jonna Gault and Her Symphonopop Scene - Wonder Why, I Guess21 Hartz Mountain Products - Parakeet Training Excerpt #4
22 Moe Koffman - Dr. Swahili
23 The Hartz Mountain Master Canaries - Humoresque
24 T. Swift & The Electric Bag - Expo In Sound
25 Elmo Tanner (with orchestra conducted by Billy Vaughan) - Heartaches
26 Hartz Mountain Products - Parakeet Training Excerpt #5
27 Mike Curb - A Young Girl's Mistake
28 Pierre Henry & Michel Colombier - Teen Tonic
29 Hazel Scott - Carnaval
30 Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra - Theme From "Chariots Of The Gods"
31 Slim Whitman - By The Waters Of The Minnetonka
32 Hartz Mountain Products - Parakeet Training Excerpt #6
More info on sources and recording dates is here. Tracks run into each other, so you should burn all of them onto a little silver disk. How do you tell it apart from all the others littering your apartment? By Keith's wonderful artwork, of course: CD label | | Cover Booklet and Tray. If the words BitTorrent and FLAC are familiar to you and you missed it the first time, here is a Torrent file for the whole shebang in super-high fidelity, including artwork. I have already thanked lots of people in last week's post, so I won't repeat it here.
Next week I will hopefully bring you the third and final part of this series, but I am going to be on the road, and I don't know if they have already discovered the Internet in Germany yet. I'll have my homing pigeon with me, though, just in case.
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I had that Hartz Mountain record. I loved that scientific intro about,
"This recording is made with a voice that most parakeets find most effective in learning to talk"...and then the babe comes on.
Posted by: owen/d | December 24, 2006 at 08:21 AM
I used the parakeet record for my outgoing answering machine message in 1995:
http://www.echo.net/~jhhl/sounds/951206%20-%20Parakeet.aif.mp3
I think Dave The Spazz was the first to broadcast this epic recording, at least on WFMU.
Posted by: Henry Lowengard | December 24, 2006 at 12:26 PM
I just picked up a Mike Curb Congregation album at the thrift store. Your inclusion prompted me to investigate him, and he was really freakin' prolific. Check out the list: (can't decide which impresses me more, the theme from "Hotwheels" or Ronald Reagan's theme.....)
http://www.mikecurb.com/about/bio.cfm
Posted by: Dale Hazelton | December 25, 2006 at 02:01 PM
For some reason your torrent link from this page only launches my web browser with jibberish on it. I have never had this problem except when I tried to download your first comp last week. The mininova link worked great last week. Have you posted this torrent @ mininova (or elsewhere) as well? Thanks so much! I loved your first phonoanomalie last week!
Posted by: calzone | December 25, 2006 at 09:14 PM
Dale, don't just click on the torrent link, but right-click and save it to your computer. Only then will it be saved as a proper torrent file. Good luck!
Keith
PS: Glad you like the anomalies!
Posted by: keith | December 25, 2006 at 10:42 PM
Just in case it doesn't work with the direct link to the Torrent file here, I have also submitted it to Meganova here.
Posted by: Lukas | December 26, 2006 at 10:30 AM
Hi, torrent for "More Phonoanomalies.." seems to be dead. Could someone seed it again please? Thanks
Posted by: Lixpas | May 11, 2007 at 12:44 PM
I downloaded it, thanks a lot for seeding. Theese Phonoanomalies Albums are just great!
Posted by: lixpas | May 25, 2007 at 08:21 AM
does anyone have the complete Hartz Mountain record in mp3
Posted by: randall | June 17, 2007 at 07:51 AM
Realise it's a bit late, but any chance of a reseed on the torrent?
Posted by: trl_path | July 30, 2007 at 01:13 PM
Any chance of a reseed on the flac torrent? Thanks!
Posted by: bumpy | April 11, 2010 at 01:37 PM