04.10.2005 14:45

'The Happy Listener's Guide to Mind Control' at WFMU


Beware the blog, the world's best radio station's blog makes available mp3's ripped from the 1991 fundraising gift, The Happy Listener's Guide to Mind Control, a 'compilation of corporate, religious and political propaganda'. The Happy Listener's Guide To Mind Control. Some selections:
Exxon Singers - America's Way
Pre-Reaganomic trickle-down theory, in song. The LP was titled "the Spirit of Achievement" and was distributed to Exxon employees at some point between the gas crisis of 1973 and the second one in 1979. ...

Jack Van Impe - The Coming War With Russia (excerpt)
The good Reverand [sic] broadcast his creative Bible interpretations out of Detroit, and was syndicated nationally throughout the Sixties and Seventies. Van Impe samples also abound on records from the same era. ...

Radio Moscow - Soviet Putsch
Vasily Strinikov, the Casey Kasem of Radio Moscow, discusses how he first learned of the August 1991 Soviet coup. Followed by Radio Moscow's first announcement of the takeover.