“Electric Music To Blow Your Mind By!!!”   “A Pot Full of Psychedelic Pop by The Love Machine”   On Design Records.   (1968)   An ordinary vintage organ groove sound with freaky electronics on top of it. For lovers of the Free Pop Electronic Concept and Animated Egg, this is a groovy collection of cheesey ’60s psychedelia loaded with over-the-top electronic effects and jazzy go-go freak-outs.

(38 votes, average: 3.61 out of 5)

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“Music for Pooped People”   Featuring Eddie Kay Octet.   Mercury Records.

(42 votes, average: 4.17 out of 5)

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“Music for Losers”   Turk Murphy   Verve Records

(45 votes, average: 4.13 out of 5)

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“Music to Sell Valves By”   A promotional record and sales contest created for sellers of Cabot Valves.   “I Like Acid”!? “Legalize PVC” !?

(57 votes, average: 3.51 out of 5)

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“Music to Suffer By”   Leona Anderson on Unique Records (1958)   A glutton for punishment?   Check out the awful truth at WFMU’s Beware of the Blog

(56 votes, average: 4.29 out of 5)

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“Music To Help Clean Up Stream Pollution By”   This record was “created exclusively by” Union Carbide.

Wikipedia notes:   Union Carbide is one of the oldest chemical and polymers companies in the United States. It became infamous in popular culture for a major industrial accident that took place in its Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India plant in 1984.”

“The Bhopal Disaster of 1984 was an industrial disaster that was caused by the accidental release of 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate (MIC) from a Union Carbide India, Limited (UCIL, now known as Everready Industries India, Limited) pesticide plant majority (50.9%) owned by Union Carbide located in the heart of the city of Bhopal, in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

The BBC gives the death toll as nearly 3,000 people dead initially and at least 15,000 from related illnesses since, while Greenpeace cites 20,000 total deaths as a conservative estimate.

According to the Bhopal Medical Appeal, around 500,000 people were exposed to the leaking tables. Approximately 20,000, to this date, are believed to have died as a result; on average, roughly one person dies every day from the effects. Over 120,000 continue to suffer from the effects of the disaster, such as breathing difficulties, cancer, serious birth-defects, blindness, gynaecological complications and other related problems.

(Thanks Carl for correcting my irony deficiency)

(44 votes, average: 2.64 out of 5)

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“Do-It-Yourself”   Another is the Columbia Records series “Music for Gracious Living”   Peter Barclay and His Orchestra.

(55 votes, average: 3.27 out of 5)

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“Music For Skiers Only”   Illustrated by Virgil Partch (VIP).

(53 votes, average: 2.70 out of 5)

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Strictly For Lovers   The Jay Gordon Concert Orchestra   Tops Hi Fi

(49 votes, average: 3.73 out of 5)

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“Music To Break Any Mood”   Dick Schory’s New Percussion Ensemble   RCA Victor Living Stereo   1960.   Includes Caravan, Speak Low, Walkin’ My Baby Back Home, Fascinating Rhythm, A Foggy Day, Autumn in New York, I’ll Remember April, Stranger in Paradise, South Rampart Street Parade, and Tortilla.

(67 votes, average: 4.04 out of 5)

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