I love all of the little whirs and blips that the Moog synthesizer makes but there isn't a lot of really fun music out there that uses the Moog. Maybe a couple of Perrey/Kingsley records and the Hot Butter album but that was about it. Until these guys hit the scene. It was a great idea to take songs that we are all very familiar with and reinterpret them via the Moog. This allows you to appreciate every little bleep and bloop as you listen to the songs. Some of the interpretations here are just downright brilliant. Favorites are Born to be Wild and Sweet Home Alabama. I still chuckle when I hear the little computerized voice say "Turn it up!" at the beginning of the latter.
To me the Moog's many sound effects stimulate the same pleasure centers that a Las Vegas slot machine does. It just feels good to listen. One word of warning though. This stuff is hilarious but should be digested in small doses. It's a novelty record and is not meant to be listened to over and over. So break it out every once in a while and let it bring a smile to your face!

If there is a musical afterlife, Moog Cookbook will occupy the lowest level of hell. They will look up at the likes of Ace of Base, The Moldy Peaches, Great White, Richard Marx, and Wesley Willis, each of them singularly terrible artists, and know that covering the likes of "Cat Scratch Fever" and "Sweet Home Alabama" with a cheap Casio synth is what delivered them directly to the music equivalent of the river Styx. (Not to be confused with the band, Styx, which undoubtedly will have to answer for the dreck it recorded during its far-too-lenghthy career.

This album rocks, as well as the other MCB release. If you like electronic music then this is for you because it will take you back to the early moog synth days. Remember folks there would be no electronic music today if it weren't for Prof. Lev Termen (Leon Theremin) who invented the first electromagnetic instrument. And Mr. Robert Moog who later perfected the syhtesizer. This is not circus music, it's electric music produced by mere transistors, no electronics involved!

This is the most dreadful listening experience to which I ever subjected myself. I love synth music, and I love classic rock, but to hear these songs treated in such ridiculous fashion made me wonder if this was all some sick joke that I wasn't in on. This is just mindless plink-plonk noodling on a great instrument set in "Mickey Mouse" mode. Pitiful arrangements and numbingly dull. More fool me for buying.

The Moog Cookbook reinterprets classic rock hits from the '70s. This album brings a smile to my face. They came up with very clever and amusing arrangements of these songs on synthesizers. All of these songs have brief "quotes" from other songs within them. For instance, at the end of "Rock and Roll All Night" you can hear snippets of "Turkey in the Straw", "Camptown Races", "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", "Yankee Doodle Dandy", "Old MacDonald", "Swanee River", "Battle Hymm of the Republic", "America the Beautiful" and "God Bless America". And there are probably a few that I missed!