| The Moog Cookbook | |
| Type: | Cover album |
| Artist: | the Moog Cookbook |
| Cover: | Moog Cookbook-The Moog Cookbook(FrontCover).jpg |
| Released: | 1996 |
| Genre: | Electronic rock[1] |
| Length: | 45:06 |
| Label: | Restless |
| Next Title: | Ye Olde Space Bande |
| Next Year: | 1997 |
The Moog Cookbook is the debut record by the American electronic music duo the Moog Cookbook, released in 1996. It consists of ten cover versions of alternative rock tracks performed using Moog synthesizers and other analog synthesizers. The album was critically acclaimed[2] and became an underground hit.[3] In 1997, it was followed by the similar Ye Olde Space Bande.
Stereo Review 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."[4]