subliminal seduction

[davemerrill]

Today on Mister Kitty we're violating CTRC orders and broadcasting these eerie subliminal messages to the entire world! The entire world of people who download MP3s from us, that is.



Wow, check out that sleeve. You want some eye catching colors, well, there you go, this layout practically reaches out and grabs your eyeballs by itself.

It's an LP full of easy listening music peppered throughout with messages that work on your subconscious mind to remind your mind that you need to eat less and lose weight. And they really work! At being annoying, that is. These aren't the kind of subliminals that you can't hear, they're pretty obviously there, just unintelligible. Since the whole "science" of subliminal messages is a joke, don't expect drastic weight loss, headaches, inexplicable desires for board games and Coca-Cola or pacts with Satan from this record. Still, you never can tell!! Don't weight, lost wait! Also the announcer at the beginning is pretty awesome, he's like Dick Vaughn from Negativland. Remember you are in control of your appetite!

Comments

[sobieniak.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately my appetite for this music is unstoppable!

[(Anonymous)]

There's an eye-trick going on with that cover art. The radial background makes it look like the type is titled. But nope. Viva commercial art class!

-Tim E.

[davemerrill.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was putting that cover scan together in Photoshop and I kept saying to myself, that text is skewed, how can it be skewed, the little CTRC warning box is parallel... MAN that's one garish cover. It did the trick though, it stood out in a whole pile of junk-store LPs.

I love the whole subliminal thing, I have all 3 of Wilson Bryan Key's books on how skulls airbrushed into whisky ads make you want to drink. I wonder if Mad Men will make it far enough into the 70s to blow the lid off that whole operation!?

[warpig1979.livejournal.com]

First thing it made me think, "the Emergency Broadcast Network cut a weight-loss record?"

[tochiro998.livejournal.com]

Even more, the way the lines are drawn, it appears to both bend and curve into a tube at the vanishing point.

But REAL trippy? Look at that cover with 3-D glasses, the red/blue (anaglyph?) kind. WOW and OW.

What do you mean you don't have 3-D glasses just laying around? What's wrong with you?!