How to Operate with a Blown Mind

How To Operate With A Blown Mind
Studio album by Lo Fidelity Allstars
Released	May 25, 1998
Genre	Big beat
Length	69:06
Label	Skint Records/Columbia Records
Producer	Lo Fidelity Allstars
Lo Fidelity Allstars chronology
How to Operate with a Blown Mind (1998) On the Floor at the Boutique (2000)On the Floor at the Boutique2000

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How to Operate with a Blown Mind is the 1998 debut album from Leeds experimental big beat group Lo Fidelity Allstars.

In a rundown of "intelligent big beat", Simon Reynolds called the album an "oxymoronic masterpiece of 'darkside big beat'."^[1]

Track listing

1. "Warming Up the Brain Farm" – 2:55
2. "Kool Roc Bass" – 7:40
3. "Kasparov's Revenge" – 6:00
4. "Blisters on My Brain" – 6:46
5. "How to Operate with a Blown Mind" – 7:24
6. "I Used to Fall in Love" – 5:10
7. "Battle Flag" featuring Pigeonhed – 5:39
8. "Lazer Sheep Dip Funk" – 7:21
9. "Will I Get Out of Jail?" – 6:18
10. "Vision Incision" – 9:37
11. "Nightime Story" – 4:16

List of samples

The following lists songs that were sampled for How to Operate with a Blown Mind.

Warming Up the Brain Farm contains samples from:

• "Panther Power" by Paris
• "I Keep Forgettin'" by Checkmates
• "Memphis B-K" by Little Sonny

Kool Roc Bass

• "Here Comes the Beat" as performed by Pumpkin and the Profile All-Stars
• "Planet Rock" by Afrika Bambaataa and The Soulsonic Force
• "Gangster of Hip Hop" by Just Ice

How to Operate with a Blown Mind

• "Children Don't Get Weary" by Booker T. & the M.G.'s
• "Lara's Theme" by James Last
• "The War in Korea" by James Cameron
• "What Is It?" by The Temptations

Battle Flag

• "Crosswind" by Billy Cobham

Lazer Sheep Dip Funk

• "I Need Some Money" by Eddie Harris
• "Kangol & Doc" as performed by UTFO
• "The Way We Were" performed by Norman Chandler

Will I Get Out of Jail?

• "So Lonely Without You" performed by Betty Crutcher
• "Be My Love" by The Originals
• "War of the Gods" by Billy Paul

Vision Incision

• "A Woman Needs a Good Man" by The Three Degrees

Nighttime Story

• "If & When" by The Three Degrees

Usage in popular culture

Television

• "Battle Flag" appears in the episode "Be Still My Heart" of the NBC drama ER. The song appears in episodes of Queer as Folk and Smallville. It was used in the trailer for the movie "Drillbit Taylor", and for the trailer for the "Duke Nukem Forever" video game released in 2011. It also appears at the end of the episode "46 Long" of HBO's The Sopranos.

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