{"id":471,"date":"2007-12-16T14:58:32","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T18:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=471"},"modified":"2007-12-16T14:58:32","modified_gmt":"2007-12-16T18:58:32","slug":"mark-mothersbaugh-musik-for-insomniaks-limited-edition-japanese-boxed-cassette-with-deck-of-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2007\/mark-mothersbaugh-musik-for-insomniaks-limited-edition-japanese-boxed-cassette-with-deck-of-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Mothersbaugh &#8212; Musik for Insomniaks (Limited edition Japanese boxed cassette with deck of cards)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/mothersbaughmarkinsomniaks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-797\" title=\"Mark Mothersbaugh -- Musik for Insomniaks (Limited edition Japanese boxed cassette with deck of cards)\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/mothersbaughmarkinsomniaks.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Mothersbaugh -- Musik for Insomniaks (Limited edition Japanese boxed cassette with deck of cards)\" width=\"500\" height=\"1365\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Mark Mothersbaugh<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Musik for Insomniaks (Limited edition Japanese boxed cassette with deck of cards)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1985<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Cassette<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 6<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1985? &#8211; I must&#8217;ve been working at a record store&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All the nerds in the house say, &#8220;Hey!&#8221; This one is for you. I know I promised something for the nerds the other day, but I&#8217;ve been planning on posting Mark Mothersbaugh&#8217;s <em>Musik for Insomniaks<\/em> since I saw him playing &#8220;guest programmer&#8221; on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TCM<\/a> a couple weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Mark had some interesting movie choices. I didn&#8217;t see his entire shift. I wonder if Robert Osborne asked him about Devo. Anyhow&#8230; Of course, Mark has made many soundtracks and that&#8217;s pretty much what <em>Musik for Insomniaks<\/em> sounds like. It&#8217;s a little too staccato to be considered truly soporific (false advertising!) but it does get boring at times. And those times really depend on the listener because all of the &#8220;songs&#8221; sound similar. I thought I was playing the same side of the tape by mistake for a minute, but it turned to be side 2 after all. Even the names of the songs are similar: &#8220;XP25&#8221;, &#8220;XP31&#8221;, etc. To be fair, the collection is really more like a film score where the pieces are variations of the core theme. It&#8217;s all instrumental, with no drums or guitar, that I could tell.<\/p>\n<p>What makes this piece interesting enough to keep is the total package. This version was a Japanese import produced as limited edition boxed cassette with a deck of cards. Mothersbaugh completely covered this thing with art and quirkiness. The text on the cover is in gold leaf box, the cassette itself is metallic gold, there is a comic inside the box top, and included is a letter in kanji signed by Mark. I saved the best for last, there is also a full deck of playing cards, to play some sleep-inducing Solitaire I assume. All the cards have a different picture of Mark. For each suit he is wearing a different suit of his own. I don&#8217;t know who the woman is with him on one of the Joker cards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Mothersbaugh\">Mark Mothersbaugh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Mark Mothersbaugh Title: Musik for Insomniaks (Limited edition Japanese boxed cassette with deck of cards) Year: 1985 Format: Cassette Rating (1-10): 6 Owner: Tracy Acquired: 1985? &#8211; I must&#8217;ve been working at a record store&#8230; Keeper: Yes All the nerds in the house say, &#8220;Hey!&#8221; This one is for you. I know I promised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[475,452,453],"tags":[509,593,603,648,669,670,818],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-m","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-509","tag-box-set","tag-cassette","tag-devo","tag-electronic","tag-experimental","tag-mark-mothersbaugh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}