Made from Technetium

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Made from Technetium
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Studio album by
Released1997
Genre Surf rock, punk rock
Label Flag of the United States.svg Touch and Go Records
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Au Go Go Records
Man or Astro-man? chronology
Inside the Head of John Peel
(1997)
Made from Technetium
(1997)
Ex Machina
(1998)
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Made From Technetium is the fourth full-length studio album by Man or Astro-man?, the 12" vinyl being released on either orange or black vinyl. In an interview, bassist Coco the Electronic Monkey Wizard joked that the album "was, in fact, made from technetium" and had caused cancer in a number of listeners. [2] [3]

Track listing

  1. "Message from the CD" / "Message from the LP"
  2. "Lo Batt."
  3. "Jonathan Winters Frankenstein"
  4. "Don't Think What Jack"
  5. "Junk Satellite"
  6. "10 Years After World War 4"
  7. "A Saucerful of Sucrets"
  8. "Breathing Iron Oxide"
  9. "Muzak for Cybernetics"
  10. "Structo <Mr Microphone Mixup>"
  11. "The Sound Waves Reversing"
  12. "Theoretical Sounds of Slow Motion"
  13. "Static Cling <Theme from>"
  14. "Evert 1 Pipkin"
  15. "Weightless at Zero Return"

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References

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