V. Vale, Andrea Juno

Featuring: Martin Denny, Jean-Jacques Perrey, The Cramps, Eartha Kitt, Phantom Surfers

FIRST PRESS
This book launched the current Lounge Music Revival and has single-handedly caused the re-release of hundreds of neglected recordings (virtually every LP pictured has been brought back into print). Featured album cover art is now the hipster style imitated by rock bands. Incredibly Strange Music surveys "easy listening, " "exotica, " and "celebrity" (massive categories in themselves) as well as recordings by (singing) cops and (polka-playing) priest, undertakers, religious ventriloquists, astronauts, and opera-singing parrots. Features 14 in-depth interviews with Jello Biafra, Ken Nordine, Robert Moog, Bebe Barron, Yma Sumac and many others.