The Medium is the Message is a mind-expanding work of sonic and philosophical inquiry. Listen, and verify, for yourself.
1. Mental Manipulation 2. Collect Call Environment 3. Thick Ideas
4. The Role of the Artist 5. Marshall’s Theme 6. The Agenbite of Outwit
7. Inner Tripping 8. Percepts 9. Through the Vanishing Point
10. Electric Paralysis 11. Media Ecology 12. Living at the Speed of Light
13. Discarnate Man 14. One Wheel, All Square 15. Everything’s Disappeared
16. Adult Pals 17. Lord Thomson Fleets Away 18. Mass Man
19.The Analogical Mirror 20.Media Fit the Battle of Jericho
21.The Rise and Fall of Nature 22. Organizing Ignorance for Discovery
23. McLuhan Pitch 24. Grammars of the Media 25. King Cadmus’ Parable
26. Post-Kinetic Reflector (A.k.a. Newfeld’s Theme)
27. Inside the Five Sense Sensorium 28. Acoustic Space
29. Orchestral Analogies 30. Men Without Art
31. Eyecon/Earcon 32. Sociological Algorithms 33. Menippean Satirists
34. Tetrad Management 35. Rear-View Mirror Pattern 36. Reflectors
37. Signatures of Existence
Liner Notes for Marshall McLuhan: The Medium is the Message
The Newfeld-produced The Medium is the Message is not to be confused with the John Simon-produced 1968 LP, The Medium is the Massage, the title of which is taken from the McLuhan book of the same name. Simon’s collage–usually best remembered for a parrot squawking the title phrase over and over–is well worth a listen also.