Everything You Know Is Wrong
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| Studio album by The Firesign Theatre | ||||
| Released | October 1974 | |||
| Genre | Comedy | |||
| Length | 42:00 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | The Firesign Theatre | |||
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Everything You Know Is Wrong is the eighth comedy album by the Firesign Theatre. Released in October 1974 on Columbia Records, it satirizes UFOlogy and other New Age paranormal beliefs, such as Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods and claimed psychic Uri Geller, which achieved wide public attention by that time.
Everything You Know Is Wrong employs the Firesign Theatre's signature surreal playwriting.
The four main characters are pictured on the album cover:
The LP album is ostensibly the latest in Cox's series of "mind-breaking records" purveying his New Age revelations, augmented with mock commercial television news coverage. There are no track divisions.
After a brief introduction, Cox gives a reverberating montage of his latest revelations, such as "Dogs flew spaceships", "Men and women are the same sex", and "Your brain is not the boss"; concluding with "Everything you know is wrong!"
Cox interviews Heater County, California Sheriff Luger Axehandle (Ossman), who claims to have seen a dog- or wolf-like alien digging up a grave in Curio, Arizona. Cox follows this with his interview of Lem Ashhauler (Proctor), editor of the Hellmouth–Heater Democrat newspaper, who reads an archived 1897 story identifying the grave's occupant as a strange visitor who choked to death on a piece of cheese.
Next, Cox plays the soundtrack of the short film Ben Franklin: Hero or Hophead?, which alleges Franklin (Bergman), Samuel Adams (Proctor), and Thomas Jefferson (Austin) planned the American Revolution while smoking hemp.
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