How to Operate with a Blown Mind

How To Operate With A Blown Mind
Studio album by Lo Fidelity Allstars
Released	May 25, 1998
Genre	Big Beat
Length	69:06
Label	Skint Records/Columbia Records
Producer	Lo Fidelity Allstars
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Lo Fidelity Allstars chronology
How to Operate with a Blown Mind (1998) On the Floor at the Boutique (2000)

How to Operate with a Blown Mind is the 1998 debut album from Leeds experimental big beat group Lo Fidelity Allstars.

Track listing

1. "Warming Up the Brain Farm" – 2:55
2. "Kool Roc Bass" – 7:40
3. "Kasparov's Revenge" – 6:00
4. "Blisters on My Brain" – 6:46
5. "How to Operate with a Blown Mind" – 7:24
6. "I Used to Fall in Love" – 5:10
7. "Battle Flag" featuring Pigeonhed – 5:39
8. "Lazer Sheep Dip Funk" – 7:21
9. "Will I Get Out of Jail?" – 6:18
10. "Vision Incision" – 9:37
11. "Nightime Story" – 4:16

List of samples

The following lists songs that were sampled for How to Operate with a Blown Mind.

Warming Up the Brain Farm contains samples from:

• "Panther Power" by Paris
• "I Keep Forgettin'" by Checkmates

Kool Roc Bass

• "Here Comes the Beat" as performed by Pumpkin and the Profile All-Stars
• "Planet Rock" by Afrika Bambaataa and The Soulsonic Force
• "Gagsters of Hip Hop" by Just Ice

How to Operate with a Blown Mind

• "Children Don't Get Weary" by Booker T. & the M.G.'s
• "Lara's Theme" by James Last
• "The War in Korea" by James Cameron

Lazer Sheep Dip Funk

• "I Need Some Money" by Eddie Harris
• "Kangol & Doc" as performed by UTFO
• "The Way We Were" performed by Norman Chandler

Will I Get Out of Jail?

• "So Lonely Without You" performed by Betty Crutcher
• "Be My Love" by The Originals
• "War of the Gods" by Billy Paul

Vision Incision

• "A Woman Needs a Good Man" by The Three Degrees

Nighttime Story

• "If & When" by The Three Degrees

Usage in Popular Culture

Television

• "Battle Flag" appears in the episode "Be Still My Heart" of the NBC drama ER; also appears in episodes of Queer as Folk and Smallville. It was used in the trailer for the movie "Drillbit Taylor". It was also used at the end of episode 2, 46 Long, of season one of The Sopranos.