# Your thoughts on the 'oddball' music albums- the experiments. Total flops? Or got a soft spot for them?

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**Created:** [April 22, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thoughts-on-the-oddball-music-albums-the-experiments-total-flops-or-got-a-soft-spot-for-them/1017370 "2025-04-22T16:54:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thoughts-on-the-oddball-music-albums-the-experiments-total-flops-or-got-a-soft-spot-for-them/1017370/20 "2025-04-23T01:28:10Z")

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> [@P-man](#):
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> Trout Mask Replica

> [@The horror of blimps](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horror-of-blimps/152885):
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> Last week while travelling I stopped at a Zany Brainy store and saw that they had a blimp for sale. It’s called Airship Earth, and it’s a great big balloon with a map of the Earth on it, and two propellors hanging from the bottom. You blow up the balloon with helium put batteries in it, and you have a radio controll indoor blimp. I’d seen these things for sale in Sharper Image catalogs for $60-$75. At Zany Brainy it was on clearance for $15. What a deal! Last night my wife was playing tenn…

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