How to Operate with a Blown Mind

How to Operate with a Blown Mind is the debut studio album by Lo Fidelity Allstars, released on Skint Records in 1998.

How to Operate with a Blown Mind
Studio album by Lo Fidelity Allstars
Released	25 May 1998 (1998-05-25)
Studio	The Brain Farm; Chiswick Reach
Genre	Big beat dance-punk[1]
Length	69:06
Label	Skint
Producer	Lo Fidelity Allstars
Lo Fidelity Allstars chronology
How to Operate with a Blown Mind (1998) On the Floor at the Boutique (2000)
Singles from How to Operate with a Blown Mind
"Kool Roc Bass" Released: 1997 "Vision Incision" Released: 1998 "Battle Flag" Released: 1998

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Entertainment Weekly	B[3]
Rolling Stone	[4]

The Hartford Courant wrote that "there's something a little different about the Allstar approach, alternating the boomy, hooky dance tracks with spacy, equally melodic washes of instrumentals, over which are long, Beat poet-like rants."^[5] NME named How to Operate with a Blown Mind the 21st best album of 1998.^[6]

In a rundown of "intelligent big beat", Simon Reynolds called the album an "oxymoronic masterpiece of 'darkside big beat'."^[7]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Lo Fidelity Allstars, except "Battle Flag" written by Pigeonhed.

No.	Title	Length
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

Japanese edition bonus track

No.	Title	Length
12.	"Taking Fear from Behind"	6:18

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

• The Wrekked Train – vocals
• The Albino Priest – turntables, sampler
• A One Man Crowd Called Gentile – bass guitar
• The Slammer – drums
• Sheriff John Stone – keyboards
• The Many Tentacles – keyboards, engineering
• Sean "The Bison" Phillips – guitar (on "I Used to Fall in Love")
• Lisa Millett – vocals (on "Vision Incision")
• Ben Mitchell – keyboards (on "Vision Incision")

Charts

Chart	Peak position
UK Albums (OCC)[8]	15
US Billboard 200[9]	115
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[10]	1