Everything You Know Is Wrong

Everything You Know Is Wrong
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1974
GenreComedy
Length42:00
LabelColumbia
ProducerThe Firesign Theatre
The Firesign Theatre chronology
The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra
(1974)
Everything You Know Is Wrong
(1974)
In the Next World, You're on Your Own
(1975)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The New Rolling Stone Record Guide[1]
Christgau's Record GuideA−[2]

Everything You Know Is Wrong is the eighth comedy album by the Firesign Theatre. Released in October 1974 on Columbia Records, it satirizes UFO conspiracy theories and 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.

  1. ^ *Marsh, Dave, and Greil Marcus. "The Firesign Theatre." The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Ed. Dave Marsh and John Swenson. New York: Random House, 1983. 175-176.
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: F". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 24, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.