Mother Earth's Plantasia LP (Color) fg_Catalog Number_IAM066L “I always wanted to do

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Mother Earth's Plantasia LP (Color) fg_Catalog Number_IAM066L “I always wanted to doIf you purchased a snake plant, asparagus fern, peace lily, or what have you from Mother Earth on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles (or bought a Simmons mattress from Sears) in 1976, you also took home Plantasia, an album recorded especially for plants. Subtitled "warm earth music for plants and the people that love them," it was full of bucolic, charming, stoner friendly, decidedly unscientific tunes enacted on the new fangled device called the Moog. Few