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The album that took 43 years to sell 1 copy

David Hartley | October 14, 2025

Mother Earth’s Plantasia is described as full, warm, beautiful mood music especially composed to aid in the growing of your plants. It’s one of Mort Garson’s greatest works and despite the weird nature of it’s composition, it contains some beautiful music.

Written by David Hartley

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@KevinDick-h6f

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

I find this lost treasure in a garden of hope. The plant species associated with the tracks are as real as their existence in the world . Refreshing and they give us nothing but isolated attention without complaining just a little light, water and let them do their work .
@malcolmkoharian

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

i know for a fact j dilla owned it
@davidgasten4361

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

Agreed that it's a lovely album. Many of us got ahold of this album via Ford Shacklett's "Basic Hip Digital Oddio," a collection of rips of 500 unusual LPs that included Moog records, whistling records, soundtrack albums, exotica albums, spoken word albums, film noir / spy-themed albums, and other curios from the mid-20th century. The collection features a number of Mort Garson LP's, including "Plantasia." I suspect that whoever uploaded "Plantasia" to YouTube may have gotten it from this source.
@j.lietka9406

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

Isoa Tomita! He wrote the song "Our Day Will Come"?
@dis.infectant

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

Phenomenal record.
@javierszapari5836

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

I'm very sure that Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider knows about this record
@michoeljones

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

I thought everyone knew this from the TurboTax commercial
@Timebound_Timmy

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

I am a plant and this music made me bigger.
@greggorr314

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

"Nothing … is so powerful as an idea whose time has come." –Victor Hugo
"No wine is so powerful as one served in its time." –Orson Welles (Paul Masson)
@jameshutchingsmusic

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

Early synth music often seem to use counterpoint rather than blocks of chords. I wonder if that's because early synths were monophonic, and that inherently suggests separate melody lines?
@glfriendliness9793

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

I bought it used.
@24kHERTZ

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

Never mind the plants – this is one of the most innovative electronic albums of the 70s
@angharaddenby3389

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

I have had that album in my collection a few years.
@TheAAZSD

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

This is the coolest thing the algorithm has sent me in a while.
@TijuanaBorderJumper1

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

OMG 😱😳
@onlyjustalice

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

If you haven’t heard this album, I don’t know what rock you’ve been living under.
@katuza8742

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

"you've probably never heard if this album" yet every seems vinyl collector i know owns a copy.
@aisforapple2494

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

Wendy Carlos was still Walter Carlos when he did 'Switched On Bach' and the soundtrack to 'A Clockwork Orange'.
@craig1538

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

Fucking hell. That's amazing. 👍
@applejayz1987

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

Maybe I am a plant
@4th_Lensman_of_the_Apocalypse

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

Trees love Bark!

B’dum Tshhhhhhhhhhhh
@avdiz

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

I wish that there were 12 albums for The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds but there is only one with 12 tracks.
@croiners4166

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

Who forgot what?!❤
@shalabazertheboltstruck8645

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

By the way things are going with our album… we’re gonna top this
@ChunkyLover69420

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

Forgotten album? Everyone knows this
@aaax9410

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

All my indoor plants perked up listening to this lol
@rolfengel9316

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

A heartwarming video and story – thank you David!
@fredschmitt456

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

Soso, Walter Carlos, huh?
@postmax81

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

There may be other candidates for weirdest albums of all-time, but this is a lovely video nonetheless.
@jordansullivan7290

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

They gave this album out with mattresses in the 70s. I have 2 copies and one still has the giant sticker from the mattress store
@JKVisFX

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

His entire catalog is also available on Apple Music. I'd guess that the other music streamers have it too.
@Megatone230

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

Beautiful, love that theme song!
@SoylentPanda

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

Being a fuckin' vegetable myself, I can guarantee this album is a great beet.
@CSGraves

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

Garson was born in my hometown. Glad to hear this video starting with Swingin' Spathiphyllums, it's my favourite track on Plantasia. Fairly certain that copies were uploaded online years prior to 2018, as it was longer than that since I first heard it and many of his other albums.
Here in Canada, his best known work might be the end credits theme to the old nature program Untamed World… if you're old enough to at least have caught an episode or two in syndication, or seen the short film Arrowhead where the protagonist sings the melody while holding aloft a dead fish.
IIRC, the Plantasia Moog modular is currently owned by Anthony Marinelli.
@Maddogonguitar

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

…had a copy of this album….and a 'PlantSynth'…..sensors attached to leaves produced oscilator tones in a battery powered speaker !
@floofems

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

I love this album!!! Video title's a bit of a stretch though, haha
@atomictraveller

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

what a preposterous claim! you're not aware of much about music. john trubee and the ugly janitors of america. mark of the mole is weirder. the reconstruction of paul's boutique in finnish in 1992. the mysterious 'acid hut' album. weird = don't try talking at me you would become very afraid. you've obviously never realised that multidimensional oscillators transduce from spirit. my ears are so open i can hear west papua. you should listen.
@ConvincingPeople

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

I think I was first made aware of this album as a teenager back in the mid-to-late '00s when the now-defunct experimental music blog Mutant Sounds posted about it. I'm glad that it's seeing something of a renaissance, as it's really a lovely little record, and it's neat to see some of the comments here from people who've been aware of Garson's work from as far back as the '70s chiming in.
@robbysguitars8223

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

Another early Moog artist was Isao Tomita. Do something on him sometime. I remember my cabin counselor at summer camp playing his Great Gates of Kiev for us in 1975. We were blown away. I think the album was called Pictures at an Exhibition.
@Artur_Iozzi

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

I saw it on YouTube and bought an original pressing back in 2013. So it was surely uploaded to YouTube less than 10 years after Mort's Death
@buxycat

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

Fame is but a fruit tree, so very unsound
It can never flourish 'til its stalk is in the ground
So men of fame can never find a way
'Til time has flown far from their dying day
Forgotten while you're here, but remembered for a while
A much updated ruin from a much outdated style

Nick Drake – Fruit Tree
@tmamone83

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

The birth of comfy synth.
@nahlijgod

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

Thx
@caseyleedom6771

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

If you haven't covered Wendy Carlos' other albums, you ought to. Digital Moonscapes is nice, but Beauty in the Beast is really great.
@MooreMusic12

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

Wow so interesting ❤😊
@quadibloc2

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

When I saw the synthesizer, I thought – surely Switched-On Bach sold better than that! But, of course, it did, and you were speaking of another album.
@tescomealdeals

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

“You’ve probably never heard of this album” what fucking planet are you living on dude?
@davidclarke6329

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

love it never heard of it before
@Cosmicprog2012

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

Maybe, I was the first who bought this Lp! – Christos Tsanakas.
@vxidastronaut

October 14, 2025 at 3:32 am

i remember when mythbusters tested this and the plants preferred death metal