Turn on, tune in, drop out for NBC Radio's Talknet nighttime programming block of call-in advice shows. Another variation, "Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out", was the title of a 1993 single by the band 'Freak Power'—the name itself being a reference to the hippie culture. Turn on, tune in, drop out "Turn on, tune in, drop out" is a counterculture-era phrase popularized by Timothy Leary in 1966. In 1967 Leary spoke at the Human Be-In, a gathering of 30,000 hippies in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and phrased the famous words, "Turn on, tune in, drop out". It was also the title of his
The Best of New Order track, "Vanishing Point" (from the LP "Technique"), though the song was already popularised as the theme tune to the BBC series "Making Out". Only "Thieves Like Us" (the oldest track included, from 1984) appears in the same form as on the earlier compilation, "Substance". The liner notes (first on a New Order album) were provided by journalist Paul Morley. The US version of the album omits three tracks ("The Perfect Kiss", "Shellshock" and "Thieves Like Us"). This was purportedly due to the band's American label, Qwest, not wishing for some of the singles already included on "Substance" to be duplicated