LM Artist Poll No. 74 · STEREOLAB · Results Thread

Well, that's the end of our poll! Thank you everyone!

cute youtube links Moka hahaha

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http://i.imgur.com/31Kkeeh.jpg
02. French Disko 23 votes, 569 points. 2 first place votes.
From:Jenny Ondioline 7” / French Disko 7” (1993)
https://youtu.be/_kB9LRZ0sAs

http://i.imgur.com/lf61y9R.jpg
01. Jenny Ondioline 25 votes, 722 points. 7 first place votes.
From:Jenny Ondioline 7”/ Transient Random Noise Bursts… (1993)
https://youtu.be/oGDxN4mQ8WA

Solid top two!

10" format on those as well

the ex-GF who had the Cliff beach towel's favorite song is French Disko, she approves

her 2nd favorite is JO

I was hoping French Disko could win but it's still a good result. The top 20 is just about perfect.

Great poll. Thanks for running it Moka.

Jenny is this huge monolithic drone beast, and yet so sumptuous and comforting. Gives me chills every time I simply think about that opening blast of guitars.

I didn't realise "French Disko" hadn't placed until a few minutes ago. Gawd. I'm not sure I entirely appreciated it until I saw that clip from The Word with the dancing audience very recently. It suddenly made sense.

jamming JO now. Thanks for running this poll Moka! I'm a fan, but I really learned to appreciate the early stuff right here on this thread. :)

You're all welcome, thanks for voting. Here's the spreadsheet with individual ballots and full results:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ena2cDnbXHC7VuDfqvuG4kz9_iZ-fIbKmAe3gX3y5_k/edit?usp=sharing

Yes, great poll-running. Was dreading this one for months, as I didn't think I'd be able to take all the results wrongness, but it's been a blast. Thanks, Moka.

Jenny O a worthy winner. Career defining. Thanks again Moka!

And the imgur albums with the results in image form:

Album 1 (1-35): http://imgur.com/a/rlTHP
Album 2 (36-60): http://imgur.com/a/8oOnA

Fantastic stuff, moka! So well done.

Thank you!

Here's the top 100 if you can't access the sheet:

1 Jenny Ondioline
2 French Disko
3 Cybele's Reverie
4 Pack Yr Romantic Mind
5 Fluorescences
6 Metronomic Underground
7 Ping Pong
8 John Cage Bubblegum
9 Miss Modular
10 Les Yper Sound
11 Super Electric
12 Brakhage
13 Crest
14 International Colouring Contest
15 Lo Boob Oscillator
16 We're Not Adult Orientated
17 Come and Play in the Milky Night
18 Super Falling Star
19 The Seeming and the Meaning
20 Mountain
21 Golden Ball
22 Doubt
23 The Black Arts
24 Contronatura
25 Revox
26 Emperor Tomato Ketchup
27 Wow And Flutter
28 Captain Easychord
28 Our Trinitone Blast
30 Motoroller Scalatron
31 Tomorrow is Already Here
32 Transona Five
35 Animal Or Vegetable (A Wonderful Wooden Reason...)
33 The Light That Will Cease To Fail
33 The Noise Of Carpet
36 Harmonium
37 Anamorphose
38 Pinball
39 Three-Dee Melodie
40 Tone Burst
41 Laisser-Faire
42 Diagonals
43 The Free Design
44 Check and Double Check
45 Eloge D'Eros
45 Perversion
47 The Emergency Kisses
48 Baby Lulu
50 Percolator
49 Refractions in the Plastic Pulse
51 New Orthophony
51 OLV 26
53 Nihilist Assault Group
54 Spark Plug
55 Peng! 33
56 K-Stars
57 Puncture in the radax permutation
58 Avant Garde MOR
59 Changer
60 Pop Quiz
61 One Small Step
62 The Extension Trip
63 The Flower Called Nowhere
64 Tempter
65 Au Grand Jour
66 L'Enfer des formes
67 High Expectation
68 Anonymous Collective
69 Caleidoscope Gaze
70 Heavy Denim
71 The Groop Played Chord X
72 Infinity Girl
73 Spacemoth
74 Interlock
75 Fiery Yellow
76 Rainbo Conversation
77 Exploding Head Movie
78 Blue Milk
79 Need To Be
80 Brittle
81 Naught More Terrific Than Man
82 Kyberneticka Babicka pt. 1 & 2
83 Parsec
84 Surrealchemist
85 I'm Going Out Of My Way
86 Allures
87 Soop Groove #1
88 Hallucinex
89 Orgiastic
90 Suggestion Diabolique
91 Brigitte
92 Simple Headphone Mind
93 Excursions into Oh, A-Oh
94 You Used to Call Me Sadness
95 Lock-Groove Lullaby
96 I Feel the Air (of Another Planet)
97 People Do It All the Time
98 Sadistic
99 Les Aimies des Mêmes
100 Klang Tone

Brilliant stuff, Moka!

Thanks for a fun poll and really good-looking rollout, Moka!

Thank you! Oh I forget the Album of Albums:

Top 10 Albums: http://imgur.com/a/uHM6F

Great poll Moka. Thanks!

I was another Number 1 voter for John Cage Bubblegum - I think its just the greatest few minutes of drone-tastic Groop grooving.

L'Enfer Des Forms was robbed! That has always been a personal favourite but I'm actually really surprised Parsec didn't place really high as well.

Yeah, very nice work Moka. Compiling a ballot was always going to be excruciating, but it was very much worth it. Thanks a lot!

Biggest surprise for me is that Slow Fast Hazel didn't make the top 100. Thought that would be a popular choice.

My "wait what everybody doesn't love that song?" Is des etoiles electroniques

Mine is... "Cadriopo". (Well, I possibly have several better contenders, but I was all on my lonesome with that one.)

I was on my own casting a vote for Dear Marge. I'm surprised.

awesome poll, Moka! lots of fun!

My "wait what everybody doesn't love that song?" Is des etoiles electroniques

Thirded on Des Etoiles. Lots of worthy songs bubbling under - One Small Step!

Great poll, thanks Moka!

thanks Moka! awesome poll!

Ok finally back home...where I missed everything, but when I opened the thread I was like, holy crap, great images!
Great job Moka! Haha, I had both versions of Au Grand Jour in my top 20. I tried so hard with the post Dots stuff...aside from Sound-Dust, it just leaves me cold.

Albums:
1. Emperor Tomato Ketchup
2. Switched On Volume 1
3. Peng!
4. Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements
5. Refried Ectoplasm

Tracks:
1 Super-Electric
2 Olv 26
3 Brittle
4 Tomorrow Is Already Here
5 Jenny Ondioline
6 Metronomic Underground
7 Peng 33
8 Au Grand Jour
9 French Disko
10 Les Yper-Sound
11 Cybele's Reverie
12 Revox
13 Perversion
14 Motoroller Scalatron
15 John Cage Bubblegum
16 Exploding Head Movie
17 Eloge D'Eros
18 Anamorphose
19 Golden Ball
20 The Light that Will Cease to Fail

You're welcome!

18/20 ain't bad at all.

17/20 brittle didnt make it

Jenny Ondioline
John Cage Bubblegum
Ping Pong
Our Trinitone Blast
Les Yper-Sound
Metronomic Underground
Golden Ball
Tone Burst
Spark Plug
The Black Arts
Lo Boob Oscillator
Visionary Road Maps
French Disko
Farfisa
Changer
Super Electric
Mountain
Excursions Into "Oh, A-Oh"
Wow and Flutter
Brakhage

Unranked ballot:

Pack Yr Romantic Mind
Jenny Ondioline
Ping Pong
Miss Modular
Fuses
The Free Design
Caleidoscopic Gaze
Percolator
The Noise of Carpet
Tomorrow Is Already Here
Harmonium
Lo Boob Oscillator
French Disko
International Colouring Contest
Brakhage
Diagonals
Refractions in the Plastic Pulse
Prisoner of Mars
Parsec
Mellotron

1. Miss Modular
2. Double Rocker
3. The Black Arts
4. Come and Play in the Milky Night
5. The Extension Trip
6. Check and Double Check
7. International Colouring Contest
8. Des Etoiles Electronique
9. John Cage Bubblegum
10. The Free Design
11. Infinity Girl
12. How to Play Your Internal Organs Overnight
13. Doubt
14. Pack Yr Romantic Mind
15. Spacemoth
16. Diagonals
17. Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (mellow)
18. Cybele's Reverie
19. Fluorescences
20. Brigitte

1. Sound Dust
2. Dots and Loops
3. Cobra
4. Mars Audiac Quintet
5. Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements

'One Small Step' and 'L'Enfer des formes' seconded. Seems a full half of my selections were outside the sixty, with a big cluster near 100:

Mellotron (That Silver Apples-ish rhythm, shared with 'Harmonium', is massively under-appreciated.)
One Small Step
Sadistic
Kyberneticka Babicka (Third most popular post-Sound Dust track, it turns out.)
People Do It All the Time
Cadriopo
Allures
L'Enfer des formes
Nothing to Do with Me
Farfisa

I made my ballot before everyone so that I wouldn't cheat but after seeing the final table I almost wanted to rig the poll by voting for post-00s Stereolab so that it would have more representation in the poll. Interlock, Babicka... Whisper pitch if anyone had voted for it.

Margerine Eclipse songs! Need to be, cosmic country noir

I listened to Marge a couple of times in recent days. 'Cosmic Country Noir' could've have displaced something else from my ballot I think, in a different week. I wish I liked the music of 'Feel and Triple' as much. A hybrid containing the latter's lyrics would probably make me weep pretty reliably.

great poll, glad i voted!

Ranked

1. “Jenny Ondioline” (40 points)
2. “The Noise of Carpet” (36)
3. “Perversion” (33)
4. “Ru Tenone,” Turn On (30)
5. “We're Not Adult Oriented” (28)

Unranked

“Ode to a Keyring,” Monade (20)
“Infinity Girl” (20)
“Jaunty Monty and the Bubbles of Silence” (20)
“Exploding Head Movie” (20)
“John Cage Bubblegum” (20)
“Low Fi” (20)
“Laisser-Faire” (20)
“Transona Five” (20)
“Bop Scotch” (20)
“Neon Beanbag” (20)

1. Refractions in the Plastic Pulse
2. Cybele’s Reverie
3. The Free Design
4. Fluorescences
5. OLV 26
6. Come and Play in the Milky Night
7. Pop Quiz
8. Laisser-Faire
9. Motoroller Scalatron
10. With Friends Like These
11. International Colouring Contest
12. Heavy Denim
13. Lo Boob Oscillator
14. Kyberneticka Babicka
15. K-Stars
16. The Light That Will Cease to Fail
17. Naught More Terrific Than Man
18. Three-Dee Melodie
19. Narco Martenot
20. I Feel the Air (Of Another Planet)

Was I the only Klang Tone voter?

Amazing poll Moka, thanks!

Biggest surprise: Pack Yr Romantic Mind at #4 with five #1's.

There are a lot of great songs in the top ten ... and somehow I didn't vote for any of them except for "John Cage Bubblegum". I don't have a sensible reason for leaving JO off my ballot, I guess it was because I'd already voted for two songs from that album and wanted to spread my votes around more. I'm also a big fan of live 'Lab, I saw them live a few times, collected a lot of live recordings, "ABC Music", etc. and JO was never a regular part of their live set. You can't hold that against the studio version but it made JO less "visible" to me over the years.

I've always been a bit meh on "French Disko", yeah the clip from the Word is brilliant and captures the song in all its droney/pogo essence, but "John Cage Bubblegum" and "The Seeming and the Meaning" do the exact same thing but way way better.

Songs:

1. Super Electric
2. Tempter
3. Changer
4. Anamorphose
5. Transona Five
6. Animal or Vegetable (A Wonderful Wooden Reason)
7. John Cage Bubblegum
8. Laissez Faire
9. The Seeming and the Meaning
10. Stomach Worm
11. Avant Garde MOR
12. We're Not Adult Orientated
13. Low Fi
14. Come and Play in the Milky Night
15. Captain Easychord
16. Golden Ball
17. Tomorrow is Already Here
18. Les Bon Bon Des Raisons
19. Varoom
20. Crest

Albums:
1. Mars Audiac Quintet
2. Lo-Fi
3. Refried Ectoplasm (Switched On 2)
4. Transient Random Noise Bursts With Announcements
5. The Groop Played Space Age Bachelor Pad Music

Tracks
01. John Cage Bubblegum
02. Caleidoscopic Gaze
03. Motoroller Scalatron
04. The Flower Called Nowhere
05. Super-Electric
06. One Small Step
07. University Microfilms International
08. Puncture in the Radax Permutation
09. Suggestion Diabolique
10. “…sudden stars”
11. Laissez-Faire
12. Interlock
13. Ping Pong
14. With Friends Like These
15. Fluorescences
16. Heavy Denim
17. La Spirale
18. Self Portrait with “Electric Brain"
19. I Feel The Air (of Another Planet)
20. Diagonals

Albums & EPs:
01. Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
02. Sound-Dust
03. Refried Ectoplasm (Switched On Vol.2)
04. Instant 0 in the Universe
05. Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center

Just before going to sleep last night, I lay in the dark and listened to the entirety of Refried Ectoplasm really flippin' loud. That's so so so their best album. And as much space as as my growed-up, 21st century brain-self can clear for their later, more sophisticated experiments & inclinations, I don't think they ever surpassed (or even matched) their early genius for tone & propulsion. Every sound on that album is perfect, perfect not only in isolation, but in synthesis with every other. French fucking Disko.

I played ETC loudly today on the way into work, now I have realised my "Fiery Yellow" vote should have been for "Anonymous Collective", because that is the track I meant.

I saw the top 100, I guess it wouldn't have made much difference anyway. FY at 75, AC at 68..

Also, how many Stereolab track titles have anything to do with the lyrics? I was beginning to think it was "International Colouring Competition" only, but up came "des etoiles electroniques" and the title is right there in the song!