http://www.indiepedia.de/index.php/Stereolab
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:33 (5 years ago) Permalink
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:34 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.metrolyrics.com/international-colouring-contest-lyrics-stereolab.html http://www.keyofz.com/keyofz/lucia.htm
EMPEROR TOMATO KETCHUP http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066468/ http://www.gomorrahy.com/trailer-park/emperor-tomato-ketchup.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZXyQ7fAl4c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPEdizQc6_U
http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Stereolab/Contronatura.html http://www.amazon.com/Against-Nature-Translation-Rebours-Classics/dp/0140440860
Stereolab - Nurse With Wound - "A Wonderful Wooden Reason" http://www.lyricstime.com/faust-meadow-meal-lyrics.html
Stereolab · Nurse With Wound - "Simple Headphone Mind" Alcatraz - "Simple Headphone Mind" from "Vampire State Building", recorded at Faust's studio, 1971 http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=10591
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements: not one but three Perrey-Kingsley samples on one album, here are your royalties http://www.amazon.com/Out-Sound-Complete-Vanguard-Recordings/dp/B000055ZE1
Well, well, so you are an upright person, you love peace and quiet, law and order... you have worked over twenty years with the same company, your boss likes you, you have never been criticized, never any complaints... you play cards, you read the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, believe in God and belong to the shooting club... you're a lieutenant in the army!... about time you were bumped off! PENG!
http://stereolab.koly.com/exhibits/images/clifforig.gif
les yper-sound: pierre henry psuedonym, 7" psyche-rock single http://mysteryposter.blogspot.com/2007/04/les-yper-sound.html
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:36 (5 years ago) Permalink
― cutty, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:37 (5 years ago) Permalink
absolutely
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:37 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.45toursderockfrancais.net/rockfrancais/ypersound45t.htm http://www.bide-et-musique.com/images/gallery/GMZ-755.jpg
http://www.lyricsxp.com/lyrics/i/i_feel_the_air_of_another_planet_stereolab.html "I feel the air of another planet" / "Ich fühle luft von anderem planeten", first line of the Stefan George poem 'Entrückung', set by Schoenberg to music in the last movement of his second string quartet, now regarded as the first fully atonal piece of classical music http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1426242
Stereolab - Instant 0 In The Universe http://www.discogs.com/release/192321 Bernard Parmegiani - 'Instant 0' from 'La Création Du Monde' http://www.discogs.com/release/173060
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:38 (5 years ago) Permalink
I forget the 60's film poster that was used as the template for the cover of 'Sound Dust' -- I thought it was Polanski's "Cul De Sac" but can't find a direct match, I open the door
Kybernetická babicka "Cybernetic Grandmother" by Jirí Trnka, experimental animated Czech film, 1962 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0239543/ http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3053080331721849771
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:40 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Vannier
― oscar, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:41 (5 years ago) Permalink
― jaymc, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:42 (5 years ago) Permalink
Huysmans Against Nature actually has McCarthy as an intermediate step ("Anti-Nature") --
Someone has done a Youtube video somewhere of musical lifts, a couple of which are a bit "umm a I-IV-V progression isn't really a steal," but most of which are pretty obviously what they were listening to / lifting from.
― nabisco, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:43 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBRA_(avant-garde_movement)
― oscar, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:45 (5 years ago) Permalink
"First of the Microbe Hunters" was a term originally applied to Anton van Leeuwenhoek.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:46 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Brakhage
― jaymc, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:49 (5 years ago) Permalink
Lyrics from Peng!33 = from opening chapter of Cent Anos de Solidad
― nabisco, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:52 (5 years ago) Permalink
(I made that sound more highbrow than it actually is)
esquivel, peter thomas sound orchestra, neu!
― Mr. Hal Jam, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:58 (5 years ago) Permalink
P.S. Not just Perrey-Kingsley, but Perrey-Kingsley playing back to Brazil with "One Note Samba"
― nabisco, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
The Ondioline was a vacuum tube-powered keyboard instrument, invented in 1941 [1] by the Frenchman Georges Jenny, and was a forerunner of today's synthesizers.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:06 (5 years ago) Permalink
One of their songs namedrops about 40 different Blue Jam sketches, which is pretty awesome bizarre.
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:09 (5 years ago) Permalink
looking up these links was occasionally very frustrating -- five years ago it was easy to google the direct reference, but at this point you've got to go through about sixty pages worth of stereolab lyrics pages / retail sites / review pages / playlists playlists playlists. the difference between acknowledging an influence and eclipsing the source by borrowing the title for your own successful project is growing.
the fact that the referents are baldly sitting there doesn't necessarily mean anyone thinks to look (and why would they, it's a pop band). it's not as if there's a place for endless trainspotting in most reviews but sometimes I wonder if this band has ever offered a single intuitive or non-pilfered moment or if the whole point is wholesale representation / recombination, in which case you'd expect the referents to be mentioned a little more often than they are
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:14 (5 years ago) Permalink
― scott seward, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:16 (5 years ago) Permalink
ok a bit of overstatement there but the depth of their borrowing sometimes leaves me a bit stunned
xpost ok if we're just going to begin posting covers of albums
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:17 (5 years ago) Permalink
Which song is that Louis? Or is it easily Googlable?
― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:20 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://delia-derbyshire.dyndns.org/images/B00006LEPF.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg http://quimby.gnus.org/circus/jukebox.php?image=thumbnail.png&group=Stereolab&album=Oscillons%20from%20the%20Anti-Sun%20%283%29
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:20 (5 years ago) Permalink
― scott seward, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
sorry, i'm lazy.
Nothing To Do With Me (aka Moonflies (aka Chris Morris))
(as seen on This is the thread where you talk about Chris Morris - genius, and the finest satirist of modern times )
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:27 (5 years ago) Permalink
Does one of those links go to Gil Scott-Heron?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:45 (5 years ago) Permalink
i'm not a huge stereolab fan, but this list is mindboggling. good work, guys.
― ian, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:53 (5 years ago) Permalink
Here's an obscure one - the title of "Animal Or Vegetable (A Wonderful Wooden Reason)" which was on the Crumbduck EP, is a line from a Faust song (at least the bit in brackets is).
― everything, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:55 (5 years ago) Permalink
Should also mention the later McCarthy releases which offer a neat segueway into the first Stereolab record. (eg: "The Home Secretary Briefs the Forces of Law and Order").
― everything, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:58 (5 years ago) Permalink
― dmr, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 23:07 (5 years ago) Permalink
You're talking about the bass line to "Metronomic Underground," I take it?
― jaymc, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 23:13 (5 years ago) Permalink
Song on Aluminum Tunes:
― jaymc, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 23:18 (5 years ago) Permalink
Pack Yr Romantic Mind from Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements begins with a sample from "Pop Orbite", a song on Chico Magnetic Band's album.
― oscar, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 23:32 (5 years ago) Permalink
Obvious one, they recorded a split record with her. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Fontaine http://www.discogs.com/release/256204
― oscar, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 23:34 (5 years ago) Permalink
I always thought Speedy Car had a bit of the Soft Machine about them.
But if you want to talk United States of America, it's Broadcast on their first album that really rips that.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 23:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
On Dots and Loops. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Brakhage
― oscar, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 23:36 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road_Again_(Canned_Heat)
― oscar, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 23:39 (5 years ago) Permalink
I agree, I'd prefer to keep this to direct references / uncredited samples / lyrical lifts rather than vaguer incorporated influences or else I'd just be Sylvie Vartaning it up over here
first track on Refried Ectoplasm, 'Harmonium', where the 70's DJ spools up a tape which promptly breaks and falls off the reel is lifted from an aircheck of Negativland's 'Over the Edge Vol 4 - Dick Vaughan'
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 23:44 (5 years ago) Permalink
10,000 points to anyone who can find a "Demon Seed" or "Phase IV" reference
Add N to X got there first on Demon Seed: http://www.discogs.com/release/325990
...but Andy Ramsey from Stereolab does play on this track!
(/lab geek. I deserve my 10,000 points for that one!)
― Jeff W, Friday, 9 November 2007 16:09 (5 years ago) Permalink
― Moodles, Saturday, 10 November 2007 05:14 (5 years ago) Permalink
― Moodles, Saturday, 10 November 2007 05:15 (5 years ago) Permalink
Golly, I'm drunk
The Incredible Shrinking He-Man
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 10 November 2007 11:51 (5 years ago) Permalink
Was just listening to Steve Hillage's "It's all too much", the refrain of which bears striking resemblance to "I'm going out of my way" from Transient Random Noise Bursts, right down to the overdriven organ.
― Sparkle Motion, Monday, 21 January 2008 06:16 (5 years ago) Permalink
According to this interview the title of Sound Dust comes from the liner notes to a Messiaen record. Which one?
― dad a, Monday, 28 January 2008 22:48 (5 years ago) Permalink
not sure, it'd be appropriate for any of them. tim mentions the Turangalila here. a lot of Sound-Dust strikes me as Komeda production & arrangements of Messiaen chord sequences). One of my favorite Stereolab moments ever is that shifting filtered sequence at the end of "Gus The Mynah-Bird", which reminds me of "Vingt Regards".
Messiaen POV / POX
Parts 7 & 8 of the 'Stereolab Origins' series, part 8 includes a bit of the Turangalila
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV78kmTqH3k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn7vfuC-waE
― Milton Parker, Monday, 28 January 2008 23:49 (5 years ago) Permalink
Maybe he's talking about this? Pupils of Messaien, A Capella Works by Messaien, Stockhausen & Xenakis - one of the Stockhausen pieces, Agnus Dei, describes the Lamb of God by saying, "its step makes the sound of rainfall on the dust."
― dad a, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 03:27 (5 years ago) Permalink
Anyone heard the Monade record? I like it but it's basically just Cobra and Phases Group without the fiddlier bits.
― Dimension 5ive, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 03:34 (5 years ago) Permalink
the other day I found a copy of the "Stereolab" edition of Tchaikovsky's Symphony #6 Pathetique on Vanguard - the 'Lab nicked the cover design for the sleeve of "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music". Wish I could post a scan, can't find an image online...
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 11 September 2008 17:42 (4 years ago) Permalink
http://www.discogs.com/Stereolab-Explosante-Fixe/release/1469221
http://www.amazon.com/Boulez-Explosante-fixe-Ensemble-Intercontemporain/dp/B0007404HI
the Stereolab Origins series on Youtube is up to episode 13. It's so much fun, you try to guess which track is about to be cut to, providing a vague match, but I'm out of my depth by this point (though man, it's clear I really need to hunt down every last Don Cherry album I can find)
― Milton Parker, Monday, 20 April 2009 19:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
4) The alternate set list name for "Blips" is "Emil". Surprised?
Nooo
― Milton Parker, Monday, 20 April 2009 19:19 (4 years ago) Permalink
ha ha WOW the first one on part IX, biggest laugh yet
― Milton Parker, Monday, 20 April 2009 19:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
More film references:"Fuses": http://www.ubu.com/film/schneeman_fuses.html"Three Women":
And updated links for previously mentioned films:"Kyberneticka Babicka": "Emperor Tomato Ketchup" (NSFW):
― ernestp, Saturday, 24 October 2009 15:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
Ok, noob here but haven't found a more specific Don Cherry pointer so here goes.
The bass line in Percolator comes from Don Cherry's fantastic Relativity Suite album of 1973, more specifically from the end of "Tantra" or the beginning of "Mali Doussn'gouni".The Rhodes Piano ostinato riff in Metronomic Underground I think comes from "Desireless" of the same album.
Check it out: http://thebrewingluminous.blogspot.com/2007/04/don-cherry-relativity-suite.html
― AdjustMe, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 07:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
If you're a spotifyer, check out Sweden jazz giant Lennart Åbergs cover of aforementioned Don Cherry work here:
spotify:track:3f5Z65Jasm4QHl14FGQOPm
― AdjustMe, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 12:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
JOHN WRIGHT AND CLEMENT BROWN - HI-FI SOUND STEREO TEST RECORD. Hi-Fi Sound Records HFS75 UK Stereo LP 1974.
― zvookster, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements
― zvookster, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements - back cover
andy ramsey credited with "persuasive percussion"
combines back covers of Enoch Light's
Persuasive Percussion and Provocative Percussion albums of the mid-'50s, which were some of the first albums to exploit the capabilities of stereo recording and 35mm film as a recording devise.
― zvookster, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
haha this is the very first time i've noticed that the cover of TRNBWA is a record player. i r incredibly unobservant
― chillwave of mutilation (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
hmm shouldn't have included cd re-issue
― zvookster, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
did anyone post this Nini Raviolette song? it's not direct, but it can't really get anymore direct
― jaxon, Friday, 9 July 2010 20:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
I love this thread...Another film reference - Serene Velocity:
― ernestp, Saturday, 23 October 2010 01:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
Jacques Siroul
― ███★★★███ (PappaWheelie V), Monday, 3 October 2011 19:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
wow, that was more fun than a bag of monkeys. thanks.
― cw, Monday, 3 October 2011 20:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
What a great thread. Too bad some of the Youtubes are now unavailable
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 August 2012 01:08 (8 months ago) Permalink
i just came here to post that i love this thread.
― choom gangnam style (get bent), Monday, 27 August 2012 01:16 (8 months ago) Permalink
these are not just songs, but clues
― Milton Parker, Friday, 9 November 2007 00:25 (4 years ago)
― sleeve, Monday, 27 August 2012 03:03 (8 months ago) Permalink
never read this thread before but it's cool! in the interest of restoring some of the broken links, here's a link to Emperor Tomato Ketchup: http://www.ubu.com/film/terayama_vol1.html
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Monday, 27 August 2012 03:14 (8 months ago) Permalink
(The Emperor Tomato Ketchup, 1971, dir. by Terayama Shuji, that is)
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Monday, 27 August 2012 03:15 (8 months ago) Permalink
I actually made an xls of four of the "Stereolab Origins" with names of the references, if anyone's interested.
― Pilot Inspektor Leee (Leee), Monday, 27 August 2012 04:30 (8 months ago) Permalink
Sure, go ahead. Useful to have all this stuff in one handy place.
― Jeff W, Monday, 27 August 2012 13:32 (8 months ago) Permalink
On "Ausculatation to the Nation", on Laetitia Sadier's new album Silencio, the lyrics about the G20 nations conference are taken word for word from a caller to a French political talk show.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 August 2012 14:37 (8 months ago) Permalink
But the sole song-writing credit goes to Sadier
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 August 2012 21:22 (8 months ago) Permalink
never read this thread before but it's cool! in the interest of restoring some of the broken links, here's a link to Emperor Tomato Ketchup
can someone explain this film to me
― The Radioheads are massive in the Man community (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 27 August 2012 21:35 (8 months ago) Permalink
no
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Monday, 27 August 2012 21:54 (8 months ago) Permalink
zomg spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AiilJGAbZaindElpZUZwN2twSGx4TzNrTzlZY00xS2c&output=html
― Pilot Inspektor Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 03:02 (8 months ago) Permalink
Oops, wrong link, if any of yall want to edit (COLLABARATIVE WEB2.0 omg):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiilJGAbZaindElpZUZwN2twSGx4TzNrTzlZY00xS2c
― Pilot Inspektor Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 03:03 (8 months ago) Permalink
Next step: Stereolab Origins Spotify list
― Moodles, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 03:04 (8 months ago) Permalink
A quick search in Spotify brought this up, it's a little on the large side, but is a great start:http://open.spotify.com/user/devastatorjr/playlist/3heKgUNitRwk19GxkWuTWc
― Moodles, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 03:06 (8 months ago) Permalink
OK, I got the actual list started. So far I'm through the first 4 videos, check this space for updates:
http://open.spotify.com/user/olken2000/playlist/06G3CvbMmQ90bj0KOPWM0b
― Moodles, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 03:35 (8 months ago) Permalink
It's not in any of the videos I don't think but "Perversion" is almost exactly the same as Velvet Underground's "What Goes On". It is literally the most blatant VU rip-off I have ever heard.
― the mandy moorhols (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 04:55 (8 months ago) Permalink
― the mandy moorhols (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 04:56 (8 months ago) Permalink
I could prob listen to the last 2 1/2 minutes of "Perversion" on a loop for all eternity and never get bored of it
― the mandy moorhols (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 04:58 (8 months ago) Permalink
Thread has become too long but did we already mrention Esquivel's space age bachelor pad? Or Caetano Veloso? The residents?
I love this band's influences and references, i might consider them my favorite band simply because of it, so much commn ground for an average music geek.
― Moka, Friday, 5 April 2013 17:22 (1 month ago) Permalink
Eye of the volcano has an Os Mutantes thing going on.
― Moka, Friday, 5 April 2013 17:42 (1 month ago) Permalink
Ticker tape of the unconscious:
Song title references Anais Nin. It was the name she gave one if her dresseshttp://blacknyx.tumblr.com/post/43837638270/anais-nin-in-inauguration-of-the-pleasure
Also the song samples Gal Costa. Cant remember which song.... Divino, maravilhoso?
― Moka, Friday, 5 April 2013 17:51 (1 month ago) Permalink
I dont know how much these count as "direct" so they probably dont count:
Joao Donato - Cada Jodel (The Beautiful One)Similar groove to "Parsec".
http://youtu.be/8zy9-n3AJNA
Ennio Morriconne - Amore come doloreSimilar main chord sequence as Miss Modular. (Listen from 1:50 onwards).
http://youtu.be/slMuopBrglY
Also Brakhage reminds me of Mayfield's Move on up.
― Moka, Friday, 5 April 2013 18:43 (1 month ago) Permalink
Last one for the day:
The bassline for "Were not adult orientated" is basically a sped up sample of Joy DIvision "No love lost".
― Moka, Friday, 5 April 2013 19:02 (1 month ago) Permalink