LM Artist Poll No. 74 · STEREOLAB · Results Thread

I was also one of the #1's for 'Pack Yr Romantic Mind.' Such a gorgeous tune.

i think 'pack yr romantic mind' was the first song of theirs that really grabbed me ('transient' was my intro)

non-placers i voted for:

09 Lock-Groove Lullaby
10 Anonymous Collective
14 Blue Milk
15 Surrealchemist
20 Fuses

I voted for a lot of low-flyers — maybe the only Chemical Chords partisan here? Looks like at least one other person voted for it. Great poll, even if the heavy weighting toward the mid-90s is a bit predictable (must confess that though I voted for select songs I'm a bit burnt out on ETK, MAQ and Refried Ectoplasm); the biggest surprise is probably that anything from Cobra (the closing track of a very long album, no less) made it into the top 20.

Tracks (unranked)

Miss Modular
Contronatura
Fluorescences
Allures
Brigitte
Jenny Ondioline
Pack Yr Romantic Mind
Neon Beanbag
Daisy Clickclack
Vorticol Phonethèque
International Colouring Contest
U.H.F. - M.F.P.
Slow Fast Hazel
Caleidoscope Gaze
The Emergency Kisses
Iron Man
One Note Samba/Surfboard
Check and Double Check
Nought More Terrific Than Man
Eloge D’Eros

Albums (ranked)

Sound-Dust
Chemical Chords
Dots and Loops
Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
Aluminum Tunes

I've got a lot of Stereolab on my ipod but I never know where to start so this poll (which I didn't take part in) was a godsend. I simply made a playlist of the top 15 and I'm good to go. There seems to be a fair bit of overlap between those tracks and Serene Velocity but also some other goodies not on that comp. Thanks, ILM and Moka!

Serene Velocity's tracklisting has a lot of non-album versions of the songs, I think?

Jenny Ondioline, French Disko and Wow & Flutter are the versions from singles. Other than that there's just Percolator, which is a bit longer.

Firmly coming around to the notion that Margarine Eclipse got shafted here. Been listening to it a lot and man, what a superb album! Their best of the 2000s and I kinda wish I'd voted for it now.

"Dear Marge" is crushing me beneath its emotional weight. It might be the most unashamedly beautiful song they ever recorded. WHY DID I NOT VOTE.

Totally snowed under with work at the moment and making my way through these results at a snail's pace, but:

Gee, I might have stayed on Team "New Orthophony" if I realised it had broader support. As mentioned on the other thread, such a vote would have been very firmly for the far superior unedited (Aluminum Tunes) version

I'd never heard this longer version of New Orthophony before and agree it's great.

forgot to vote for the gold chains parti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e310Daluio8

you know what's GREAT? Play "Nihilist Assault Group" from Mars Audiac Quintet and "Nihilist Assault Group (Parts 1, 2, 3)" from Oscillons from the Anti-Sun (which is actually parts 3, 4, 5 and is mislabeled) back to back bcz they were originally supposed to be one single Jenny Odioliney suite.

Been on a Lab deep dive this week and have just woken up to how great Sound-Dust is.

"Double Rocker", my god

Yessss, Sound-Dust is so good

I also have a lot of weird memories mixed up with it because I'll always think of it as their 9/11 album.