The Incredible Shrinking He-Man
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 10 November 2007 11:51 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
4) The alternate set list name for "Blips" is "Emil". Surprised?
Nooo
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519FURrEsmL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
― Milton Parker, Monday, 20 April 2009 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link
ha ha WOW the first one on part IX, biggest laugh yet
― Milton Parker, Monday, 20 April 2009 19:21 (fifteen years ago) link
More film references:"Fuses": http://www.ubu.com/film/schneeman_fuses.html"Three Women": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQPnxmVJMrY
And updated links for previously mentioned films:"Kyberneticka Babicka": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjbHIKwoXCM"Emperor Tomato Ketchup" (NSFW): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46xmL9OcwrE
― ernestp, Saturday, 24 October 2009 15:03 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
http://cdn1.ioffer.com/img/item/139/182/933/ecHJ.jpg
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 (fourteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41S2T56GREL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements
― zvookster, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41jqqDkhhiL._AA300_.jpg
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.
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/05/4f/1de4228348a02a7aecc34110.L.jpghttp://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/L/Light/light_dim3b.jpg
― zvookster, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
hmm shouldn't have included cd re-issue
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2099/2213161022_2fd09a5fcb.jpg
― zvookster, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
did anyone post this Nini Raviolette song? it's not direct, but it can't really get anymore direct
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n95BQEfLso
― jaxon, Friday, 9 July 2010 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I love this thread...Another film reference - Serene Velocity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYfNFtLSuv4
― ernestp, Saturday, 23 October 2010 01:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Jacques Siroul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASO4yDmwGfA
― ███★★★███ (PappaWheelie V), Monday, 3 October 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
wow, that was more fun than a bag of monkeys. thanks.
― cw, Monday, 3 October 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
What a great thread. Too bad some of the Youtubes are now unavailable
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 August 2012 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
i just came here to post that i love this thread.
― choom gangnam style (get bent), Monday, 27 August 2012 01:16 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
(The Emperor Tomato Ketchup, 1971, dir. by Terayama Shuji, that is)
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Monday, 27 August 2012 03:15 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Sure, go ahead. Useful to have all this stuff in one handy place.
― Jeff W, Monday, 27 August 2012 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
But the sole song-writing credit goes to Sadier
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 August 2012 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
no
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Monday, 27 August 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
zomg spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AiilJGAbZaindElpZUZwN2twSGx4TzNrTzlZY00xS2c&output=html
― Pilot Inspektor Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 03:02 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Next step: Stereolab Origins Spotify list
― Moodles, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 03:04 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPJ_AIfntwg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8REIw0amb8
― the mandy moorhols (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 04:56 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Eye of the volcano has an Os Mutantes thing going on.
― Moka, Friday, 5 April 2013 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Don't know it this has been mentioned but Miss Modular is metaphorically about an art technique called eye trick (trompe l'oeil)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompe-l%27œil
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:42 (eight years ago) link
I always took it to be about optical illusions, specifically the graphics found on the album itself
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 17:20 (eight years ago) link
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irvssTCvYP0#t=1m7s">Stereolab - University Microfilms International</a> vs. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5266zb0fTw#t=1m49s">Liliental - Wattwurm</a>
You be the judge!
― 3×5, Thursday, 22 September 2016 23:55 (eight years ago) link
Well I sure butchered that post. Anyway you can still make the comparison.
― 3×5, Thursday, 22 September 2016 23:56 (eight years ago) link