i know what you mean, but i seem to be a bigger fan of 21st century 'Lab than a lot of people. chemchords/not music isn't where i'd point a stereolab newbie or anything, but i still dig the sound. xp
― tylerw, Friday, 17 September 2010 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
sound dust is my favorite stereolab album by a huge margin
― iatee, Thursday, 13 May 2010 02:46 (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
This.
Chemical Chords is nothing short of wall-to-wall genius but I cannot penetrate Not Music. I'll keep trying, but the point is I've not had to work at anything post Mars Audiac Quintet.
― TS: Toad of Toad Hall v Wobbie of Wobbies World (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 22 October 2010 11:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I feel like if sound dust had been released as some band's first record instead of 'stereolab not making the music the fans wanted more of', more people would have realized how genius it is
― iatee, Friday, 22 October 2010 12:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Sound-Dust is indeed incredible. It's like they had a second crack at Cobra and got it right.
Trawling previous threads, I found a long sequence in the Chem Chords thread in which that album sent me from boredom to orgasm in three days. Perhaps I should persevere with this new thing.
― TS: Toad of Toad Hall v Wobbie of Wobbies World (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 22 October 2010 12:21 (thirteen years ago) link
So wrong! (I like Cobra much more than Sound-Dust.)
― jaymc, Friday, 22 October 2010 12:59 (thirteen years ago) link
"the highlight for me might be the 10-minute emperor machine mix of "silver sands" "
Agree with this...is it just me or is this album more atonal than usual? I wasn't paying close attention during the walk to work this morning so that might be wrong.
― skip, Friday, 22 October 2010 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
nice Vitamin Water commercial guys
― No Broehner (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 22 July 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
What does Tim Gane do with his time now?
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 12:58 (eleven years ago) link
Revel in the idea that Alyssa Milano has possibly listened to his music.
― this will surprise many (Nicole), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 13:06 (eleven years ago) link
Did another soundtrack with Sean O'Hagan. Also produced the last High Llamas album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hXFJ-56jk0
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
Or was it mixed?
Did another soundtrack with Sean O'Hagan.
outer bongolia 2 imo
― das ist not einer 不必 (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
Did another soundtrack with Sean O'Hagan
good lord are these what pass for "pretty" people in France now?
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
http://ugsmag.com/2013/04/teseolab-tes-tim-gane-shoot-shoot/
so glad to know Tim Gane is actually alive and doing shit, i'm kinda into this
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 4 July 2013 01:59 (ten years ago) link
I'm ready for a whole album like this
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 4 July 2013 03:05 (ten years ago) link
Cool track, terrible mc.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 4 July 2013 03:07 (ten years ago) link
That's the lamest band name I've heard in a good while.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 4 July 2013 03:33 (ten years ago) link
Is that david cross?
― Moka, Thursday, 4 July 2013 05:52 (ten years ago) link
Love it when that Focus sample comes in.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 4 July 2013 07:14 (ten years ago) link
Cavern of Anti-Matter were great at ATP.
― emil.y, Thursday, 4 July 2013 13:30 (ten years ago) link
wait a second, did Tim Gane team up with Whiney?!?
― Moodles, Thursday, 4 July 2013 13:50 (ten years ago) link
Cavern of Anti-Matter album is out apparently: http://www.grautagrec.com/releases/006/gt006.html
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 9 December 2013 06:40 (ten years ago) link
oh man this sounds very cool, ordered!
― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 10:54 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, finally managed to grab a copy of this from Rough Trade on Sunday (after they sold out of their first shipment within about a week). Great to hear it on vinyl blasting through my hi-fi after having to make do with the stream for several months. Don't forget to nominate it and/or vote for it in the EOY poll, folks!
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 20:08 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, it's rad.
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 20:28 (ten years ago) link
Should appeal to the fans of the less loungey side of the band.
I like this ok, but man, doesn't Gane ever get tired of the Neu! formula that he always builds from?
― Position Position, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 23:02 (ten years ago) link
shhh :)
― Crackle Box, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 00:04 (ten years ago) link
Those are the most Tim Gane songtitles ever! Excited to take a listen to this.
― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 00:45 (ten years ago) link
It's hard to believe that Margerine Eclipse is a decade old this month. I popped it on the other day and was struck at how good it was. I think that they had something to prove with it, and succeeded admirably. In retrospect, they probably should have called it a day after that.
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 18:14 (ten years ago) link
yeah the funky reprise of "dear marge" that closes the album out would have been a perfect way to draw the curtains
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 18:33 (ten years ago) link
True, though the record right after that had moments
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 18:33 (ten years ago) link
I think the Chemical Chords/Not Music twofer was a pretty nice exit, nothing to be ashamed of at least. Margerine Eclipse was probably their best 21st century album, though, just by a hair.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link
I just could not get into Chemical Chords- I just remember every track fading out abruptly. Not Music has some moments but really feels like leftovers when you add remixes to the equation...but truthfully I haven't listened to it all that much.
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 19:14 (ten years ago) link
There's plenty of good stuff on all their releases from Margerine onward, although none of it quite reaches the heights of the albums that came before.
Isn't there supposed to be one last album's worth of tracks or B-sides or something that they had talked about releasing? Whatever happened to that?
― Ornate Coleman (Moodles), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 20:23 (ten years ago) link
I remember really liking Fab Four Suture at the time. I should listen to it again.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 21:15 (ten years ago) link
I think that's what Not Music was-- all stuff that didn't make it onto Chemical Chords.
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 21:33 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I played Margerine Eclipse a few weeks back and enjoyed it a lot. Vonal Declosion is probably my favourite album opener of theirs. That one and Sound Dust are crazy underrated and up there with their best for me. Think I'm a bit of an uncool Stereolab fan really, I'd take those two albums over any of the first three. Also Dots & Loops is my second favourite album and don't a lot of people think that's when they started to lose it?
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 21:52 (ten years ago) link
dots & loops is when i tuned in! in retrospect transient random-noise bursts is my favorite but i'm a big fan of the mcentire era
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 21:59 (ten years ago) link
Cool. I know there's fans that think they started making the same album around that point but I love those albums. I should really give Cobra and Phases another chance at some point. Being such a big fan of the albums either side I would probably like it more than I remember.
Should point out Emperor Tomato Ketchup is my favourite album of theirs by quite some distance.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 22:05 (ten years ago) link
Sound-Dust is a favorite of mine, although I like all their early stuff too. Margerine not so much with the exception of a few tracks.
― Ornate Coleman (Moodles), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 22:06 (ten years ago) link
Sparkle Motion:
When Chemical Chords came out, they said they had 2 more albums in the can. One was the second half of material that they recorded for Chemical Chords, which became Not Music, but they also supposedly had a collection of outakes and b-sides from the last decade that they were planning to release as a similar collection to Switched On, Refried Ectoplasm, Alluminum Tunes, etc.
― Ornate Coleman (Moodles), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 22:09 (ten years ago) link
Sound-Dust is incredible. Properly got me back into them after becoming disillusioned with them around the time of Dots & Loops.
― ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 22:15 (ten years ago) link
i think i liked not music more than anything they did since aluminium tunes
― coward punches (electricsound), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 22:44 (ten years ago) link
thanks Moodles. I'd gladly take another volume of Switched On. I do believe I have a couple of tour 7"s that didn't make it onto long-playing release I've ever seen.
All said I'd love to see them get back together as soon as their batteries are recharged.
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 22:48 (ten years ago) link
I suspect it ain't happening, but who knows?
Laetitia's last solo album Silencio was really solid.
― Ornate Coleman (Moodles), Wednesday, 15 January 2014 01:02 (ten years ago) link
Generally pro-Chemical Chords/Not Music anyway, but their live sound on that last tour was tremendous. Liked seeing them as much then as back in the beginning.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 09:43 (ten years ago) link
I'd gladly take another volume of Switched On.[...]I suspect it ain't happening, but who knows?
Tim, from a recent Q&A with Record Collector magazine:
Is there anything still unreleased?"For Stereolab, nothing really, though some of the more obscure stuff will be compiled on a future Switched On. Enough for a double LP. We’ll also soon begin remastering all of the Stereolab LPs, in order, from the original two-track tapes, and try to have a limited-run box set, finances permitting, as well as issuing them separately. We’ll also try to have a separate disc of the four-track demos to all the songs on a particular LP, placed in order, and with a mini facsimile sleeve. Some have been lost or damaged, but they’ll be replaced by something suitable from the same period."
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 11:25 (ten years ago) link
Only for Stereolab could "nothing really" unreleased = a double LP of unreleased material.
― Position Position, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 14:50 (ten years ago) link
Well no, he's saying it's obscure stuff not unreleased stuff. So limited editions, b-sides etc.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 14:53 (ten years ago) link