SONGS RANKED:
K-Stars"Animal or Vegetable (A Wonderful Wooden Reason...)"Metronomic UndergroundMountainSuper Falling StarSuper ElectricLes Yper-SoundDiagonalsPuncture in the Radax PermutationTempterFrench DiskoInternational Coloring ContestOuter AcceleratorPeng! 33The Seeming and the MeaningBrittleDes Étoiles ÉlectroniquesCybele's ReverieMiss ModularPeople Do It All the Time
ALBUMS RANKED:
Peng!Refried Ectoplasm (Switched On Volume 2)Dots and LoopsEmperor Tomato KetchupSwitched On
― Keks + Nuss (contenderizer), Friday, 8 April 2016 12:38 (eight years ago) link
Love Stereolab but haven't delved into their catalogue enough to have run up a ballot. Now that it's over I'm looking forward to spinning the Spotify playlist all day at work. Thanks, Moka and all y'all voters!
― hardcore dilettante, Friday, 8 April 2016 13:35 (eight years ago) link
Songs:
1 Pack Yr Romantic Mind2 Brakhage3 Cybele's Reverie4 Long Life Love5 Metronomic Underground6 Ping Pong7 Nihilist Assault Group8 Our Trinitone Blast9 Fluorescences10 One Small Step11 The Seeming and the Meaning12 Spacemoth13 Rainbo Conversation14 Percolator15 Moodles16 Suggestion Diabolique17 Orgiastic18 Check and Double Check19 Gus the Mynah Bird20 The Flower Called Nowhere
Albums:
1 Sound-Dust2 Emperor Tomato Ketchup3 Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements4 Dots and Loops5 Peng!
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Friday, 8 April 2016 13:39 (eight years ago) link
Ah, go on then...
1 Lo Boob Oscillator2 French Disko3 Fiery Yellow4 Jenny Ondioline5 Klang Tone6 Fluorescences7 Emperor Tomato Ketchup8 Tone Burst (Country)9 Ping Pong10 Wow And Flutter11 International Colouring Contest12 Farfisa13 Pack Yr Romantic Mind14 I'm Going Out Of My Way15 Harmonium16 Animal Or Vegetable (A Wonderful Wooden Reason...)17 Golden Ball18 Cybele's Reverie19 The Noise Of Carpet20 Soop Groove #1
1 Refried Ectoplasm2 Transient Noise Bursts3 Emperor Tomato Ketchup4 Oscillons from the Anti-Sun5 Mars Audiac Quintet
― Mark G, Friday, 8 April 2016 14:33 (eight years ago) link
I am glad "pack yr romantic mind" did so well.
SONGSPack Yr Romantic MindThe Light That Will Cease To FallNeed To BeHigh ExpectationSurrealchemistAvant Garde M.O.R.ContactAu Grand JourDoubtSuper Falling StarExploding Head MovieEquivalencesWe’re Not Adult OrientatedThe Seeming and the MeaningEnivrez-vousSuper-ElectricPing PongTone BurstContronaturaWith Friends Like These
ALBUMSSwitched OnPeng!Transient Random-Noise Bursts With AnnouncementsThe Groop Played Space Age Bachelor Pad Music
Margerine Eclipse
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 8 April 2016 14:43 (eight years ago) link
For a while there up until ballot 18 Pack was #1 Jenny #2 and Fluorescences #3. If we only had received 18 ballots those would have been the top 3.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 8 April 2016 15:51 (eight years ago) link
Thanks Moka!
My ranked ballot:1 Anamophose2 Jenny Ondioline3 Motoroller Scalatron4 I'm Going Out Of My Way (Really guys?)5 Tomorrow Is Already Here6 Changer7 Eloge D'Eros8 Peng! 339 Crest10 transona five11 Golden Ball12 the groop play chord x13 transport sans bouger14 The Light That Will Cease To Fail15 Au Grand Jour (the 3:41 fast version)16 Lo Boob Oscillator17 Nihilist Assault Group18 Perversion19 You Little Shits20 OLV 26
Releases Ranked:1 Super 452 Mars Audiac Quintet3 Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements4 Emperor Tomato Ketchup5 The Groop Played Space Age Batchelor Pad Music
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 8 April 2016 16:20 (eight years ago) link
thank you moka! i hadn't listened to the lab in years but this has me excited about them all over again.
― sciatica, Friday, 8 April 2016 16:30 (eight years ago) link
can't believe i didn't vote for "revox" or "john cage bubblegum". or "sadistic". or "surrealchemist". i got too caught up being all open-minded & democratic. in retrospect should have voted a straight peng! / refried ecto ticket. all other ballots are wrong.
― Keks + Nuss (contenderizer), Friday, 8 April 2016 16:33 (eight years ago) link
I was also one of the #1's for 'Pack Yr Romantic Mind.' Such a gorgeous tune.
― Austin, Friday, 8 April 2016 16:34 (eight years ago) link
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 Lullaby10 Anonymous Collective14 Blue Milk15 Surrealchemist20 Fuses
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 April 2016 00:30 (eight years ago) link
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 ModularContronaturaFluorescencesAlluresBrigitteJenny OndiolinePack Yr Romantic MindNeon BeanbagDaisy ClickclackVorticol PhonethèqueInternational Colouring ContestU.H.F. - M.F.P.Slow Fast HazelCaleidoscope GazeThe Emergency KissesIron ManOne Note Samba/SurfboardCheck and Double CheckNought More Terrific Than ManEloge D’Eros
Albums (ranked)
Sound-DustChemical ChordsDots and LoopsCobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky NightAluminum Tunes
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Saturday, 9 April 2016 01:54 (eight years ago) link
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!
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 09:07 (eight years ago) link
Serene Velocity's tracklisting has a lot of non-album versions of the songs, I think?
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 17:32 (eight years ago) link
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.
― everything, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 22:52 (eight years ago) link
"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.
― MatthewK, Friday, 15 April 2016 07:30 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Lionel Richie the Wardrobe (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 18 April 2016 22:39 (eight years ago) link
forgot to vote for the gold chains parti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e310Daluio8
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 02:29 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 01:56 (seven years ago) link
Been on a Lab deep dive this week and have just woken up to how great Sound-Dust is.
― scampo-phenique (WmC), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:57 (three years ago) link
"Double Rocker", my god
― assert (MatthewK), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
Yessss, Sound-Dust is so good
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Thursday, 12 November 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
I also have a lot of weird memories mixed up with it because I'll always think of it as their 9/11 album.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Thursday, 12 November 2020 01:34 (three years ago) link