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helter skelter is the only good beatles track

tru

Man I know I probably bang on about this too much but Stereolab's transition from "perfect simple dual-vocal Neu! tribute band with communism" into "terrifyingly twee and overly complicated The Free Design tribute band with jazz hands" is the biggest bummer I can think of. I cannot imagine getting listening to anything they recorded after Emperor Tomato Ketchup for pleasure. It is such a bummer! I have never heard a band go so pivot so suddenly from "perfect" to "zany"

Stereolol

too bad for you

they were more twee early on anyways

agree. I like both versions of the band, I just don't think they had the songwriting ability to do morricone / cool jazz as well as they did the neu indie rock stuff, which takes more of a conceptual commitment than songwriting chops

I honestly can’t determine if “they don’t have the range as songwriters” or if my own personal taste favours monolithic two-chord monuments to human synchronicity (which mirrors the sentiment of the lyrical content) which effectively mars my capacity to appreciate their subsequent pivot to kindergarten rock

Emperor Tonato Ketchup rules

oh wait do you agree with that

uwe schmidt > autechre

Emperor Tonetta Ketchup?

lol

ya I like almost all of Tomato Ketchup, just like everyone else

Was D&L where you and Stereolab parted ways?

lol

ya I like almost all of Tomato Ketchup, just like everyone else

― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, March 1, 2019 10:10 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It goes with everything

it's a Candiment

Emperor Tonetta Ketchup

stealing this, tyvm

ya I like almost all of Tomato Ketchup, just like everyone else

AHEM

I can pin-point the exact moment chronologically that I get off the Stereolab bus and that's "Monster Sacre" toward the end of Tomato Ketchup. (The title track right before it is of course one of my favourite Stereolab songs)

i listened to Dots and Loops once and knew it was over for me. I wanted buzzy punchy moog-heavy dance/pop

^^ that's what my experience was

"Monster Sacre" is such a pretty and forlorn song though! Also interesting rework of an Erik Satie piece.

This is the thread for controversial music opinions. This is the thread for all this Stereolab talk: "Their early stuff was better"

Dots & Loops is best Stereolab LP, Margarine Eclipse is #2, there's your controversy?

ETK is ruined by Cybele's Reverie, a great single which does not fit on there at all.

Fine here’s a controp

Tierra Whack made the best debut of all time and she’s going to be the most omnipresent thing for the rest of our lives

i think u mean

Tierra Whack made the best debut of all ti

Lol

Between her and leikeli47 I’m happy that Missy is being felt if not justly beafied

Um *beatified

here's a proposition: there's virtually no instrumental rock or pop music that wouldn't be improved by some sort of vocal

Nice try.

there's virtually no instrumental rock or pop music that wouldn't be improved by some sort of vocal
― imago
Easily falsified by thousands of techno, trance and house club hits, subsequently rereleased with added vocals to score a chart hit.

Also, Rush.

those aren't rock or pop imo xp

give me a break, oscillate wildly is just about the only smiths song i can bear now

but yeah, could you imagine albatross with vocals? or popcorn or nut rocker or green onions or telstar

i can imagine albatross with vocals, yes

they go as follows: "this is no ordinary chocolate trifle..."

:D

but yeah, could you imagine albatross with vocals?

― kolarov spring (NickB)

i think it goes "here comes the sun king"

re: telstar with vocals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtubEdQUJZ0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lncJJ27mXLo

lol

omg

oddly entrancing

once the initial laughter has subsided, yes

'Albatross' by Fleetwood Mac sung by a pair of horny albatrosses

LJ that's as bad a controp as I've seen but I perversely want to hear someone try YYZ with vocals

I mean, "rock and pop" are predominantly vocal musics and a lot of the best instrumental examples are pushing the definitional categories (you could e.g. argue that Mahavishnu Orchestra and GYBE, or even "YYZ", are something other than pop or rock). NickB's counterexamples seem strongest. I don't want vocals on Dick Dale. 2xp!

The Chantays - was trying to remember who did "Pipeline"

what about the theme from Star Wars?

Do big band era hits count as pop?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OhkhBwrK_w

the Ventures rule