Stereolab- Oscillons from the Anti-Sun

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jaymc: Easy Street in Seattle.

Sonic Boom has it cheaper: $14.99..

Go to http://www.sonicboomrecords.com and click on the online store.

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link

For those of you who aren't buying it because of the sequencing...it's easy to put it in Itunes and make a playlist of the original sequencing, and then when you listen to the CDs enjoy it in "shuffle" order. The packaging for this box is pretty cool, but the stickers are almost worth the list price alone.

― Christian, Friday, 29 April 2005 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link

What would the original sequencing be?

Yes, I suppose I could find out for myself. Fair point.

I was wrong to diss the B-sides, except for Fruition.

I know more of this stuff than I thought I would.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 2 May 2005 09:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Newbury Comics in New England has it for $17.99

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I finally got it yesterday (16.98) and so far have only watched the videos. They're not as good as I thought they would be but they have their charm. I like the live performances though. I wonder if there is enough live footage out there to eventually do a live DVD?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link

The box sure is hard to open

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Monday, 2 May 2005 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link

It's REMASTERED.

― sooper scooper, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 03:18 (nineteen years ago) link

it is hard to open! that sticky plastic

― ronny longjohns (ronny longjohns), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 04:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Are you guys serious?

I have more difficulty getting certain DVDs off their platform (or some CDs even.. like the AC/DC remasters) more than I can open this box.

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 05:31 (nineteen years ago) link

came yesterday. watched all the videos this morning (wasn't there a 15 minute film they did, a long form version of Cybele's Reverie video or something? have never seen it). the 'Ba Ba Ba' bits made me sad. and the whole thing made me dig out ETK.

packaging is nice (and not hard to open at all, as long as you have fingers). dvd titles / menu nice too.

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 5 May 2005 10:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Mine was hard to open to. Some must be wedged more tightly than others.

Watching the live videos made me feel sad about Mary too (assuming that's what you mean by the 'Ba Ba Ba' bits.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 5 May 2005 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought it was ridiculously easy to open, like the golden age of pokey vinyl evoked within its... erm... grooves.

Hardcore early morning viewing, Koogy. Biggie props, bro! Balamorey for anoraks!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 5 May 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I am listening to the second disc. this is the first stereolab I have ever heard, having dismissed them out-of-hand previously as 90s. they are (were?) very good.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 8 May 2005 08:21 (nineteen years ago) link

re: opening the box.

Slide them out sideways, don't pull them.

― Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Sunday, 8 May 2005 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Slide them out sideways? There must be two different versions of the packaging. Mine is a kind of clamshell box which is put together very tightly and has a really shiny and almost sticky lamination that makes the two halves of the box kind of stick together.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 8 May 2005 23:59 (nineteen years ago) link

i agree. mine opens like a clam shell and is extremly tough to open. i'm ripping them for the iPod and putting the DVD in a DVD case so i don't have to get into the box again after today, unless i decide to play with the stickers.

― biznotic, Monday, 9 May 2005 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link

that's how mine is too and it was hard to open.

this is quite a gift to fans i think. i'm not a huge stereolab fan (i have ETK and D&L), but i bought this without thinking twice about it.

xpost...

― tricky (disco stu), Monday, 9 May 2005 00:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I think the packaging specifications must've got screwed up on their way across the Atlantic. Maybe it's an imperial/metric thing. It's a doddle to open over here. But we do have a different climate.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 9 May 2005 08:34 (nineteen years ago) link

As Buddy Rich never said to Stereolab: "You try ONE clam on me tonight!"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 9 May 2005 08:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I have lsitened to it all. It makes me wish I hadn't sold the albums I had back in the block party era. I like Les Yper Yper Sound.

As for the packaging, my biggest worry is that the discs will fall out and roll away down a hill.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 9 May 2005 08:58 (nineteen years ago) link

solution - move to east anglia

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 9 May 2005 08:59 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

I think the "Ping Pong" single version and the 'unreleased' album version are the wrong way round.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link

For someone who doesn't own any of the Stereolab EPs, is this worth getting?

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Monday, 4 July 2005 04:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Sure for the stickers and dvd alone for 17 bucks well worth it, plus a box that is a bitch to open.

― svend (svend), Monday, 4 July 2005 04:37 (eighteen years ago) link

SOLD

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Monday, 4 July 2005 04:42 (eighteen years ago) link

It's v. grand, Gear -- get it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 July 2005 04:54 (eighteen years ago) link

the box really is a bitch isn't it...

― That One Guy (That One Guy), Monday, 4 July 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

You guys must have a tough box.

Mine's very easy and always has been.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 4 July 2005 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link

three years pass...

i listened to this today, boy Soop Groove #1 is so hypnotic!

and "Oscillations From The Anti-Sun" now has 551 htis on google. talk about lack of attention to detail.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 20:59 (fifteen years ago) link

six months pass...

wuz one of the tracks on this labeled wrong? Golden Ball or French Disko or another wasn't the version listed on the tracklisting and was the album version instead?

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link

oh it was "Ping Pong" not really an unreleased version, did they ever fix that on later copies?

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 6 August 2009 00:49 (fourteen years ago) link

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