List The Direct References of Stereolab

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

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.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8REIw0amb8

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

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.

Eye of the volcano has an Os Mutantes thing going on.

Ticker tape of the unconscious:

Song title references Anais Nin. It was the name she gave one if her dresses
http://blacknyx.tumblr.com/post/43837638270/anais-nin-in-inauguration-of-the-pleasure

Also the song samples Gal Costa. Cant remember which song.... Divino, maravilhoso?

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 dolore
Similar 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.

Last one for the day:

The bassline for "Were not adult orientated" is basically a sped up sample of Joy DIvision "No love lost".

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

I always took it to be about optical illusions, specifically the graphics found on the album itself

<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!

Well I sure butchered that post. Anyway you can still make the comparison.

University Microfilms International Vs. Liliental - Wattwurm

That Liliental track is fantastic.

I uploaded this a number of years back thinking of Stereolab xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASO4yDmwGfA

the lyrics to 'john cage bubblegum' =

c'est le plus beau
et c'est le plus triste
c'est le plus beau
paysage du monde

are from 'le petit prince'

http://www.capsurlemonde.org/sahara/petit-prince-7.html

That Jacques Siroul record is very Stereolab. There's a lot of 70s library music that sounds quite a bit like Stereolab.

Guy Boyer & Guy Pedersen - Manège Concerto

Stereolab - Refractions In The Plastic Pulse Vs. Kraftwerk - Ananas Symphonie

Olv 26 off Emperor Tomato Ketchup has the lyrics "nous irons tous au paradis", surely a reference to Polnareff's "on ira tous au paradis".

Strange that this was never on that Stereolab Origins series.
Stereolab - Revox (+ a few other tracks) vs. The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner

from moodles' spotify list:

The 5th Dimension - Up, Up and Away (2:45)
ABBA - Dancing Queen (3:50)
Alain Goraguer - Déshominisation (I) (3:50)
Erik Satie - Six gnossiennes - 1. Lent (3:02)
Alessandro Alessandroni - Una storia (3:08)
Olivier Messiaen - Chant d'amour 1 (8:00)
Olivier Messiaen - Turangalîla 1 (5:05)
Andrew Rudin - Hybris (7:27)
Archie Shepp - Bakai (9:59)
The Archies - Sugar, Sugar (2:47)
B.J. Thomas - Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (3:02)
Brigitte Fontaine - Une fois mais pas deux (2:47)
Can - Father Cannot Yell (7:03)
Canned Heat - On the Road Again (4:56)
The Castaways - Liar, Liar (1:52)
The Casualeers - Dance, Dance, Dance (2:40)
The Cinderellas - Baby Baby (I Still Love You) (2:37)
Cluster - Caramel (3:09)
Don Cherry - Brown Rice (5:15)
Donna Summer - Down, Deep Inside (6:06)
Eden Ahbez - Myna Bird (2:19)
Emil Richards - Garnet (January) (2:28)
The Fall - Slates, Slags, Etc. (6:34)
Faust - It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl (7:32)
Francis Hime - Passaredo (3:06)
Frank Zappa - Peaches en Regalia (3:38)
Gal Costa - Divino, maravilhoso (4:20)
Gustav Holst - Neptune, the Mystic (7:58)
John Barry - 007 and Counting (3:31)
Kraftwerk - Autobahn (22:43)
Krzysztof Komeda - Pushing the Car (1:49)
Krzysztof Komeda - Main Title (2:16)
Laurie Anderson - O Superman (For Massenet) (8:27)
Marcus Belgrave - Space Odyssey (12:34)
Neu! - Hallogallo (10:07)
Neu! - Für Immer (11:17)
New Birth - Got to Get a Knutt (7:37)
Perrey & Kingsley - One Note Samba/Spanish Flea (2:07)
Peter Thomas - Angel of Promise (1:08)
Piero Piccioni - Blue Rhythm Festival (3:45)
Sérgio Mendes - Primitivo (3:57)
Silver Apples - Ruby (2:32)
Steve Reich - Four Organs (15:38)
Steve Reich - Section VIII (3:28)
Suicide - Cheree (3:42)
Suicide - Frankie Teardrop (10:26)
Sun Ra - Angels and Demons at Play (2:54)
Sun Ra - Love in Outer Space (3:53)
The Velvet Underground - European Son (7:52)
The Velvet Underground - What Goes On (4:55)
The Velvet Underground - Sister Ray (17:27)
Yes - Starship Trooper (9:28)

always need more tbh

sadly, a lot of the cool stuff you all are finding isn't available on spotify

Maybe not a perfect match, but there's a couple places in the three-part Jenny Ondioline that sound inspired by the two-part Shoulder Pads by The Fall.

Space Age Bachelor Pad Music Vs. Beach Boys - Look

Refractions In The Plastic Pulse Vs. Electric Light Orchestra - The Whale

Again, how direct a reference is this? I can hear elements of a number of Stereolab songs in The Whale.

Two other Prog instrumentals that sound like Stereolab are Tic Tic Tic It Wears Off by Todd Rundgren, and The Fish by Yes. I haven't been able to connect them directly to any specific Stereolab songs, though.

The Rundgren track reminds me of a lot of their later-period stuff

Beach Boys - Look also reminds me of People Do It All The Time

The biggest stretch in the Stereolab Originals series is the link between Cybele's Reverie and Une fois mais pas deux by Brigitte Fontaine, I think. However, there are Brigitte Fontaine elements across Emperor Tomator Ketchup.

Monstre Sacre Vs Brigitte Fontaine - Brigitte

Moodles, absolutely. Your match is better than mine.

Stereolab Origins Compared Anamorphose to Four Organs by Steve Reich. They both have the same gimmick of holding the note one beat longer, then another beat longer, but other than that, they don't sound too much alike, and Four Organs is a pretty irritating record. I would choose Palm Springs by Social Climbers as a replacement.

…and The Fish by Yes. I haven't been able to connect them directly to any specific Stereolab songs, though
The bass at the start of "Retrograde Mirror Form" (on Microbe Hunters) sounds a lot like The Fish

another Astrud Gilberto - Beginnings

re: Monstre Sacre, there's also an Erik Satie piece on my list that sounds like a strong precursor, I wonder if Brigitte Fontaine was influenced by the same piece

Miss Modular <- Jean-Pierre Mirouze - Sexopolis?

(sorry if already posted, couldn't see it)

ooh, good one!

The first time I ever heard Stereolab, the immediate connection I made was Sesame Street. The first song I heard was Brakhage and it immediately reminded me of a vintage Sesame Street vignette. It might have been this, specifically. But I've never heard them list Sesame Street as an influence.

I've read a handful of 90s Stereolab articles that cite Esquivel as an influence, but I don't know that Stereolab themselves cite Esquivel, and I don't actually here the connection there at all.

^There was an Esquivel comp called Space Age Bachelor Pad Music out at the time, is why?

I think it's because there was a lounge revival in the mid-90s, right when Stereolab changed their sound, and for some reason Esquivel also made a comeback, and so they got lumped together. When I listen to him, or Martin Denny, it just doesn't have that association for me. The letter h, however...

Esquivel is pretty awesome, one of the more experimental artists from the whole "lounge" era who used theremins and synths in his stuff. Martin Denny is pretty much straight jungle lounge music whereas Esquivel can be far freakier.

Stereolab (ft. Herbie Mann!) covered Esquivel in the latter part of this medley of "One Note Samba/Surfboard":

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

Here's the original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NglD0H-cps

Also the people who are looking for Smile-era Beach Boys connections, you'd probably have a field day with Stereolab member/muse/svengali Sean O'Hagan's project The High Llamas' records Gideon Gaye & Hawaii.

Another prog interlude: Camel - Migration

Another Todd Rundgren: The Night The Carousel Burned Down

I think that "One Note Samba/Surfboard" medley was done as reparation for nicking bits of both too blatantly previously.

The bass line of Metronomic Underground is awfully close to The Revolution Will Not Be Televised... hadn't really caught that before

iirc it's stolen directly from a Yoko Ono track on Appproximately Infinite Universe

got a flexidisc of "famous instrumentals" recently that had "One Note Samba" on it

Metronomic Underground/Revolution Will Not Be Televised similarity is already noted upthread.

The Yoko Ono song in question is Mind Train, from "Fly"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK-k0kCSJcM

thank you!