http://www.metrolyrics.com/international-colouring-contest-lyrics-stereolab.html http://www.keyofz.com/keyofz/lucia.htm http://www.keyofz.com/keyofz/LP.jpg
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
EMPEROR TOMATO KETCHUP http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066468/ http://www.gomorrahy.com/trailer-park/emperor-tomato-ketchup.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZXyQ7fAl4c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPEdizQc6_U
http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Stereolab/Contronatura.html http://www.amazon.com/Against-Nature-Translation-Rebours-Classics/dp/0140440860
Stereolab - Nurse With Wound - "A Wonderful Wooden Reason" http://www.lyricstime.com/faust-meadow-meal-lyrics.html
Stereolab · Nurse With Wound - "Simple Headphone Mind" Alcatraz - "Simple Headphone Mind" from "Vampire State Building", recorded at Faust's studio, 1971 http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=10591
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements: not one but three Perrey-Kingsley samples on one album, here are your royalties http://www.amazon.com/Out-Sound-Complete-Vanguard-Recordings/dp/B000055ZE1
Well, well, so you are an upright person, you love peace and quiet, law and order... you have worked over twenty years with the same company, your boss likes you, you have never been criticized, never any complaints... you play cards, you read the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, believe in God and belong to the shooting club... you're a lieutenant in the army!... about time you were bumped off! PENG!
http://stereolab.koly.com/exhibits/images/clifforig.gif
les yper-sound: pierre henry psuedonym, 7" psyche-rock single http://mysteryposter.blogspot.com/2007/04/les-yper-sound.html http://bp3.blogger.com/_rDIqP2aqoNo/RiKE4XB6kbI/AAAAAAAAA6s/DiYcoHLji44/s1600-h/Yper-Sound_EP.jpg
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.badreputation.de/VU_murder_front.jpg
― cutty, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:37 (sixteen years ago) link
absolutely
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:37 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.45toursderockfrancais.net/rockfrancais/ypersound45t.htm http://www.bide-et-musique.com/images/gallery/GMZ-755.jpg
http://www.lyricsxp.com/lyrics/i/i_feel_the_air_of_another_planet_stereolab.html "I feel the air of another planet" / "Ich fühle luft von anderem planeten", first line of the Stefan George poem 'Entrückung', set by Schoenberg to music in the last movement of his second string quartet, now regarded as the first fully atonal piece of classical music http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1426242
Stereolab - Instant 0 In The Universe http://www.discogs.com/release/192321 Bernard Parmegiani - 'Instant 0' from 'La Création Du Monde' http://www.discogs.com/release/173060
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
I forget the 60's film poster that was used as the template for the cover of 'Sound Dust' -- I thought it was Polanski's "Cul De Sac" but can't find a direct match, I open the door
Kybernetická babicka "Cybernetic Grandmother" by Jirí Trnka, experimental animated Czech film, 1962 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0239543/ http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3053080331721849771
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Vannier
― oscar, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.econ.duke.edu/Economists/Gifs/Marx.gif
― jaymc, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Huysmans Against Nature actually has McCarthy as an intermediate step ("Anti-Nature") --
Someone has done a Youtube video somewhere of musical lifts, a couple of which are a bit "umm a I-IV-V progression isn't really a steal," but most of which are pretty obviously what they were listening to / lifting from.
― nabisco, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBRA_(avant-garde_movement)
― oscar, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
"First of the Microbe Hunters" was a term originally applied to Anton van Leeuwenhoek.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:46 (sixteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Brakhage
― jaymc, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Lyrics from Peng!33 = from opening chapter of Cent Anos de Solidad
― nabisco, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
(I made that sound more highbrow than it actually is)
esquivel, peter thomas sound orchestra, neu!
― Mr. Hal Jam, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link
P.S. Not just Perrey-Kingsley, but Perrey-Kingsley playing back to Brazil with "One Note Samba"
― nabisco, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.danacountryman.com/jjp1/auto/Ondioline.jpg
The Ondioline was a vacuum tube-powered keyboard instrument, invented in 1941 [1] by the Frenchman Georges Jenny, and was a forerunner of today's synthesizers.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:06 (sixteen years ago) link
One of their songs namedrops about 40 different Blue Jam sketches, which is pretty awesome bizarre.
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:09 (sixteen years ago) link
looking up these links was occasionally very frustrating -- five years ago it was easy to google the direct reference, but at this point you've got to go through about sixty pages worth of stereolab lyrics pages / retail sites / review pages / playlists playlists playlists. the difference between acknowledging an influence and eclipsing the source by borrowing the title for your own successful project is growing.
the fact that the referents are baldly sitting there doesn't necessarily mean anyone thinks to look (and why would they, it's a pop band). it's not as if there's a place for endless trainspotting in most reviews but sometimes I wonder if this band has ever offered a single intuitive or non-pilfered moment or if the whole point is wholesale representation / recombination, in which case you'd expect the referents to be mentioned a little more often than they are
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:14 (sixteen years ago) link
http://popsike.com/pix/20060911/190030441794.jpg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:16 (sixteen years ago) link
ok a bit of overstatement there but the depth of their borrowing sometimes leaves me a bit stunned
xpost ok if we're just going to begin posting covers of albums
http://ochtendeditie.radio6.nl/files/2007/04/tusoa.jpg
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Which song is that Louis? Or is it easily Googlable?
― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:20 (sixteen years ago) link
http://delia-derbyshire.dyndns.org/images/B00006LEPF.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg http://quimby.gnus.org/circus/jukebox.php?image=thumbnail.png&group=Stereolab&album=Oscillons%20from%20the%20Anti-Sun%20%283%29
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:20 (sixteen years ago) link
http://popsike.com/pix/20060129/4828460304.jpg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:25 (sixteen years ago) link
sorry, i'm lazy.
Nothing To Do With Me (aka Moonflies (aka Chris Morris))
(as seen on This is the thread where you talk about Chris Morris - genius, and the finest satirist of modern times )
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Does one of those links go to Gil Scott-Heron?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:45 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm not a huge stereolab fan, but this list is mindboggling. good work, guys.
― ian, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Here's an obscure one - the title of "Animal Or Vegetable (A Wonderful Wooden Reason)" which was on the Crumbduck EP, is a line from a Faust song (at least the bit in brackets is).
― everything, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Should also mention the later McCarthy releases which offer a neat segueway into the first Stereolab record. (eg: "The Home Secretary Briefs the Forces of Law and Order").
― everything, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:58 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.uh.edu/engines/switchedonbach.jpg
― dmr, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 23:07 (sixteen years ago) link
You're talking about the bass line to "Metronomic Underground," I take it?
― jaymc, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Song on Aluminum Tunes:
http://www.reel.com/Content/Reelimages/hollconf/1013_getcarter.jpg
― jaymc, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 23:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Pack Yr Romantic Mind from Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements begins with a sample from "Pop Orbite", a song on Chico Magnetic Band's album.
― oscar, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 23:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Obvious one, they recorded a split record with her. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Fontaine http://www.discogs.com/release/256204
― oscar, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 23:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I always thought Speedy Car had a bit of the Soft Machine about them.
But if you want to talk United States of America, it's Broadcast on their first album that really rips that.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 23:35 (sixteen years ago) link
On Dots and Loops. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Brakhage
― oscar, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 23:36 (sixteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road_Again_(Canned_Heat)
― oscar, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 23:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I agree, I'd prefer to keep this to direct references / uncredited samples / lyrical lifts rather than vaguer incorporated influences or else I'd just be Sylvie Vartaning it up over here
first track on Refried Ectoplasm, 'Harmonium', where the 70's DJ spools up a tape which promptly breaks and falls off the reel is lifted from an aircheck of Negativland's 'Over the Edge Vol 4 - Dick Vaughan'
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 23:44 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.filmpolski.pl/z1/47o/7547_1.jpg
http://www.film.org.pl/images2/fearless_vampire_killers/plakat.jpg
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 23:47 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/images/si/silver-cross-sleepover-classic-pram.jpg
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 23:48 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.indiatomorrow.net/health/images/lemonade.jpg
- le
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 23:49 (sixteen years ago) link
…and The Fish by Yes. I haven't been able to connect them directly to any specific Stereolab songs, thoughThe bass at the start of "Retrograde Mirror Form" (on Microbe Hunters) sounds a lot like The Fish
― Jeff W, Friday, 23 September 2016 11:47 (seven years ago) link
another Astrud Gilberto - Beginnings
― mahb, Friday, 23 September 2016 13:53 (seven years ago) link
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
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Friday, 23 September 2016 14:30 (seven years ago) link
Miss Modular <- Jean-Pierre Mirouze - Sexopolis?
(sorry if already posted, couldn't see it)
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 23 September 2016 15:05 (seven years ago) link
ooh, good one!
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Friday, 23 September 2016 15:18 (seven years ago) link
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.
― 3×5, Friday, 23 September 2016 17:55 (seven years ago) link
^There was an Esquivel comp called Space Age Bachelor Pad Music out at the time, is why?
― Jeff W, Friday, 23 September 2016 21:16 (seven years ago) link
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...
― 3×5, Sunday, 25 September 2016 05:29 (seven years ago) link
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.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 25 September 2016 16:23 (seven years ago) link
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
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 25 September 2016 17:37 (seven years ago) link
Here's the original:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NglD0H-cps
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 25 September 2016 17:39 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 25 September 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link
Another prog interlude: Camel - Migration
― 3×5, Monday, 2 January 2017 19:47 (seven years ago) link
Another Todd Rundgren: The Night The Carousel Burned Down
― 3×5, Monday, 25 September 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
I think that "One Note Samba/Surfboard" medley was done as reparation for nicking bits of both too blatantly previously.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 06:48 (six years ago) link
The bass line of Metronomic Underground is awfully close to The Revolution Will Not Be Televised... hadn't really caught that before
― cosmic brain dildo (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 15:08 (six years ago) link
iirc it's stolen directly from a Yoko Ono track on Appproximately Infinite Universe
― sleeve, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link
got a flexidisc of "famous instrumentals" recently that had "One Note Samba" on it
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 18:10 (six years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
thank you!
― sleeve, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 18:25 (six years ago) link
that track is so siqq
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 18:54 (six years ago) link
That Yoko track sounds like Can with yoko instead of damo.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
I've often wondered how Ono & Lennon connected to krautrock - like, who actually gave them those records and what were they listening to - cuz its impact is really obvious on those first few Yoko records
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
Probably Klaus, right?
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
that's my guess, but I've never seen it specifically discussed anywhere
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
CAN seems like the most obvious thing they must have heard, maybe Faust (they initially made something of a splash in the UK press), maybe Schnitzler and Roedelius too idk
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 19:13 (six years ago) link
they were jacked into the German experimental art scene from the beginning
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 14:44 (six years ago) link
So that Hilma af Klimt exhibit... anyone else reminded of the cover of a certain Stereolab album?
https://goo.gl/images/9jynXK
― Milton Parker, Monday, 29 October 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
(Less direct of a reference than usual, but this is so precisely up their alley)
― Milton Parker, Monday, 29 October 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
Perhaps a reach but I want to believe
Thought I typed Klint on first post, apologies for error
― Milton Parker, Monday, 29 October 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
https://www.discogs.com/Bart%C3%B3k-Heinrich-Hollreiser-Bamberg-Symphony-Orchestra-Concerto-For-Orchestra/release/10080747
― Milton Parker, Monday, 10 December 2018 21:09 (five years ago) link
haha wow
― Οὖτις, Monday, 10 December 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
"I feel the air of another planet" / "Ich fühle luft von anderem planeten", first line of the Stefan George poem 'Entrückung', set by Schoenberg to music in the last movement of his second string quartet, now regarded as the first fully atonal piece of classical music
Interesting because it reminds me of this too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GSFJXSbE90
Or, if you prefer, the original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-h0hh90YcY
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Monday, 10 December 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
Makes me think it's a direct reference to an indirect reference... or something.
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Monday, 10 December 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link
... a song covered, somewhat bizarrely, by Pete Townshend!
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Monday, 10 December 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
I heard a radio interview with Tim Gane years ago where he played through a lot of his favourite records, I remember there being something by The Doopees in there (which is a project of Yann Tomita, ex Ippu-Do). I can hear it I guess, although this post-dates the earlier Stereolab releases so who knows who's influencing who.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT5BlCZsiCQ
― GG Allin: The Musical (Matt #2), Monday, 10 December 2018 22:47 (five years ago) link
I'm getting a French Disko vibe from this 70s Aussie prog plodder:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEmsy0UgqoA
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 4 March 2019 09:14 (five years ago) link
Don't think this has been posted yet.
Koloman Moser - Woman's Head with Roses (1899). The artwork features on the picture sleeve of Rose, My Rocket-Brain! by Stereolab (2004). pic.twitter.com/PkE9l1qI0S— Graeme McNay (@GraemeRMcNay) September 7, 2019
― Jeff W, Saturday, 7 September 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
!!!! good catch, I own that as a 3" CD sold on tour
― sleeve, Saturday, 7 September 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
not a direct reference but this Eurythmics album In The Garden has some moments that sound a lot like early Stereolab to me. same kinda droney vocals and farfisa thing going on... check out “your time will come” and “all the young people (of today)”. idk has this been noted before? I’m just hearing this album.“your time will come”: https://youtu.be/VcZjwxnscp8“all the young people”: https://youtu.be/2xh0R5WRIwU
― brimstead, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 21:56 (three years ago) link
well, the farfisa is in “all the young people” anyway
― brimstead, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 21:57 (three years ago) link
Is Sing-Sing the one that sounds like one of the Mouse On Mars collaborations?
I've long maintained that Caveman Head sounds like Th' Faith Healers.
― Stanley Halfbrick (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 22:03 (three years ago) link
Agree about the first Eurythmics album. 'She's Invisible Now' sounded the most like Stereolab to me.
― Publicradio (3×5), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 02:26 (three years ago) link
I’m just hearing this album.
u lucky guy, it's great, total Can action
― sleeve, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 02:33 (three years ago) link
"The Long Hair of Death":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3HkESAaMDE(Just noticed this today since it's now on Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07JX589FB/ref=atv_dp_b07_det_c_UTPsmN_1_18)
― ernestp, Friday, 1 January 2021 23:06 (three years ago) link
I bet that "Allures" borrows its name from the Jordan Belson short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HVo23jC7cs
― ernestp, Sunday, 8 August 2021 05:46 (two years ago) link
Updated link for *Allures*
― ernestp, Saturday, 11 March 2023 20:48 (one year ago) link