List The Direct References of Stereolab

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!

that track is so siqq

That Yoko track sounds like Can with yoko instead of damo.

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

Probably Klaus, right?

that's my guess, but I've never seen it specifically discussed anywhere

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

they were jacked into the German experimental art scene from the beginning

So that Hilma af Klimt exhibit... anyone else reminded of the cover of a certain Stereolab album?

https://goo.gl/images/9jynXK

(Less direct of a reference than usual, but this is so precisely up their alley)

Perhaps a reach but I want to believe

Thought I typed Klint on first post, apologies for error

https://www.discogs.com/Bart%C3%B3k-Heinrich-Hollreiser-Bamberg-Symphony-Orchestra-Concerto-For-Orchestra/release/10080747

haha wow

"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

Makes me think it's a direct reference to an indirect reference... or something.

... a song covered, somewhat bizarrely, by Pete Townshend!

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

I'm getting a French Disko vibe from this 70s Aussie prog plodder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEmsy0UgqoA

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