List The Direct References of Stereolab

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

!!!! good catch, I own that as a 3" CD sold on tour

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

well, the farfisa is in “all the young people” anyway

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.

Agree about the first Eurythmics album. 'She's Invisible Now' sounded the most like Stereolab to me.

I’m just hearing this album.

u lucky guy, it's great, total Can action

"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)

I bet that "Allures" borrows its name from the Jordan Belson short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HVo23jC7cs

Updated link for *Allures*