Stereolab: Classic or Dud

Not "Pop Quiz" ?

nope, sorry

if it helps, the bass line is more stretched out. in pop quiz, the rhythm is different. It's more like:
C# G#C#^D#^C#^ G#C# G#C#^D#^C#^ G#C# G#C#^D#^C#^ G#|| E G#C#^D#^C#^ G#E G#C#^D#^C#^ G#E G#C#^D#^C#^ G#|| B F#B^C#^B^ F#B F#B^C#^B^ F#B F#B^C#^B^ F#

agh the spaces got deleted! so more like
C# ----- G#C#^D#^C#^ -- G#C# ---- G#C#^D#^C#^ --G#C# -----G#C#^D#^C#^-- G#|| E ----G#C#^D#^C#^ --G#E -----G#C#^D#^C#^ --G#E -----G#C#^D#^C#^ --G#|| B----- F#B^C#^B^-- F#B -----F#B^C#^B^ --F#B -----F#B^C#^B^ --F#

super jealous of rush getting to see Rocketship and Cornelius! i used to have a Rocketship CDR and recall it being cool 90s shoegaze

https://youtu.be/HllqYsggN_A

(for alex xpost - that’s da one)

(no YouTube link for the studio version, which is the last track on the Cobra and Phases Group etc album from 1999.)

New Cavern of Anti-Matter is streaming on NPR: https://www.npr.org/2018/03/15/593428620/first-listen-cavern-of-anti-matter-hormone-lemonade

Seems decent.

New Little Tornados, a band that's got Laetitia in the roster, came out the other day. It's terrible. Their first wasn't good either.

https://irascible.ch/de/releases/little-tornados/apocalypse/

Little Tornados is the European psychedelic country project of David Thayer, featuring bass lines and backing vocals of Laetitia Sadier (Stereolab), drumming by Emmanuel Mario (Holden, Astrobal), John Herndon (Tortoise), Hans Hansen, bass by Amin Khatir, guitar by Joel Raif, and some vocal work by Caroline Sallee (Caroline Says), Giorgio Tuma and others. The second album, Apocalypse! uses instrumentation such as tube synthesizers and discarded home organs found on the streets and thrift stores of Switzerland.

It's on Spotify if you're interested. Vocals and lyrics are just really, really bad.

Man, I'm really digging Cavern's new one.

I had no idea they had another album prior to void beats until just now.

Blood Drums:
https://open.spotify.com/album/1mLFEzALzHJrGQEqwP53Bf?si=thcvUeYXRvWJuHfbqpB3WQ

Yeah, it's a good one. Limited release. Didn't know it was on Spotify, but that's good news.

It got reissued last year I think.

I was considering making a blog combining all Lab lyrics and tabs in one place, what do you guys think?

I support this idea. This site still exists, but don't think it's been updated in a while:

http://www.koly.com/stereolab/

I was just playing ETK for the first time in a while, timely bump. and YES! that would be amazing

Oh no, Koly doesn't work!
Where am I going to get all of the photos?

Wait, nevermind, just the lyrics part has gone haywire for some reason

Also, I just discovered Cliff!

wtf

@jordanbpeterson I am so gutted by the treatment The Guardian -and some of the well to do media- has given you this week. You have all my support and many thanks for your clarity and -oh too rare- courage to speak the truth!

— Lætitia Sadier (@SadierLae) February 12, 2018

I cannot for the life of me figure how a committed Marxist could reconcile their beliefs with Peterson's entirely anti-Marxist rhetoric, nor see him as some kind of truth-teller. Does not compute.

Between this and Rosie Cuckston I'm almost grateful Trish Keenan was never on Twitter. Sometimes we're just better off not having the private thoughts of people we like made available.

no way would trish believe any of this

the deep state killed trish because she was going to out the globalist pedophile ring

oh yay let's drag the tragically dead person into this

yeah what the fuck

btw if anyone is serious about rejecting all their Stereolab records i will gladly take in any LPs you have. for free, of course, you wouldn't want to profit from it, you would want to give me your Stereolab LPs because it is the right thing to do.

ill give you mine when hell freezes over Adam :P

it's funny that there were 4 threads bumped because of this

Yeah — is there a reason this Tweet came to attention just now?

There was an article in P’fork today that mentioned her tweet (I saw it later in the day). Apparently Sean Lennon also tweeted defense/praise of this controversial dude I hadn’t heard of.

Thanks.

In a New York Times interview published in May, Peterson made the case for "enforced monogamy” as a corrective against male violence.

She absolutely did at the show I saw, I believe as the intro to the song "Love Captive".

On the Green Man line-up now.

SEPTEMBER
16 - El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace
17 - Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf
19 - San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger
20 - Austin, TX @ Mohawk
21 - Dallas, TX @ Granada Theatre
23 - Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
25 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club**
26 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
27 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
28 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
29 - Boston, MA @ Royale

OCTOBER
01 - Montreal, QC @ Corona Theatre
02 - Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall
03 - Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre
04 - Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall
05 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
07 - Denver, CD @ Gothic Theatre
08 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall
10 - Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
11 - Moreno Beach, CA @ Desert Daze**
13 - Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
14 - Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
15 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
18 - San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
19 - San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore

https://mailchi.mp/warprecords/stereolab-live-presale

11 - Brighton, UK @ Concorde 2
12 - London, UK @ O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire
15 - Bristol, UK @ SWX
16 - Birmingham, UK @ O2 Institute 1
18 - Sheffield, UK @ The Leadmill
19 - Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall
20 - Newcastle, UK @ Boiler Shop
21 - Leeds, UK @ Leeds Uni Stylus
22 - Glasgow, UK @ SWG3 Galvan3
24 - Belfast, UK @ Empire Music Hall
25 - Dublin, IE @ Vicar Street

YAAAY! I will be at First Ave hopefully.

well golly

Yep, that First Ave date is the one! I never saw them back in the day and it's always been such a huge regret.

Those vinyl reissues look nice. This is going to be an expensive year.

so TRNBwA and MAQ are getting reissued. Duophonic has special limited editions that are "hand-numbered and assembled obi band made from 2 24 track Stereolab master tape".

What is an obi band? Don't know if I should spring for this version or go with the normal one.

http://www.never-dead.com/img/p/1/6/8/5/8/16858-thickbox_default.jpg

And OBI band is the thing on the left

sometimes known as an obi strip

https://images.eil.com/large_image/THE_BEATLES_PLEASE%2BPLEASE%2BME%2B-%2BRED%2BOBI-STRIP%2BEDITION-666461.jpg

ha, xpost

interesting, so the limited edition have that sash thing and are clear vinyl and limited to 500 copies, but are otherwise the same. They don't actually cost more, but have to be purchased from Duophonic, which means more expensive shipping vs Amazon.

:) xp

I remember hearing somewhere that the band was never happy with the sound of Transient Random Noise Bursts — like it was the rushed major label debut or something. It was my first Stereolab album and I love it as it is, but it's the album I'd be most curious to hear remastered.

Wonder just what tapes they're cutting up for those obi strips....

xp US media shipping for the LPs was $6, not too bad.

I don't think they can dramatically improve the sound quality for it. From what I understand, it was due to actual mistakes they made in the recording process. I believe one issue was that they recorded all their instrumental tracks and didn't realize until very late that they lost some of the drum tracks.

First rehearsal photos and here's the thing that makes me very happy -- Andy Ramsay IS involved. (That's his Press Play studio logo on the drumhead.)

@stereolabgroop back in the rehearsal room for the first time since Obama was elected, the global financial meltdown and the large hadron collider started up. pic.twitter.com/y9CAPX7IsZ

— Simon W Johns (@LaxParsimony) February 20, 2019

Actually looks like the exact same lineup they had on the last tour, lol

fuck, that clear vinyl sold out. And I'd clicked on a link from Norman Records this morning but got distracted.