Stereolab singles & EPs poll

To dreammmmm the impossible poll...

Man, I loved that Jenny Ondioline ten-inch with Fruition and Golden Ball and French Disko!

Another vote for Fluorescences here but the Captain Easychord EP is a close second (had it included the full version of the title track it would've been my pick).

Going to take a bit to decide. Wish I still had some of these EPs; I check Ebay for vinyl copies now and again but they're never cheap. I never really liked how Oscillons jumbled the tracks from the Elektra-era ones. Fluorescences would seem like the default but "Brigitte," on Cybelle's Reverie, is sometimes my favorite Stereolab song. Love "Allures" as well.

I never really liked how Oscillons jumbled the tracks from the Elektra-era ones.

Yeah, it works but I prefer the original context as well, so I just compiled all the tracks I listed above. Over 6 hours! Going to give it a listen straight through over the next day or two.

I went with the Flourescences EP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzx1f6EJn_o

Such a great song, and a shame it never ended up on a proper album. the Oscillons comp came out 9 years after the Fluorescences EP? it's such a great song, and I don't necessarily think it would've been a hit, but if it were on ETK I'm positive it'd be as well known as Cybele and Les-Yper. Though it wasn't part of those sessions right, it was recorded later in 1996?

they didn't even play it live very much, which is surprising

Went with John Cage Bubblegum/Eloge d'Eros 7"... missing is the 1993 split tour 7" with Unrest, which had one of their top five songs, Mountain

This is the Super 45 EP for me, I voted it #1 against all their other albums (& EPs/singles) in the album poll.

YT playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F1OcUB3GKM&list=PLb9EHTcMqIb85KnxLzMzfTlUKAi_KWheJ

or try this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F1OcUB3GKM&list=PLb9EHTcMqIb85KnxLzMzfTlUKAi_KWheJ

Poll is missing "Shimmies in Super 8" but hey.

Lo-fi by a mile.

missing is the 1993 split tour 7"

I skipped split singles as well, just going for pure 'lab.

Poll is missing "Shimmies in Super 8"

Same deal, otherwise the list of releases would've been ridiculous. A wonderfully prolific band they were!

"Laissez-Faire" has been my favorite song lately so I voted LOW FI.

pretty much love about 80% of their output.

Jump drive shut out - solar throw away is missing from this poll. Do tour only eps count?

No, it's there. The tour singles are some of my favorite stuff.

So, how much of this stuff remains uncompiled?

Uncompiled: Low Fi, The In Sound, The Underground is Coming, and everything after Captain Easychord. And ABC (The Multitude) was only on the Japanese edition of Aluminum Tunes.

The In Sound tracks are all found on "Aluminum Tunes", just retitled. I guess they changed the names between releasing the EP and AT.

Blue Milk = Munich Madness
One Thousand Miles An Hour = 1000 Miles An Hour
Aluminum Tune = Golden Atoms

Flourescences hasn't been compiled, has it?

It's on Oscillons

Blue Milk = Munich Madness

whoa, I never knew there was another song called Blue Milk??

I don't know why I've thought this whole time that Oscillons from the Anti-Sun was a best of set.

There's also "Blaue Milch" on this, but I think that's unrelated to the Cobra & Phases "Blue Milk" or "Munich Madness"?

Right, completely different track.

I listened to everything in order - something I've never done before. I fell in love with the krautrock of "Jenny Ondioline" (which is too short no matter show long it is) and bailed around "Cobra" when the French pop overtook the German rock. At their best, Stereolab is combining a terrific groove with lots of odd and interesting sounds - "Soop Groove" is one of the high points of what I mean. I like the title track to "Captain Easychord" but the rest of the EP is sort of goopy to me, and "Instant 0" is about half good. The tour singles are generally good with "Solar Throw Away" being the high point. But, man, everything through "The Free Design" is just so great, almost nothing I wouldn't listen to on repeat.

This is like voting for your favourite child.

But OK, The Free Design wins as (a) Cobra era = peak Stereolab and (b) the quality is evenly high across all the songs, while covering a lot of ground stylistically.

Runners up: Super-Electric cos that's where I came in; and Rose because dual mono rules and it contains Laetitia's best lyrics.

Best individual track here = John Cage.

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"Extended Popularity Poll"

Fluorescences and Miss Modular EPs are unbeatable, prefer them to any Stereolab LP

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Great results, pretty much agree! My tag favorite of the 0 votes was "Ping Pong" which is really strong.

I voted Low Fi but these are mostly fantastic

French Disko 7" 0

There is no other poll where this would happen.