Stereolab singles & EPs poll

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

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