Lowl
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 16:44 (five years ago) link
living it up at the joketel California!
― sarahell, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
helter skelter is the only good beatles track
― closed beta (NotEnough), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 17:25 (five years ago) link
tru
― sarahell, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 17:45 (five years ago) link
Man I know I probably bang on about this too much but Stereolab's transition from "perfect simple dual-vocal Neu! tribute band with communism" into "terrifyingly twee and overly complicated The Free Design tribute band with jazz hands" is the biggest bummer I can think of. I cannot imagine getting listening to anything they recorded after Emperor Tomato Ketchup for pleasure. It is such a bummer! I have never heard a band go so pivot so suddenly from "perfect" to "zany"
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 1 March 2019 01:22 (five years ago) link
Stereolol
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 1 March 2019 01:23 (five years ago) link
too bad for you
― brimstead, Friday, 1 March 2019 01:35 (five years ago) link
they were more twee early on anyways
agree. I like both versions of the band, I just don't think they had the songwriting ability to do morricone / cool jazz as well as they did the neu indie rock stuff, which takes more of a conceptual commitment than songwriting chops
― macropuente (map), Friday, 1 March 2019 02:28 (five years ago) link
I honestly can’t determine if “they don’t have the range as songwriters” or if my own personal taste favours monolithic two-chord monuments to human synchronicity (which mirrors the sentiment of the lyrical content) which effectively mars my capacity to appreciate their subsequent pivot to kindergarten rock
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 1 March 2019 05:01 (five years ago) link
Emperor Tonato Ketchup rules
― flopson, Friday, 1 March 2019 05:11 (five years ago) link
oh wait do you agree with that
uwe schmidt > autechre
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Friday, 1 March 2019 06:28 (five years ago) link
Emperor Tonetta Ketchup?
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 1 March 2019 09:05 (five years ago) link
lol
ya I like almost all of Tomato Ketchup, just like everyone else
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 1 March 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link
Was D&L where you and Stereolab parted ways?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 1 March 2019 15:12 (five years ago) link
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, March 1, 2019 10:10 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It goes with everything
― Evan, Friday, 1 March 2019 16:15 (five years ago) link
it's a Candiment
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 1 March 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link
Emperor Tonetta Ketchup
stealing this, tyvm
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Friday, 1 March 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link
AHEM
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 1 March 2019 16:38 (five years ago) link
I can pin-point the exact moment chronologically that I get off the Stereolab bus and that's "Monster Sacre" toward the end of Tomato Ketchup. (The title track right before it is of course one of my favourite Stereolab songs)
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 1 March 2019 16:46 (five years ago) link
i listened to Dots and Loops once and knew it was over for me. I wanted buzzy punchy moog-heavy dance/pop
― calumy (rip van wanko), Friday, 1 March 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
^^ that's what my experience was
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Friday, 1 March 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
"Monster Sacre" is such a pretty and forlorn song though! Also interesting rework of an Erik Satie piece.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 1 March 2019 18:23 (five years ago) link
This is the thread for controversial music opinions. This is the thread for all this Stereolab talk: "Their early stuff was better"
― everything, Friday, 1 March 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link
Dots & Loops is best Stereolab LP, Margarine Eclipse is #2, there's your controversy?
ETK is ruined by Cybele's Reverie, a great single which does not fit on there at all.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 1 March 2019 21:46 (five years ago) link
Fine here’s a controp
Tierra Whack made the best debut of all time and she’s going to be the most omnipresent thing for the rest of our lives
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 2 March 2019 03:26 (five years ago) link
i think u mean
Tierra Whack made the best debut of all ti
― flopson, Saturday, 2 March 2019 03:52 (five years ago) link
Lol
Between her and leikeli47 I’m happy that Missy is being felt if not justly beafied
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 2 March 2019 04:06 (five years ago) link
Um *beatified
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 2 March 2019 04:08 (five years ago) link
here's a proposition: there's virtually no instrumental rock or pop music that wouldn't be improved by some sort of vocal
― imago, Friday, 8 March 2019 12:10 (five years ago) link
Nice try.
― pomenitul, Friday, 8 March 2019 12:36 (five years ago) link
there's virtually no instrumental rock or pop music that wouldn't be improved by some sort of vocal― imagoEasily falsified by thousands of techno, trance and house club hits, subsequently rereleased with added vocals to score a chart hit.
― Siegbran, Friday, 8 March 2019 13:27 (five years ago) link
Also, Rush.
― Siegbran, Friday, 8 March 2019 13:28 (five years ago) link
those aren't rock or pop imo xp
― imago, Friday, 8 March 2019 13:29 (five years ago) link
give me a break, oscillate wildly is just about the only smiths song i can bear now
― kolarov spring (NickB), Friday, 8 March 2019 13:41 (five years ago) link
but yeah, could you imagine albatross with vocals? or popcorn or nut rocker or green onions or telstar
― kolarov spring (NickB), Friday, 8 March 2019 13:43 (five years ago) link
i can imagine albatross with vocals, yes
they go as follows: "this is no ordinary chocolate trifle..."
― imago, Friday, 8 March 2019 13:48 (five years ago) link
:D
― kolarov spring (NickB), Friday, 8 March 2019 13:53 (five years ago) link
but yeah, could you imagine albatross with vocals?
― kolarov spring (NickB)
i think it goes "here comes the sun king"
re: telstar with vocals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtubEdQUJZ0
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Friday, 8 March 2019 14:38 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lncJJ27mXLo
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 8 March 2019 14:43 (five years ago) link
omg
― imago, Friday, 8 March 2019 14:44 (five years ago) link
oddly entrancing
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 8 March 2019 14:48 (five years ago) link
once the initial laughter has subsided, yes
― imago, Friday, 8 March 2019 14:49 (five years ago) link
'Albatross' by Fleetwood Mac sung by a pair of horny albatrosses
― lispectah deck (unregistered), Friday, 8 March 2019 15:02 (five years ago) link
LJ that's as bad a controp as I've seen but I perversely want to hear someone try YYZ with vocals
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 March 2019 15:02 (five years ago) link
I mean, "rock and pop" are predominantly vocal musics and a lot of the best instrumental examples are pushing the definitional categories (you could e.g. argue that Mahavishnu Orchestra and GYBE, or even "YYZ", are something other than pop or rock). NickB's counterexamples seem strongest. I don't want vocals on Dick Dale. 2xp!
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 8 March 2019 15:02 (five years ago) link
The Chantays - was trying to remember who did "Pipeline"
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 8 March 2019 15:04 (five years ago) link
what about the theme from Star Wars?
― sarahell, Friday, 8 March 2019 15:05 (five years ago) link
Do big band era hits count as pop?
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 8 March 2019 15:20 (five years ago) link