As testimony, a well-considered selection of tracks across most of their releases to fill up at least 3 discs;
Super Falling StarContactSuper-ElectricLaisser-FaireOur Trinitone BlastCrestAnalogue RockHeavy DenimMountainSadisticFrench DiskoJohn Cage BubblegumL’Enfer Des FormesWow And FlutterTransona 5The Noise Of CarpetMotoroller ScalatronMetronomic Underground
Les Yper-SoundPercolatorFluorescencesParsecBrakhageContronaturaCheck And Double CheckGet CarterFusesInfinity GirlThe Free DesignPuncture In The Radar PermutationCome And Play In The Milky NightPain Et SpectaclesEscape PodThe Black ArtsHallucinexCaptain Easychord
Nothing To Do With MeSuggestion DiaboliqueDouble RockerNeed To BeMoodlesCanned CandiesWith Friends Like TheseLong Life LoveJaunty Monty And The Bubbles Of BabbleSudden StarsMass RiffUniversity Microfilms InternationalBanana Monster Ne RépondMargerine RockMargerine Melodie
― bkjj40a (bkjj40a), Monday, 27 June 2005 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Don't get upset about it!
― I'm bad and dirty and going to hell (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 June 2005 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 June 2005 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 June 2005 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 27 June 2005 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 12:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 13:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link
You *must* understand my universe, Kyle:
* Tor-twah = the suck aside from maybe a minute of "Djed"* The vast majority of D&L tracks = produced by one John M. of Tor-twah* live/radio sessions of the McEntire-produced tracks >>>> the D&L versions* Ergo, foo on D&L
Other universes are different.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link
This doesn't make any sense! How can you only like a minute when so much of the joy in the piece is in its progress and transitions?
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link
This is the key point ... even after I stopped enjoying Stereolab records, I continued to enjoy hearing them live because they always brought the krautfunkboogie, whereas on record McEntire et al were obsessed with all the cooing and burbling.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Exactly, as per my comment upthread from yesterday about how they were getting too "cute" on ETK. The rawness that remained on ETK was almost completely smoothed out by D&L.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link
'joy'
Also, Ned, does this mean you prefer the Andi Toma tracks on Dots and Loops?
Oh heck yes. Keep in mind I am a bit of a Mouse on Mars fiend.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link
I stopped loving them with Transient... (btw: anyone want to make me an offer for the mint gold vinyl (I think) LP, signed?). The soul dropped out of their music. They were so perfect for the first three or four years. Why did they have to fuck with the amazing simplicity of their sound? Sob.
― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link
oh and Dots And Loops I've definitely come around too, you never know when your mind might change.
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link
they DID choose it!
― latebloomer: now with 20% less cetacean content (latebloomer), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link
(personally, I really enjoy that record -- despite the myriad of truths in that review)
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― rajeev (rajeev), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― dr x o'skeleton, Monday, 16 January 2006 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― doron, Thursday, 23 March 2006 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link
Anyway--Stereolab: Classic.
― sonore (sonore), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:44 (eighteen years ago) link
These records are all classics:Peng!TRNBWAETKD&LSound-Dust
Plus all their singles comps are great, and they are a terrific live band.
Cobra and Phases could almost be a classic as well, but it needs to be about 4 or 5 songs shorter, and the production needs to be improved in some places.
The more recent stuff, Margerine and Fab Four Suture, are a bit weaker for me. I miss the presence of Mary and I think the production is way too busy. However, the tracks on these two came across really well in a live setting.
― Matt Olken (Moodles), Friday, 14 July 2006 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 14 July 2006 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 15 July 2006 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 15 July 2006 00:19 (seventeen years ago) link
stereolab's music takes me to a future place that we shall never know, a clean beautiful one.
― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Saturday, 15 July 2006 03:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― LO-NRG (teenagequiet), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Plastic Mile is the best song of all time.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 06:46 (sixteen years ago) link
They're pretty classic. Cobra and Phases was the first album I picked up by them, almost 10 years ago back in high school, and I really loved it. Picked up Dots and Loops shortly after, but it didn't really stick, and after that I don't think I listened to anything by Stereolab for about 8 years.
Then just recently, I found used copies of Transient and Emperor Tomato, and these are great, especially ETK. Hearing these motivated me to finally throw on Dots and Loops the other day, after giving up on it for so long, and it sounded pretty awesome.
― Mark Clemente, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Dots and Loops is a grower, and a masterful piece of work.
Pick up Margerine Eclipse, everyone seems to like that. A nice combination of pretty much every style the groop has explored.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 00:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I really, really love "Fab Four Suture."
"Plastic Mile" is indeed amazing but "Whisper Pitch" and "Excursions Into Oh, A-Oh" are actually the best songs of all time.
― Davey D, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 03:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Dots and Loops sounds amazing to me now -- we didn't know how good we had it back when this thread started.
― Mark Rich@rdson, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 03:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Proof that Dots and Loops is a god: 'The Flower Called Nowhere,' 'Miss Modular,' 'Refractions in the Plastic Pulse.' The other tracks are merely perfect. I desperately want a remaster of this, due to the horrible tape dropouts toward the end.
Fab Four Suture: 'Whisper Pitch' is the only track I skip. 'Excursions' as a ringtone gets the whole office grooving. And 'Plastic Mile,' um, yeah. If Jeff Lynne were French and female/falsetto and a genius he may well have invented this song.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 03:34 (sixteen years ago) link
It would be relevant at this point to mention that Miss Modular got me into Stereolab and Dots & Loops consummated the relationship.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 03:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Dots and Loops is indeed godhead. Totally my fave by them, but damn if I don't like every single thing they've done.
― Davey D, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 03:40 (sixteen years ago) link
You and I are the trust fund kids of ilx.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 03:43 (sixteen years ago) link