Stereolab: Classic or Dud

Yep. They do good openings. Super Falling Star, too.

bursting through our buh-rears

vonal declosion, esp on headphones

Fuses, Harmonium and Outer Bongolia are also brilliant openers.

@stereolabgroop release Electrically Possessed - Switched On Vol. 4 on February 26th 2021 via Duophonic UHF Disks and Warp. Pre-order now https://t.co/mAUHbe9Eqe and also take a look out our new items of merchandise. pic.twitter.com/5UBVut7IwC

— Stereolab (@stereolabgroop) January 14, 2021

Looks like it is First of the Microbe Hunters plus tour singles and various odds and ends.

Great news, finally!

Ooh, nice. First of the Microbe Hunters disappeared from Spotify a couple of years ago--I wonder if this had anything to do with it.

WHERE IS "LO FI" GOD DAMN IT

(great news, obv)

Pre-ordered!

Nice to see a couple of unreleased tunes on there as well as previously unavailable alternate versions. Wasn’t expecting that.

Also good to see a few format options. But if you want the multicoloured vinyl edition (which does look amazing) with your name on it, it’s via the Duophonic ochre store only I think.

Also good to see a few format options. But if you want the multicoloured vinyl edition (which does look amazing) with your name on it, it’s via the Duophonic ochre store only I think.

WHERE IS "LO FI" GOD DAMN IT

I gotta wonder. Supposedly there was a vol. 5 in the works as well. Maybe one last everything-and-the-kitchen-sink comp to go?

Still quite a bit missing from the Switched On series across all eras, so hopefully Volume 5!

Yeah I think Simple Headphone Mind / Trippin With the Birds remain uncompiled too. Is it sad that I kind of regret unsealing my CD?

oh also this is the Lab's worst cover art by a *huge* margin

Since I'm assuming the Mirri board version (that means it's shiny, right?) will end up in brick and mortar indie retailers, I think I'll skip the preorder this time around.

PRE-ORDER: Stereolab - Electrically Possessed (Switched On Volume 4)
LOCAL & REGULAR CUSTOMERS - there is a very ltd ed of this with "mirrorboard sleeve". If you order this, we'll put names in a hat and a few lucky ones will get the ltd ed upgrade

Oscillons from the Anti-Sun still has a lot of stuff that's not collected here? Or does this round up all of that?

Yes I thought Oscillions was basically the stand in for SO volume 4

Duophonic don't own Low Fi so they aren't in control of remastering/rereleasing/compiling it. Too Pure still owns it, and they did put remastered versions of Peng! and Space Age Batchelor Pad Music in the last few years so hopefully they'll put Low Fi out again. And Duophonic was somehow able to license the Super-Electric EP from Too Pure so they could put Switched On out again (at least on vinyl), so maybe they'll work together on something.

I love Low Fi and wish they'd actually put out that entire session as an LP. As best I can tell these were all recorded in one June 1992 session:
Low Fi
(Varoom!)
Laisser-Faire
Elektro
Mountain
Revox
John Cage Bubblegum
Sadistic

I went to duophonic pretty much as soon as this was announced and the colored vinyl was already sold out.

xps amazing and very helpful info, yeah that might be my fave Lab session ever!

kind of a bummer about the Too Pure rights, though

My sense was that the colored vinyl was super-limited (and only available from Duophonic) while the Mirri board version was less limited and available from indie retailers (similar proportions to the clear vinyl with tape obi vs. without tape obi last time).

Stereolab - Series en Direct (Live 1993-2019)

Pretty great. Happily downloading the FLACs as I type...

insane, really looking forward to blasting that 2002-era 12+ minute version of John Cage Bubblegum as soon as I can

this is gonna make my weekend

this is exciting!

there are also more collections at the bottom of that archive dot org page (!)

September/October tour dates for US and Canada announced

I've had the "Dots and Loops" CD in my car for three months straight, AMA.

do you prefer the cover with the green background and the blue foreground or vice versa

although i guess there are other choices now

Blue? I see it as two different shades of green (or maybe blue-green and yellow-green)

maybe their most sparkly album

My favorite album of theirs along with Transient Random…

do you prefer the cover with the green background and the blue foreground or vice versa

although i guess there are other choices now

― mookieproof

i have no idea what color the cover of my copy of "dots and loops" is, the cd is in the car, not the cover. i guess in my mind it's green as the background and blue as the foreground but god knows if i'm remembering that right.

Peng! and Dots and Loops are constantly being played around here.

Ok ask a question, then… mm rate the songs from best to worst:

I find the original Swtiched On Stereolab to be one of the most perfect collections I know.

I keep seeing the vinyl reissues at the local shop and I'm considering getting them. the material they're made out of is pretty neat at least

they are very well done reissues, fwiw

agreed, worth it for the demos alone

yes, the reissues are very worth it, nice extras, they sound great, all have full lyrics and song-by-song liner notes

Ok ask a question, then… mm rate the songs on 'Tadpoles' by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band from best to worst:

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, June 15, 2022 8:53 AM (four hours ago)

fixed

I guess my question would be, do you still refer to Laetitia Sadier as 'Ms. Sadier' or do you call her 'Tish' now?

Tish, that's French

Shirt
Canyons of Your Mind
Tubas in the Moonlight
Mr. Apollo
I'm the Urban Spaceman
Ali-Baba's Camel
Laughing Blues
Hunting Tigers Out in 'Indiah'
By A Waterfall
Monster Mash
Dr. Jazz

Laughing Blues
By A Waterfall
Tubas in the Moonlight
I'm the Urban Spaceman
Mr. Apollo
Shirt
Canyons of Your Mind
Hunting Tigers Out in'Indiah'
Ali-Baba's Camel
Monster Mash
Dr. Jazz

I keep seeing the vinyl reissues at the local shop and I'm considering getting them. the material they're made out of is pretty neat at least

― frogbs

vinyl? aren't most records made out of that?

so here are the answers i have to the questions that have been asked

Ok ask a question, then… mm rate the songs from best to worst:

― ✖✖✖ (Moka)

i hate to give a non-answer but i kind of like all the songs in different ways! i just have a hard time rating one song as being "better" than another, the reason it's been in my car for three months is because all the songs are good. if there was a song i didn't like i'd wind up skipping it, and i don't ever skip any songs.

Ok ask a question, then… mm rate the songs on 'Tadpoles' by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band from best to worst:

― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse)

you know, i respect the bonzo dog doo dah band and all but i'm not sure i've listened to any of their records straight through, including _tadpoles_. i guess maybe i'll try to do that after meditation, but if i get distracted or bored i'll probably turn it off. i know i've heard a lot of the songs, like their version of "monster mash", "mr apollo", "canyons of your mind", "i'm the urban spacemen", probably "readymades", but i can't remember what any of them _sound_ like. i like "eleven mustachioed daughters" and "cyborg signal" by vivian stanshall's big grunt. i don't like "the strain". i'm not generally interested in songs about constipation, and if i were, screamin' jay hawkins' "constipation blues" is better, especially given how much he sounds like david lee roth. i also like "unfinished words" by the rutles.

I guess my question would be, do you still refer to Laetitia Sadier as 'Ms. Sadier' or do you call her 'Tish' now?

― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse)

i don't call anybody "tish". "tish" to me is short for "tishoumaren", not that tishoumaren comes up in conversation, but it's not a word i can particularly spell or pronounce so "tish" seems like a good way of referring to it. hopefully that's not offensive.

"laetitia" in a word mostly makes me think of the obscure but very good actually weirdo black metal band "laetitia in holocaust", which probably is _not_ a reference to laetitia sadier. also, i have a hard time spelling and pronouncing ms. sadier's (well i guess there's your answer) first _and_ last names - in my mind she is some disowned relative of sgt. barry sadler of "ballad of the green berets" fame.

i would also like to give a shout-out to Laetitia Tamko of Vagabon. i've barely heard the album but what i heard i liked.

she was listed as Seaya on their earlier records, so I assume that's her actual nickname

Great answers, Kate! "Tish" to me is reminiscent of 'Tisch School of the Arts' I guess, but that's because I live in New York. Does Tim Gane smell European?

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