Such sensible people, those late voters.
I seem to recall MAQ was my highest-ranked 'proper' LP in the end, and Refried my #1, but probably couldn't have expected much different from this outcome.
― Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Monday, 4 April 2016 20:58 (eight years ago) link
Moka, is it possible to pace out the track reveals so we can discuss them individually for a bit?
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Monday, 4 April 2016 21:03 (eight years ago) link
Nice to see Sound-Dust do well. That and Margarine Eclipse were so underrated.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 4 April 2016 21:03 (eight years ago) link
Emperor Tomato Ketchup deserves to be at the top. One of my five favourite albums ever.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 4 April 2016 21:05 (eight years ago) link
Yes Moodles! I'll do tracks more separately. Just wanted to clear albums quickly first.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 April 2016 21:08 (eight years ago) link
these rollout graphics are sweeeet
― Karl Malone, Monday, 4 April 2016 21:13 (eight years ago) link
I think we should all chip in to a stipend to hire Moka as official ILM Ballot Poll Graphic Designer.
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Monday, 4 April 2016 21:17 (eight years ago) link
Transient is for me their only "complete" album that I can listen through without fatigue, but I guess that's because I'm still a rockist.
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Monday, 4 April 2016 21:19 (eight years ago) link
I'd like to imagine there were a few #1 votes for the later sprawling singles comps. Would seem like one of many possible perfectly rational choices.
― Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Monday, 4 April 2016 21:19 (eight years ago) link
Tracks results coming up. I added album covers to this ones. Sometimes they work, sometimes they dont :p
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 April 2016 21:21 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/vF64wbc.jpg60. Pop Quiz 4 votes, 100 points. 0 first place votes. From:Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center EP, 1995.https://youtu.be/KAqy-JpoBO0
Blimey! Lucky I switched to a ranked ballot. My #2. Robbed, etc, etc.
― Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Monday, 4 April 2016 21:23 (eight years ago) link
I had never heard this EP prior to this poll and I was pleasantly surprised. The opening three tracks are all great.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 April 2016 21:28 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/WLhtX6Y.jpg59. Changer 4 votes, 106 points. 0 first place votes. From: Stunning Debut Album 7”, 1991.https://youtu.be/7O9mwPMd7i0
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 April 2016 21:29 (eight years ago) link
This is where it all starts.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 April 2016 21:30 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ExPZ3L9.jpg58. Avant Garde MOR 4 votes, 108 points. 1 first place vote. From: Space Age Batchelor Pad Music, 1993.https://youtu.be/OrcaCYTErTg
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 April 2016 21:39 (eight years ago) link
I feel bad about not acknowledging SABPM in any way on my ballot. I knew I would.
― Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Monday, 4 April 2016 21:45 (eight years ago) link
That's one of the many holes I have in my Groopological knowledge, going to have to redress that!
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Monday, 4 April 2016 21:50 (eight years ago) link
So, there are a couple of ties in the countdown. I'll follow crut's method on the depeche mode poll: ties are broken first by number of #1 votes, then by number of total votes. If they have the same votes and points then a tie is mentioned, otherwise that will be the method of ranking them.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 April 2016 21:50 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/1mVeinv.jpg57. Puncture in the Radax Permutation 5 votes, 109 points. 0 first place votes. From: Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night, 1999.https://youtu.be/KA6vh2wVfQM
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 April 2016 21:55 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I did that on the Fall ballot too, accidentally or so I thought. (Xpost)
― Mark G, Monday, 4 April 2016 21:57 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Q8ob6g3.jpg56. K-Stars 5 votes, 109 points. 1 first place vote. From: Peng!, 1992.https://youtu.be/QzFiCRw1XAw
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 April 2016 21:59 (eight years ago) link
I love this one (everything on this album, actually). It sounds like Young Marble Giants would in the 90's, a bit of shoegaze influence in there... could be partly responsible for setting that Morr label micropop a decade earlier.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 April 2016 22:01 (eight years ago) link
Slow down, Moka! Jesus.
Yes @ #57! You were blessed if you heard Mary sing this live. She only did it once or twice, I think.
― Jeff W, Monday, 4 April 2016 22:03 (eight years ago) link
Hahaha, sorry! I have to leave to work in 30 minutes and I want to cover all the ground possible. I promise tomorrow results will rollout very slowly.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 April 2016 22:04 (eight years ago) link
Possibly the Peng! track least likely to be mistaken for an entirely band when juxtaposed with #57. :)
― Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Monday, 4 April 2016 22:11 (eight years ago) link
entirely DIFFERENT band
― Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Monday, 4 April 2016 22:12 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/GVTUkCC.jpg55. Peng! 33 4 votes, 110 points. 0 first place votes. From: Peng!, 1992.https://youtu.be/6993BdVL_0k
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 April 2016 22:16 (eight years ago) link
'incredible things are happening in this poll' was another alt title I was considering.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 April 2016 22:20 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ydxjVXk.jpg54. Spark Plug 5 votes, 111 points. 0 first place votes. From: Emperor Tomato Ketchup, 1996.https://youtu.be/Girx3PL5o-g
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 April 2016 22:35 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/RHYgvhy.jpg53. Nihilist Assault Group 6 votes, 111 points. 0 first place votes. From: Mars Audiac Quintet / Wow & Flutter EP (1994)https://youtu.be/QqdxiW7A2fY
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 April 2016 22:43 (eight years ago) link
I really should've voted in this but couldn't get myself together
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 4 April 2016 22:55 (eight years ago) link
(MAQ too low)
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 4 April 2016 22:56 (eight years ago) link
lol M.O.R. was my #1 and here it is at #58
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 4 April 2016 22:57 (eight years ago) link
I have to go so I leave you with the final results of the day. A tie, actually.
Apologies for the hasty rollout today. Tomorrow I'll be rolling them out with 20 mins at minimum in between.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 April 2016 22:57 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/vZLrmJC.jpgTIE 51. OLV 26 5 votes, 112 points. 0 first place votes. From: Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1996)https://youtu.be/5Zm5H-116mQ
http://i.imgur.com/7GpCvMd.jpgTIE 51. New Ortophony 5 votes, 112 points. 0 first place votes. From: Mars Audiac Quintet (1994)https://youtu.be/808qJizotKA
Gee, I might have stayed on Team "New Orthophony" if I realised it had broader support. As mentioned on the other thread, such a vote would have been very firmly for the far superior unedited (Aluminum Tunes) version. (Haha, okay, the version in the link in other words.)
― Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Monday, 4 April 2016 23:10 (eight years ago) link
I'm considering the first release as the one to mention in almost every track but yes, the new ortophony unedited v. is awesome!
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 April 2016 23:15 (eight years ago) link
just catching up now, will have some more organized thoughts on this a bit later. For now, will just say that I'm impressed that none of these dipped below 4 votes. I was expecting lots of 1 vote tunes. Also, the graphics do indeed look fantastic!
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Monday, 4 April 2016 23:16 (eight years ago) link
It's kind of insane how much stuff they cranked out between '92 and '96, they covered a huge amount of ground in their first few years.
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 00:24 (eight years ago) link
I love how varied the opening songs are. Dimisses criticism of naysayers that their songs all sound the same.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 00:29 (eight years ago) link
Also early stuff is very charming.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 00:30 (eight years ago) link
There weren't many other tracks on the compilations that weren't previously on singles/etc were there? That long "NO", countrified "Tone Burst", "Sadistic" and... perhaps a couple of further things on Aluminum Tunes. Does this mean 20-something-th anniversary deluxe reissues with squillions of bona fide outtakes are on the horizon? Bwahaha.
― Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 00:30 (eight years ago) link
WHOA
https://www.discogs.com/Stereolab-Eaten-Horizons-Or-The-Electrocution-Of-Rock/release/1124263
I have MP3s of this that I never listened to, just figured out what they were
― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 00:34 (eight years ago) link
Gosh! Seems it's on YT too: https://youtu.be/MGBF9aZkum8
― Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 00:43 (eight years ago) link
Haven't heard these, checking them out now.
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 00:48 (eight years ago) link
WHOAhttps://www.discogs.com/Stereolab-Eaten-Horizons-Or-The-Electrocution-Of-Rock/release/1124263I have MP3s of this that I never listened to, just figured out what they were
Last Sold: 16 May 13 Lowest: $427.17 Median: $463.59 Highest: $500.00
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 01:01 (eight years ago) link
I know!
― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 01:10 (eight years ago) link
Stereolab could have made a whole career out of stripped-down Joao Gilberto-style acoustic-guitar-and-voice arrangements, I'm now thinking.
― Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 01:33 (eight years ago) link
Bummer, I'm traveling this week, so few chances to check in on the rollout. Concerned about the state of my ballot after seeing my #2 crossed off (Olv 26).
― campreverb, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 02:15 (eight years ago) link
Amazing poll Moka, thanks!
Biggest surprise: Pack Yr Romantic Mind at #4 with five #1's.
There are a lot of great songs in the top ten ... and somehow I didn't vote for any of them except for "John Cage Bubblegum". I don't have a sensible reason for leaving JO off my ballot, I guess it was because I'd already voted for two songs from that album and wanted to spread my votes around more. I'm also a big fan of live 'Lab, I saw them live a few times, collected a lot of live recordings, "ABC Music", etc. and JO was never a regular part of their live set. You can't hold that against the studio version but it made JO less "visible" to me over the years.
I've always been a bit meh on "French Disko", yeah the clip from the Word is brilliant and captures the song in all its droney/pogo essence, but "John Cage Bubblegum" and "The Seeming and the Meaning" do the exact same thing but way way better.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 8 April 2016 09:44 (eight years ago) link
Songs:
1. Super Electric2. Tempter3. Changer4. Anamorphose5. Transona Five6. Animal or Vegetable (A Wonderful Wooden Reason)7. John Cage Bubblegum8. Laissez Faire9. The Seeming and the Meaning10. Stomach Worm11. Avant Garde MOR12. We're Not Adult Orientated13. Low Fi 14. Come and Play in the Milky Night15. Captain Easychord16. Golden Ball17. Tomorrow is Already Here18. Les Bon Bon Des Raisons19. Varoom20. Crest
Albums:1. Mars Audiac Quintet2. Lo-Fi3. Refried Ectoplasm (Switched On 2)4. Transient Random Noise Bursts With Announcements5. The Groop Played Space Age Bachelor Pad Music
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 8 April 2016 09:45 (eight years ago) link
Tracks01. John Cage Bubblegum02. Caleidoscopic Gaze03. Motoroller Scalatron04. The Flower Called Nowhere05. Super-Electric06. One Small Step07. University Microfilms International08. Puncture in the Radax Permutation09. Suggestion Diabolique 10. “…sudden stars”11. Laissez-Faire12. Interlock13. Ping Pong14. With Friends Like These15. Fluorescences16. Heavy Denim17. La Spirale18. Self Portrait with “Electric Brain"19. I Feel The Air (of Another Planet)20. Diagonals
Albums & EPs:01. Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night02. Sound-Dust03. Refried Ectoplasm (Switched On Vol.2)04. Instant 0 in the Universe05. Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center
― Jeff W, Friday, 8 April 2016 11:40 (eight years ago) link
Just before going to sleep last night, I lay in the dark and listened to the entirety of Refried Ectoplasm really flippin' loud. That's so so so their best album. And as much space as as my growed-up, 21st century brain-self can clear for their later, more sophisticated experiments & inclinations, I don't think they ever surpassed (or even matched) their early genius for tone & propulsion. Every sound on that album is perfect, perfect not only in isolation, but in synthesis with every other. French fucking Disko.
― Keks + Nuss (contenderizer), Friday, 8 April 2016 12:24 (eight years ago) link
I played ETC loudly today on the way into work, now I have realised my "Fiery Yellow" vote should have been for "Anonymous Collective", because that is the track I meant.
I saw the top 100, I guess it wouldn't have made much difference anyway. FY at 75, AC at 68..
Also, how many Stereolab track titles have anything to do with the lyrics? I was beginning to think it was "International Colouring Competition" only, but up came "des etoiles electroniques" and the title is right there in the song!
― Mark G, Friday, 8 April 2016 12:34 (eight years ago) link
SONGS RANKED:
K-Stars"Animal or Vegetable (A Wonderful Wooden Reason...)"Metronomic UndergroundMountainSuper Falling StarSuper ElectricLes Yper-SoundDiagonalsPuncture in the Radax PermutationTempterFrench DiskoInternational Coloring ContestOuter AcceleratorPeng! 33The Seeming and the MeaningBrittleDes Étoiles ÉlectroniquesCybele's ReverieMiss ModularPeople Do It All the Time
ALBUMS RANKED:
Peng!Refried Ectoplasm (Switched On Volume 2)Dots and LoopsEmperor Tomato KetchupSwitched On
― Keks + Nuss (contenderizer), Friday, 8 April 2016 12:38 (eight years ago) link
Love Stereolab but haven't delved into their catalogue enough to have run up a ballot. Now that it's over I'm looking forward to spinning the Spotify playlist all day at work. Thanks, Moka and all y'all voters!
― hardcore dilettante, Friday, 8 April 2016 13:35 (eight years ago) link
1 Pack Yr Romantic Mind2 Brakhage3 Cybele's Reverie4 Long Life Love5 Metronomic Underground6 Ping Pong7 Nihilist Assault Group8 Our Trinitone Blast9 Fluorescences10 One Small Step11 The Seeming and the Meaning12 Spacemoth13 Rainbo Conversation14 Percolator15 Moodles16 Suggestion Diabolique17 Orgiastic18 Check and Double Check19 Gus the Mynah Bird20 The Flower Called Nowhere
Albums:
1 Sound-Dust2 Emperor Tomato Ketchup3 Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements4 Dots and Loops5 Peng!
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Friday, 8 April 2016 13:39 (eight years ago) link
Ah, go on then...
1 Lo Boob Oscillator2 French Disko3 Fiery Yellow4 Jenny Ondioline5 Klang Tone6 Fluorescences7 Emperor Tomato Ketchup8 Tone Burst (Country)9 Ping Pong10 Wow And Flutter11 International Colouring Contest12 Farfisa13 Pack Yr Romantic Mind14 I'm Going Out Of My Way15 Harmonium16 Animal Or Vegetable (A Wonderful Wooden Reason...)17 Golden Ball18 Cybele's Reverie19 The Noise Of Carpet20 Soop Groove #1
1 Refried Ectoplasm2 Transient Noise Bursts3 Emperor Tomato Ketchup4 Oscillons from the Anti-Sun5 Mars Audiac Quintet
― Mark G, Friday, 8 April 2016 14:33 (eight years ago) link
I am glad "pack yr romantic mind" did so well.
SONGSPack Yr Romantic MindThe Light That Will Cease To FallNeed To BeHigh ExpectationSurrealchemistAvant Garde M.O.R.ContactAu Grand JourDoubtSuper Falling StarExploding Head MovieEquivalencesWe’re Not Adult OrientatedThe Seeming and the MeaningEnivrez-vousSuper-ElectricPing PongTone BurstContronaturaWith Friends Like These
ALBUMSSwitched OnPeng!Transient Random-Noise Bursts With AnnouncementsThe Groop Played Space Age Bachelor Pad Music
Margerine Eclipse
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 8 April 2016 14:43 (eight years ago) link
For a while there up until ballot 18 Pack was #1 Jenny #2 and Fluorescences #3. If we only had received 18 ballots those would have been the top 3.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 8 April 2016 15:51 (eight years ago) link
Thanks Moka!
My ranked ballot:1 Anamophose2 Jenny Ondioline3 Motoroller Scalatron4 I'm Going Out Of My Way (Really guys?)5 Tomorrow Is Already Here6 Changer7 Eloge D'Eros8 Peng! 339 Crest10 transona five11 Golden Ball12 the groop play chord x13 transport sans bouger14 The Light That Will Cease To Fail15 Au Grand Jour (the 3:41 fast version)16 Lo Boob Oscillator17 Nihilist Assault Group18 Perversion19 You Little Shits20 OLV 26
Releases Ranked:1 Super 452 Mars Audiac Quintet3 Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements4 Emperor Tomato Ketchup5 The Groop Played Space Age Batchelor Pad Music
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 8 April 2016 16:20 (eight years ago) link
thank you moka! i hadn't listened to the lab in years but this has me excited about them all over again.
― sciatica, Friday, 8 April 2016 16:30 (eight years ago) link
can't believe i didn't vote for "revox" or "john cage bubblegum". or "sadistic". or "surrealchemist". i got too caught up being all open-minded & democratic. in retrospect should have voted a straight peng! / refried ecto ticket. all other ballots are wrong.
― Keks + Nuss (contenderizer), Friday, 8 April 2016 16:33 (eight years ago) link
I was also one of the #1's for 'Pack Yr Romantic Mind.' Such a gorgeous tune.
― Austin, Friday, 8 April 2016 16:34 (eight years ago) link
i think 'pack yr romantic mind' was the first song of theirs that really grabbed me ('transient' was my intro)
non-placers i voted for:
09 Lock-Groove Lullaby10 Anonymous Collective14 Blue Milk15 Surrealchemist20 Fuses
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 April 2016 00:30 (eight years ago) link
I voted for a lot of low-flyers — maybe the only Chemical Chords partisan here? Looks like at least one other person voted for it. Great poll, even if the heavy weighting toward the mid-90s is a bit predictable (must confess that though I voted for select songs I'm a bit burnt out on ETK, MAQ and Refried Ectoplasm); the biggest surprise is probably that anything from Cobra (the closing track of a very long album, no less) made it into the top 20.
Tracks (unranked)
Miss ModularContronaturaFluorescencesAlluresBrigitteJenny OndiolinePack Yr Romantic MindNeon BeanbagDaisy ClickclackVorticol PhonethèqueInternational Colouring ContestU.H.F. - M.F.P.Slow Fast HazelCaleidoscope GazeThe Emergency KissesIron ManOne Note Samba/SurfboardCheck and Double CheckNought More Terrific Than ManEloge D’Eros
Albums (ranked)
Sound-DustChemical ChordsDots and LoopsCobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky NightAluminum Tunes
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Saturday, 9 April 2016 01:54 (eight years ago) link
I've got a lot of Stereolab on my ipod but I never know where to start so this poll (which I didn't take part in) was a godsend. I simply made a playlist of the top 15 and I'm good to go. There seems to be a fair bit of overlap between those tracks and Serene Velocity but also some other goodies not on that comp. Thanks, ILM and Moka!
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 09:07 (eight years ago) link
Serene Velocity's tracklisting has a lot of non-album versions of the songs, I think?
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 17:32 (eight years ago) link
Jenny Ondioline, French Disko and Wow & Flutter are the versions from singles. Other than that there's just Percolator, which is a bit longer.
Firmly coming around to the notion that Margarine Eclipse got shafted here. Been listening to it a lot and man, what a superb album! Their best of the 2000s and I kinda wish I'd voted for it now.
― everything, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 22:52 (eight years ago) link
"Dear Marge" is crushing me beneath its emotional weight. It might be the most unashamedly beautiful song they ever recorded. WHY DID I NOT VOTE.
― MatthewK, Friday, 15 April 2016 07:30 (eight years ago) link
Totally snowed under with work at the moment and making my way through these results at a snail's pace, but:
Gee, I might have stayed on Team "New Orthophony" if I realised it had broader support. As mentioned on the other thread, such a vote would have been very firmly for the far superior unedited (Aluminum Tunes) version
I'd never heard this longer version of New Orthophony before and agree it's great.
― Lionel Richie the Wardrobe (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 18 April 2016 22:39 (eight years ago) link
forgot to vote for the gold chains parti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e310Daluio8
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 02:29 (eight years ago) link
you know what's GREAT? Play "Nihilist Assault Group" from Mars Audiac Quintet and "Nihilist Assault Group (Parts 1, 2, 3)" from Oscillons from the Anti-Sun (which is actually parts 3, 4, 5 and is mislabeled) back to back bcz they were originally supposed to be one single Jenny Odioliney suite.
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 01:56 (seven years ago) link
Been on a Lab deep dive this week and have just woken up to how great Sound-Dust is.
― scampo-phenique (WmC), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:57 (three years ago) link
"Double Rocker", my god
― assert (MatthewK), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
Yessss, Sound-Dust is so good
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Thursday, 12 November 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
I also have a lot of weird memories mixed up with it because I'll always think of it as their 9/11 album.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Thursday, 12 November 2020 01:34 (three years ago) link