LM Artist Poll No. 74 · STEREOLAB · Results Thread

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39. Three-Dee Melodie 7 votes, 135 points. 0 first place votes.
From: Mars Audiac Quintet (1994)
https://youtu.be/k45VWW_sYhQ

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 20:10 (eight years ago) link

I like how the organ and guitar sound like they are ready to explode by the end of Tone Burst

Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 20:17 (eight years ago) link

There were some votes for Laissez Faire which is the ABC live version
Nah, I'm just forgetting my French grammar, Moka - as apparently did the BBC! - it was the Lo-Fi version I was voting for.

Voted for Diagonals too. Alex, I feel the air of the other planet you are on.

Jeff W, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 20:20 (eight years ago) link

Xp. Three-dee melodie is sounding nice but there is no tune or let's say the tune is no good. It has no soul. I don't get most of Stereolab after Transient random noise, many tracks are just annoying and anemic. With margerine eclipse they come back for me.

it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 20:29 (eight years ago) link

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38. Pinball 5 votes, 137 points. 0 first place votes.
From: Fluorescences EP (1996)
https://youtu.be/XtA34xPPcig

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 20:30 (eight years ago) link

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I like it, but the melodies are like a collection of background vocals, which is kind of a good way to approach their melodies in general IMO

Dominique, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 20:30 (eight years ago) link

Pinball fans really really like Pinball.

Jeff W, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link

I like MAQ but it is a disappointing album after hearing TRNBWA, Lo Boob 7", French Disko 7" and the singles Wow & Flutter and Ping Pong.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link

I didn't vote for any of this batch. But with perhaps one exception I could've happily voted for all of them. I'm not sure if that means that y'all have good taste or that the groop are ludicrously consistent.

Hey Nag! Did you cop your handle from "Nihilist Assault Group"?

Hehe. Funny you should say that: the unexpected acronym keeps leaping out at me.

XPOST: Ah, I did vote "Pinball". Yay!

Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 20:37 (eight years ago) link

Pinball is the first of mine to place. They were on fire in 96. One perfect album and probably my favourite EP of all time. I ended up voting for three of the tracks.

Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 20:37 (eight years ago) link

I voted for a bunch of FFS tracks, but IIRC not many people rate it so I think that we're not going to see any of them. :(

Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 20:46 (eight years ago) link

Pinball my #3. The vocal melodies are astonishing, like so effortlessly memorable and buoyant, that I keep forgetting the actual lyrics aren't in English.

Sushi and the Banchan (Spectrist), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 20:51 (eight years ago) link

I just started listening to the spotify playlist and got to "Puncture in the Radak Permutation" and the part where the vododer background vocals come in is one of the best moments of any Stereolab song.

silverfish, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 20:54 (eight years ago) link

I think "Tone Burst" was the first 'Lab song I ever heard (I bought "Transient Random ..." based on some good reviews of the band, and it's the first song on the album).

"Laisser-Faire" is so great (I voted for 3/4 of the "Lo Fi" EP). And "Perversion" ... their most Velvet-y track ever? It was only a few months ago that I realized it's nearly a carbon copy of "What Goes On", I've been a fan of Stereolab and the VU since forever and never made the connection.

NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 20:55 (eight years ago) link

Tone Burst would have been a serious contender for #1 on my ballot had I voted.

silverfish, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link

I think "Tone Burst" was the first 'Lab song I ever heard

Same here

Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 20:57 (eight years ago) link

Pinball has something about it. I think it is in the singing and the harmonies. After the unsexy binary sounds in the beginning this song really evolves into a scenting, beautiful rose which tries to grow into my ear.

it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:02 (eight years ago) link

Man, those "Eaten Horizons" demos are absolutely killing me right now.

Retro novelty punk (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:03 (eight years ago) link

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37. Anamorphose 6 votes, 138 points. 1 first place votes.
From: Mars Audiac Quintet (1994)
https://youtu.be/ksR2AnpgPo0

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:04 (eight years ago) link

I like when the horns come in on this one.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:06 (eight years ago) link

^ Word

Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:08 (eight years ago) link

Are there any bands that made the kraut-motorik thing with a horn ensemble prior to this one? It makes a nice pairing.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:09 (eight years ago) link

great song. I think MAQ might be my favorite Lab album, just such a great balance of their early and later sounds

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Faust's "Munic B" is basically horn + motorik, but I wouldn't say they sound much like this ("Rainy Day Sunshine" is the one Lab seems to prefer)

Dominique, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:14 (eight years ago) link

Xp. Annoying repetitional singing on this. This is horrible. How many times does she repeat the sentence? 50 times, 60 times or more? That is so awful and unimaginative. Makes me think of a spastic who can only utter one phrase. Sorry. I am totally flabbergasted how anybody can vote for this minimalistic nothingness in view of the rich catalog of stereolab songs

it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:16 (eight years ago) link

haha it's another one where all the vocals are background vocals! I don't know, think of it like a Philip Glass piece

Dominique, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:18 (eight years ago) link

Hahahaha Mars Audiac Quintet is hit or miss for me. It's their most homogenic album I think... For example I really, really like when the horns enter but I also think the song could be cut in half and I wouldn't mind.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:19 (eight years ago) link

But glass is awful as well. Always the same shtick. The emperor without clothes.

it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:19 (eight years ago) link

Last track of the day! An old one too, turn up the speakers:

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:20 (eight years ago) link

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36. Harmonium 5 votes, 140 points. 2 first place votes.
From: Harmonium / Farfisa 7” (1992)
https://youtu.be/-MQOrXRCQBg

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:20 (eight years ago) link

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I'm actually surprised you can think that and still like Stereolab. I hear bits of Music in 12 Parts all over their discography

Dominique, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:21 (eight years ago) link

Aaaaaaaaargh. About 30 places too low!

So, yeah, my #1. REALLY glad I switched to a ranked ballot now.

Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:24 (eight years ago) link

That's more like it. A nice tune to end the day. And we turn and we turn and we turn. Till the end of time.

it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:25 (eight years ago) link

I saw phil glass live in the 80s. Don't remember what it was. Anyway it all sounds the same. And i think it was the first time i had this impression of immaculate, sterile, fascistic beauty in music. I haven't listened to him since. And it did not harm.

it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:29 (eight years ago) link

Never really got Anamorphose

Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:31 (eight years ago) link

Well, I guess it isn't surprising you like early stuff more. It seems like the early Stereolab favored minimalism a la Velvet Underground, Neu, LaMonte Young, where later Lab sub'd for Glass melodies, Reich percussion

Dominique, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:33 (eight years ago) link

Are there any bands that made the kraut-motorik thing with a horn ensemble prior to this one?

https://youtu.be/CmgFBSmoLmc

Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:36 (eight years ago) link

oh great, another poll where we have to listen to alex in mainhattan complain after every other result, and talk endlessly about how these tracks that lots of people love are so horrible and worthless

Anamorphose was my #16, fantastic cyclic Glass-worship

the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:37 (eight years ago) link

Are there any bands that made the kraut-motorik thing with a horn ensemble prior to this one?

https://youtu.be/CmgFBSmoLmc

― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles)

Oh wow! That's is actually spot on.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:38 (eight years ago) link

LOLOLOLOL. Nifty.

Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:43 (eight years ago) link

Cut "Anamorphose" in half? It's the opposite -- it should be 15 minutes long.

I don't understand the criticism about it being repetitive. Of course it's repetitive, that's the point. And it builds beautifully to the horn parts at the end.

You can imagine most of the tracks on MAQ getting extended by another 3-4 minutes, there's no necessity in cutting off "Transona Five" or "Three Dee Melodie", so I'm not sure why they "chose" "Anamorphose" to be the long one.

"Metronomic Underground" is more repetitive than anything on MAQ, but I don't think it'll be criticized for that.

NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:47 (eight years ago) link

Xp. I'll stop complaining. It doesn't lead anywhere, i know. Great poll, Moka. Thanks for all the effort put in this.
And the thing about neu! and vu as influences in the beginning and glass and reich later on might be true. I actually like reich, drumming is a personal fave..

it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:49 (eight years ago) link

wau that supremes track!

mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:50 (eight years ago) link

President Carter loves repetition. Chairman Mao, he dug repetition...

Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:55 (eight years ago) link

Cut "Anamorphose" in half? It's the opposite -- it should be 15 minutes long.

I don't understand the criticism about it being repetitive. Of course it's repetitive, that's the point. And it builds beautifully to the horn parts at the end.

You can imagine most of the tracks on MAQ getting extended by another 3-4 minutes, there's no necessity in cutting off "Transona Five" or "Three Dee Melodie", so I'm not sure why they "chose" "Anamorphose" to be the long one.

"Metronomic Underground" is more repetitive than anything on MAQ, but I don't think it'll be criticized for that.

― NoTimeBeforeTime

you could edit it but I wouldn't.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 22:03 (eight years ago) link

I was the #1 vote for Anamorphose... the groop at their peak imho which dovetailed with my peak fandom of the band as well.

Somewhat shocked that it barely made the top 40, but then again this is ILM.

l n'y a rien de,
De plus vrai que,
De plus vrai que le,
Plus vrai que le souffle,
Il n'y a rien de,
Plus vrai que le souffle.

Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 22:12 (eight years ago) link

my #8

mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 22:14 (eight years ago) link

Poll has made me want to buy Stereolab vinyl but the reissues are very expensive! I have Peng! and D&L, was thinking about buying Transient and Sound Dust next... I don't know if the switched on comps have ever been printed in vinyl... would buy Refried in a heartbeat.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 22:28 (eight years ago) link

Only 4 other people had the good sense to vote for "Harmonium," and only myself and Nag! put it at #1. Shame on y'all.

lingereffect (Kent Burt), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 22:32 (eight years ago) link

Refried 2LP is available from Drag City. Shouldn't be too expensive.

lingereffect (Kent Burt), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 22:34 (eight years ago) link

I'll look into it, if there is one band in my mind that deserves to do the whole vinyl collector fetishism, it's this one.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 22:45 (eight years ago) link


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